Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for a few spots (Denver, Chicago), preoccupation with the war question was general. Everywhere people opposed any war but sided with the Democracies if there must be one. Everywhere their belief that should Europe fight, the U. S. would be drawn in, was a fatalistic, unhappy, shoulder-shrugging belief. In few quarters was any one so cheerfully cynical as retired General Smedley D. ("Gimlet Eye") Butler of the U. S. Marines, who said at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "After Italy and Germany get the swamps and deserts they're after, they'll all sit down and talk...
...Denver paid less attention to last week's war scare than to last September's. Of just one thing Coloradoans were pessimistically certain: in another European war the U. S. would again be "played for a sucker" by England and France...
...Denver has a city ordinance banning movies that show lynchings or tend to incite race hatred. When Manager Robert Allen of South Denver's Jewell Theatre announced the 24-year-old film classic The Birth of a Nation as last week's attraction, he was warned that the ordinance would be invoked against him. He went ahead anyhow, at week's end had been formally arrested 16 times, once at each afternoon and evening showing. Challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance in a police-court show-down this week, Manager Allen will have on his side...
...Omaha, Fall River, Birmingham, Toledo, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, Denver, Portland, Dallas...
Joseph Buchhalter, who was also cited last week, is a onetime Denver commodity trader and real estate dealer who devised a scheme for profiting from Henry Wallace's "ever-normal granary" program. Ihe Buchhalter plan entailed simultaneously going short and long on wheat contracts (buying and selling at the same price). Then if the price rose 1?, the profit was immediately realized on the long side while the short was kept open until the price permitted it also to be closed out at a profit. Since the ever-normal-granary program was expected to stabilize wheat prices...