Word: californianism
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...came into the office. However, I only got around to talk with 43. Their opinions, without exception, reservation or hesitation, were that there are too many Japanese here already, and that any suggestion of removing the ban is so preposterous as to be almost unbelievable, especially coming from a Californian. Of course my opportunities to feel the public pulse are much less than those of Mr. Koster. This is only a small farming community-but we have a larger percentage of Japanese population than San Francisco. I hope that cheap Japanese labor is not especially desired for the manufacture...
...Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Nellie Coffman runs the expensive Desert Inn to which tired film actors and actresses often go for a quick rest. Mrs. Coffman found that riding horses was not so popular with her famed guests. Riding requires a warm and weighty costume, and many a Californian finds clothes a nuisance. So Mrs. Coffman sold some of her horses, put bicycles in the empty stalls. Film stars soon began to wheel madly around & around Palm Springs. Bicycling became a raging West Coast fad, spread rapidly to the East. Thus was born last year's bicycle boom which...
...were left: Gregory Mangin, chunky, quick-footed champion, and Lester Stoefen, willowy 6 ft. 32 in. Californian having his first try at the national indoor competition. Stoefen blazed dazzling serves, made his backhand whine with deadly effect, won nine straight games. Mangin speeded up, caught and passed Stoefen. When he was within one point of winning the second set and tying the match, his serve broke the frame of Stoefen's racquet. But a footfault was called and he had to serve over. From that point on. Stoefen won his way through to become the new indoor champion. Score...
...that last fortnight he broke his own world record with a jump of 6 ft. ¼ in. Spitz, the only other highjumper who has made 6:8½ or better, crosses the bar scissors fashion. Marty goes over Western style, lying flat as he goes over. A tall, lean Californian who looks like Ellsworth Vines, he is a senior at Fresno State this year, plans to coach track when he graduates...
...Sportsmanship Brotherhood of New York City is trying to arrange a definite schedule for the Cambridge squad in America in April, but the college teams from here feel that they must follow through their schedule already planned, because the Californian crowds and weather are much more sure than those of New York. Some scheme may be worked out whereby the Cambridge team will go to the coast or the Stanford team will come to New York...