Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is one thing about our conventions of today that certainly does not create a very good impression . . . and that is the ever-attendant disorder. . . . Conventions are not conducted with the dignity and the decorum commensurate with their great importance. . . . In Denver, in 1908, on the first two days of the convention, a majority of the delegates were on Pike's Peak, 80 miles away...
Eddie Eagan won the U. S. amateur heavyweight championship in 1918, the Olympic light heavyweight championship in 1920. He went to four colleges* Denver University, Yale, Harvard (where he studied law) and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Now, at 33, Eddie Eagan feels that he has known and fought enough people to write his autobiography.- Eddie Eagan was born in Denver in 1898. A cowboy named Abe Tobin taught him how to box when he was 14. In high school Eddie Eagan was interested in history. He observed that most U. S. heroes started out as lawyers, determined...
...Morrison, Cambridge, Mass.; Coolidge Fellowship: J. M. Potter, Cambridge, Mass.; Arthur Deloraine Corey Fellowship: E. A. Robinson, Saranac Lake, N. Y.; Bayard Cutting Fellowship: L. T. White, Jr., San Anselmo, Cal.; Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowships: Derk Bodde, Rochester, N. Y.; R. K. Reischauer, Tokyo, Japan: L. C. S. Sickman, Denver, Colo.; John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellowships in Music: R. L. Kirkpatrick, Leominster, Mass.; S. D. Tuttle, Parkersburg, West Virignia; Rogers Fellowships: F. E. Manuel, Roxbury, Mass.; Sumner B. Myers, Boston, Mass.; Sachs Research Fellowship in Fine Arts: C. K. Hersey, Portland, Maine; Saltonstall Scholarship: L. C. Keating, Syracuse...
...Race Relations Commission has a gold star for the Methodists, it may well put a black mark by the names of two others. Last week, in the closing session of the Presbyterian assembly in Denver (see below), it was decided that the next meeting should take place in Fort Worth, Tex. Arose Negro Missionary Irvin W. Underbill Jr. to object against "any place where a Negro cannot be treated as a man and as a brother." He urged the other Negro delegates thus to go on record. Moderator Charles W. Kerr expostulated. The motion to meet in Fort Worth...
...Denver, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. had already heard and defeated a proposal to withdraw from the Federal Council (TIME, June 6). Before adjourning last week, it quashed a second uprising by the same group of impatient Fundamentalists, led by Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths of Philadelphia. Other things the Presbyterians...