Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authors McNary & Haugen. The Senator joint-author of the McNary-Haugen bill is Charles Linza McNary who did not stay down on the Oregon farm where he was born. Leland Stanford Jr. University (Calif.) and private tutors educated him. A lawyer and gentleman, he became Dean of an Oregon law school, whence he was elevated to the bench. In Washington, the characteristic thing about him is not that he is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but that he is a member of the Committee on Committees. The latter requires political finesse, conversation (not oratory), the dispassionate manipulation of other...
...President Coolidge and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur prepared stealthily to deal with the Chinese. Lest it be thought that the U. S. was rushing too many armed forces to China (TIME, Jan. 31) these statesmen designed a stratagem. They caused the transport Chaumont to sail from San Diego, Calif., loaded to the scuppers with U. S. marines last week, but announced that she was merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging both the northern and southern...
...lolled like a dying squid, she babbled idly among the waves. From a small boat nearby, her 11-year-old son called out anxiously. Men's voices growled advice. The large woman, momentarily dazed by exertion, then remembered she was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, proprietor of a Long Beach, Calif., beauty parlor. Four months ago she could not swim a stroke. Now, after lessons from admirers who had seen she was designed to swim by Nature, she had almost swum the Catalina Channel. She began again her laborious strokes . . . reached the oily shore swells . . . was swept toward a ragged reef...
Long Beach, Calif., looked forward to new beauty treatments: "The Huddleston Grease Pack," "The Catalina Clip," "The Huddle" (Shampoo...
Married. Jobyna Ralston, Harold Lloyd's leading lady; to Richard Ar?en, cinema actor, in Riverside, Calif., following a screen romance in which they were lovers...