Word: californianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money out of her song. Her travels ended in Portland, Ore., where for the past few years she lived on relief in a ramshackle frame house. Neighborhood kids sang her song outside her window. Last week, an embittered 75, Frankie died. ¶ Theola Barton is a 15-year-old Californian who likes to go to school in pin curls. Last March the principal of her school in Antioch sent her home to take out the pins. Theola's parents rebelled, said that Theola would not go back to classes until she could do her hair as she pleased. Last...
...Newcombe tacked a sign: "The Valley Evening Monitor, the Valley Morning Star and the Brownsville Herald are . . . against our American public-school system. Buy other newspapers and help drive these objectionable carpetbaggers from our valley." The "carpetbagger" Newcombe meant is 73-year-old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, a pinch-faced Californian who looks and acts as if he had just bitten into an unripe persimmon...
Steve Szaras Covers the ground at right half and has proved a good man. Center halfback Alex Hanger from Brazil sparks the line and is fast, quite good in the air, and tackles well. Californian Charles Jobbins is an aggressive left half and passes well...
...found that high construction costs would prevent them from selling aluminum profitably for less than 22? a lb., v. the Big Three's price of 18? based on equipment built at cheaper costs. Finally, the field was narrowed to one enthusiast. He was Leo M. Harvey, a shrewd Californian who had built up an $8,500,000 aluminum extrusion business, Harvey Machine Co., and already had sewed up a supply of cheap power, the prime essential for aluminum, at Montana's Hungry Horse Dam. Interior agreed that if Harvey could raise $7,000,000, it would approve...
...were rightly concerned over the danger of such a conflict. As it turned out, this issue has rarely arisen in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The most serious instance of military insubordination to governmental authority was General Andrew Jackson's seizure of Florida from the Spaniards. Only a Californian would view this act of Harry Truman's hero as a catastrophe...