Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sutter pamphlet was labeled: How shall we teach the Eighteenth Amendment? The Government's message to you. It began: "You realize a great difference for what . . . we will call 'temperance' teaching. . . . The Government needs the help and cooperation of every teacher from Maine to California ... in developing a consciousness of the proper attitude toward this...
Contrary to popular belief, "Hawaiian music" is not a pure racial product. Natives invented the rhythm, foreigners the melodies. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin, taken to the islands by early settlers and now manufactured, chiefly in California, for export to Hawaii...
...Marquis Okuma. No political move of any importance was made by the Emperor without consulting the Elder Statesmen. When their great age made traveling to the Palace difficult, Imperial messengers were sent to ask their advice. Prince Kimmochi Saonji, now 80 (he was born in the year of the California Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still that when etiquette seemed to demand that Prime Minister Tanaka and his whole Cabinet must resign with Privy Councillor Uchida, Cabinet Members hastened to the garden of Prince Saonji respectfully to wait the opinion of that wrinkled sage...
Numismatists were surprised last week when the world's record auction price for a coin was paid in Manhattan, not for the currency of some ancient empire, but for a U. S. $5 goldpiece issued in California in 1849. The coin was privately minted, at the time of the Gold Rush, for the Massachusetts & California Co. Its face depicts a cowboy busy with a lariat, a bear and a deer. For it a Philadelphia dealer, acting on behalf of an anonymous client, bid $7,900. The coin came from the big collection of the late Dr. George Alfred Lawrence...
...studied at Hobart College from 1902 to 1905, then turned to reporting for the Boston Traveler. He went to The Churchman in 1917, became its editor five years ago. Other Shipler crusades have been: Attacks on censorship of any sort; pleas for the liberation of Mooney & Billings, California's Socialist-pacifist prisoners; defense of the Rev. Lee Heaton. Rector of Trinity Parish (Episcopal), Fort Worth, Tex., who was nearly ousted from Texas by the Ku Klux Klan and the Rev. J. Frank ("Two Gun") Norris, Baptist (TIME, June...