Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MILTON OFFNER Office of Board of Public Works Los Angeles, Calif...
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Albert Fuchs (Chicago financier) offered all his wealth (more than $2,000,000) for cancer research, on the day after his wife died of cancer in Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Fanny Richter Fuchs, famed pianist, made her debut in the U. S. under Walter Damrosch, retired from the concert stage several years ago because of ill health...
Amelita Galli-Curci (coloratura soprano) gave her name for advertising purposes to Swami Yogananda of India and Los Angeles, Calif., a man who looks like a plump woman. She was quoted in copy in Manhattan theatre programs as saying: "YOGODA gives Health, Strength, Power to Accomplish, Peace and Poise." Among other things, YOGODA claims to teach people "to Recharge their body, mind and soul Batteries from Inner Cosmic Energy ... to meditate, to know Divine truths." Last week Swami Yogananda was ordered by the police to leave Miami, Fla., where he had been extending his practices...
Elected. Dr. Charles Keyser Edmunds, onetime (1924-26) provost of Johns Hopkins University, onetime president of Lingnan University (formerly the Canton Christian College, China); to be president of Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. He succeeds Dr. James Arnold Blaisdell...