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...Willkie was shaken by the Gallup figures, he did not show it publicly. Next day he went on, as hard as ever . . . "the glory of the United States is business." At Fresno and at Stockton boys and young men booed and heckled him. But everywhere the crowds were big-to the pros, unexpectedly big. Day after day the big round-shouldered amateur learned: how to roll with a punch, how to throw a hook. Most important, he never quit. Grudgingly, the newshawks came to respect his bull-like persistence, his obstinate honesty, the deep strength of his convictions, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Willkie in the West | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Former pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Fresno, Wall petitioned the District Court of Appeals for a writ of prohibition to prevent the University authorities from paying Russell's salary and to force voiding of his contract with U.C.L.A...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUE TO OUST RUSSELL FROM U.C.L.A. POSITION | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

Harvard would not be the nation's premier university were this list not long and impressive. That is to say that the good people of Macon and Fresno would not recognize her as such. One Bruening adds much more to her reputation than fifty conscientious and sympathetic instructors. And speaking quite seriously, it is essential for a university to nurture her reputation in this manner. Public relations are not the least among the worries of a modern college president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWINKLE, TWINKLE | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

Finally, at 3:03 a. m. Stead called Oakland, asked to be told where the north leg of the Fresno range intersected the northeast leg of the Oakland range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...wires must be expensively rerouted through a tunnel west of the dam. A long system of canals and transverse ditches will be dug, to carry water not only to Sacramento Valley farmers but far south into the San Joaquin Valley, whence waters have been diverted to thirsty Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Shasta Dam | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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