Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock exchange was front-page news and Henry Ford's announcement that he would build 1,000,000 cars was a refreshing breath of optimism. In Washington the Railroad Retirement Act went out as unconstitutional. In Miami Legionaries shouted for immediate cash payment of the Bonus. In Denver and Albany there were hunger marchers. Donald Richberg had just been named co-ordinator-in-general to set the cosmic alphabet in order. From coast to coast the issue was whether Harry Hopkins, playing Santa Claus at the rate of $140,000,000 a month, was corrupting the electorate...
...persons would take Dexter Keezer for a college president. Periodically since his graduation from Amherst in 1920, he has found academic life dull. For a year he was a reporter on the Denver Times. He took a Ph.D. in economics at the Brookings Institution but quit teaching after six years. From 1929 to 1933 he was associate editor of the Baltimore Sun. In 1933 General Johnson made him executive director of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...
Dark, tightlipped, Brainiff Airways Pilot Gordon H, Darnell, who landed his passengers without injury when his plane caught fire between Kansas City and Denver in 1933, managed to extricate most of the mail before an explosion destroyed the wrecked plane...
Fifty chartered busses rolled in from Omaha, 40 from Denver. Two special trains brought delegates from California, one from Florida. With some 6,000 delegates from every corner of the land, they swarmed into Chicago's huge Stevens Hotel, thrust $2 registration fees across the counters of four booths, got gilded medals hung on blue badges. One thousand members of the new Townsend Legion, who pay $1 per month special dues, were distinguished from ordinary 10?-per-month dues-payers by red badges. The club tags and State ribbons, which everybody wore, made it easy to get acquainted...
...married last year. Though he still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough of a show to keep the money coming in. Frank Peterson, onetime Townsend publicity director charged that the Clementses' high living...