Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, Calif...
Died. William Henry Beers of Merrick, L. I., editor of Golf Illustrated; at Mt. Taylor, N. Mex., in the crash of the T. A. T. air liner City of San Francisco...
Soon their chance came. Patrick Calhoun desired to modernize United Railroads' ramshackle Sutter Street car line, and to do so he decided to construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit system, went so far as to offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered...
People gradually came to believe there was basis for the Bulletin's graft charges. Finally evidence was placed before a Grand Jury. A lawyer named Hiram Warren Johnson took up the prosecution and by it came to fame. Bribery was proved, the courts acted, San Francisco's graft days were over...
...Francisco's tough district is south of the old cable slot on Market street...