Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This project has been going forward for some time, but last week Navy Department officials announced that it would first be tried out on . U. S. merchant ships now plying between Manhattan and San Francisco. The idea, in essence, is to create on each merchant ship a body of officers trained as a unit in naval technique and capable of being instantly transferred to command a fighting ship...
...When William Randolph Hearst was very young," once wrote Arthur Brisbane, "when he was running the San Francisco Examiner after leaving Harvard, he complained to his father, U. S. Senator George Hearst, that so many men were fools. Father Hearst replied: 'That's true, Willie. But let us not be too hard on fools. If there were not so many of them life would be less easy for you, for me and for some others...
Senator George Hearst, a millionaire in mines and cattle ranges, was bewildered when Willie came home and asked his birthright in the form of the San Francisco Examiner. The Examiner printed four pages and almost no advertising, and cost the Senator severely for the small political influence it gave...
Died. Harold Bolster, broker, husband of stage and cinemactress Madge Kennedy; at Los Angeles. She raced by airplane from San Francisco to his deathbed, too late...
Western Union engineers have long since completed their surveys of alternative routes for a new Pacific cable to carry 2,500 letters per minute. They can put it down alongside the Commercial Pacific sections from San Francisco to Honolulu, to Midway Island, to Guam, to Manila, to ShanghaiOSE...