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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of Fred G. Bonfils at anyone who knows Denver or the Denver Post and that person's mind will instantly register such adjectives as "handsome," "slick," "swaggering," "noisy," "audacious," "crafty," "lusty," "flamboyant," "hot-tempered." Other words, complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame...
Gardeners trimmed up the South Grounds for a great lawn party on the afternoon of the notification. Chefs worked over the menu for a buffet luncheon for 300 G. 0. Partisans. Cleaners furbished up the D. A. R.'s Constitution Memorial Hall where the evening ceremonials would occur. Calvin Coolidge declined an invitation to attend on the curious ground that it was "the nominee's party...
...disregarding President de Valera's official and mandatory advice that he keep his wounded feelings to himself. Mr. de Valera assured His Excellency that if he will give timely notice of his public movements to the Free State Cabinet in the future, "no more such incidents will occur." Under the Official Secrets Act, the President kept the Governor General's complaints out of the Free State press for a few hours, then released them...
...epidemics most adults and children in the stricken areas pick up germs, acquire immunity without developing symptoms of the disease. This immunity lasts a lifetime. Each epidemic immunizes thousands of children. Not until these thousands are grown and other thousands have taken their places is another epidemic likely to occur. New York City had a local epidemic in 1907 (2,000 cases). Its epidemic of 1916 (9,000 cases) spread to the Mississippi. Last year's epidemic was smaller (4,000 cases in New York City), less widespread. The next epidemic in the New York-New England area should...
...time to declare in favor of some modern method of conducting our National Conventions. . . . Nominating a candidate in June brings him before the electorate . . . for four solid months. It requires a man of great vigor and great bodily strength to stand the physical strain of it. . . . The conventions should occur about the first week in September...