Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...San Quentin, Calif., where inmates are enabled to take extension work in the State University at Berkeley by correspondence. There Warden James Bernard Holohan, a firm-fisted 200-pounder, guards over 5,000 inmates. Among them are Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), killer of his common law wife, now chief of the convict fire department; Clara Phillips, who killed a lady intimate of her husband with a hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide...
...sure they will not soon forget him. And if his journalistic potency has not been enough, Mr. Hearst has five sons to keep his tracks fresh long after he is gone. The eldest son, plump 25-year-old George, is well along the way as Publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, oldest of Hearst newspapers, after experience as Editor of the New York Mirror (since sold by Hearst) and President of the New York American. The second son, his father's namesake, is only 22 but already his thin young face wears deep marks of experience and looks like...
Issue of Oct. 21, p. 17, "General Pershing's 'Lafayette, we are here.' " Not his. Col. Charles E. Stanton, U.S.A., now of San Francisco, spoke for ''Black Jack" at Picpus Cemetery, and coined the phrase. When Stanton wrote his speech in advance of delivering it, Pershing read it and inked his O.K. on it. The manuscript belongs to the Family (club) of S.F. The phrase is its preoration. Furthermore, Pershing gave Stanton credit some years ago in a letter published in Collier...
CHARLES JOSEF CAREY San Francisco, Calif...
...Manhattan last week arranging a 36-hour all-air transcontinental service with Graham Bethune Grosvenor, president of The Aviation Corp. The Aviation Corp., through its subsidiary Universal Aviation Corp. flies from Cleveland to Kansas City. Western Air Express flies from Kansas City to Los Angeles and thence to San Francisco. The project is to extend Universal passenger services eastward to Manhattan. The two systems would transfer passengers at Kansas City...