Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin of Bewdley as saying in two long paragraphs and 175 words (TIME, Aug. 28-Education) what Maxwell Anderson made Washington say better in the play about Valley Forge in 15 words: "This liberty will look easy by and by-when nobody dies to get it." JOHN J. LIPSEY Colorado Springs, Colo...
...signal service to Labor and to another St. Viator alumnus. Vice President of big Warner Construction Co. is Thomas LeRoy Warner, who studied under Father Maguire over 30 years ago and is still his admiring friend. Last July his company was building Green Mountain Dam and power plant in Colorado for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau when five A. F. of L. unions struck for a closed shop. Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr dispatched National Guardsmen to suppress...
Last week, at Contractor Warner's request, trouble-shooting Father Maguire hied to Washington. There he conferred with spokesmen for the unions, the Labor Department, Colorado's Labor Federation. A telephone call to a negotiating committee in Denver cost $150, which the U. S. Treasury will pay. Soon Father Maguire was able to announce a basis for peace at Green Mountain. A. F. of L. got the equivalent of a closed shop for its unions. Contractor Warner got assurance that he can resume work, catch up on his $4,000,000 contract. Back to Chicago went Father Maguire...
...Paso County, Colo., a rancher appealed for protection from a WPA project to build one of 22,000 outdoor toilets on his place. Answered the Colorado Public Utilities Commission: it had no jurisdiction. Reason: outdoor privies are not public utilities...
...them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily discovered it had designated Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day by mistake. Alf Landon sounded off in Colorado as follows: ". . . Another illustration of the confusion which his impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken in working it out . . . instead of springing it upon an unprepared country with the omnipotence of a Hitler...