Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the second period of Stockton's struggle to the sea, another inland city, Houston, was also dredging itself an ocean port. Directing this development was a young Chicagoan, Benjamin Casey ("Benjy") Allin, who until the War's end was a captain of engineers. At Houston, Engineer Allin found 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico a ghost port over whose wharves but a few hundred thousand tons of freight passed each year. After twelve years of Benjy Allin's management, Houston, with 16,000,000 tons of shipping in 1935, was fourth ocean port...
Last year Painter Jackson died and was succeeded by slight, handsomely greying Harry Noyes Pratt, onetime editor, art student, poet (Mother of Mine & Other Verse, 1918) and director of a historical museum in Stockton, Calif. Director Pratt's first purchase was a vacuum cleaner, with which he took up two and one-half pounds of dust in his own room alone. Next thing he did was to clean and space the Crocker paintings, which had been jammed on the leaking walls like one-cent stamps on a special delivery letter. Then Director Pratt put on his old clothes...
Edward Austin Fellowships, of $675 each, for study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to John H. Franklin, of Tulsa, Oklohoma; Barnaby C. Keeney 1G, of West Bartford, Connecticut; Wilbert E. Moore, of Eugene, Oregon; and Arthur LeR. Cohen, of Stockton, California. Cohen has also received a University Fellowship...
Trouble came when Sheriff Harvey Odell of San Joaquin deputized 1,000 Stockton businessmen, armed them with pick handles and put them under the leadership of Colonel Walter Garrison, president of the reactionary Associated Farmers of California. Police and deputies surrounded the canneries as preparations were made to reopen them. Signal for battle was the shout of "Here she comes!" raised by a crowd of pickets...
Careening down Waterloo Road to the Stockton Food Products Co. came a truckful of spinach. As it slowed to enter the gates, strikers leaped upon it, tore off ropes, tossed crates of spinach into the street. Others dragged Tony Machado, the driver, from his mesh-protected cab. Police rushed to his rescue throwing gas grenades. The strikers fell back coughing, charged again. Behind a barricade surrounding the cannery deputies opened fire with riot guns. In the first fusillade, Striker Bill Tucker went down with a face and chestful of birdshot (see cut). The battle raged back and forth. Fourteen automobiles...