Word: francisco
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...there was ever a man," said Robert Latham Owen, outstanding Democratic "bolter" of last week (see p. 11), "fitted to be an advance agent of prosperity, it is Herbert Hoover." The "advance agent" made the first formal public speech of his Nomineehood last week, at San Francisco's Civic Centre (city hall). He found words "difficult vehicles" for thanking Californians for presenting his name to the G. O. P. He reminisced about early California, before Mayor James Rolph Jr. became a "public institution in San Francisco" and when (33 years ago) young Herbert Hoover hunted a job there...
Amid scenes of the utmost violence and disorder, San Francisco policemen prevented performance of a play last week. The play was The Captive, by Edward Bourdet. Its performance was forbidden not because the play was bad but because it dealt with homosexuality...
Last week, Polish and U. S. pilots complained. Poles, employed by the commercial Aerolot Co., demanded higher wages and, when their demands were refused, set a precedent for air pilots by going on strike. U. S. assistant pilots on the "model airway" between Los Angeles and San Francisco found their new duties beneath the dignity of flying men. Their duties: cooking and serving buffet luncheons for passengers, Pullman porter service for dusty topcoats and hats. They grumbled, did not strike...
Neither choice was extraordinary. Victor was a good name for a child born in the Omaha of 1871. Greatness seemed to hang over the young city, chartered only 14 years and already connected by telegraph with Chicago, St. Louis, even with distant San Francisco. Three years earlier, Telegrapher Rosewater had watched the spectacular, noisy entry of the railroads, the great Rock Island, Burlington and North Western systems. Across the Missouri river lay Iowa and prosperous Council Bluffs. The birth of Victor and of the Omaha Bee coincided almost exactly with the birth of the meat-packing industry in the city...
Bonds. C. F. Childs & Co., oldest U. S. house specializing in government bonds, with offices from coast to coast, merged with the American National Co., securities subsidiary of the American Trust Co. of San Francisco. It was pointed out that neither house is "absorbing" the other. C. F. Childs & Co., the bigger of the two, did $4,000,000,000 business in government bonds last year...