Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course there is Borah, the Southern California flash, who may rise to any heights if he is fit." Coach Farrell Yold a CRIMSON representative in the first of a series of discussions on the Intercollegiates. But the rest of the field, while it is far from slow, is hardly in Borah's class...
...Student Council for 1929 was rounded out to its full number of 15 with the appointment last night of four new members. The additions to the list are James De Normandie '29, of Boston, Edward William Sexton '29, of Winchester, Albert Goodwill Churchill '30, or Livermore, California, and William Potter Lage '30, of New York City. The appointments were made by the eleven men who were elected to the council in last week's ballotting...
...young man Davison Dalziel showed journalistic promise which took him out to China and later on to California, where he founded the San Francisco Daily Mail. Subsequently he progressed eastward to Manhattan and finally to London, where he gradually branched out into railroading, and finally became associated with the great international firm of Wagon-Lits. The climax of his career came only a few months ago, when, by the stupendous merger (TIME, Feb. 20) Wagon-Lits absorbed the far flung firm of Thomas Cook...
...part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that Russian oil is "stolen" and that Standard Oil should be contemned for touching it, that Royal Dutch-Shell should be patronized for shunning it. (Sir Henri tried to buy the same Russian oil but with conditions that the Soviets considered...
...renowned California flash broke his latest, and incidentally ninety-fifth, record on Saturday afternoon at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, when he sprinted and vaulted through a crowd of prostrate spectators and broken masonry for a time of 17 and 2-5 seconds in the 175-yard dash...