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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed. To Dallas, Tex., rival of Houston, went Candidate Reed, rival of Smith. Frowning like a sulky Ulysses, he began a stumping tour with stumps at Tulsa, Kansas City, Denver (Feb. 23),* Albuquerque (Feb. 24), Phoenix (Feb. 26), Los Angeles (Feb. 27), San Francisco (March i), Reno (March 3), perhaps Salt Lake City, perhaps Omaha...
...ships of the American Australia Orient Line, plying between San Francisco and Los Angeles and ports in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, China, Japan-sold to a joint subsidiary of the Matson Navigation Co. and the American Hawaiian Steamship...
...almost as strong as reverence for God in California, is the rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Los Angeles could not overlook it when a San Francisco man-Professor-Emeritus Bailey Willis of Stanford University, President of the Geological Society of America -freely predicted some time ago that the next mighty upheaval of the Pacific Coast would come in Southern California. As a result of that prediction, insurance rates in Los Angeles skyrocketed 200 to 2,200%. The premium of the Union Bank and Trust Co.'s building, for example, went from...
...Los Angeles property owners at once engaged Geologist Robert Thomas Hill of the University of California, onetime (1889-1904) member of the U. S. Geological Survey, to examine the terrestrial underpinning of Los Angeles and make an announcement "to the world." There was little doubt but what this report would mitigate, if not wholly crush, the Willis doctrine. In seismology, as in medicine, so many factors must be surmised that from the few known facts, paid experts may arrive honorably as often as willfully at different conclusions...
Geologer Willis chanced to be away from California, lecturing in Ohio, when, last fortnight, Geologer Hill's retort professional was given "to the world" by the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly). Whether or not the world heard, the Graphic made sure that Geologer Willis would hear. Of him it said, with good-natured Californian venom: "God must have tipped him off ... the incondite ravings of a mischief maker. ... It is generally believed that Dr. Willis' service to the fire insurance underwriters was substantially rewarded...