Word: oakland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oakland, Calif...
...until six years ago a social worker in San Francisco and joined the Communist Labor Party. In November, 1919, she defied the police by making a speech at the Oakland Civic Centre. She was arrested and tried. It was not claimed that she had ever advocated the overthrow of the U. S. Government, or had incited anyone to violence. None the less she was convicted by a jury (composed half of women) because of her membership in the Communist Labor Party. She was sentenced to from one to 14 years in prison. For five years her friends have supplied money...
Montgomery Ward serves 7,000,000 families from seven stores in Chicago (home store), Baltimore, Kansas City, Fort Worth, St. Paul, Portland, Oakland. (Sears Reobuck serves 9,000,000 families). Orders are filled within 48 hours...
...size, very light, needing no gear shift, emitting no poisonous fumes, having no carbon troubles, getting 50 miles per fuel gallon, more like a steam engine than an internal combustion engine. The General Motors Corporation would manufacture this motor, install it in all its cars (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oakland, Oldsmobile). So said Dr. T. A. Boyd, General Motors Research Department...
General Motors Corporation's advertising is listed according to subsidiary companies and aggregates almost $3,000,000 (Chevrolet $1.650,000, Oakland $700,000, Buick $635,000). The first two items, however, include dealers' advertisements, so that it remains unde- cided whether or not General Motors exceeded Henry Ford...