Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York was disagreeably surprised to find himself peppered with hot linotype metal from the Press of California and particularly of San Francisco, where he arrived last week to agitate "as a private citizen" for a pardon for Thomas Mooney. As he got off the Oakland ferry, Mayor Angelo Rossi and Mayor Walker's old friend Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seemed glad enough to see him. A band perched in a truck played "The Sidewalks of New York" and the Governor's jaunty theme song "Happy Days Are Here Again."Noisy crowds...
...Pacific Coast League, Hollywood won the first half of a divided season, in the second half of which three teams were bunched for the lead, with San Francisco a game ahead of Los Angeles and Oakland...
Died. Francis Marion ("Borax") Smith, 85; of injuries sustained in a fall; in Oakland, Calif. Prospecting for gold in Death Valley, he found great borax deposits. Before he was 30 he controlled the U.S. market, was many times a millionaire. At 50, his fortune gone, he got a fresh start from a silver mine he had bought and forgotten. At 75 he bought a new borax deposit, made a new fortune. When he died most of that was gone...
...Putnam, who had once publicized the autogiro by making an altitude flight (TIME, April 20), was this time advertising Beechnut products, by a transcontinental flight to and from Oakland, Calif. Her own autogiro, with Beechnut painted on the sides, was the second "windmill plane" to be seen west of the Mississippi. Whatever could be done to publicize the flight, was done, for Beechnut's sake...
Chicago-Dallas: Leave 10:15 am. via National Air Transport, arrive Dallas 8 :18 p.m. Leave Dallas 9:30 a.m., arrive Chicago 6:25 p.m. Chicago-San Francisco (typical of three schedules): Leave 4:30 p.m. by Boeing Air Transport, arrive San Francisco (Oakland Municipal Airport) 1:18 p.m. next day. Leave San Francisco 12:45 p.m., arrive Chicago 11:09 a.m.-next...