Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undersigned, five or more California voters, hereby request you to publish the legislative record of U. S. Senator from California, William Gibbs McAdoo...
...abnormally sensitive about his age, offers to beat any of his critics at tennis. His present status in Roosevelt strategy is precarious, more that of an old pensioner than a valuable lieutenant. When the President finally got around to endorsing him from the platform of his special train in California last month, Senator McAdoo, at his side, mopped his brow with obvious relief...
Vitamin E. In 1922, Physiologist Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California discovered that lack of a certain principle of wheat germ, tomato and lettuce oils made laboratory rats sterile. In 1935 he isolated Vitamin E, the active principle of these oils, reduced it to its pure, crystalline form. Vitamin E regulates cell division, increases the number and strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural...
...German body put on a brown shirt. From Germany the cult spread to France, England and the U. S., where it was popularly regarded as high-class burlesque. By 1934, however, there were 300,000 serious-minded nudists in the U. S., and the movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral. Bona fide nudists denounced the show, and indignant opinion throughout the country drove nudism under cover. Last fortnight the American Sunbathing Association, largest official...
...Agreed to investigate peach-canning in California...