Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motoring one day last December Mayor Peter E. Demarest of Oakland, N. J., encountered a pack of wild dogs trailing a deer. With a single bullet in his gun he brought down the dogs' leader, a powerful 150-lb. mongrel shepherd. Another dog in the pack viciously charged the Mayor, who had to leap into his car, bang shut the door. Last week he sought revenge...
...Oakland. Calif., Mrs. George Reid was given a divorce because her husband regularly ended arguments by shutting her up in a folding...
When Coach Edward P. ("Slip") Madigan went to St. Mary's in 1921, there were 60 students in an old brick plant in Oakland, Calif. Now St. Mary's has 750 students, a $2,000,000 campus in Moraga Valley. Coach Madigan is largely responsible for the change. In 1921, St. Mary's played Stanford with 16 men on the squad, made 10 points to Stanford's 14. In 1926 and 1929 St. Mary's had undefeated teams. Coach Madigan was a Notre Dame guard under Knute Rockne and Rockne's predecessor, George Harper...
...midday. He was only trying to thank a group of neighbors and admirers who had come up the hill to pay their respects. He had come into the State during the night, been met in the morning at Sacramento by Governor Rolph, getting off his train at Oakland to ferry across San Francisco Bay amid a din of factory and boat whistles, roaring airplanes, booming guns on the Presidio. The sidewalks of Market Street were packed solidly with cheering populace as his cortége moved through. At the civic centre Herbert Hoover went up to a balcony and said...
...Oakland, Calif., firemen discovered they could not move Invalid P. J. Evans from his burning home. They covered him with a rubber sheet, supplied him with an oxygen tank to prevent suffocation, put out the fire...