Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barbary Coast was doomed in 1911 when California's present Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. began his first of five terms as San Francisco's mayor. The actual knockdown punch was dealt by Hearst's San Francisco Examiner in a typically furious crusade. The conp-de-grâce came in 1917 when the State Supreme Court upheld a Red-light Abate ment Act, permitting the city to proceed in civil court against owners of property used for immoral purposes. For a few gloomy years "the Coast" tried to subsist on tourist trade by pretending...