Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watsonville, Calif...
...Diego, Calif., Attorney Alfred Wesley Ingalls and his wife were charged with having kept a Negro maid named Dora L. Jones in payless slavery for 30 years by threatening to expose her for a misdemeanor in her youth. Californians were particularly horrified to learn that Dora had never seen a talking picture...
Some of the most famous had withdrawn into the wings-to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...
...Sixth Army's General Walter Krueger, hero of the Philippines, had turned in his uniform and was living in retirement in San Antonio. The Marine Corps' fire-eating General "Howlin' Mad" Smith had holed up in La Jolla, Calif...
...shell by cutting his payroll from 97,000 to 4,964, letting go all but his West Coast plant. By last week North American was breaking out of the shell again. It had leased from the Government, and started to move into, the 500,000-sq.-ft. Long Beach, Calif, plant operated by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. during...