Word: alameda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD) Alameda, Calif...
...Dewey and Earl Warren have other similarities. Dewey was a flashy racket-buster who fastened on cases with national interest and made the most of the attendant publicity. Earl Warren's work as district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley) was less spectacular. But in a state where most gang-busting is done on movie lots, he sent droves of bootleggers, con men, grafters and corrupt city officials packing off to jail...
...remembered most unfavorably on the West Coast is his handling of the celebrated Point Lobos case. In 1936, at the height of West Coast labor strife, the chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos was stabbed and beaten to death in his cabin, while the ship lay at an Alameda dock...
Said Gunner Tefft, now recuperating from wounds at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, Calif.: "Every night [the natives] would gather around us and we took turns reading the Bible. They sang songs which we knew, such as Red River Valley and Carry Me Back to Old Virginny. When we left them, they were beginning to learn When Johnny Comes Marching Home. The only thing that brought us back was faith. You can tell the world that I am now a devout Christian...
...have taken out some $300,000 apiece in profits (a 4,800% return) since 1933. Even with out a calculator, that added up to a round $1,200,000 for Fridén's own 50% share in the business-more than enough to stock his 600-acre Alameda County ranch with fine palomino horses and Hereford cattle, and to pay for the lavish swimming and riding parties he likes...