Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louis Waldman, onetime Assemblyman of New York, rose and nominated Norman Thomas to be Socialist candidate for the Presidency of the U. S. Cameron King of California cried his swift second to the nomination. The Convention shouted, cheered, applauded. Some, throaty with emotion, sang the Internationale. Six minutes passed. Candidate Thomas, in accepting the nomination, said that James H. Maurer ought to have been the party's candidate...
...Hamburg a fat man named Otto Kemmerich got into a swimming pool with a California sea lion. After swimming for ten hours the sea lion went to sleep in the water, was revived with a meal of fresh herring, swam 32 hours more, collapsed. Kemmerich swam four hours longer, a new world's endurance record...
Mile after mile over rutted alkali, on concrete, and through the brown ooze at the side of macadam, plodded the marathoners of Mr. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle who has offered $25,000 to the runner making the best time from California to New York. All along the route runners dropped out and went home. Three quit at Chandler, Okla., 1,543 miles from the start. They said they didn't believe Pyle had $25,000. When Oklahoma City gave $5,000 to Pyle, Ralph Scott, onetime manager of Red Grange, attached it. The Chamber of Commerce then...
...study of education as presented in other countries. Courses in American history, entitled "The West in American Politics since 1865" and "New Points of View in American History" will be presented by S.J. Buck, visiting professor from the University of Minnesota. Professor M.Y. Hughes of the University of California is giving courses on "English Literature in the Sixteenth Century" and "Anglo-Saxon." Professor W.R. Mackenzie of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, will lecture on "Shakespeare" and "English Drama from Sheridan to Shaw...
...afternoon, the first at 2.30 o'clock on "The Sociological Interpretation of Holy Scripture" by Mr. Lewis Wallis. Secretary of the Joseph Fels Foundation; and the second at 3.30 o'clock on "America's Contribution to Religion," by R. C. Brooks, professor of Religion in Pomons College Claremont, California. The Reverend Howard A. Pease, D. D. '08. Minister of the First Parish Church in Fitchburg, will conduct chapel services in Divinity Chapel at 5.30 o'clock; and a dinner at the Harvard Union at 6.30 o'clock will conclude the proceedings...