Word: fornia
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...down by bad weather, he caught a train at Winslow, Ariz., continued to Los Angeles. There, in a comfortable suite at the Biltmore, he had little time for rest before his rooms were jammed with attorneys, bankers and accountants. All this excitement was over Richfield Oil Co. of Cali fornia. Mr. Sinclair's company recently bid $18,000,000 for Richfield; last week the offer was boosted to $22,250,000 in cash & securities. Richfield's three committees of bondholders indicated that they approved of the offer but wanted a 45-day option. During this time...
Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seized the Golden Bear flag of Cali fornia and started a procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang...
Other debates are scheduled with Columbia, Dartmouth, Amherst. Holy Cross, North Carolina, and an All-Cali-fornia team. During the spring recess there will be two western trips, one team going as far west as Omaha...
...California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski,* in Poland. Her boy, then 15, went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While she studied English, Ralph Modjeski played her Chopin's nocturnes on the piano. He had studied music under Josef Hofmann's father, and his playing brought out Shakespeare's poetical qualities for his mother. Her leading man was the late Maurice Barrymore. His three children, now famed players Ethel, Lionel...
Died. Charles Delano Henry, 84, Cali fornia banker, father-in-law of Nominee Herbert Clark Hoover; of a paralytic stroke; in Placerville, Calif...