Word: california
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...detective agencies had been bribed by the gambling interests. After several months investigation, however, enough evidence had been collected to force Boss Ruef, Mayor Schmitz, and others to confess. Nevertheless, in spite of their confession, the men were acquitted by the Supreme Court of the State. The courts in California are open to criticism on the score of integrity and it is often the case that wherever there is political corruption, business corruption is sure to be behind it. Mr. Spreckels suggested two remedies for political corruption: first, that the shareholders in every corporation should see to it that their...
...fight which followed, California was divided into two hostile parties, one with Spreckels, the other against him. Spreckels was beaten and Heney failed in election to the district attorneyship. Ruef was then granted another trial, in spite of his confession...
During the past eleven years, Dr. Reisner has been carrying on excavations in Egypt for the University of California. Harvard, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Egyptian government. At the pyramids he has found five great masterpieces of Egyptian sculpture and many alabaster vases and other important objects of early Egyptian periods, all of which are now at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...
Professor Max Friedlaender, of the University of Berlin, who has been lecturing at the University, will start on a lecture tour of the United States on January 30, going to Cornell University. On leaving Ithaca he will visit and lecture at the following cities and universities: University of California, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Columbus, O., Johns Hopkins University, Madison, O., Minneapolis, Minn., and St. Louis, Mo. He has no special subjects for his lectures but they will be on musical topics. While here he has given two courses, one on "Romanticism in Music, from von Weber and Chopin...
...Heney is a noted lawyer. He graduated from the University of California, in 1875, and from the Hastings Law School in 1880. From 188 to 1894 he practiced law in Arizona, later moving to San Francisco. Since 1900 he has been the most prominent figure concerned in the fight for the abolition of bribery and graft on the Pacific Slope. He acted as attorney for the government in the Oregon land fraud cases, and later secured indictments against United States Attorney J. H. Hall, Senator Mitchell, G. C. Brownell, and others, for conspiring to protect guilty politicians. At this time...