Word: elke
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Doheny built oil storage tanks to contain fuel oil from the Elk Hills, Cal., field for naval consumption...
Fifty-two thousand San Diegoists read the Union and Tribune every day. These two papers have been and will be Republican; will try to hoist Hoover to the Presidency. But Col. Copley is no haughty, hard-to-get-to hero of the frigid rich. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias...
...telephone perhaps more than any industry for the swift transmission of their business. Newspapermen, often harried frantic in attempts to get the office or the information centre of a story close to edition time, were quick to pick up last week a brief story about Harry Kaufman, leading Elk. Mr. Kaufman, lacking a nickel, became infuriated because he could not attract central's attention from a Manhattan pay station booth. He wrenched off the mouthpiece; twisted the receiver hook; all but tore the box from the wall...
Mississippi was the other State to elect a Governor. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was the Democratic nominee. The voters knew him well-Odd Fellow, Elk, Mason, Baptist, Woodman, etc., etc., onetime (1908-12) State Senator, onetime (1912-16) Lieutenant Governor, onetime (1916-20) Governor. His opponents revivified bribery charges of which Mr. Bilbo was acquitted in 1916,- but election is a mere gesture in Mississippi. The Democratic nomination is all that matters. Nominee Bilbo became Governor-elect Bilbo once again...
...meet leave her forever because after all he has another wife in San Diego I went completely berserk. Mere words cannot describe my enthusiasm. I recommend it heartily to all those desiring a good clean story." It is generally agreed that this makes the little Soughwitz girl an Elk...