Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Professor Fred Edmund D'Amour, University of Denver zoologist and physiologist, sent the cheery message to vineyardists and tomato croppers that he has devised a serum against the black widow's poison. The poison causes spasms, high fever, nausea, vomiting, unconsciousness, occasionally death. Treatment has been to relieve pain by narcotics, to relieve spasms by hot baths, to support strength with whiskey...
...forget them. The years between were busy. She took an A.B. at Vassar, an M.A. at Columbia in 1910 with Frances Perkins who became her fast friend. After some welfare work in New York she went back to Colorado, whither her parents had moved in 1906. As Denver's first policewoman, she cleaned up theatres and dance halls so thoroughly that their proprietors had her job abolished. Josephine Roche had herself made a deputy sheriff. She organized Colorado for Progressives, did Belgian relief work in England and New York, directed the girls' department of Denver's Juvenile...
Last week Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward lay on the tenants' table in Apartment 4 C. The chief tenant was Eugene John Reed, 47, who was once a partner in an investment banking house in Denver. His co-tenants were Chester A. Arthur Jr.,* 33-year-old grandson of the 21st President of the U. S., and Dunham Thorp, onetime editor of a literary magazine in California. All three had taken up residence in Greenwich Village with a small table, some wicker chairs, a few cots. Thus did Utopia move East. Three years ago Mr. Reed left...
Robinson's The Far-off Hills, George Shiel's The New Gossoon, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, will be among the Abbey offerings to be seen this winter in Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver. Denver, Salt Lake City, Boston...
...Denver, dissatisfied because the State relief administrator had cut the number of days of relief work provided for unemployed, 1,000 relief workers went on strike for his removal. After throwing the tools of nonstriking workers into the Platte River, some 300 strikers precipitated a riot when police arrested their leader...