Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eighty thousand people gathered in Berkeley to watch Southern California grapple scorelessly with California...
When the settlers of California dreamed mundane dreams of shiny streets of gold, they turned to an old Spanish custom and called California an El Dorado...
...there were milder settlers in California who dreamed of golden grain and ripe fruits. When a small group of these beheld. 30 miles east of busy, sprawling Los Angeles, a hill profuse with oranges, lemons, apricots, peaches, it was also quite natural that they should invoke an Italian legend and call the spot Pomona.* Pomona it became when it was settled...
...year before Andrew Jackson yielded the presidency to Martin Van Buren. and before California became a state, Ellen Scripps was born. In 1873 she helped her brother found a newspaper which was the first of today's Scripps newspaper syndicate. "Miss Ellen" always considered her wealth a public trust. She harkened to the faintest plea for a sound philanthropical cause. She has endowed hospitals, schools, given parks, community buildings...
Last week, in California, Miss Ellen celebrated her 92nd birthday. Many and sincere were her well wishers but none more sincere than the students and professors of Scripps College, which her money founded when she turned...