Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the inter-city bidding for the G. O. P. Convention, last December in Washington, persons who visited the various headquarters were struck by the easy cheerfulness of Kansas City's representatives, in contrast to Detroit's anxious gogetters, Cleveland's cautious calculators, San Francisco's determined loudspeakers, Chicago's rooster-boosters. For a small city, Kansas City has extraordinary savoir-faire, and much more civility than many a larger place. Instead of permitting the G. O. P.'s reception to fall into the hands of local jobholders, a representative body of citizens...
...Norma Talmadge's husband will be there too-fleshy Joseph M. Schenck, the cinema producer (United Artists). He is a Hooverite from California. Another California Hooverite, Lawyer John L. McNab of San Francisco, has been chosen to stand up and nominate Candidate Hoover...
Copperman Daniel C. Jackling of San Francisco...
...first 17 hours of the return trip brought many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile's previous trip to Leninland (TIME, May 28). Suddenly the messages ceased . . . fears deepened . . . in San Francisco an S.O.S. was picked up from a Vladivostok station, a message asking help for the Italia in English, French, Italian. No position was given...
Rediscount Rate became 4½% in all Federal Reserve Bank districts except San Francisco and Kansas City...