Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great invisible subsidy of the New Deal has been enjoyed by the legal profession. No one knows this better than Lawyer Robert Houghwout Jackson, now Solicitor General. Painfully consistent in his New Dealism was he last week when, addressing the Junior Bar Conference (lawyers under 36) at San Francisco, he put his profession on notice as follows...
When Madrid fell to Generalissimo Francisco Franco last March and the Spanish Civil War was ended, only one prominent Republican remained to hand over the capital to the conquerors. He was Julian Besteiro, onetime professor of philosophy at the University of Madrid. Professor Besteiro was one of the large group of Left-wing Republicans who took power when the monarchy was overthrown in 1931. He was President of the Cortes when the new Republic was writing its Constitution, and many admired the way the Socialist Professor handled the unruly deputies in those uproarious days...
Last week a tall, tanned geophysicist and petroleum engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. addressed the Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco. He told them how seismographic or "artificial earthquake" methods of prospecting for oil had improved in recent years. Technique at present is to bore a hole 500 ft. deep, drop a dynamite charge to the bottom. When the charge is exploded, vibrations resembling earthquake waves ripple out in all directions. Some travel straight down, and part of them are reflected back up with different intensities from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick...
...Other heights: Statue of Liberty, 151 feet; Christ the Redeemer (on Mt. Corcovado near Rio de Janeiro), 130 feet. Projected: San Francisco's St. Francis, 180 feet; Lenin (atop the Palace of the Soviets, Moscow), about 328 feet...
...headed giant from the Tennessee mountains named Alvin Cullum York singlehanded killed 20 German soldiers, captured 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to rugged Fentress County as No. 1 U. S. war hero. Last week Sergeant York, fat, arthritic and peace-loving, visited San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair, confessed: "I don't know what the last war was about...