Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From Japan President Eliot will go to San Francisco by way of Hawaii, and will arrive there about July 1. Without stopping in Cambridge, he will go directly to his summer home at Mt. Desert, there to spend the rest of his vacation...
...Bishop E. O. Hughes, San Francisco...
...people realize the tremendous importance of the Panama Canal and the magnitude of the task undertaken by the United States in building it. The distance by water from New York to San Francisco is 13,000 miles, but when the canal is finished it will be but 5,000 miles, and whereas the battleship Oregon in the Spanish war made the trip from the Pacific to the Atlantic in 66 days, after the canal is completed but 15 days will be required for a similar trip...
When only seventeen, Mr. Spreckels entered active business in Philadelphia. Here he learned the corrupt methods used by the trusts in dealing with their competitors. While still a young man Mr. Spreckels moved to San Francisco, where he soon became interested in the San Francisco Gas and Electric Co., and, finding it corrupt, succeeded in causing the retirement of the old board of directors and the election of a reform board. He now turned his attention to municipal reform, aided by Freemont Older, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, Francis J. Heney, and William J. Burns. Mr. Spreckels volunteered...
...years ago he started the Spreckels investigation of San Francisco municipal affairs. Among his colleagues, were Freemont Older, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, Francis J. Heney, who was chosen to conduct the prosecution because of his success in the Oregon land fraud case, and William J. Burns, the well-known detective. Evidence of fraud was traced even to the bankers of the public service corporations. Ruef, the boss, confessed, as did most of the supervisors. Many of the richest men in the state were indicted...