Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty (see p. 27). Said the President, repeating Grover Cleveland's pledge in dedicating the statue: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected." Said Herbert Hoover later in Denver: "Two days ago [Mr. Roosevelt] rededicated the Statue of Liberty in New York. She has been the Forgotten Woman...
...York City's three were in Yiddish. In Seattle the play was presented by a Negro cast. Two versions in Italian were scheduled for Newark and San Francisco. Despite Mr. Lewis' original edict that not a line of his script must be changed, Denver was permitted to transfer the Vermont locale to Colorado and in Detroit the action was laid in a factory district. In Tampa, the play was given in Spanish with the action in Cuba. A fat advance sale in most cities indicated that It Can't Happen Here would get a thorough hearing...
Bonfils' Denver Post has been distinguished by its ability to do without an editorial column. A Post banner headline: NEW DEAL ROBS WOMAN OF HALF HER HOMESTEAD...
Last week the pleasant opportunity of being helpful fell to the banking house of Calvin Bullock. The aging founder, who got his start in Denver and then branched east to Manhattan, did not attend the SEC hearing, sending instead his husky, handsome son, Hugh Bullock. A few years out of Williams (Class of 1921), Son Hugh opened what has since grown into the head Bullock office in Manhattan. He married a cousin once removed of Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot, an attractive, honey-haired socialite who helped found the Academy of American Poets, which gives balls and raises money...
...Onion King" is Benjamin Balish, a big Manhattan produce jobber who was made chair man of the Onion Committee last week. Meantime, the possibilities of a contest for the unsavory job of being U. S. "Onion Queen" remained unexplored. Last week in Denver, however, a seed dealer named Armin Barteldes, elated by a record seven- acre yield of 227,558 Ib. of onion sets (small onions fortransplanting), betook himself to a dancing class, picked out 15-year-old Dolores Volk, crowned her Colorado's "1936 Onion Set Queen." Queen Volk, who lives with her mother in Greeley, Colo., donned...