Word: cals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonably doubtful that the nation would have voted the 30th and 31st U. S. Presidents into office so enthusiastically if those gentlemen had previously changed their official names to J. Cal Coolidge and Herb C. Hoover. Nonetheless a stream of important visitors, interested in helping make a 33rd President of the U. S., made their way during the past fortnight to the door of the Kansas Governor who was christened Alfred and now calls himself Alf. In the Press the kind of build-up which experienced partisans know how to produce for a favorite made the Landon name loom larger...
Last June when the Canadian Medical Association met with the American Medi-cal Association at Atlantic City, word of Dr. Connell's cancer experiments got about. He received little attention. For one thing, he had only cancerous mice to talk about at that time. Also in the scales against Dr. Connell was Ontario's tolerance of Dr. Mahlon William Locke, who in a swivel chair at Williamsburg, Ont. with one hand grabs the $1 bills, with the other manipulates the feet of long lines of patients, many of whom are later advised to buy Locke-designed shoes...
...defeated both Cal. and Stanford in dual meets earlier in the season, and then went on to win the Pacific Association title, and closed their home season with a crushing victory in the Fresno Relays. In the latter meet, held under the arc lights at night, the Los Angeles boys piled up 82 points to California's 48, and Stanford's 26. It is in this Fresno meet that the best records of the year are usually made on the Coast. This year the spectators were treated to such routine performancs as a 9.5 100 yard dash, a high hurdle...
Bliven, the newly elected secretary, is the son of Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, and was in charge of lo- cal relations in the recent conference on careers in government. Himelhoch will be remembered for his active work in the April Peace Strike...
...Oakland, Cal., March 13--A Douglas mystery ship, now under-going tests which may stamp it the first self-flying plane in the world, will take off from Oakland Airport at midnight today for Honolulu, it was learned from unimpeachable sources tonight...