Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco's huge-domed Temple Emanu-El is a bright Byzantine touch on Arguello Boulevard. The coruscant half-globe catches the sun's rays, seems to blaze with its own light. On an especially sunny day, last week, when the dome was very bright 600 Jews of the "reformed" faith gathered underneath it. One of them, glancing at the synagog, quoted "How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places, O Israel." Thus opened the 31st Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
Died. Henry Belasco, San Francisco Post Office worker, brother of famed Producer David Belasco; in San Francisco. During his ascendancy, Brother David gave Brother Henry the post of doorkeeper at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Brother Henry held the post for 25 years...
Carl Sandburg, prairie poet, said last week in San Francisco: "I shall not inflict another volume of poetry upon the egg-headed American public until 1932, and maybe not until...
Bank of Italy (San Francisco...
Rudolph Spreckels, onetime political reformer of San Francisco, more recently a harbinger of hope to the sagging sugar in dustry (TIME, Nov. 19), made a gesture last week. President of Federal Sugar Refining Co., he announced the formation of Spreckels Sugar Corp., capitalized at $20,000,000, to take over the business of Federal Sugar Refining...