Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranks, Fred Perry has, like Ellsworth Vines before him, given the season that refreshing stimulation that follows the abdication of a recognized champion. The question he left behind him was one that Forest Hills would go a long way toward answering. It was simply whether J. Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif., having achieved almost single-handed the return of the Davis Cup to the U. S. this year for the first time since 1926, and having smashed his way to an unprecedented triple victory in the All-England singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at Wimbledon, is the best amateur tennis...
Even more than his contemporaries, Parker (ne Paikowski) and Riggs, the offspring respectively of a Polish laborer and an impoverished minister, Donald Budge, son of an Oakland laundry truck driver, is the archetype of the thousands of prodigious youngsters who since the War have taken U. S. tennis away from Society and made it the remarkable thing it is. When he became an international celebrity at Wimbledon two years ago, Donald Budge's sophistication was such that he cheerily waved his racket at Queen Mary in the royal box. Gottfried von Cramm, who put Budge out in the semi...
When Mrs. Eleanor Maher of Oakland, Calif, went out of her house, she left her crippled aunt, Miss Charlotte Parker, 65, alone with her two dogs: Bootsie, a very old bulldog, and Chino, an 18-months-old thoroughbred chowchow. Presently Miss Parker grasped her cane and started to rise from her chair to go into the back yard. Suddenly Chino snapped at her hand. Then he went mad, knocked her down, started gnawing at her. Bootsie was too infirm to be of any help. But Miss Parker's shrieks aroused the neighbors, who called the police. When a patrolman...
...Oakland, Calif., Cleone Goad, 13, married Leonard Newlun, 30. Miss Goad's mother's husband is a brother of Mr. Newlun. Consequently, Cleone is her mother's sister-in-law, and her stepfather is her brother...
...from the U. S. Shipping Board, in return for which favor he was personally to get half the profits from the sale of the steel. Brothers J. N. and Leonard B. Barde presently received $325,000 from the Anglo Bank, another $175,000 from the Central National Bank of Oakland. The Bardes were successful in their bid for the steel, formed Barde Steel Products Corp. and before long repaid every penny of the loans. The complaint also maintained that President Fleishhacker had meanwhile drawn down $75,000 in salary. $73,000 in dividends, and $200,000 in other secret emoluments...