Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Light Touch. In Sacramento, Anthony Swinkunas robbed a man of his wallet, examined it in the glare of an auto's headlights, discovered too late that the auto was an occupied police...
Bill Mauldin was born on a farm in New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains. He was a sickly kid with rickets who, to pass the time while others played strenuous games, drew pictures of himself riding wild broncos. At nine he sold his first picture-of a boy & girl crying over a puppy's grave. Bill sent it to Sergeant's Dog Medicines. The president said he could not use it in company advertising, but he kept it and sent Bill...
...Larry "christmas Spirit" Jaffa has called a "cal Homecoming" and everybody west of Philadelphia is going. Dick Shorrock is talking in public now on the advantages of Pike's Peak over the New Hampshire Hills for real skiling. He has a pair of skis straight from Shorrock's in Sacramento as well as a new shipment of oranges which Bob Stewart has been appointed special curator...
...others: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi, Suwannee River, Powder River, The James, The Hudson, The Sacramento, The Wabash, The Arkansas, The Delaware, The Illinois, The Raw, The Brandywine, The Charles, The Kentucky, The Sangamon, The Allegheny, The Wisconsin, Lower Mississippi, The St. Lawrence, The Chicago, Twin Rivers, The Humboldt, The St. John's, Rivers of the Eastern Shore...
Mitsuye Endo is a loyal U.S. citizen, born 24 years ago in Sacramento. Her eyes happen to slant upward because her ancestors were Japanese. In 1942, when the U.S. Army uprooted 110,000 people of Japanese blood from their truck gardens and berry patches along the West Coast, Mitsuye Endo landed in a War Relocation center at Topaz, Utah...