Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill was sent to the Senate, where its passage was expected. Broad smiles spread on the battle-scarred visages of Edith Nourse Rogers, Mary T. Norton, Caroline O'Day. Faraway looks came into the big, beautiful eyes of Government stenographers as they began to dream again of legal love...
Rochester was, in 1918, the anchor city of the Gannett chain. Mr. Hearst invaded it in 1922 during his last dream of a personal political career. Albany, on the other hand, had been a Hearst city (evening and Sunday Times-Union) for four years when Publisher Gannett marched there in 1928 to buy the Knickerbocker Press (morning) and News (evening). With Mr. Hearst now out of Rochester, Mr. Gannett was agreeable last week to merging the old (1842) Knickerbocker Press with his News, taking Albany's evening field for the resultant News-Press, and letting Mr. Hearst shift...
...turn of the century in California, two men had great dreams. Last week one dream finally came true and the other was an old nightmare in which both dreams fought...
...whose dream came true was 72-year-old Dr. John Lorenzo Dow Roberts, who settled in Monterey 40 years ago. Many of his patients lived along the rugged coastal mountains reached only by difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel...
...whose dream became a nightmare is a far more famed Californian- nimble, thimble-sized John Downey Harvey, son of Society Leader Eleanor Martin and San Francisco's chief dandy in the early 1900s. Like Dr. Roberts, he in his day cast his eyes shoreward, conceived a passenger railroad to link San Francisco and Santa Cruz, 80 mi. south. Downey Harvey incorporated Ocean Shore R. R. in 1905. Big sums were subscribed by prominent San Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never...