Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski,* in Poland. Her boy, then 15, went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While she studied English, Ralph Modjeski...
...therefore, natural that California, wishing to slow up oil production but unable to do so directly by law, should last month make a law limiting the amount of gas oil companies might allow to go to waste at their wells.* Due to varying conditions in different fields, no general ratio of gas waste to oil production could be specified; instead, the law provided that waste should be limited to a "reasonable amount" to be determined in each case by State Oil and Gas Supervisor R. D. Bush. Waste can be limited by "recycling" the gas into the ground, thereby sustaining...
West: Stanford v. Oregon State at Palo Alto; Southern California v. Occidental at Los Angeles; California (Southern Branch) v. California Tech at Pasadena...
East: Harvard v. Army at Cambridge; Pennsylvania v. California at Philadelphia; Cornell v. Princeton at Ithaca; Columbia v. Dartmouth at New York...
Some 150 people heard the speech, in which Cohen reminded them of the injustices to Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, to Moody and Billings in California, to Hoffman in Tennessee, and to himself in Cambridge, where he was not allowed to distribute Socialist circulars on the streets. Police allowed the meeting to run its length without interruption...