Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clifton Copley, who used to represent the eleventh district, Ill., in the U. S. House, and whose success with public utilities and small-town newspapers in Illinois (Springfield State Journal, Elgin Courier, Joliet Herald News, etc.) lately encouraged him to buy 19 small newspapers in California (the San Diego Union, Pasadena Evening Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation against...
...always, with the greatest reservoir of cash of all, compared to which Wall Street's organized money force is small. It astonished nobody, because 7,000 tickers are now hypnotizing greedy eyes in 40 states, leaving scarcely a middle-sized town from Maine to California where citizens may not actually see their savings bank withdrawals dance past their giddy eyes in strange, cryptic abbreviations three minutes after passing their checks to the broker...
Upon the reorganization of the century-old Bank of America last week as the Bank of America National Association, under the wise & facile advice of Amadeo Peter Giannini, the command went forth that stockholders of Giannini's California Bank of Italy and of his National Bancitaly Corp. might purchase BA.NA. stocks, but might not trade or assign their rights to those new securities...
...Banks. The interrelation of Mr. Giannini's fiscal organizations seems inexplicable. It is not. As yet there exist only two great organizations, with their activities mainly in California and in New York. Later he hopes to have a web of banks in each of the twelve Federal Reserve bank districts...
Professor R. A. Millikan, Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics of the California Institute of Technology, will give a series of six free public lectures on twentieth century discoveries in physics at the Lowell Institute early in April...