Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Leader Bridges flew East to address a series of mass meetings in Atlantic ports, try to persuade longshoremen to defy their officers, join the striking seamen. Anticipating the return from South America of apparently the only one who could settle the strike, Oakland and Berkeley, Calif.'s City Councils addressed to President Roosevelt a plea for "prompt and vigorous action...
...modified superlative so dear to the West Coast, the Central Bank of Oakland is the "largest California bank outside of San Francisco and Los Angeles" (resources: $43,000,000). Its 15-story building at Broadway and 14th Street, where 15 Oakland trolley lines converge, is described by the bank as "sublimated and refined Italian Romanesque." Last week Amadeo Peter Giannini, who if not precisely sublimated or Romanesque is at least refined Italian, reached out across the Bay from San Francisco, firmly grasped the stoutly independent Central Bank of Oakland...
...issue TIME errs in reporting Governor Merriam used a dirty acetylene torch to cut the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge chain. A brand new Airco-D B emergency cutting outfit was shipped via express from our Jersey City factory for use at this history-making event...
...down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last summer Reiner quietly persuaded Philadelphia's Mrs. Curtis Bok to lend him four tuben and a bass trumpet, had them shipped to San Francisco, hired four members of the Oakland Symphony to practice up on them. This week when he hopped the Overland Express for New York, he left behind him an orchestra warm with his praises, a jubilant press, an Opera Association beaming unanimously over San Francisco's most momentous season...
Down cracked SEC last week with a restraining order on eight individuals for alleged manipulation of Suburban Electric Securities Co. on the Boston Stock Exchange. Down cracked SEC on the big New York Stock Exchange house of W. E. Hutton & Co. and an Oakland (Calif.) partner of William Cavalier & Co. for alleged manipulation of Atlas Tack, a luckless stock whose gyration once attracted the attention of the New York Attorney General (TIME, Jan. 1, 1933). In that operation Atlas was strong-armed from a Depression low of $1 per share to a 1933 high of nearly $35, only to relapse...