Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alps, except when the exigencies of motherhood (two sons) prevented. Hoover offices girdled the globe, above and below the equator. Hoover homes followed them, but, according to Biographer Irwin, 1907 was the only year prior to 1914 in which the Hoovers did not spend some time at their California base...
...Earth makes a slip, a Water runs madly to meet fellow Waters. Last week there was a revolt of Water in the San Francisquito Canyon and the Santa Clara Valley, 50 miles north of Los Angeles. The St. Francis dam had long been a symbol of hate in Southern California...
...Cause. There was scarcely a man in southern California who did not have his own theory concerning the breaking of the St. Francis...
...ship," he says, "is pleasure. Instead of taking my wife and seven-year-old son for a short week-end trip in the car, as I used to do, we now climb aboard the ship and take a regular trip. On my vacation we went to California...
Died. William Kent, 64, multi-millionaire California landowner, progressive political leader, onetime (1911-17) Congressman, member in 1917 of the U. S. Tariff Commission; of pneumonia; in Kentfield, Marin county, Calif...