Word: californianism
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...going many times to the Orient to "drum up trade" with Chinese merchants. In 1924, aged 80, he established the first round-the-world passenger-freight service on a regular schedule. Many of his maritime adventures have been idealized in the "Cappy Ricks" stories by Capt. Dollar's fellow Californian Peter B. Kyne. Outstanding Dollar characteristics included extreme frugality, shrewdness, religious devotion. Surviving him are his widow, Margaret Proudfoot Dollar, and three sons, Alexander Melville Dollar, 54, Robert Stanley Dollar, 50, John Harold Dollar, 44. Robert Stanley Dollar has long been president of Dollar Steamship Lines...
...strident Californian voice of Senator Hiram Johnson rolled out imperiously across the well-filled Senate chamber. In his hand he held a speech, too important to be delivered from memory. His white crest quivered with indignation and behind his spectacles his blue eyes gleamed resentfully. He was about to vent the full measure of his political bitterness, the full force of his distrust as as isolationist, and the full brilliance of disgruntled hindsight, upon the gentlemen who had conducted the country's international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee...
...both of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, were visitors at Soldiers Field yesterday. Brix took a slight workout, putting the iron ball some 50 feet while Harvard weight men watched his form with interest. G. W. Kuehn '32 received an hour's special instruction from Comstock and the rugged Californian. Alfred Kidder '33 and M. J. Finlayson '32, giant Crimson weight throwers were watched with interest by the visitors...
...Angeles, was born the Los Angeles Times, which shortly was acquired by General Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, a goateed, long-mustached turkey-cock who loved a fight and was sometimes compared to Editors Jones of the New York Times and Greeley of the Tribune. With true Southern Californian fervor the Los Angeles Times this week was celebrating the soth anniversary of that birth...
...good Californian, he expressed a horror of mud and a wet field, to which, he says his players are unused