Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pediment of the neoclassic State Office Building at Sacramento is inscribed a line from a poem by the late Sam Walter FOSS: BRING ME MEN TO'MATCH MY MOUNTAINS. Visitors to the Governor's office frequently wonder if Earl Warren, California's 30th governor and favorite son for the Republican Presidential nomination, is not such...
...road from San Francisco to Sacramento, Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies ran out of gas in Vallejo. Though well-heeled with coupons, he could not find a dealer with gas. > In Portland, 12% of the gas stations closed. Busses were jammed with ex-autoists. Four hundred passengers tried to get aboard one night bus for Seattle...
...Sacramento, Calif., for two days last week, only five taxicabs remained in service to handle emergency calls. All five cabs stayed clear of hotels and the Southern Pacific's bustling station; one even hid in a downtown alley. The other 115 Sacramento cabs had used the last gallon of their quarterly gas ration, and could get no more until...
...investigation" was California's fourth recent legislative romp into U.S.-Jap baiting. It was headed by a ruddy-faced Sacramento attorney, Chester F. Gannon, Legionnaire and key Republican member of the State Assembly. Although Marine Borchers' letter had started the fury, Gannon did not summon him as a witness. Gannon had his own views: "We have been told it would be unhealthy for Japanese-even American-born-to be seen on California streets, and that returning Marines and soldiers would slit their throats...
Back at the hotel he held private tête-a-têtes for the rest of the evening before leaving for Sacramento. Not only did Republicans call on him, but Democrats as well. The rising tide of interest in him was obvious. Telephone calls flooded in, keeping his secretary and several volunteers busy. One man called to volunteer to dress himself as Paul Revere and begin riding throughout the Western states until the convention next year...