Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome Herbert Goddard was a lodestar of lonely hearts. A member of virtually every "dating club" in Denver, Colo., he had a fatal fascination for women...
...fatal was revealed not in Denver, to that city's relief, but in Florida, where Charles Jefferson (Goddard), self-styled film scout, raped two Miami high-school girls, and murdered one while the other, in horror, watched. Last week, convicted, he was sentenced to the electric chair...
Underlying all these explanations, however, was the conviction that the Poles were magnificent fighters. If Sheridan's victorious armies at the end of the Civil War had driven into French-dominated Mexico, reached Mexico City, then been driven smack back to Denver, the legend of Mexican fighting strength might have been as firmly rooted in U. S. life as the legend of peppery Poles was ingrained in Russian thought. That was one of the reasons why, last week, Russians had a lot of trouble explaining the German advance and their own defeat...
...some eight years ago, University of Colorado's grand old man and president, George Norlin, argued long and earnestly with a friend in Denver, a 38-year-old corporation lawyer named Robert Lawrence Stearns. Dr. Norlin was trying to persuade his friend to come to his university as dean of its law school. Conservative Mr. Stearns, who had already made his mark in 17th Street, Denver's financial centre, was hard to persuade. At length Dr. Norlin exclaimed: "Better men than you have taken the vow of academic poverty!" Like many a better man before him, Mr. Stearns...
Presbytery cautioned its ministers not to take sides in their sermons. In these and other typical U. S. cities-Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Denver, Portland, Ore.-there was plenty of pulpitation about the War, but no preaching of crusades, no flag-waving. If, as has been suggested in recent months, the U. S. is more embittered against Germany than at the beginning of World War I, the nation's ministers had done their utmost to curb that bitterness last week...