Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forthcoming, but famed Cartoonist-Conservationist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling passed the hat around to various Government agencies before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch up $8,500,000. From o.ther sources a total of $21,000,000 was finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western Association of State Game & Fish Commissioners, Ira Noel Gabrielson, rotund present chief of the Survey, hefted himself to his feet to explain what had happened since his bureau took the money, largely drawn from relief and work-making budgets, and really moved into...
...half-a-dozen companies at about $58 apiece have sprouted along the streets of 40-odd U. S. cities, among them: Dallas, Houston and El Paso, Tex.; Miami and St. Petersburg, Fla.; Providence, R. I.; Kansas City, Mo.; Macon, Ga.; Atlantic City, N. J.; Scranton, Pa. Last week the Denver city council voted to install them and Baltimore was considering it. Many cities are enthusiastic about their meters. Dallas, for example, gets about $140,000 yearly from her 1,500, considers they have "solved our parking problems." But not all cities are so satisfied. Topeka. Mobile, Salt Lake City...
...48th annual convention of the National Association of Life Underwriters in Denver last week delegates generally agreed that this rhetorical question by Vice President Alexander E. Patterson of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. struck at the heart of insurance's chief current problem. Major tenet of modern life underwriting is counsel and service to the insured-no high-pressure methods such as some salesmen use to sell anybody anything for a commission. Appreciating that self-criticism in business is as healthy as it is unusual, the 1,500 delegates in Denver's Broadway Theatre voiced approval...
Horace G. Lunt, 2nd, Denver--Kent School...
Died. John Sanderson Dalziel, 98, wood engraver, friend of Charles Dickens, son of one of Dickens' publishers, illustrator for Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen; in Denver, Colo...