Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant best-selling novel by Thornton Wilder, himself one of twins. Almost every person includes in his acquaintance a pair of twins and contemplates their doings with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins and to study, with the utmost care, the details of their likenesses or their dissimilarities. A similar research has been announced by the University of Chicago...
...California. First there is the Bank of Italy, which he and his stepfather Lorenzo Scatena organized in 1904. Their first clients were the Italians of San Francisco and the heterogeneous fruit growers of the Sacramento Valley, whose pickings Amadeo Peter Giannini and Lorenzo Scatena had long & honestly been selling at commission. Soon there were Bank of Italy branches in the scattered communities of California...
...Bank of Italy (101 branches) with the then newly formed Liberty Bank of America (175 branches). The result was the Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association with capital of $30,000,000, resources of $115,000,000. The business of its offices, now nearly 300, all in California, requires that one board of management sit constantly in San Francisco, and another in Los Angeles. James Augustus Bacigalupi is president; Lorenzo Scatena, 78, chairman of its directorate. Amadeo Peter Giannini gives it banking advice, in much the same fashion that engineers advise public utilities on their operations...
Photographs of Sosthenes Behn are not easily had. But anyone may regard at leisure the groomed, handsome visage of Clarence Hungerford Mackay in any of the thousands of offices of the Postal Telegraph Co. His father, the late John W. Mackay, rough-palmed Irish '49er, found gold in California river beds and bequeathed its power in bank directorates, cable companies, cash. Son Clarence, polished by European tutors and universities, is less the director of 58 corporations than the member of 27 clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection...
...Berkeley, one Max Fiedler, catcher for the University of California freshmen, came up to bat in the ninth inning two weeks ago, hit a home run, won a game against St. Mary's. Last week, against Oakland Technical High School, Catcher Fiedler came to bat again in the ninth. Two strikes were called on him. The runner on second base hung his head, looked at the scoreboard that showed the University team one run behind. The bat boy was picking up the bats, the pitcher pitched, Catcher Fiedler swung wildly, hit the ball, knocked...