Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado and Nevada are Senate primary contests in which rebellious Democratic incumbents are being opposed by 100% Rooseveltists (see p. 12). The President will swing through these two States on his way to California, where faithful Senator McAdoo will undoubtedly see him off on a Pacific fishing trip. A plan to combine with fishing a goodwill visit to the west coast of South America was not, last week, finally worked out. C. To the White House Franklin Roosevelt called his Congressional wheelhorses to ask them whether there was any chance of reviving and ramming through the Reorganization Bill this session...
Taxation, The Court made three significant loopholes in its ancient doctrine that the Government cannot tax the '"instrumentalities" of a sovereign State. The Justices ruled that the Federal Government could collect taxes on: 1) the profits of operators leasing oil lands from the State of California, 2) the salaries of employes of the Port of New York Authority, 3) Football-receipts at the University of Georgia and the Georgia School of Technology...
...Delos Thurber of Southern California broke the high jump record when he nipped over the bar at 6 ft., 6⅝in., erasing the five-year mark...
When the two-day totals were tallied, the University of Southern California, absent from I.C. 4-A meets since 1935, had spreadeagled the field, won the team championship for the eighth time since it first competed 14 years ago. Although its 17-man team won only two events and tied for a third, it placed in the ten events in which it was entered, amassed a total of 4?i points, almost twice as many as the runner-up, Michigan State...
This was no surprise to track experts. Southern California's coach. Dean Bartlett Cromwell, an old track & fielder himself, has trained more world-record holders and Olympic winners than anyone else in the U. S. In 1912 he was famed for Hurdler Fred Kelly. After the War it was Charlie Paddock, fastest sprinter of his time; and more recently it was Frank Wykoff. Since 1928 he has been renowned for his record-breaking pole vaulters, most sensational of whom were the "Trojan Twins," Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, who wound up their college careers last year by breaking...