Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, the chain-letter fever burned in Denver and a few other infected areas in the West. By last week, it had become a nationwide epidemic. Even Alfred Emanuel Smith, in his two-thirds-empty Empire State Building, received 1,000 letters. He waste-basketed all except one which contained a dime. President Roosevelt received 200, sent them to Postmaster General Farley, whose postal service in many a city seemed about to collapse under the weight of chain mail. The Post Office has ruled chain letters illegal but it was waggishly suggested that if the craze would only last...
...years ago when Companionate Marriage seemed to be an exciting issue and Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey toured the land debating it, polite audiences were accustomed to vote the Denver judge victor over whoever happened to be his adversary. But not in Philadelphia. There, balloting to choose a local figure to debate with Judge Lindsey, 5,000 people overwhelmingly picked Rev. Dr. Robert Bruce Whyte, pastor of Philadelphia's biggest church, First Presbyterian. After the debate, the Philadelphians owlishly upheld their choice, handed Ben Lindsey the first defeat he ever experienced...
About a month ago Denver postmen began to grumble at the loads they were lugging. Postal receipts at the Denver Post Office for April climbed dizzily and more than 100 extra hands were called in for full-time service to help handle the swelling volume of first-class mail. An amazing number of dimes began to pop out of the stamp-canceling machines. Finally it was discovered that a "Send-a-Dime" chain letter was sweeping the city. Completely swamped, Postmaster James Orren Stevic called in postal inspectors to investigate the possibilities of stopping the scheme as fraudulent. "The thing...
...Angeles, May 2--Evidence that the "dime letter" racket was organized here weeks before Denver's "prosperity chain letter" fad started was placed in the hands of Federal authorities tonight...
...Louis' John Burroughs School headed a committee to put the scheme across. By last week Chairman Aikin & committee had persuaded 275 colleges, including virtually all the big ones except Harvard and Yale, to agree. In 32 selected schools, ranging from Milton Academy outside Boston to the Denver High Schools, the plan is already in effect for part or all of the students. In June, 1936, the 32 schools will graduate about 1,000 students who will be admitted to college on the recommendation of principals and headmasters, plus school marks, plus showing on aptitude tests, plus distinction in outside...