Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room they saw modernistically designed by Junior Leaguer Mrs. George Draper is bright, undeniably attractive. Rubber plants and Venetian blinds somehow suggest Bermuda, California. There are white-washed walls, blue carpets, orange velvet chairs. From the windows the Junior Leaguers gazed rhapsodically on Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...University of California B. A. 1916, Columbia M.S. 1917, and onetime (1921-22) Mayor of Canton, is the son of the late, adored founder of the Nationalist Party, Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...Marriage Bed-Ernest Pascal, novelist, Ernest Pascal, film scenarist, becomes Ernest Pascal, playwright. While preparing dramas for the cinema he wrote a play, last week produced in Los Angeles with considerable California éclat and a good smattering of sound Manhattan theatre. It was an able play, staged with excellent ability by Robert Milton, famed Broadway director.* The principal performers were Alice Joyce and Owen Moore, cinemactors...
Giannini Banks. As the bank of America (with headquarters at Los Angeles), Amadeo Peter Giannini's United Security Bank & Trust Co. of San Francisco and his Merchants National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles are merging their 140 branches and $395,000,000 resources. This California Bank of America is distinct from the Bank of America National Association, which Mr. Giannini's men created last spring with three New York banks. These two Banks of America and their constituent organizations are on very friendly financial relations with each other and, of course, with Mr. Giannini's San Francisco Bank...
...census of all the New England states amounts to 19,481. New York ranks next in numerical strength with 7,652 graduates, 4,806 of which live in New York City. The west coast and neighboring states in the far west have sent 2,882 men to Harvard, California alone boasting of 2,013 alumni of the University. Nevada is at the bottom of the long list with only 23 men, the smallest number in any state...