Word: californianism
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...over the country are conducting the Prohibition referendum at this time, in an effort to find the reaction to Prohibition in the colleges and to determine something of the opinion of the generation which will govern the country in a few years. The Yale Record, Michigan Daily, Daily Californian, and the Daily Texan are among the more influential papers which are expected to take charge of the ballot...
...thousand acres of California land; then mix well with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry. In short, run what Mark Twain once described as a "human stud-farm". "In the second generation", to quote the cheerful Californian, "there would be a race of superman gods on earth...
...Senator from California is literally doing his best, as he promised, to get into the primaries in every state. He expects to enter, it is known, in California, South Dakota, Nebraska, Indiana and even Massachusetts. The last state is, of course, pro-Coolidge, but it is surmised that the Californian hopes to gather a few delegates there in order to offset the situation in his own state. Mr. Johnson's fences are in none too good repair at home. The California Republican organization is against him, the southern Californians do not like his isolationist policies and the Hoover-Coolidge supporters...
Samuel Morgan Shortridge is said to be the tallest man in the Senate. In size, at least, he rises well above his colleague, Hiram W. Johnson. Just at present he seems about to stir up as much trouble for the Administration as the other Californian -but in quite a different way. Senator Shortridge is going to introduce into Congress an amendment to the immigration law which would bar all persons not eligible for citizenship from entering this country, meaning to bar Asiatics, and intended to bar Japanese...
Last week Mr. Strassburger appeared in Washington. In his pocket was a letter full of " blistering words." As between Strassburger and Lasker, it seems the Californian prefers the latter. So Mr. Strassburger went to call on Calvin Coolidge at the White" House...