Word: san
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth, deep-voiced Negro, Johnson settled back on the witness stand and be gan to tell a federal jury in San Francisco how he had heard Bridges address a Communist National Committee meeting in 1936, how he recalled voting to "re-elect" Bridges to the national committee two years later under the alias of "Rossi." Attempting to discredit the testimony, Defense Attorney James M. MacInnis got the witness to admit he had never seen Harry Bridges at a national committee meeting after...
Soon after he disappeared, Cattáneo presented to the Congress, by mail, support of his charges that Perón had grown rich in office. Listing the names and addresses of business firms which he said could confirm his statements, he described the President's San Vicente country estate (which Perón calls a modest rural retreat) as a lavishly decorated multimillion-peso layout with a large swimming pool, elaborate lighting and watering systems, sumptuous furnishings and marble fireplaces. Cattáneo's charges and his offer of proof made scarcely a ripple...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 (the San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 8 sides, 45 r.p.m.). This happy early work is the least heard of the nine symphonies; the nicely adjusted performance of the San Francisco, under happy Pierre Monteux, will make listeners wonder why. Recording: excellent...
Unto the Least of These. This week, with faith and patience, the army still marched on. In New York, Chicago, Peoria, San Francisco, Omaha, Richmond, Los Angeles-all over the U.S. and half around the world-tambourines rattled and brass bells tinkled in the annual Christmas campaign. Americans dropped pennies, nickels and dimes by the millions into Salvation Army kettles. The money would be used to buy 300,000 Christmas dinners for the down & out, 450,000 presents for children, packages for the aged, the poor in hospitals, and the inmates of jails...
Second prize of $10,000 went to Miss Laura Rott of Naperville, Ill. for her mint surprise cookies; third prize of $4,000 to Mrs. R. W. Sprague of San Marino, Calif, for her Carrie's Creole chocolate cake...