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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Denver's Rocky Mountain News, which has stanchly supported the Governor since news of the microphone got out, felt justified in printing the transcript in full was a fair indication of its contents. What Colorado has been waiting for for six months turned out to be not a juicy scandal but a feeble anticlimax. Garbled and often wholly unintelligible, the transcript gave Coloradans an interesting insight into the informality with which its elected officials discharge their public duties. So far as private misconduct was concerned, the spiciest bit was a paragraph or two that indicated that Lobbyist Dickerson...
Married. U. S. Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier, 63, of Hoople, N. D.; to his long-time neighbor, Mrs. Catharine Paulson, of Concrete, N. D.; in Mountain...
Then suddenly came an interruption that sent excited crowds shouting joyously in the shell-pocked streets of Madrid. Twenty miles southeast of Saragossa is the mountain-encircled town of Belchite, which boasts a nearby airdrome and is a most important strategic point on General Franco's long Saragossa-Teruel salient. For five days Leftist heavy artillery blasted at Belchite, then came the direct frontal attack led by suicidal dinamiteros. Fighting from house to house the Leftists wiped out two whole companies in Belchite's town hall, captured a detachment entrenched in a seminary and took the town. Leftists...
Seven and a half weeks later the land he saw was not Asia but what is now Canada, an impassable barrier of earth, mountain and forest. When his reports were compared with those of his contemporary, Columbus, invincible explorers of Portugal, Spain, France and Britain knew that one must sail beyond or around that barrier to get at the riches of the East. The four-century search for a northwest passage had begun...
...Lord, prepare our minds and hearts for the untruths we are about to hear." Once in England he used the expression "I was thinking" at a meeting, whereupon a woman said: "Rufus, thy testimony was interesting, but thee does wrong to think in meeting." Once, also, he was mountain-climbing with a member of the Rowntree family and two guides, and complied with the guides' request to pass a liquor bottle from one to the other. At this Climber Rowntree stuck his Alpine stock into the snow, intoned a quotation from the Friends Book of Discipline: "Are Friends careful...