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...Though few would compare him with Homer, many would place him close to Masefield. A wagon train bound for the West, just before the days of the gold rush, comes safely through the central prairies, then divides, some for Oregon, some for the shorter but more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner, her mother sees to it that they go in different directions. But luckily for the caravan, Emmet rejoins them later, guides them on their terrible journey through the mountains. In a hopeless attempt to save some...
...year by quitting as vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey to back a more vigorous oil code than President Walter Teagle favored. For that he was rewarded with a job on the Planning & Coordinating Board of the Petroleum Industry, later got another job with Standard Oil of Cali fornia. This July President Roosevelt sat him down to organize the housing drive...
Guards: William Corbus (Stanford) and Aaron Rosenberg (Southern Cali- fornia...
...forced down by bad weather, he caught a train at Winslow, Ariz., continued to Los Angeles. There, in a comfortable suite at the Biltmore, he had little time for rest before his rooms were jammed with attorneys, bankers and accountants. All this excitement was over Richfield Oil Co. of Cali fornia. Mr. Sinclair's company recently bid $18,000,000 for Richfield; last week the offer was boosted to $22,250,000 in cash & securities. Richfield's three committees of bondholders indicated that they approved of the offer but wanted a 45-day option. During this time...
Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seized the Golden Bear flag of Cali fornia and started a procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang...