Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three visitors were received at the White House with true California hospitality. Two came from Palo Alto (country seat of the Hoovers) with an introduction from D. C. Kok, a fellow-townsman. Their names were respectively Southboro Sunny and Southboro Markham, children of International Champion Southboro Savanna, English setter. The third visitor came without a card. His ancestry and antecedents were a mystery, but he was a handsome Eskimo sled...
...Subcommittee of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee-precise, fingerpointing Senator Shortridge of California, square-jawed Senator Allen of Kansas, ruddy Senator Robinson of Arkansas-last week got down to investigating whether William B. Shearer, naval expert, had broken up the Geneva Disarmament Conference, whether U. S. shipbuilding companies had paid him for doing...
...named for James Gadsden who negotiated it, is a strip of land across the southern part of New Mexico and Arizona, bought from Mexico for $10,000,000 to "rectify" the international boundary. Five years earlier, following the Mexican War, the U. S. had taken all of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, paying only $15,000,000. The Gadsden Purchase is something of a synonym for Conscience Money...
...Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California, tall Shakespearian scholar, onetime actor, chairman. Said Mr. Shortridge: "We shall treat everybody alike? the tramp and the millionaire. We care not whether he be clothed in rags or purple and fine linen...
Common is the belief among Easterners that all Big Business news originates in the East. Proud Californians have long disagreed, pointing for proof to California's many flourishing industries. Last week Californians were given fresh proof of their importance. Dow, Jones & Co., financial news-distributors, publishers of the Wall Street Journal, announced that starting in October a Pacific Coast morning edition of the Journal would be published daily, ''in further recognition of the important financial growth of this territory." With head offices in San Francisco, the new Journal will be distributed to the chief Pacific Coast cities...