Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bachelor. A onetime railroad brakeman and fireman who became rich by inventing and manufacturing corrugated steel freight-car ends, Mr. Murphy heads three corporations (including Standard Railway Equipment Co.), owns the fabulous estate of the late William V. Kelley in Lake Bluff near Chicago, a cattle ranch in California, and a $1,000,000 square-rigged yacht. He is a good friend of James Roosevelt. Mr. Murphy is not so well known as his estate or his yacht, and the university had to look up the brief notice of him in Who's Who in order to identify...
...Garrigue Masaryk, son of Czechoslovakia's founder and its former Minister to Great Britain, now one of the many men without a country, bitterly told University of California students: "They operated on us at Munich and without an anesthetic. Then that man comes into the hospital and rapes us. To make a complete job of it, he then extracts the gold from our teeth...
...awards are as follows: For study in South America: David E. Davis, 4G, of Wilmotte, Illinois. For study in Europe; Roderio H. Davison 2G., of Auburn, New York; Earl M. Farnham 1G.S.D., of Wilder, Verment; Barnaby C. Kenncy 3G., of West Hartford, Connecticut; Jesse F. King 3G., of Ojat, California; Willard A. Smith 2G., of Teledo. Ohio; Arthur F. Stocker 5G., of Farge North Dakota; Arthur Sasthmary 2G., '37, of Quicy; Lesile C. Tihany 2G., of Cambridge; Smith Oathavine's, Ontarjo. For study in the United States; Seth Hammond Instructor in Economics and Tutor...
...faced Millionaire Church sold bicycles in Toledo, automobiles in Los Angeles, made enough to buy the finest breeding stable in California and to be one of Culbert Olson's chief backers. Last week Odell screamed that during the election campaign Church asked him for $5,000 on the promise that an attack on Pacific States would be left out of a recorded Olson speech. Custodian Church denied asking for the $5,000, but admitted receiving $2,500, admitted too that mention of Pacific States had been removed from the phonograph record. Governor Olson snapped that he, for one, knew...
...stories, is an editor of The Southern Review, best of current U. S. literary quarterlies. Night Rider is his first novel. A literary gamut-runner, who works day & night, he is now writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University. Coolest-headed of Southern agrarian writers, Author Warren declares "the danger of regionalism lies in the 'ism.' Meaningless as a fad, it is not a cureall, and gives the writer no substitute for talent or intelligence...