Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office at Sacramento one day last week, he sat like a defensive halfback behind his sleek, cork-covered desk. Up to the desk came California's Republican Chairman Arthur W. Carlson. In his hands, Carlson carried a framed copy of a resolution, neatly hand-lettered, adopted by the Republican state committee. The resolution asked Earl Warren's permission to line up a Republican convention delegation...
TIME [Sept. 22] says, apropos of the judging of California wines in Sacramento, that "for 14 different varieties out of the 45 judged, the entries were so poor that no gold medals were awarded...
...legislative lobbyist, he was superb. Sometimes his methods annoyed Cal's crotchety old astronomer-president, William Wallace ("Eyebrows") Campbell. Once, hearing Sproul's booming voice ripping through the wall, President Campbell demanded to know what the comptroller was doing. Told that he was talking to Sacramento, the old man snapped: "Well, tell him to use the telephone...
When Sproul was not in Sacramento, backslapping and bulldozing the legislators, he was hitting the road to visit his most influential "constituents"-the farmers. Sproul convinced them that the university was doing a good job, sold himself in the bargain. In 1930, when he was only 39, Sproul, who had never taught a class in his life, and had only a bachelor's degree, became president of the University of California...
With the solemnity of Supreme Court justices, twelve wine-tasters gathered last week in a private room at the California State Fair in Sacramento to choose the best California wines. They had an anxious audience. Since 1769, when Fra Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan, planted the first wine grapes at the Mission of San Diego, viticulture had grown until it is California's biggest agricultural industry, with an investment of $475 million. Last year, California produced 87% of all the wine drunk...