Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of California's most substantial citizens stood behind two labor petitions that made the biggest news, promised the bitterest November fights. Nominally sponsored by an organization known as the Women of the Pacific, but advertised in a daily front-page box by the potent Los Angeles Times, was a law providing for compulsory incorporation of unions, publicity of union finances, disqualification from union office of all noncitizens (i. e., Maritime Boss Harry Bridges), civil suits against unions for strike damages, jail sentences up to ten years for disobedient union officers. This proposal has a companion piece aimed...
Senator Pat Harrison was vacationing in California, Senator Joe O'Mahoney was in Wyoming resting up for his Monopoly Investigation. So in Washington last week the committee charged with policing 1938's Senate campaigns was stripped down to dutiful little Senator Sheppard of Texas (chairman), urbane Senator White of Maine (the sole Republican), lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts. In an air-conditioned office at the Capitol, this trio scanned reports from ten field investigators, kept the press informed of its opinions on the political campaign...
...California, where Senator McAdoo's opponents charged a 5% salary "shakedown" of Federal employes for his campaign fund. Mr. McAdoo's reply: slander & libel by "desperate...
...late Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, was a firm believer in "psychic phenomena," endowed a chair of psychic research at California's Stanford University. First occupant was a distinguished psychologist, the late John Edgar Coover. Second and present occupant is a black-haired, tenacious young man named John Kennedy. Both Coover and Kennedy have used the research funds provided by Thomas Welton Stanford to try to expose the phenomena in which the donor believed...
...American Airways' Los Angeles Operations Manager Major Daniel E. Ellis had an idea, took it to California Institute of Technology's young Research Physicist Anthony Easton. Last week, Researcher Easton finished his job: the design for an automatic distress signal. The apparatus is a two-tube, five-meter radio sending set, cased against fire in two inches of asbestos, housed in the plane's tail, spring-mounted against shocks. Its short antenna is a streamlined metal rod running from the fuselage along the leading edge of the plane's vertical stabilizer. Designer Easton chose...