Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first act was to take out duplicate seaman's papers under the names of Jack Morgan and Wes S. Glenn. As Jack Morgan he shortly turned up in New Orleans, married a pretty 17-year-old laborer's daughter named Lillian Casanova, took her back to California where the pair led a hand-to-mouth existence working as bellhop and chambermaid in hotels...
...consolidated assets in 1936 amounted to almost $385,000,000, has gradually accumulated properties and organized new companies till it is the customary public utilities tangle of holding companies, operating companies, companies that are not purely one nor the other, and indiscriminate holdings ranging from Manhattan real estate to California prune orchards. After it is simplified, it will keep no less than 108 non-utilities, including 89 waterworks companies which are not defined as utilities by the act. But it will have only three operating and holding utility subsidiaries-West Penn Power Co., Monongahela West Penn Public Service...
...years later San Francisco Opera Director Gaetano Merola took Officer Stinson under his wing, called him a potential Caruso. Sympathetic professionals, including Singers Giovanni Martinelli, Gina Cigna, Kirsten Flagstad, pitched in to send Officer Stinson abroad to study. This week Officer George Stinson, on leave of absence from the California Highway Patrol, sails, with his wife and 16-year-old stepson, for Italy. Said he: "I hope someone hits me over the head with a baton when I get to Rome, otherwise I'll continue to believe I'm dreaming...
...Rose Bowl game, No. 1 game of the day, 90,000 people besieged Pasadena to see the University of California play the University of Alabama. California was bent on spoiling Alabama's record of never having been defeated in the Rose Bowl. In the first quarter Alabama outplayed California. But in the second quarter the pounding of the heavier California line began to tell on Alabama, and California's Vic Bottari hustled around right end for a touchdown from the 3-yd. line. He duplicated the play in the next quarter, and that ended the scoring. California...
Fortnight ago Mayor C. D. White of Atlantic City went off for a vacation in California. Before leaving, he closed Atlantic City's publicity bureau, apparently still convinced, as he once remarked, that the sort of visitor it attracted was a "cheapskate." Last week, in the opinion of most Atlantic City concessionaires and hotelmen, Mayor White was right about the most recent group of visitors. These were some 3,000 earnest folk assembled for the annual convention of the Allied Social Science Associations...