Word: newlon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held at Boulder prior to an advance on the Columbine mine, one of the few properties in the northern part of the state which had been able to continue operations. Mr. Scherf took a squad of 20 state police and hurried upstate to the Columbine. Adjutant General Paul P. Newlon of the Colorado National Guard, Chairman Thomas Annear of the Industrial Commission, and other representatives of Governor Adams, went too. There was many a witness of the next dawn's happenings at the Columbine...
Adjutant General Newlon, with a proclamation of martial law in his pocket, sent for militia, tanks, a medical unit. Governor Adams pronounced the Columbine district to be in a state of insurrection. He and his witnesses absolved Mr. Scherf and the state troopers for their deeds of "self-defense." The strikers swore out warrants for the arrest of their comrades' "murderers," asserting that their part in the Columbine episode had been peaceable. They had only wanted to go to the Columbine post office, they said. Wobbly Adam Bell and others were arrested to prevent further post office visiting...
Officers. The Association had, according to custom, to choose a lady successor to President Newlon. There were two candidates (and rumors of electioneering). Each candidate made a speech. Miss Cornelia S. Adair, grade teacher of Richmond, Va., said she did not see how you could do your duty by your children if you did not take part in community affairs. Miss Mary McSkimmon, principal of Pierce High School, Brookline, Mass., said: "The great opportunity before education today is to apply the new understanding of childhood to teaching." Miss McSkimmon got elected...
Officers. Jesse H. Newlon, Superintendent of Schools of Denver, was elected President of the N. E. A. The new Treasurer is Cornelia A. Adair, Richmond. Vice Presidents were chosen from Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, South Dakota, Wyoming...