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Word: californias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writes a column on the editorial page that frequently disagrees with the editorial; shy, studious Arthur Eggleston writes his own opinions of labor problems (for which the Chronicle disclaims responsibility); Royce Brier writes a front-page column on foreign affairs; Joseph Henry Jackson conducts the best book column in California. Of San Francisco's four newspapers, the Chronicle is the only one which pays much attention to what goes on outside of California. Typical headline in seven-column blackface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Squirt | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania, bummed. Once, arriving in Eugene, Ore. with 5?, he talked local businessmen into backing a sporting goods store, gave golf lessons to drum up trade. He played in the low 120s. In 1928 he landed a job in a San Francisco bond house; by 1930 he was Anglo California National Bank's resident manager in New York. He was 22 then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Squirt | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing its photophobic maharajah into posing with her for a snapshot. But her biggest thrill came in the California Clipper nearing Honolulu, when she broadcasted over a Honolulu-San Francisco radio hookup. She did not strike rough weather until she encountered an electrical storm over Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Round Trip | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor. Born 38 years ago in Kansas, he graduated (1925) from the University of California, where he studied physics and mathematics. He taught math at a military academy for a year, took to writing short stories. Unwilling to capitalize on his father's fame, he used the pseudonym of "John Le Bar." Liberty found out who he was some years ago; since then he has signed his own name to his fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sonovox | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...first Alsifilm was whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Alsifilm Onward | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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