Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down upon Colorado last week swept the worst September blizzard in years, smothering Denver with 17 inches of snow, disrupting traffic throughout the State. Up from El Paso, Tex. about the same time climbed a single-motored Lockheed Vega belonging to Varney Air Transport, Inc., passenger-mail line between El Paso and Pueblo, Colo. Meeting bad weather, Pilot C. H. Chidlaw landed at Trinidad, Colo, for the night. Next morning he and his two passengers headed north again. Twenty minutes later, three ranchers near lonely Rattlesnake Buttes saw the plane circling in distress through the heavy blizzard. Apparently intending...
...July day in 1883 when its convening members tramped through the flag decked streets of Denver the Grand Army of the Republic was 100,000 strong. Eighteen years out of the Civil War, Union veterans were in the prime of their early 40's marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in 1866 as a patriotic, non-political fraternal body, the G. A. R. was in process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading...
Meantime, through the flag-decked streets of Cleveland last week tramped a veterans' army far greater than the Denver procession of 1883. Of the American Legion's 900,000 members, some 200,000 had swarmed to its annual convention and an estimated 70,000 marched in the 11½-hr. parade. Eighteen years out of the World War, the veterans were in the prime of their early 40's, marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in Paris after the Armistice as a patriotic non-political body, it was in the process of becoming the greatest Treasury...
...Bowes Sayre. Assistant Secretary of State, and Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Dr. T. Z. Koo. a leader of Christian youth activities in China. The eleven Bishops of the Team included Episcopal Archbishop Cecil C. Quainton of Victoria, B. C., Methodist Bishop Ralph Spalding Cushman of the Denver area. Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington. A Team member who was to preach in Pittsburgh last week was Manhattan's Presbyterian Dr. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee. Minister of famed Labor Temple and editor of the Presbyterian Tribune. Three days before, he dropped dead at the University of Minnesota...
...Indifference" is a word no longer able to bear the strain put upon it, but the Harvard man's lack of interest in the foibles of his neighbors is traditional and accurate. As there is no uniformity in manners, so there is no catholicity in taste. If a Denver student dunks his doughnut in his coffee back home he should by all means dive in to his wrist at the Union breakfasts. If one from Pass Christian likes to hang blankets over his fireplace and sing "Empty Saddles" in the shower, all the frowns of an Eastern roommate should...