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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Halsted Ritter, for 30 years a Denver lawyer before he went to Florida, was appointed as a Republican by President Coolidge in 1929. On the bench he was apt to be a little stiff, sometimes peppery. Once when a bootlegger thanked him for imposing a fine of only $50, Judge Ritter roared: "Don't thank me! To thank a court or a jury for doing its duty is an insult. Your fine is raised to $75." He was first investigated as the result of a resolution introduced in the House by Representative J. Mark Wilcox of Florida...
...Frank Mechau's paintings alone would have justified the entire PWAP program!" Artist Mechau pronounces his name "May-show." In his Denver barber-shop his father has hung up a sign: "Mechau, pronounced...
...Mechau's barbering was sufficiently remunerative for him to send his son to the University of Denver, the Chicago Art Institute, and to start him off on twelve years of study in Paris, Florence, Munich and other European Museums...
...show" Mechau returned at length to Denver, won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the artistic and historic background of the West, and was given his first one-man show by the Denver Junior League. With his brother Vaughan, Artist Mechau is at present working on an illustrated history of the Pony Express. Frank Mechau hates to leave the house while working. "For the past four months," said he, "I never made a journey beyond the garbage...
Springfield, three years in Denver, Colo., he went to University of Kansas as athletic director. After going there, he in vented three more games: war-tug, hilo, vreille (popular only among Kansas co eds). In 1907 Dr. Naismith was replaced as Kansas basketball coach. Since then, his principal contact with the game has been sitting in the front row to watch Kan sas teams, which have won four Big Six Conference championships. Last autumn Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas' basketball coach, who makes $4,000 to Dr. Naismith's $3,000, promoted the idea of sending...