Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst empire. Before that (1911-17) he was chairman of the State finance body which put California on a budget. For eleven years he has been a regent of the University of California. He is a director of great National City Bank (Manhattan). Nowadays he commutes to San Francisco from his ranch in the mountains to the south. Last fortnight Jack Neylan appeared before a patriotic meeting on San Francisco's Treasure Island and, well aware that he was sticking out his neck, suggested...
...editor of the San Francisco Chronicle thought and said that Jack Neylan must be pulling legs. So Mr. Neylan wrote a letter which clearly established the Neylan Plan as a perfectly serious though startling proposal, reminiscent in its visionary aspect of Henry Ford's high-minded Peace Ship effort of 23 years...
...contract with A. F. of L.'s International Tobacco Workers since 1937. Last week, after Chesterfield's union workers had struck for better terms than they had in an expired agreement, Liggett & Myers re-signed for its plants at Durham, N. C., Richmond and San Francisco. Vital clause in the amended contract: "In the interest of promoting a more harmonious relationship, the company approves of its employes becoming members of the union, and therefore it is further desired by the company that those employes not now members . . . shall become members." Chortled a union spokesman: "This...
Engaged. Joe Di Maggio, 24, star centre fielder of the World Champion New York Yankees; and Dorothy Arnold, 20, screen & radio performer. Said Joe's hearty, well-publicized mother, a resident of San Francisco's Beach Street: "Joe no say a thing to me. No talk of this love business." Said Miss Arnold: "We sort of started to go around together and the first thing we knew-or at least that I knew-it was getting hotter." The announcement was hardly out when Centre Fielder Di Maggio, chasing a fly ball, hurt his ankle, was expected...
Museum guards live constantly with art, but they are not considered experts on the subject. And, perhaps because they look bored, their artistic views are seldom consulted. Last week the San Francisco Chronicle published a "Guard's-Eye View of the Arts" by one who was not consulted but spoke up anyway. He was 26-year-old Worth Graham Seymour, a rolling stone reporter, seaman and law student who has worked for the last month in the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair...