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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune-building and at the same time equipped with a limitless facility for the cultivation of whims by his share ($30,000,000) of the monumental capital of his family, he turned to sport all the energy and brilliance of a fine executive intelligence. When he graduated from St. Mark's school he won the Founder's medal for being the best pupil. At Harvard he finished a four-year course in three years and was a member of the Porcellian Club and manager of the football team. During this period the nickname "Mike" was applied...
...roof of the cigar store over which he prefers to live. Seven warships steamed into the harbor. From Campo Mayo, the 8th Cavalry clattered into town with full equipment to strengthen police reserves. President Hippolito, whose insistence on living in his little cigar store apartment is only one mark of his almost phobic dislike of ostentation, was made to drive to and from the Executive offices, the center of a convoy of eight hooting, speeding motor cars, bristling with riflemen. Second night of the scare, 5,000 Irigoyen followers, who love their elderly President so much that they have given...
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...President Hoover announced with evident pride: "The fifth of the commissions that have been appointed to determine the facts and to advise upon or negotiate special problems has now completed its report and secured a very admirable result." He referred to the commission, chairmanned by his good California friend Mark Lawrence Requa, which had settled a dispute waged among the War and Navy Departments, San Francisco and the State of California, over the site for a proposed bridge to Oakland across San Francisco...
...Argonaut, founded in 1877 by Frank Pixley and Fred Somers, enjoyed a bombastic heyday under their regime. Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce were early contributors. As editor from 1907 to 1924 the gifted Alfred Holman maintained a high standard of literary excellence. Though parts of the paper seem dull nowadays, San Franciscans point with pride to Editor Morphy's irascible editorials. He is well qualified to tell about the Big Wind in Ireland for he was born and educated there. Onetime gravedigger and longshoreman, he joined the Argonaut in 1925 with a background of 20 years vagabond-reporting...