Word: haight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Citizen Talbot went into his long-rumored bankruptcy. For one day it seemed that Mr. Talbot was merely a businessman whose strength had been weakened by overexpansion, who was left floundering in Depression's flood. But the next day California Corporation Commissioner Raymond Le Roy Haight made charges which, if true, will strip the last vestige of decency from the friend of Mayors. Also involved in the hideous charges last week was Clarence M. Fuller, onetime Richfield president, still solvent but jobless...
...story, as last week resurrected by American Kennel Gazette: On the stormy night of March 9, 1891, Jack, Fido and Tip heard three safecrackers chiseling into the brick-wall of the car barn that then held the safe of the defunct Haight Street Cable Car line. They barked, vigorously attacked first the chiselers, then the poisoned meat which the chiselers threw them. A wary nightwatchman, barked to attention, emptied a pistol at the poisoners, saved the safe, could not save faithful, greedy Jack, Fido...
Approaching one T. Nakamura, bright young interpreter on the newspaper staff, Writers Haight and Jones beseeched him to become one of his country's benefactors...
...Nakamura failed to enthuse over the matter of noses, said it would be "a feverish business," to risk insulting practically every parent in Nippon. Though the project fell through, some credit should be given Writers Haight and Jones for their pioneer work in the movement...
...HELEN H. HAIGHT...