Word: californianism
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Amid the startled glances of his many admirers. Hank Sheller, athlete and Californian, announced his pending marriage by displaying a newly purchased diamond. Congrats, Bruin, thanks for the early announcement...
...practical politician like Harry Tru man, Californian Edwin Wendell Pauley had a claim to a good job. Big, hulking Ed Pauley, operating oilman (Petrol Corp.) and fast-moving dealer in California oil properties, was a faithful, hard-working political war horse - treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee, a crack money-raiser, a tried & trusted Truman friend to boot. But there were few cheers in Washington last week when Harry Tru man announced that Ed Pauley was to be the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission, with the rank of Ambassador...
...Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
Died. Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 91, famed Californian; in Los Gatos, Calif. The eccentric corporation lawyer was a fighting liberal, poet, satirist (Heavenly Discourse), had been a West Pointer ('74), Indian fighter, longtime friend of Jack London and Mark Twain...