Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lionized by convention delegates was the supposed author of this spoofery, tousle-haired Harold Raymond Wayne Benjamin, Ph.D., director of the College of Education of University of Colorado, onetime cowboy, fisherman, soldier, who can roll two cigarets at once. Dr. Benjamin admitted writing a foreword to the book, of the rest would say only that "It was not written by [Columbia University President] Nicholas Murray Butler...
Maiden Taft. The Independent Offices bill came up in the Senate and Colorado's spunky Adams, victor in the Relief economy fight (TIME, Feb. 6), sought to prevent restoration of $17,206,000 for construction of TVA dams at Watts Bar and Gilbertsville on the Tennessee River, which had been stricken out by the House. Mr. Adams' efforts were reinforced by Ohio's tall, squinty Robert Alphonso Taft, the new Senator of noble name and nominal fame in current Presidential polls, who had chosen this subject for his maiden Senate speech. Mr. Taft's party floor...
...Colorado River's Boulder Dam has six giant generators which turn out 82.500 kilowatts each. Among hydroelectric turbine machines, these hold a record for power. But Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. pointed out last week that "records don't last long among water wheels." The company has started work on three generators rated at 108,000 kilowatts apiece...
EWELL SHIELDS Colorado Springs, Colo...
...three dark horses: Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington; Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Texas); Dean Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. of University of Iowa College of Law, whose appointment would tickle three States, since he was born in Kentucky and summers in Colorado...