Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, husky, able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some...
Airman Sherman called in Crommelin and announced his verdict. Crommelin was to get a stiff letter of reprimand, and would be transferred away forthwith from the pitfalls of Washington to San Francisco to serve as aviation officer on the staff of Vice Admiral George D. Murray, Commander of the Western Sea Frontier. That was all. But in the letter of reprimand, Crommelin was sternly told that his defiance of his superiors had "brought into question your fitness to exercise command or to occupy a position of trust and confidence...
Also at last night's meeting Robert F. Fuller '50, Chairman of the Harvard National Student Association delegation, announced that the group will charter one TWA plane to fly students at reduced fare to San Francisco by way of Chicago this Christmas vacation...
Fuller said that TWA has promised one plane on a trial basis, and if enough students are available to fill it, the saving will be "around $100" on the round trip to San Francisco...
...Manhattan last week, an obscure company named Connecticut Boola, Inc. paid $4,500,000 to R. H. Macy & Co., to buy Macy's spanking new nine-story building in San Francisco. But there is nothing obscure about Connecticut Boola's parent: Boola is the wholly owned subsidiary of Yale University. The new owner promptly leased the store back to Macy's for 31 years and two months, at an average annual rental of $240,000. Thus Yale became Macy's San Francisco landlord...