Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine TIME has been very highly recommended to me by a friend; so recently while in San Francisco I purchased a copy with the idea of sending in my subscription...
Each group sent a delegation to see the President and both came away apparently satisfied. On the floor of the conference Miss Gail Laughlin, a San Francisco lawyer, proposed a resolution ousting the regular program for one morning and permitting the Woman's Party group to voice their arguments. Pandemonium at once broke forth. Miss Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau (a onetime immigrant who began her career as a garment worker), pounded in vain for order. At length the resolution was voted on and she declared it lost. Later, however, a special evening session...
...Manhattan banking firms of Speyer & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. now control the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (the Frisco). In the past two months, they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which the directors of the Frisco announced last week had been acquired by them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than...
...doer to at least a modicum of notice. Last winter two wealthy young San Franciscans decided that they would become the first U. S. composer and librettist to have an opera which was their joint work produced in Europe. They were aided by "Doc" Leahy, of the old San Francisco Tivoli, in their eventually successful efforts to have their opera, Fay-Yen-Fah, produced by the Monte Carlo Casino Opera Company. Last week these two young men were "showered with real orchids" as their opera had its U. S. premiere in San Francisco...
...Francisco papers dealt at length upon "the awful traffic jam" precipitated by the opera; and exulted over San Francisco's "blazing diamond horseshoe...