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Word: mateo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision will single out the ablest senior law "team", victor over thirty other clubs in a two-year competition before student courts. Representatives for the taxpayers will be two members of the "Root-Pitney" law club, W. Parmer Fuller, of San Mateo, California, and Gerald H. Trautman of Cambridge. Their opponents, representing the government, will be Dwight K. Parsons, of Kent, Ohio, and Andrew S. Grey, of Philadelphia, both members of the "Pow-wow" club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDGES IN MOCK TRIAL THIS EVENING CHOSEN | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

...Saturday morning two years ago, a Packard roadster with the top down started from San Mateo, Calif, for a weekend trip to Aptos. At the car's wheel was its owner, big, blond Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Guest Claims | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...with the fat Hearst retainer. From many another client rich Jack Neylan is making all the money he needs to provide for all he cares about - his wife and daughter, Jane Frances (now a senior at University of California), and his handsome estate at Woodside on the San Mateo Peninsula, for which he wrote a check for $160,000 five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wirephoto War | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...near Los Angeles. Dr. Charles H. Strub, onetime dentist who made his fortune with a chain of painless extraction parlors and later owned the San Francisco baseball club, wanted one at San Francisco. But onetime Newsboy William P. Kyne got ahead of him with Bay Meadows at San Mateo, which last week ended its successful first meet. Producer Roach and Dr. Strub got together, raised $1,250,000, bought 210 acres of the famed Santa Anita Rancho at Arcadia where 40 years ago the late Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin bred racehorses and where four of his American Derby winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Santa Anita | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...main campus at Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, four student strike-leaders were pelted with eggs, tomatoes. The chairman of the County's Joint Americanism Committee revealed that for two months 22 student spies had been blacklisting student and faculty radicals at Berkeley. At nearby San Mateo Junior College four liberal student speakers from Berkeley were pummeled, jailed, sent home with orders to stay there. In neighboring Santa Clara County, officials of San Jose Junior College issued a call for student vigilantes. Santa Clara University expelled the editor of its student newspaper for expressing radical sympathies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Provost's Purge | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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