Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daniel Web ster, Tyler's Secretary of State, declared, "from step to step and from day to day under the President's own immediate supervision and di rection," the virtual protectorate established over the Hawaiian Islands, the annexation of Texas which made possible the acquisition of California and New Mexico, and the opening of the Orient through the first treaty with China...
...Whereas, the Christian and Reformed Churches are campaigning to end prizefighting in California, and it is published that such an exhibition, led by a noted pugilist, is to be staged for the benefit of a Protestant church; resolved, that we disclaim any sympathy with such a benefit and protest the use of such demoralizing methods in the name of the Church of Christ...
Seven times in the last eight years the Intercollegiate Games have been won by a California college. Last week Stanford, true to precedent, was first at Cambridge, 17⅔ points ahead of Yale. The big event was the pole vault in which the three best vaulters in the world competed-Ward Edmonds of Stanford, Les Barnes of Southern California, and Sabin Carr of Yale. Carr won without breaking any records. Only two men scored double firsts, Ray Barbuti (Syracuse) in the 220 and 440, and Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle...
...Travis of Oakland, Calif., go the kudos and the profit of arranging for the transcontinental motor stage system. He is president of the California Transit Co., which maintains a daily bus service between Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., 670 miles. That route is the spine of the score of bus lines it operates along the Pacific Coast. Last year its revenues were...
...Travis and associates incorporated the American Motor Transportation Co. in Delaware to take over the operating rights and facilities of several bus lines in the East and Midwest. And last week (a fortnight later) Bond & Goodwin & Tucker, investment house was selling preferred stock in the company. California Transit controls the voting stock. Mr. Travis is president of both companies...