Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover had asked President Coolidge for a battleship to go on. Last week the White House announced that the U. S.S. Maryland, new and fast, had been assigned. President-elect Hoover lost no time conferring with Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard (near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, then either over the Andes by train or back to Panama and through the Canal on the Maryland, to the Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela. Duration: two months. Object: goodwill, trade relations...
Died. Cora Jane Flood, 73, daughter of the late famed James G. Flood, pioneer Californian; in San Francisco...
...composer. Last spring Judges Walter Damrosch, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz and Frederick Stock voted the prize to Ernest Bloch for a symphony named America. In late December, almost simultaneously, the five conductor-judges will give America its first performances?Dec. 20 in Manhattan and San Francisco, Dec. 21 in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. Other major orchestras may lift their voices in unison...
Long and expensive ($300,000) was the contest in the courts. Alone, Inventor Carson could not have financed it. But to his aid came many a friendly Westerner. Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco sugar and gas tycoon, organized the Carson Investment Co. to fight the Desert Rat's battle. And in February, 1925, Tycoon Spreckels went down to the waterfront boardinghouse to tell the Desert Rat he was worth $5,000,000, perhaps $20,000,000. He became a national celebrity over night. Hundreds of newspapers carried his story; hundreds of women found matrimony desirable...
...Desert Rat never touched his for tune. At once, the American Smelting & Refining Co. asked a retrial, and 18 months passed before it was denied. Carson, ill in a San Francisco hospital, again reached the front pages: "No, I will not be a philanthropist. It would only create an other army of grafters. Perhaps I will raise trees. Even if I'm rich now, I don't believe any woman is going to get me" In March, 1927, while the case was on appeal, he became the fifth husband of Mrs. Hersee Gross. At the Fairmont Hotel...