Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increase their balance of power in Congress and as soon as possible amend the Constitution to provide for direct popular election of the President and Vice President, "obliterating the useless and antiquated Electoral College." All this Senator Norris set forth in an open letter to a California friend, by way of letting people know that he was clambering on no man's bandwagon...
...errand "purely sociable," small James John Walker, Mayor of New York and foreign minister of Tammany Hall, proceeded last week into, through, and roundabout the Southwest and California. He caught a black bass at Fort Worth, Tex.; posed with sombrero and steer horns; crossed the Mexican border to see the hard-boiled racing town of Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went...
Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis and Manhattan is a lawyer, writer, globetrotter, Princeton graduate (1868). He is kin of the late famed Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. His father, Winslow S. Pierce, was a Comptroller of California. His law partners included the late Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and the late U. S. Senator David Turpie of Indiana. Among his neighbors was Benjamin Harrison. Among his friends were Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson...
Seeds. Recently Prof. William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, announced that he could fertilize seeds with phosphate salts making fertilization of the soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...
...eight-oared crew was to be selected to represent the U. S. at the Olympic Games. Canada had already picked the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto. The U. S. problem was to find out whether undefeated California or undefeated Yale could be defeated. They met on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to decide. California took the lead at the start. It was a small lead-one-half a length-sometimes it grew to three-quarters of a length, but never did anybody see any open water between the shells of California and Yale. They were going along at a high...