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When the auction began in Denver's ornate State Capitol, Mitchell's well-wishers held their breaths. Then they stirred angrily. The Mountair School District ; wanted the land for a playground; its President, H. B. Jaedke...
Colorado's Land Board bought newspaper advertisements to admit that it planned to circumvent the law. It was scheming to sell five acres of state-owned land in Mountair, a Denver suburb, to a favored buyer at a fixed price-and it did not want the public to queer the deal by bidding. No one was outraged. For the customer was George Mitchell, 21, a veteran who had been blinded by a Normandy land mine explosion, now hoped to earn a living by building a group of court apartments in his home town. Mitchell could only afford...
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