Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protégé and collaborator of Teachers College's famed Professor Harold Rugg. Dr. Mendenhall went from Kansas to the Lincoln School as a research man in 1928, conceived Building America with Stanford's Professor Paul R. Hanna. It is regularly used in Detroit, Sacramento and Denver classes, in many a school and reference library elsewhere. About 110,000 copies of the entire series have been distributed. For the Power issue the largest single customer was the power industry itself, which took 1,000 copies...
Married. Robert Dollar II, 25, grandson of the late "Captain" Robert Dollar, founder of the shipping dynasty; to Charlotte Dean, 25, daughter of Sacramento's City Manager; in Sacramento, Calif...
Behind it is the general question of decentralization of Pacific Coast shipping. Already other towns, heartened by Stockton's battle, are planning expensive ports of their own: Sacramento, San Jose, Redwood City, California, and The Dalles, Ore. On the side of older ports are most ship line owners because of established handling facilities of their own and maintenance of present schedules at existing ports. Potent argument of shipowners against recognition of Stockton is that with calls to make at perhaps dozens of inland ports, shipping rates must certainly rise beyond anything hitherto contemplated...
Engaged, Robert Dollar II, 24, grandson of the late Captain Robert Dollar (founder of the Dollar Steamship Lines); to Charlotte Eudora Dean, daughter of Sacramento, Calif. City Manager James S. Dean; in Sacramento. Grandson Dollar works for the family steamship lines, now headed by Robert Stanley Dollar, his uncle...
Freed. Writer Ernest C. Booth, 39, from Folsom Prison, after serving 13 years of a 25-year sentence for robbery; in Sacramento, Calif. Attempting, in 1926, to escape from the San Quentin Prison Hospital, Convict Booth fell, broke both legs. During his convalescence he started writing, subsequently turned out a novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif...