Word: californians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pioneer in the small loans field, A. P.'s bank earned $12,000,000 last year, has averaged earnings ten times its new preferred dividend requirements over the past five years. It has 600,000 borrowers, 2,300,000 depositors (one Californian in every three). This week old A. P. Giannini forgot his troubles long enough to make the second speech of his career. Occasion: a banquet in honor of his "70th birthday, given by his 9,000 employes...
...Daily Californian...
...David Freeman of Pasadena, 1938 national junior tennis champion: the U. S. badminton championship; for the second successive year; smashing onetime (1937-38) Titleholder Walter Kramer of Detroit in the final, 15-4, 15-4; at Seattle. Another young Californian, Evelyn Boldrick of San Diego, won the women's singles-making California look like the future kindergarten for badminton as well as tennis...
...Californian, nor am I a psychiatrist. I am one who suffered conditions as bad as the Okies for 15 years of my life-I wrote about it in the Atlantic, in the Nation, and in a book. Nor am I jealous because my book [We Sagebrush Folks'] was a best lender and not a best seller...
...Freeman is a straw-haired, exuberant young Californian who blew his way East ten years ago as trumpeter in a jazz band, trumpeted by night so that he could go to art school by day. Soon he began to freelance, has spent most of his time since prowling round Manhattan with a sketchbook. Says he with a grin: "I've got a front-row seat to this life...