Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clinics were established in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco. Oakland, San Jose. Los Angeles, Hollywood. Long Beach, San Diego. The Oakland institution was reported so busy it maintained an ever-burning furnace in which abortions were incinerated...
...this generation." Starting with Albany, N. Y. last week, preaching teams of at least ten men and women will spend four days in the following communities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville. St. Louis, Cleveland, Des Moines, Omaha, Billings, Mont., Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Ore., San Francisco-Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Boston, winding up with a multitudinous evangelical mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the second week of December...
...crematist is Lawrence Frank (''Larry") Moore of Oakland. Calif., whose $500,000 crematory and columbarium were designed by Julia Morgan. Founder of the Cremation Association of America and the man whom Mr. Moore salutes as "the leader of the philosophical cremation movement." is Dr. Hugo Erichsen of Detroit, onetime neurologist, one-time medical director of Burroughs Adding Machine Co. Competition forced Dr. Erichsen to close his crematory in 1929. He still writes campaign material for the trade...
...Ford was sawing wood on his father's farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which he manipulated himself back into control of General Motors in 1916. Fatally entranced by the stockmarket, William Durant lost his General Motors shirt...
...properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope of Oakland County...