Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people from the other side a chance to know that the Americans are "Real." Pick on "Tom" he can stand a little picking, there is lots of him, but respect his Mother, as you would want yours respected. This scribble is from a good bit-O-Scotch in California...
...Here is an issue," cried California's white-crested Senator Hiram W. Johnson to some Los Angeles lunchers last week, "on which no man, I do not care a rap who he is, should be silent. It will be the issue in the next Senate, when the fight for Boulder Dam will be up again. No man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain to the people of the United States...
...prosperity, it is Herbert Hoover." The "advance agent" made the first formal public speech of his Nomineehood last week, at San Francisco's Civic Centre (city hall). He found words "difficult vehicles" for thanking Californians for presenting his name to the G. O. P. He reminisced about early California, before Mayor James Rolph Jr. became a "public institution in San Francisco" and when (33 years ago) young Herbert Hoover hunted a job there. It was a non-political speech, unless the following was politically construed: "The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion...
...McLeod's Michigan, needless to say, has more representation coming to it. Since 1910, Michigan's population has grown with its industries, notably motors. California will get three more seats. Other gainers will be as follows: Connecticut, i; New Jersey, i; North Carolina, i; Ohio, 2; Texas, i; Washington, i. The adjustment will involve enlarging the unit of representation rather than swelling the ranks of the already cumbersome House. Instead of one Representative to every 211,877 of population, the latter figure will be considerably increased. This, of course, will take seats away from several States, as follows...
...robbed him of cash, watch, chain, collar button. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Skippers Harry Pigeon of Los Angeles and Alain Gerbault of France, though not present, were awarded Olympic diplomas for meritorious individual sporting conduct. At Sloten, on a canal built 20 feet above the land, the University of California eight-oared crew, Olympic favorite, practised before astonished milkmaids, proud tourists. Dr. L. Clarence ("Bud") Houser, discus thrower of Los Angeles, was selected to take the Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through a stage...