Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Kenny McClatchy, 77, militant publisher of California's three famed Daily Bee's (Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno); of pneumonia; in Carmichael. Last year his Sacramento Bee won the Pulitzer Prize for "meritorious public service" (TIME...
When the picture opened last week, Governor Frank Finley Merriam of California proclaimed Gold Week, and Sacramento held a warm-up for its 1939 Hometown Jubilee. There was a Governor's "Sutter's Gold Ball." Carl Laemmle and entourage arrived in five private cars. Local merchants displayed themselves in 1849 costumes and sideburns...
...critics outside Sacramento the efforts involved in getting Sutter's Gold on the screen seemed last week as misdirected as the celebration over its opening was unjustified. Hampered by a script that characterized its hero variously as paragon and scoundrel, pinchpenny and profligate, altruist and profiteer, without ever making him a human being, the best Producer Edmund Grainger, Director James Cruze and Actors Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes could offer the public was 85 minutes of dignified boredom, which suggested that the producers of Sutter's Gold had wearied of the performance before it began...
...being tried out whereby patients, doctors and hospitals can get together with self-respect and mutual benefit. Fifteen hundred Dallas schoolteachers showed that this system would work by paying $6 a year to Baylor University Hospital. Other cities which have followed suit include San Antonio, Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Sacramento, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Cleveland, Rochester, Washington, Durham, Newark...
...September 1933, David Lamson's first trial was concluded at San Jose. The State of California contended that Lamson's motives for killing his wife were his affection for a Sacramento divorcee and his wife's repulsion of his amatory advances, that he wilfully killed her by bashing in the back of her head with an iron pipe. The defense called Dr. Blake Colburn Wilbur, son of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur and best man at the Lamsons' wedding, to substantiate its contention that Mrs. Lamson killed herself accidentally by falling...