Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three) WPAsters who have been on the rolls 18 months or longer. Off "on furlough" must go 56,500 of Ohio's 166,700; 62,200 of Pennsylvania's 153,000; 22,900 of New Jersey's 67,900; 22,400 of California's 89,800; 11,200 of Alabama's 42,100; 400 of smallest Nevada's 1,600. About half will be replaced with other applicants. If the record of previously discharged WPAsters holds good, only 15% of the 650,000 will find private jobs; those who do will average...
...final building in 1848 of the transisthmian railway, used by thousands of U. S. citizens on their way to California's gold rush in '49. (For every mile of railroad built 125 men died of disease...
Swagger little President Manuel Quezon last week lodged formal protest against such a portrait of Philippine character through his Resident Commissioner Joaquin ("Mike") Elizalde, who emplaned from Washington for California to talk to Mr. Goldwyn. Upshot: for Producer Goldwyn, another well-publicized tribulation; for Commissioner Elizalde, an invitation to attend, with Goldwyn Executive James Roosevelt, the preview of The Real Glory, in which Filipinos will continue to cower...
With relief, outspoken Arthur Healey resigned his hot spot on the Dies committee, shifted to the Smith group. Prematurely grey Mr. Healey, long a stentorian New Dealer, had been working under wraps on the Dies group, with his strongly Catholic constituency clamoring for more vigorous Red-baiting. California's young Jerry Voorhis will step into Healey's lukewarm shoes as the New Deal's flatfoot assigned to watch Mr. Dies. New Dealers begged Speaker Bankhead to add Illinois' T. V. Smith to the committee as a further balance...
...Poverty-stricken migrants, chiefly from Oklahoma (thus "Okies"), to California's promised land, where they worked as itinerant harvest hands, lived in filthy squatters' camps. The name is now applied to all refugee workers from the Southwest and Midwest dustbowls. For further information on California's migrant workers' woes and big land-grabbing agriculturists, see Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams (Little, Brown, $2.50), out last month...