Word: alameda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Family. Billy Knowland was no ordinary kid growing up around Alameda; he was a Knowland of California. His grandfather had come West from New York to dig for gold, instead found wealth in an empire of lumber, shipping, mining and banking interests. Billy's father, Joseph Russell Knowland ("J.R." to most of California and "Papoo" to his now-adult grandchildren), served in the state assembly, the state senate, and was elected five times to the U.S. House of Representatives. Defeated as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1914, J.R. bought into the Oakland Tribune (1956 circ...
...grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from an adult who had fallen ill, of the finance committee of Alameda's Coolidge-Dawes Republican Club. Billy raised funds, paid bills and shared in the credit for Alameda's thumping Republican majority...
...sooner did Billy Knowland arrive at Alameda High School than he set about organizing a student Conservative Party ("Economy But Not False Economy"). He held nearly every school office, graduated as president of his class and of the student body. His rival candidate has a rueful memory of the occasion: "I was an athlete and a popular guy. Billy didn't play anything. But he knew how to make other kids take him seriously...
...Service Hospital at Lexington, Ky. have already discovered, Nalline, when injected under the addict's skin, causes immediate withdrawal symptoms. (If given to basically healthy nonaddicts, the drug causes no serious symptoms.) In eight months of testing, Narcotics Inspector Fred Brau-moeller and Dr. James G. Terry, an Alameda County medical officer, also noted that Nalline has a telltale effect on the eyes of people to whom it is administered: while it causes a non-addict's pupils to constrict, it causes the addict's pupils to dilat...
Born. To Earl Warren Jr.. 26, second son of U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren anc assistant farm advisor of California's Alameda County, and Cleo Patricia Kent Warren, 26: their second child, first son; in Castro Valley, Calif. Name: Earl Warren III. Weight...