Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that all the magazines (including TIME)?that is, practically all?have dully and faithfully recorded them with scarcely the deviation of a comma, isn't it about time to release...
...Nine telegrams over the Hoover signature went forth from the White House last week to nine state governors, asking them to meet in Colorado Springs on June 10 to frame an interstate compact limiting oil production. The nine oil states: Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Kansas and New Mexico...
Champion Smith had found on the St. Cloud course, just outside of Paris, what golfers call their "element." The Smith golf is highly stylized, has mostly been played on the hard, fast fairways of Missouri and California. Golfer Smith's two feet and the head of his club, when it touches the ground, nearly always form that invisible equilateral triangle so exuberantly eulogized in golf textbooks. During the recent European venture of U. S. professional golfers, he has been the direct antithesis of erratic unorthodox Leo Harley Diegel. On the careless hillocks and ridges of Muirfield and Moortown where...
Hosing. A Keystone Army bomber over Manhattan and a Ryan monoplane over Fort Worth, Texas, each last week received their gasoline by hose. This was the method which enabled Captain Ira Eaker and his crew of four to keep the Army Fokker Question Mark above Southern California 150 hrs., 40 min., 16 sec., last January (TIME, Jan. 14), longer than any human had ever stayed...
...addition to his horse breeding, Mr. Billings was famed also for his yachts, his pictures, and for Tyron Hall, his two-million-dollar estate on upper Riverside Drive. Once, when he had accumulated so many Old Masters that the walls of his new California estate would not accommodate them all, he sold 31 canvases, including eight Corots, for $410,000. In 1917 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought Tyron Hall, gave it to the city...