Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second annual Central City Play Festival, blowing on the cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone Opera House where once Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy frontier audiences...
Died. Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, 56, Denver oilman and lawyer, U. S. Senator from Colorado during the last short-term session of Congress, onetime attorney for Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive Teapot Dome witness; of injuries suffered July 17 when he was struck by an automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife...
...idea was startling to businessmen who felt they had reason to mistrust the Press; but Pennsylvania Railroad took a chance. The Lee scheme worked so well that when in 1914 the Rockefellers got into trouble with their Colorado Fuel & Iron strike, John D. Rockefeller Jr. took Arthur Brisbane's advice: he borrowed Pennsylvania's Ivy Lee. Since young Ivy Lee was new to a new game, his success was not signal. He made the grave error of accepting and circulating as true all facts & figures given him by the mine operators. Later he was revealed...
Professor Cherrington is Executive Secretary of the Foundation for the Advancement for the Social Sciences, and Head of the Department of Relations at the University of Denver, Colorado. He has made many trips abroad since the War, and in the spring of 1932 attended the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. He spent several weeks research beforehand in the chief capital cities of Europe getting first-hand information regarding the various national attitudes on disarmament. Professor Cherrington has lectured at John Hopkins University, Brookings Institution, the University of Chicago, and at various League of Nations Association functions. In December...
...week the State score for Repeal stood 20-to-0. Elections this year in 16 more States were definitely in sight after Colorado's Governor moved for a vote Sept. 4. Postmaster General Farley, who had led the Administration's anti-Prohibition campaign, marched in to see President Roosevelt and report on the situation. Said he afterwards: "The country is safe. We will have Repeal by Christmas. The President agrees with...