Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Homer D. Boughner, 89, football pioneer; of pneumonia; in Denver, Colo. In the first intercollegiate football game ever played in the U.S., Princeton v. Rutgers in 1869, Mr. Boughner was one of the Princeton team of 25. Rutgers...
...Denver, Colo., Irvin H. ("Call Me Pop") Hanes announced his candidacy for the position of State Auditor. Excerpts from his campaign literature: "His knowledge of the problems of the farmer and labor is practically a total loss. ... He is not the 'outstanding candidate" for this office. . . . He is not universally respected...
...meteorites are worth money as scientific exhibits. Harvey Harlow Nininger of Denver, indefatigable meteorite-chaser-and-broker, usually pays a rate of $1 per pound for these fragments, sometimes more for unusually fine specimens (TIME, July 5, 1937). Dr. Nininger was vacationing in New England last week, apparently biding his time until the lost pallasite was actually found. But anybody could figure that at his base rate the meteorite would bring...
...modest size of this kitty, said Mr. Welles, was proof that the new Division "is not a propaganda agency." Further proof was the State Department's choice of a Cultural Relations chief: Dr. Ben Mark Cherrington of the University of Denver. A onetime University of California football coach whose size (6 ft., 200 Ib.) is calculated to impress Latin Americans, white-mopped, genial Dr. Cherrington, 52, is no doctrinaire. Twelve years ago when Capitalist James Henry Causey, his conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences...
...proven hits. Of 75 new plays tried out last year, only nine reached Broadway and three succeeded there. Most popular single item on this summer's barn-belt bills is Mark Reed's Yes, My Darling Daughter, scheduled for at least 100 performances at 25 theatres from Denver, Colo, to Whitefield, N. H. Next are Tovarich, Night Must Fall, Tonight at Eight-Thirty, Let Us Be Gay, Night of January 16 and French Without Tears, all Broadway successes. Other noteworthy plans include Ibsen's Brand, never before professionally performed in the U. S., at Litchneld, Conn...