Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...managers were concerned lest their progress look like "steam-rollering." They confined themselves to distributing 50 cases of Smith literature and discussed the platform more than their man. Odds rose to 9 to i on the Smith nomination. Thomas ("Silver Tongue") Hickey onetime newsboy "from the sidewalks of San Francisco" prepared his speech to second the Smith nomination. "There are two kinds of big men," said Mr. Hickey. "Those who grow and those who just swell. Well, Al's growing all the time...
...late Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph, grizzly forty-niner, poker player, breeder of race horses and cattle, owned a little newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, which he regarded as a worthless joke. When Will returned from Harvard, ousted because of boyish pranks, he asked his father to give him the Examiner, and got it. Sensational features and crusades for the masses against "black" capitalists-these things young Hearst had observed in the methods of Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World; and he practiced them in San Francisco. Later, in 1895, when his father left...
...largest dairy company in Southern California, the Los Angeles Creamery Co., last week by merger became part of the Golden State Milk Products Co. of San Francisco. Thereby the Golden State organization became state-wide and the largest in the general dairy products and ice cream business along the entire Pacific Coast. Its stockholders are to increase its capital from...
...inaccurate to say that any one security issue started the break last week. But if one is to be set up as a black example it is the Bank of Italy. On the San Francisco and Los Angeles exchanges Bank of Italy stock broke 160 points-from 284½ to 125. Related issues acted likewise. Bancitaly dropped 86 points-195 to 109; Bank of America 120 points -270 to 150; United Security 80 points-245 to 165. In New York the drops in these issues were as great...
Died. Dr. Maurice Bloomfield, 73, internationally famed among philologists and orientalists, professor of Sanscrit at Johns Hopkins University, first to edit from the original Sanscrit the Grihyasamgraha of Gobhilaputra, and the Sutra of Kaucika; in San Francisco; of heart disease...