Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exhausting All Avenues. After refusing a plea for executive clemency, Reagan said: "Here was a case in which every legal avenue had been tried-the U.S. Supreme Court twice, the California Supreme Court twice." Moreover, his predecessor, Governor Edmund Brown, had rejected clemency. Concluded Reagan: "The law is the law, and it must be upheld...
...California has another execution scheduled for this week and 59 other men in its death row. "We are treating each one of these cases on its own mer its," says Governor Reagan. "Certainly, if clemency is indicated, no one would be happier than I would if I were able to recommend...
...sometimes said that the churches' real mission was henceforth among the rich. Still, despite the wealth of the Great Society, the churches (along with everyone else) have rediscovered the poor, from the National Council's Delta Ministry organizing the Negro cotton pickers to the interdenominational California Migrant Ministry trying to better the lot of the grape pickers...
...keeping the bookkeeping cost within bounds, local banks would reimburse local merchants, then pass their bills on to the cardholders' own banks for collection. In the race to go transcontinental, the giant Bank of America has grabbed an early lead. Last year it began licensing banks outside its California domain to use its highly successful (2,057,000 members, $228 million annual billings) BankAmericard. Fifteen banks have signed up, adding 1,500,000 cardholders and 30,000 retailers to the system...
...Somerset Maugham turned to his hostess and, in one of his rare pronouncements on writers and writing, remarked that the future of English literature was in the hands of a handsome young man across the room, Christopher Isherwood. Not long afterward Isherwood abdicated; in 1936, he emigrated to California and left much of his creative vitality in England. Apparently only Irish expatriates write better when they leave their native land...