Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prom those two magic words seem to carry with them a feeling of superiority; they smack of the elite. University of Colorado Proms are the most democratic in the country yet somehow even they stand out. Truly, the Prom is The One Event of the year...
...Colorado. "Too much talking has ruined politicians," says Colorado's newly-elected Governor William H. Adams. During his campaign he made one speech three minutes long and issued one statement. For 47 years an officeholder, he has never been defeated, never driven an automobile, never played golf. A Democrat, he carried Colorado by 99,000 votes despite a Hoover majority...
...superintendent, one Hickey, expressed gratitude by not forgetting. Three months later the new Colorado & Southern shop foreman at Trinidad, Colo., was a tireless, driving, hardheaded youngster named Walter Chrysler. Other railroads heard, needed, beckoned. After a bit the superintendent of motive power of the whole Chicago & Great Western system was a new man named Chrysler. "W. P." they called him, aged...
...Colorado Springs...
...President Coolidge took up a pen and wrote "Calvin." He took up another pen and wrote "Cool." With a third pen he wrote "idge" and as he dotted the "i" the Swing-Johnson bill, authorizing the Federal Boulder Dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, became effective. California's Senator Johnson and Representative Swing stood by, rejoicing over their seven-year job, done at last. Each legislator got one of the pens. The third pen was handed to a Hearst newspaperman. Dr. Elwood Mead, chief of the U. S. Reclamation Service (Interior Department), immediately sent a telegram...