Word: alameda
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Thousands in San Francisco, in Oakland and Alameda, in towns for 50 miles around, saw the glare in the sky and, seconds later, felt a rumbling earth shock. Windows broke in houses 20 miles away. Telephone lines were down; many a doctor and nurse blundered for hours before they found the scene of the disaster. It was dawn before Port Chicago could see what had happened...
WALTER CHARLES UTT Alameda, Calif...
...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...