Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quitting-to preach." Thus Dr. James L. Gordon, eminent San Francisco Congregational pastor, clears, in the December Sunset Magazine, the mystery of his recent resignation from church ties. Dr. Gordon plans to establish a free lance pulpit in "some metropolitan city" where he can reach 3,000 at a time. He loves to preach. He will have no business notices at his meetings, "no joinings, no subscribing, no creeds." Said he: "The stage cannot supplant the pulpit and the newspaper cannot permanently overshadow it. The authority of the human voice, in its appeal to conscience, cannot be eliminated and must...
...Francisco the western office of Doremus & Co., advertising agency, was a "madhouse." The Western Power Corp. had entrusted its advertising of a $10,000,000 bond issue to this office, for simultaneous publication in Manhattan, Chicago and Boston. That was not unusual. Doremus & Co. are the largest financial advertising agency in the country. They have 324 accounts, practically every one a potent banking or investment house, such as Morgan & Co., Speyer & Co., Guaranty Trust Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., General Motors Acceptance Corp. One does not hold such customers by ordinary service. They want arch-service...
That day in San Francisco, just a few hours before the power corporation advertisement was to appear, certain facts developed that demanded changes in it. Normal telegraph instruction to the newspapers that were to carry the advertisement would have been too complicated and slow. It was impossible...
...appointment of Samuel Walter Ross Langdon '29 of San Francisco, California, to the position of Assistant Soccer Manager was announced last night. Langdon prepared at Santa Barbara School in California...
...oyster to cover the particle with pearl material, a process that somewhat resembles the formation of a felon around a sliver in a finger. Kokichi Mikimoto employs 500 Japanese girls and many a man to go diving for the pearl oysters, hazardous occupation. Last week he debarked at San Francisco, on his way to inspect his Exposition show; remarked: "Naturally, I do not want to lower prices, but I have one aim-a pearl of my own for every woman in the world." (He already has produced one-eighth of the world's supply of cultured pearls...