Word: beltman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...footnote which describes the article's meaning is entirely misleading. One is led to infer from it that our famed Wilshire Boulevard was named after Magnetic-beltman Wilshire in honor to him for his wonderful invention. It was not. Wilshire Boulevard was named after Subdivider Wilshire, the same person, to be sure, but at a date about 25 years previous to his fame as a magnetic-belt tycoon...
...less bewildered was Secretary of State Clarence Brown, who had been ill in a hospital when the bill was passed. Apologetically said he: "I simply missed the play and fumbled the ball." He went at once to Attorney General Gilbert Beltman, for in Secretary of State Brown's opinion, Section 199 violates the bill of rights "and provides for confiscation of property without due process...
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