Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sacramento, Calif., a ring fell from the sky upon Mrs. Anna Briggs, raised a bump on her noggin. Over Sacramento in a plane, Dr. W. Stanley was frantic because the ring had been a gift from Theodore Roosevelt. To Mrs. Briggs, of whom he heard by radio, Dr. Stanley few days later gave $325 and a trip to the New York World's Fair...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt and the California Senate in Sacramento proposed separate attacks on the problem. The President, studying a report by WPA Administrator Francis Harrington and other U. S. officials, concluded that migration is a national problem now that 300,000 to 400,000 indigents wander the motorways. In the time of living men, said he, such free souls may well be required to take root at a home address (presumably in jail, if they decline to settle elsewhere). He indorsed U. S. legislation and emergency aid which would consist principally of finding jobs for migrants already in California...
...Sacramento to Stead-not heard...
...Medford, Stead had already made his first blunder. He failed to fill his gasoline tanks. From Medford, on instruments, against a heavy headwind and an hour behind schedule, he went down the south leg of the Fort Jones range, passed the Red Bluff localizer, reported that the Sacramento range was drowning out the Williams beam (which ground stations reported was operating without interference). Then, for almost an hour, Trip 6 was silent...
...SACRAMENTO, Cal.--The State Advisory Pardon Board late today by a 3-2 vote refused to recommend a pardon for Warren K. Billings, convicted with Thomas J. Mooney in the Preparedness Day bombing...