Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Believing his delegate-strength was even greater than impartial experts said, anticipating a crucial victory in California's primary on May Day, Candidate Smith inspected his campaign headquarters at the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan, and approved the selection of George R. Van Namee as his pre-convention manager. Mr. Van Namee, a slightly bald, wholly businesslike,-most amiable Cornell graduate (Class of 1901), used to be Governor Smith's secretary. Before that, when Smith was Democratic leader and Speaker of the New York Assembly, Mr. Van Namee was his familiar and chief clerk. In 1920 and again...
...than mumps and few adults are more dignified than U. S. Senators. It was with sympathy not unmixed with glee that readers of The Club-Fellow, jaunty "national journal of society," read last week that "Senator Joe Robinson has been suffering that undignified disease . . . and Senator Hiram Johnson of California has the mumps too." These two gentlemen sit well apart in the Senate Chamber, on opposite sides of the aisle. Mumps being most contagious, there was prospect of more mumps among the Senators. Near California's white-crested Johnson sit Indiana's paunchy Watson and Michigan...
Professor William Bennett Munro, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American history and government in the University, has been appointed as an associate in history and a member of the executive council of the California Institute of Technology...
Professor Munro has been associated with the University for 23 years, having been, prior to 1925, professor of municipal government, and since that time the encumbent of the chair he now holds. For the past two years he has divided his services between Harvard and the California Institute...
...Southern California has another fast man and Stanford also can boast of at least one sprinter who has broken ten seconds, but I look to the East to furnish Borah's opposition or at least to supply the other scores in the short events...