Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declaring specifically that one-half of one percent is, in his opinion, as strongly alcoholic as any U. S. beverage should ever be. But he made no such declaration, perhaps because he knew that about one-third of the Prohibition Party's vote is in California and likely to be Hooverish anyway; perhaps because he knew that the total Prohibition vote in 1924 was less than one-fifth of one percent of the total vote of the country...
...California. Registration in the office of a county or city clerk of precinct board may be made up to and including...
With Sir Austen & Family sailed a valet, a detective and one Anne Strachey (Diane Chamberlain's companion). They were en route for California and Canada, via the Panama Canal...
Helen Wills & Helen Jacobs have much in common. Jacobs once lived under the same roof that sheltered Wills when she was born; their first names are the same, they are California tennis misses. But in trading drives from the baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss...
Original and romantic intent was to run 1451 miles-up and across Kansas, south through high Oklahoma and higher Texas, across the Rio Grande, then southwest across Mexico, 1,451 miles to the Gulf of California. The line from Kansas City to Wichita, Kan. is still "under construction." From Wichita one can ride 735 miles to Alpine, Texas, without changing cars-on a local train...