Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HERB San Francisco, Calif...
...citizen who had the most to do with getting them home was an adventuresome San Francisco capitalist named Frederick B. Thompson, brother of Novelist Kathleen Norris. In his remarkable past he has played around with such varied characters as Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid...
...Christians, Dr. John R. Mott, they were delegates to the second meeting of the International Missionary Council. Among them were representatives of every Protestant and Orthodox Church. The 45 delegates from North America included the famed woman theologian, Dr. Georgia Harkness; two Bishops, Methodist James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco and Episcopalian Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio; and World's No. 1 Missionary Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, lofty-minded Methodist emissary to high-caste Hindus, who had just come from a tour of U. S. colleges (TIME...
...Joan Bennett, who, as a brunette, looks like Hedy Lamarr. To work his material into the body of the picture, which was made in the United Artists studio, Director Tay Garnett fell back on the reliable motif of the chase: assigned to find a girl wanted by the San Francisco police, Detective Sam Wye follows her to Hawaii, catches up with her in Singapore, falls in love with her in Ceylon, marries her on a boat leaving Bombay, settles down to live with her on the Laccadive Islands...
...test of a man is the fight he makes," is the motto that hangs in the San Francisco office of shy, chunky Banker Ashby Oliver Stewart. This is the sort of spirit to endear him to famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, currently facing the biggest fight of his career, result of an SEC crackdown charging Giannini's Transamerica Corp. with a false and misleading securities registration (TIME, Dec. 12). In 1933 Banker Stewart took over from "A. P." the Bankitaly Mortgage Co. Last week he took over a "large block of stock" and the chairmanship of Bancamerica-Blair, investment...