Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motionless in a wheelchair, swathed in blankets, his tired old face shaded by a broad fedora. Major Andrew Summers Rowan, 81, last week listened to a seven-gun salute in his honor on the lawn of Letterman General Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio (U. S. Army post). He also listened to a flowery speech by a gentleman in smoked glasses, Consul José Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate...
...smooth-running in Mr. Ickes' pump house, however. With two mayors at opposite ends of the land he was having trouble. Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco had only with difficulty been persuaded to move up from November to September a bond issue referendum to enable San Francisco, with PWA help, to buy the Hetch Hetchy power lines. And Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was, to Mr. Ickes' way of thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead...
...Maritime Boss Harry Bridges), civil suits against unions for strike damages, jail sentences up to ten years for disobedient union officers. This proposal has a companion piece aimed at picketing and boycotting, sponsored by the California Committee for Peace in Employment Relations which includes many a San Francisco shipowner and member of the city's Committee of 43. These measures, which would make California the toughest anti-union State in the U. S., promised to unite California's divided Labor at least until after election...
...Impose stiff penalties on any doctor who unnecessarily or unskillfully performs a major operation (proposed by M. James McGranahan, San Francisco lawyer and chiropractor...
...March 1, a Transcontinental & Western Air passenger plane took off from San Francisco, flew into a storm, disappeared. Three months later, Prospector H. O. Collier came upon its wreckage, strewn over a Sierra Nevada mountainside. The plane had been smashed to bits, but its tail had caught in a tree, hung high as a dead goose. The weeks of fruitless search for this and other lost planes have piled added horror on the original disaster, added worry and heavy expense for airline operators...