Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover mustered his sub-Cabinet of 30 members up to full strength by appointing a new Assistant Secretary of State, a new Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.* To James Grafton Rogers of Denver, Col., went the job of diplomacy. To Arthur Atwood Ballantine of New York City went the job of finance. Like all assistants to full-fledged Secretaries they were primed to work hard and get small public credit for their labors...
...small band of insurgent Protestant Episcopal priests gathered in Philadelphia last week and, as an expression of their liberalism, decided to fight for the "recall" of bishops. They hope to put their proposition before the Episcopal general convention at Denver next September...
...University of Michigan, B. F. Shambaugh of the University of Iowa, B. F. Yanney of College of Wooster, General Manager B. F. Lawrence of the Indianapolis Star, onetime (1926-30) Quartermaster-General B. F. Cheatham of the U. S. Army, Mayor B. F. Stapelton of Denver, Colo., and plain Benjamin Franklin, consulting engineer of Franklin & Co., Philadelphia...
Blacks & Whites Prefer Blue. Psychology Professor Thomas Russell Garth of the University of Denver reported in a book* published last week that of all colors, whites and Negroes like blue best, green and orange, respectively, next best. Favorite color of Indians, Filipinos, Japanese and Mexicans is red; next blue, violet or green. Least popular in all groups is white. Conclusion: "Color preference in a race is positively influenced by racial tradition and custom...
...American Birth Control League invited 30 Protestant Episcopal bishops to its convention in Manhattan last week. Not one bishop appeared, although their Triennial General Convention at Denver next September is certain to consider birth control in echo to the last Lambeth Conference of bishops of and affiliated with the Church of England, which discreetly approved the movement (TIME, July 14 & Aug. 25). Nonetheless there were several preachers of various denominations among the 200 delegates who attended the convention. Also-present were a few doctors. Conspicuously absent were women who revel in tales of their own childbearing, women too prudish...