Word: calif
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Process. In San Jose, Calif., Ernest J. Gee explained to a superior court judge why he couldn't serve on the jury: he was the defendant...
MIRIAM C. MALOY Berkeley, Calif...
...devout Methodist layman and mine executive, Oxnam was born at Sonora, Calif. In his youth, Methodist churches had a monthly custom of calling for declarations at the altar rail after service. One Sunday he told the girl sitting beside him that he felt a call to the ministry but disliked such public displays. Said she: "If you really feel you should be a minister, you ought to have enough nerve to go down there." He went. Among those he met at the altar rail was Ruth Fisher, daughter of a wealthy oilman, pledging herself to the mission field. Soon after...
...Citizens of Tulare, Calif, lined the streets for nine miles to welcome 17-year-old Bob Mathias, home from his decathlon victory in the Olympic Games. After hours of cheers, band music, speeches and photographs, Bob decided he'd had enough. He drank a quart of milk, locked himself in his room, played phonograph records and waited for the crowds to go away...
...Bluff, Calif., a crowd hurried to the United States Brewing Corp. plant with pitchers and jugs. Because the company was in receivership, a federal judge had ordered 124,000 gallons of beer drained off into the Sacramento River...