Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole distance is about equal to that between New York and San Francisco, and with the slow going which a large train necessitates will take several months...
...Death had gone to southern California, it would not have found Mr. Burbank, for he lived and died in Santa Rosa, which is 54 miles north of San Francisco, and more than 300 miles north of the Tehachapi Mountains, which form the barrier between northern and southern California...
...Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond", so runs the official title of an organization which gave, one evening last week, not one but eleven dinners. Dinners in Manhattan, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco, dinners as well in London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Manila and the Rand. What far flung company of friends is this? They are the friends of a man who has lived a full life?such a life as few men can or even could have lived, the life of John Hays Hammond, most radically democratic millionaire...
Last week the news was spread: Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, aged 28, was in financial difficulties. His tabloid newspapers, the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News (maximum circulation 214,000), San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald (maximum circulation 135,000), the Miami Tab (only 18 months old) needed more money. He had sunk $100,000 of his own money. He had 5,000 fellow stockholders. He had borrowed $1,080,000 from his father. But he still needed $300,000 to put his papers on a paying basis?and his father would lend him no more. He tried to pledge his patrimony?...
...Francisco paper suspended publication. The others dropped their Sunday editions. The Chicago Tribune, which succeeded in establishing the financially most successful tabloid in America, sneered: "It is evident that the secret of a newspaper cannot be found as in a recipe for a cake...