Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Heney, of San Francisco, will deliver a lecture in the public series on "The Social Problem and its Remedies" in Emerson D tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. With this lecture begins the part of the series that deals with remedies, previous lectures having merely defined the problem in its various aspects. Mr. Heney's special topic is "The Remedy by Prevention...
...Heney is a noted lawyer. He graduated from the University of California, in 1875, and from the Hastings Law School in 1880. From 188 to 1894 he practiced law in Arizona, later moving to San Francisco. Since 1900 he has been the most prominent figure concerned in the fight for the abolition of bribery and graft on the Pacific Slope. He acted as attorney for the government in the Oregon land fraud cases, and later secured indictments against United States Attorney J. H. Hall, Senator Mitchell, G. C. Brownell, and others, for conspiring to protect guilty politicians. At this time...
...Politics is a problem and it is one problem. It is the same in Boston as in San Francisco, the same in Missouri as in Oregon, the same in the United States as in France. I was police reporter at headquarters in New York where it was my duty to expose scandal. Scandal being exposed, the city was aroused to investigation. Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner. He tried to compel the police to enforce all laws equally. Trouble arose at once. Leading citizens of New York came with protests and the reform movement was checked...
...Stow '12, left guard, prepared at Urban Academy, San Francisco, where he played tackle and guard for five years. He is 21 years old, 6 feet 1 1-2 inches tall, and weighs 184 pounds...
...Stow '12, left guard, prepared at Urban Academy, San Francisco, where he played tackle and guard for five years. He is 21 years old, 6 feet 1 1-2 inches tall, and weighs 184 pounds...