Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California sky, all the way from the Atlantic seaboard by air, dropped Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant Attorney-General in the Coolidge Cabinet and "the next Attorney-General" in the press. He said he was there to work on some cinema cases. But everyone knew that President-Elect Hoover had sent for him, his friend and confidant, to discuss political this and governmental that before departing good-willingly for South America...
After returns were in, a Democratic county chairman telegraphed Governor Young of California: "I move you, Sir, that Secretary of State Jordan be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot of the votes of California for Herbert Hoover for President of the United States...
...short pass from California's big Barr to Eisan beat Washington...
...Unbeaten teams at this point: Iowa, Carnegie Tech, Georgia Tech, Florida. Tennessee, Southern California (one tie), Wisconsin (one tie), Princeton (two ties...
Obliquely interesting to the light physicists at Washington was the California Institute of Technology's decision to build a 200-inch telescope near Mount Wilson. The present Mount Wilson apparatus has a 100-inch reflecting mirror. The new one, to be done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack...