Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of all is a most remarkable superwoman, Miss Helen Ella True, de jure Secretary to the President, but de facto President of Stanford in the absence of Dr. Wilbur. Her chief qualities: imperturbability and omniscience. She out-poker-faces that other Helen of California, and she knows instantly every rill of information that affects or may affect the University. Is there an unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done...
...Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks in Oregon and California. Location and not length makes the proposed line important. It would connect two powerful allies, the Great Northern and the Western Pacific. Vigorously fighting these two roads on the question of the new line is the Southern Pacific, backed by its ally, the Union Pacific...
...would join the Great Northern and the Western Pacific into a second, and in some ways much superior, through route. Said Mr. James last week to Commissioner Mahaffie and the 200 witnesses and participants in the case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which would be of real value to the country, through the strengthening and expansion of the Western Pacific. Having come to this conclusion, I bought control of the Western Pacific. . . . I see in northern California an opportunity to play my part...
Coach Knute Rockne thought Southern California might be too strong for his boys. He kept them on defensive work all week, but when, from his movable bed on the sidelines, he saw them scored on, he decided the best defence was attack. Carideo and Savoldo did what was expected of them after that and Southern California's Musick missed the extra point that would have tied the score. Notre Dame...
West: Southern California v. Washington State at Los Angeles...