Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nominated by acclamation Prof. William Moseley Brown for Governor and Capt. C. C. Berkeley for Attorney-General. It left the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor open, in hopes the state Republicans would choose that candidate, thus permitting the two groups to coalesce against the regular Democrats. Nominee Brown, a 35-year-old professor of psychology at Washington & Lee University, was described as the state's "most cantankerous and catamountish campaigner," but when led to the platform he turned out to be a mild-mannered polite gentle man, still trailing a classroom atmosphere after him as he pleaded against bitterness, called...
Died. George Paul Dussau, 73, of Berkeley. Cal., French-born structural engineer who bossed the erection of the Statue of Liberty in 1883; in Berkeley...
...Clarence A. Wills took his quiet pig-tailed daughter to a sunny tennis court in Berkeley, Cal., and handed her a racquet which she swung at first like a nightstick. She missed the first ball. She changed her grip and hit the next one. Within a month she could defeat her father. Four years later, when she was 15, she won the U. S. junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes...
...Daniel Berkeley Updike: A master printer, whose art in workmanship makes reading a greater pleasure...
...Berkeley, Calif...