Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crossed the State line. At Truckee, Calif, there was a rodeo and Idaho's Charles Ben Ross exhibited his skill with a lariat, ended by roping Governor Rolph around the neck. There was a picnic near Lake Tahoe and champagne on the train from Sacramento to Oakland. In San Francisco's Palace Hotel the Governors ate off a $500,000 gold service while Communists fussed noisily outside. They gaped in awed silence at the wonders of Yosemite. At Hollywood they were smiled on by pretty cinema girls. Los Angeles gave them a raucous booster welcome...
...Last week President Roosevelt and Citizen Herbert Hoover found themselves in cooperation. From the White House the President pressed a key which closed an electric circuit which exploded some dynamite which broke the ground for the projected San Francisco-Oakland Bay ("World's Greatest") Bridge. On Goat Island, in the middle of the bay, Citizen Hoover shoved a golden spade into the ground...
...next autumn. Far more uncertain than the light weight situation is the condition of the heavyweight championship. This week's fight between Jack Sharkey (champion) and Primo Camera is actually no more than an elimination bout to provide a worthy opponent for Max Baer, who beat Schmeling. In Oakland, Calif., newshawks last week unearthed another Baer possibly even more alarming than Max-his brother "Buddy" Baer, 17, 6 ft. 4½ in., 246 lb., who plans to become a professional fisticuffer next autumn...
Elected. To be trustees of: Mills (Oakland. Calif, women's college), Herbert Hoover; of Cornell, Publisher Frank E. Gannett; of Brown, Charles Evans Hughes Jr. To Harvard's Board of Overseers: Political Pundit Walter Lippmann, Banker Henry Sturgis Morgan...
...University of California gave LL, D.'s to Wisconsin's Alexander Meiklejohn; Consulting Engineer Lillian Moller Gilbreth; and, on his sickbed, to Chemistry Professor Emeritus Edmond O'Neill, 73. The University of Santa Clara gave an LL. D. to Dr. Oliver D. Hamlin of Oakland. Calif., a founder and fellow of the American College of Surgeons...