Word: denver
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Died. George Denver Guggenheim, 32, millionaire bachelor son and only remaining child of Philanthropist Simon Guggenheim; by his own hand (rifle) in a Manhattan hotel. Member of the executive committee and a director of American Smelting and Refining Co., of which his father is president, a director of General Cable Corp., trustee of a $1,000,000 trust fund, George Guggenheim suffered from a nervous disorder, had recently tried to slash his wrists. When his brother, John Simon, died in 1922 of mastoiditis, his parents established in his memory the famed Guggenheim Foundation (for international study), now capitalized...
...Denver...
Said former Press Club President Charles Orville Gridley of the Denver Post: "Not all newspapermen are tousled-haired drunkards. Some of us are bald. Others actually comb their hair occasionally...
...main line from Cheyenne to Denver, where the cow-country meets the mountains, lies the brisk Colorado city of Greeley. Into Greeley with a flivver-pulled trailer in the fall of 1930 steamed one Elzy Alumbaugh ("Buzz") Hoover, 28, husky, square-cut, leather-lunged, with a diploma from Fred Reppart's School of Auctioneering, a wife, two children and $10. He found a place to park in Greeley's junky fringe, pushed his gallon hat back off his forehead, and got down to business...
...startled Denver City Council drafted an ordinance ending all meet-a-pal bureaus, matrimonial agencies and escort services, hoped to bar publications containing such advertisements from the newsstands, received inquiries about their new bill from many other U. S. cities bent on following their lead...