Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nash-A team of Kenosha, Wis., defending champions, were put out in the first round. So were the Cudahy Puritans of Denver, another favorite...
Since 1932 most Tennessee teachers have met or heard of a small, nervous promoter named Charles George Pfab. Few of them knew that versatile Mr. Pfab was a registered pharmacist, a onetime professional baseballer, an organizer of a Denver insurance company. They did know that Promoter Pfab's current venture was the high-sounding National Educators' Mutual Association, which sold ''endowment bonds" to teachers. The Pfab scheme was simple and forthright, if not generous. In return for $750 in cash, a teacher would receive a bond redeemable in ten years for $1,000 in cash plus...
...Denver, Colo...
Born in Budapest, Julius Kessler was selling whiskey in Colorado when the silver boom started at Leadville in the late 1870's By coaxing pack mules over the hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities...
...Santa Claus? Last week 18 meat packers headed by Armour and Swift got injunctions in Chicago forbidding the Government to collect hog processing taxes. In Virginia, P. Lorillard (Old Golds) and Philip Morris opened suits against tobacco processing taxes. In Detroit, Denver and Kansas City Federal judges restrained the Government's tax collections. Processing taxes on wheat, corn, hogs, cotton, tobacco were contested. A temporary injunction against the operation of the Bankhead Cotton Act was issued in the Texas courts. All told, AAA found itself facing 705 court challenges, which meant that 705 processors were eager to maintain before...