Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif, was all ready one night last week to extend a rousing welcome to a visitor from Japan, the No. i Christian of that land. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa. The church folk of Los Angeles would gather the following night to greet the soft-faced, myopic 47-year-old man of God whose arrival has been heralded in church papers for months. Few days after Christmas the Young People's Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Memphis, had on its program the name of the great Dr. Kagawa, who went to Princeton Theological...
...running from one end of its 460-mi. length to the other. Most significant: The last link in the Lincoln Highway had been completed, giving the U. S. its first transcontinental hard-surfaced road. Now known as "U. S. Route 30" most of the way from Atlantic City to Oakland, the Lincoln Highway was conceived by Promoter Carl Fisher early in the Century. Packard's onetime President Henry Bourne Joy formed the Lincoln Highway Association in 1913, pushed through the survey preliminaries in two years, began actual road building in 1915. With the War, the Government formed the Highway...
Deaths attributable to football, a source of deep concern to preachers, coaches, and heads of college athletic associations in 1928 and 1931, have aroused no indignation this year. By last week 19 football deaths had been announced. One Robert Mansfield, playing on an Oakland, Calif, sandlot, died when he ran head first into a telegraph pole. Andrew Crespino of New Orleans died of a heart attack during practice when he leaned over to tie his shoe...
...Herald Tribune's Sports Columnist Richards Vidmer decried Mr. Mahoney's objections, drew a two-column letter of protest from Editor Isaac Landman of the American Hebrew. The New York Post polled 35 members of the Olympic Committee, found 28 for participation, four against, three noncommittal. In Oakland, Calif., Fencer Helene Mayer, in whose behalf Mr. Sherrill had gone to Germany, said she had received no invitation to compete for Germany. In Chicago, Chairman Brundage of the American Olympic Committee made the sweeping statement which he had been threatening since the conflagration started. Said...
...against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week came a golden opportunity to flay the former, assert his titular party leadership to the latter when Young Republicans from eleven Western States met 1,200 strong at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Calif. It was the 31st President's first strictly political speech since he left Washington. It was also the first formal forensic broadside of the Republican Presidential campaign. And Herbert Hoover rose...