Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Omaha-Denver...
...long Denver pass and a recovered fumble gave Utah its first Rocky Mountain Conference defeat since 1927, null...
...familiar is the lengthy decameron of the Post's civic exploits. Every year the available hunters of Denver go off to the mountains in quest of jackrabbits, and these, in astronomical quantities, are dumped in front of the Post Building for the usufruct of the poor. The Post has always sold coal--its slogan "An Extra Lump With Every Ton" was in Bonfil's best vein. When Denver's physicians announced that most of the jackrabbits had tularemia, and were inedible, when the city sealer declared that every ton of Post coal was short-weight, Mr. Bonfils refused even...
...Post sent young Brian Untiedt to distract Herbert Hoover in his most crucial White House days. When Silverton, a mountain hamlet near Denver, was cut off from the world by a hundred feet of snow, Bonfils sent an airplane which circled slowly above the outcasts, and then dropped a bag containing five hundred copies of the Denver Post. The domination of the Post, however, was soon challenged by the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, and the most spectacular of advertising wars began. The Post offered a gallon of gasoline, at twenty two cents, for each want ad, the News offered...
Bonfils himself long regaled the nation's press with his front page italic editorials, invariably headed in mammoth red type "So The People May Know," always referring to other newsprints as "foreign owned," uniformly hectic in tone and quick in results. Such an editorial blocked the construction of the Denver Court House by fulminating against a legal peccadillo in the architects' charter, another on the Denver tramways inflamed a great mob to a lynching mood. Bonfils was the first editor to smell the Teapot Dome disturbance, and the clothespin on his nose cost half a million dollars. When the story...