Word: californianism
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...dares not alienate the powerful medical profession and its allied professions, arts and businesses. And he needs, apart from the populace, the goodwill and co-operation of political machines. In California Dr. Coffey, chief surgeon of the Southern Pacific and the Dollar Line, is a powerful political force. If Californian Coffey is not treated well in New York, New Yorker Roosevelt might not be well-treated by Californians at the Democratic nominating convention. Most potent of all is William Randolph Hearst, whose 23 newspapers have been whooping characteristically for Coffey-Humber cancer extract. In his own State, with Tammany Hall...
...moralists will tell you, nothing that is easy to get is worth much. Daily Californian...
...Einstein said that he believed that every man of fighting age should refuse to fight and the dangerous and destructive heresy of such a remark has lead the Los Angeles Legionaires to rise in defense of the peace of their Californian domain by keeping the father of such ideas beyond their borders. An attitude of militant protection would seem to be the only way these professedly peace loving people can protect the sanctity of their homes from pacificism. It is unfortunate that instead of advocating pacificism Professor Einstein did not make a plea to keep the world safe for democracy...
...despite many a protest, Vancouver's loud evening Sun ("Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March 31). The U. S. Consul General was besieged with outraged demands for formal action. One Californian wired to Senator Hiram Johnson urging "proper protest against . . . insult." Nothing happened. The Strange Death of President Harding was widely circulated and reported in the U. S. last spring. But the U. S. press, while feeling obliged to report the book's horrid insinuation that Mrs. Harding did away...
Sharkey's best fight was a ten-round, uphill, slugging match with George Godfrey, giant Californian negro. Godfrey's immense size and his reputation for viciousness had kept the other heavy-weight contenders dodging him. Sharkey entered the ring, giving away 44 pounds in weight, four to five inches of height, and nearly three inches in reach. He says he battled through the ten rounds "not knowing what it was all about," until his hand was raised...