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Word: francisco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Asheville, N. C., was named, nephew of famed Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, first husband of famed Aimee Crocker (now Princess Galitzine), owner of famed Racehorse Geraldine (46 sec. half mile, Chicago, 1891), discoverer of Boxer Jim Corbett, oldtime member of California's Bohemian Club; at San Francisco; of apoplexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Already entrenched on the Pacific Coast through Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.'s plants in San Francisco, Alameda and Los Angeles, the purchase will bring Bethlehem into closer competition with its five-times greater rival, U. S. Steel. Open to the competitors lie not only the rich Pacific Coast but the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piggott | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Died. Robert Reid, 67, the artist who painted the murals in the Library of Congress, Massachusetts State House in Boston, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts; at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, N. Y., whither he had gone after his right arm became paralyzed (1927); of a broken hip and pneumonia. Having taught himself to paint with his left hand, last spring he exhibited two pictures at the National Academy of Design (Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Hill. The hill referred to is that from which San Francisco's substantial families survey the Golden Gate. On its upper slopes a social scion (Lester Vail) becomes engaged to a cinemactress (Katherine Wilson) who, unknown to him, has climbed the hill from a bordello. Seven years have done much to make her forget that dark vale, but when she meets the most aggressive of her former swains, he nearly sends her hurtling down again. Failing that, he forces her to tell her history to her fiance. You are very much afraid that the pleasant fellow will overlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Some of them: New York Evening World, Chicago Daily News, Kansas City Journal-Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Indianapolis News, Minneapolis Morning Tribune, Atlanta Journal, Cincinnati Times-Star, Denver Rocky Mountain News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Talking Reporter | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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