Word: oaklands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, written by Howard Finney '26, begins with a chorus of scrub women who perform a typical dance to the tune of "Katy Ann", in a bookstore in Oakland, N. Y., where Peter, the hero, works in a book store. The part of Peter is taken by E. A. Sawin '25. During the first act Jake Worth, played by A. H. Stafford '26, appears as a travelling salesman who sings about his tonic "Hermicide...
Rest from his labors has come to Walter Johnson (TIME, Sept. 22), aging ace of baseball pitchers. Last week, he and a partner acquired the Oakland (Calif.) club of the Pacific Coast League. In the spring Johnson will embark no more on stormy big league seas with the world's champion Washington Senators, but will pitch Oakland's three big opening games and then settle back, in the warm California sunshine, to grow old in profitable leisure...
...outbreak in Los Angeles is the second to occur in the United States, the first being in Oakland, Calif., in September, 1919. In that epidemic there were 13 cases with 12 deaths...
...story on an American Legion rodeo.) " State's Attorney Crowe and his staff of picked assistants, assigned to prosecute the murderers of little Bobby Franks, jumped into their fighting regalia last night and launched a double-fisted attack upon the defense." -Chicago Tribune. " There is one bootlegger in Oakland who will think twice hereafter before he calls prospective customers on the telephone. " Chief McSorley answered his private telephone yesterday and was dumbfounded when a voice asked if he wanted those 'two cases of real, old Scotch today.' " 'This is the Chief of Police.' " 'Suffering...
Sued for divorce. Harold P. ("Brick") Muller, famed 1922 all-American football end, of the University of California, by Bernice Berwin Muller, in Oakland. She charged "a cold, indifferent and supercilious manner...