Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago seemed the likeliest candidates-San Francisco because she offered so much money** and was in the attention-loving West; Cleveland and Philadelphia because they are nearer Washington and it may be that Congress will not have adjourned-thanks to Democratic strategy-before the G. O. P. convention meets. Cleveland and Philadelphia moreover were both unembarrassed by "native sons." It is considered bad political form to nominate a man in his own state. The possibility of Herbert C. Hoover's being chosen counted against San Francisco for this reason. In Pennsylvania, the only native...
...were Kansas City, Mo., Seattle, Detroit, San Francisco, San Antonio, Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha, Denver and-at the last moment-Philadelphia...
...Finn as Sheriff, saying: "Bossism must be thrust down!" San Franciscans reflected that "Plain Jim Rolph of the Mission"†† was the man who had brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to town, in L915. He was the man whom they had elected in 1912 to keep San Francisco from being exploited as "the Paris of America." The San Franciscans re-elected Mayor Rolph for a fifth four-year term by a 30,000-vote margin...
...Mission" section of San Francisco-so-called from the Dolores Mission which once stood there-corresponds to that section of many another U. S. city where stands the ghosts of a bygone gentility, old houses built for large, well-to-do families which have long since scattered or died out. Cf. Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, the "West Side" in Manhattan, Boston's "Back Bay" (still showing signs of life), Chicago's original "South Side" (almost erased...
Died. Don Francisco Sanchez Latour, 51, Guatemalan Minister to the U. S. since 1922; in Washington, D. C.; of peritonitis...