Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pants Rowland, the best way to get out from under the hated draft would be to make the P.C.L. a third big league. The obvious argument: such cities as Sacramento, San Diego and Portland do not have the finances, the population or the parks to make the grade. (West Coasters point out that the St. Louis Browns have played to crowds as small as 478.) Last week Babe Ruth dropped into Los Angeles, threw more cold water on the western dream: "There aren't even enough top baseball players for two major leagues...
Caen Is Able. Herb was a 20-year-old police reporter and part-time radio columnist for the Sacramento Union when his juvenile gibes at radio caught Smith's eye in 1936. When Smith interviewed him, Caen thought it wise to add three years to his age ("I didn't know he was only 27 himself...
...never like this in the old days when Forty-Niner James McClatchy founded the Sacramento Bee as a rootin-tootin' goldtown sheet...
...unseasonable elsewhere in the U.S. As it got warm where it should have been cold, it got cold where it should have been warm. Storm warnings were flown off the California coast. Fresno had an October freeze for the first time since weather records were begun in 1887; at Sacramento the earliest recorded frost damaged tons of olives...
...crowded, hot assembly chamber of California's capitol at Sacramento walked a pair of famous sons. Arm in arm, they turned on grins that reminded many an onlooker of their fathers' smiles. Bald Jimmy Roosevelt had just been elected chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, the Party's top job in California. Tweedy Will Rogers Jr., nominee for the U.S. Senate...