Word: salida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found one in Salida, Colo. (pop. 5,065): managing a granite works (tombstones) for his chain-druggist friend, Charles Rudolph Walgreen. Four years and two trials later W. B. went to Leavenworth to serve a 15-year rap for mail fraud. But his Salida friends didn't forget him. They signed petitions, fought for his release. In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt commuted his sentence. This time W. B. didn't have to hunt a job. Salidans had one waiting...
Last week Utilitarian Foshay was starting on his fourth year as paid secretary of the Salida Chamber of Commerce. The annual membership drive was under way and he was working like a beaver. Back of him were three years of success. Salida was on its way to becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida...
Travelling fellowships were awarded to Francis W. Cleaves 7G, of Needham Heights; James R. Hightower 3G, of Salida, California; Neil E. Rawlingson 4G, of Montebello, California; and Charles C. Stelle 2G, of Cambridge. Resident fellowships went to Eugene P. Boardman 3G, of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Te-K'un Cheng 2B, of Kulangsu, Amoy, China; Yuliang Chou 1G., of Tientsin, China; Richard N. Frye 1G., of Danville, Illinois; and Sau-Yu Teng 2G., of Hunan, China...