Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special Pullmans full of muscular young men rolled out of Oakland, Calif, three weeks ago to show the East once more how to play football. But though their pants were the boldest green of the season and their scarlet jerseys were blazoned with brave green harps, the "Galloping Gaels" of St. Mary's College showed the East little this year. They were squeezed out 7-to-6 by Jesuit Fordham fortnight ago, trounced 20-to-6 by Jesuit Marquette last week in Chicago. Meanwhile, back home in Oakland things were going even worse. Representing $819,000 worth of defaulted...
...football coach. Slip Madigan began to turn out teams which, since 1924, have won 86 and tied seven of their 114 games against some of the best football brains & brawn in the U. S. In 1928 the Brothers felt so good they sold the College's old Oakland site for $750,000, borrowed $1,500,000 on a bond issue to ld a big new plant in nearby Moraga Valley. On July 1, 1934 St. Mary's bond holders missed their interest on $1,370,500 worth of bonds not yet retired, have received none since...
...James Everett Butler as comptroller. In February the college treasurer, Brother Josephus, informed Comptroller Butler that supervision of athletic accounts was not included in the agreement. When the Brothers persistently refused to discuss their football business, the committee last week asked bondholders permission to have the Central Bank of Oakland declare the bonds in default, institute foreclosure proceedings...
...receipt of a prospectus from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration Committee advising of the sale of 100,000 one-half dollar coins specially coined to commemorate the opening of the new bridge. I am to be permitted to purchase a limited number of these coins at the very special price of $1.65 each, the premiums on the coins to be used to defray part of the expenses of the celebration...
There is nothing new about private committees distributing U. S. commemorative coins at a price above face value. Congress authorized the first such issue in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition, provided for 100,000 coins to be minted for the 1937 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration. The commemorative half dollar displays on one side a bear (Monarch II. Golden Gate Park grizzly), on the reverse side the bridge. Designer: Jacques Schnier...