Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Captain George W. Yardley, 58, master of the Dollar liner President Hoover; of complications from exposure and nervous strain in the six grim days of rescue and salvage after the President Hoover ran hard aground 18 miles off Formosa last December; in San Francisco...
Every year it is news in the South when the first bale of cotton is ginned. Last week, for the fifth time, Francisco P. Lozano, Rio Grande Valley farmer, made this news. But the event was the signal for little glee, for Texan Farmer Lozano and other U. S. cotton growers are expecting their second biggest crop in five years. Estimates have placed the total yield at 13,000,000 bales, compared to 12,400,000 in 1936, 10,630,000 in 1935. With a carryover of 14,000,000 bales from last year, this bumper crop can mean...
...upset the applecart of international finance. In 1922 Speyer's London firm dissolved; in 1934 the Lazard Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt dissolved. Speyer & Co. also had its troubles in the U. S. Its share in foreign loans dwindled; its patronage of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. was profitable but it attracted the unfavorable attention of the ICC. Last week James Speyer, now 76, decided to retire...
...months ago, major Southern California publishers decided to starve radio stations of all publicity except bare program listings. Last week the movement spread: in San Francisco and Oakland six papers* decided to follow suit temporarily -permanently if readers did not object. In Chicago, the Tribune, following earlier action by the News and American, discontinued its daily radio news column. Meantime, advertising agencies were working on a plan for listing sponsors or products in newspaper radio logs at specified advertising rates...
...Call-Bulletin, Chronicle, Examiner, News (San Francisco); Post-Enquirer, Tribune (Oakland...