Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleveland 6, San Diego...
Although he now lives quietly in Coronado, Calif., Admiral William H. Standley, wartime ambassador to Russia, still keeps a keen eye on civic affairs. Last week he protested an outrage-in-the-making which had escaped almost everyone else in the state. The city of San Diego was about to dedicate a veterans' memorial building to "those Americans who have fought for the Four Freedoms." The old (77) admiral wasted no time in hurrying down to the city council...
...next 24 hours Fagan's ears burned. Newspaper editorials and radio commentators from Seattle to San Diego denounced his decision and he got telegrams of protest from peanut planters. Swelling by the minute came the anguished cries of fans. Next day, Fagan admitted defeat. Said he: "The public wants peanuts. Peanuts the public shall have-large, fresh-roasted ones...
Started in Manhattan only three months ago, Tune-O has stormed its way into six other large cities (Atlanta, Detroit, Louisville, Miami, Norfolk, San Diego), last fortnight made a dizzying debut to a wildly enthusiastic audience in Washington, D.C. By last week more than 30,000 Tune-O cards had been given out and station WWDC had to install three special lines to handle the crowd...
...Textile Workers Union, C.I.O., plaintively asked the NLRB to throw out the results of an election in which it had failed to gain jurisdiction at the Charroin Manufacturing Co. of San Diego. Their charge: that Plant Manager Walter L. Berry Jr. had influenced the voting by dressing up like Simon Legree (i.e., in a long black coat, a black hat, boots and a big black mustache) and rushing through the plant cracking a large whip and crying, "You must vote!" But after listening to Berry's explanation-that the union had given him the idea by getting...