Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ornithology was Edwin Bryant Crocker when he arrived in California in 1852. Before he died in 1875, fat, goat-bearded and wealthy, he had served a term on the State supreme court, helped Leland Stanford build the Central Pacific Railroad, filled his brick mansion and adjacent gallery in Sacramento with an extraordinary mess of stuffed birds, shells and European art acquired in Dresden and Paris on his one trip abroad. Ten years later his widow gave the treasures and the gallery to the city of Sacramento, which later acquired the mansion and for 50 years faithfully mowed the grass...
...When the Sacramento Union heard about this it began to call proudly for a new gallery to house the "$15,000,000" Crocker collection. Director Pratt rated his findings more modestly but his curiosity mounted from week to week. He decided that the old Crocker catalog was not only inadequate but frequently wrong, wrote and printed a new one. Last week Mr. Pratt hung up for Sacramento art lovers his first batch of newly discovered or identified pictures, declaring it "one of the most important art events of the West...
...Engineering for the academic year 1937-1938 to the following: L. L. Beranck, of Mt. Vernon, lowa; Louis A. Carapella, of Tuckahoe, New York; Quang Tou Chang, of Kiangsu, China; William D. Dickinson, Jr., of Little Rock, Arkansas; Alden P. Edson, of Lawrence, Kansas; Daniel J. Faustman, of Sacramento, California; Charles D. Gates, of Asburnham; Emil C. Jensen, of Burlington, Washington; 1-Lun Liu, of Fukien, China; Clifford M. Mast, of Davenport; Iowa; Iwao Miyake, of Honolulu, Hawait., Charles T. Morrow, of Cloucester...
Famed in the California Senate for introducing bills for the exclusive benefit of his own county, San Diego's Senator Ed Fletcher was the butt of a legislative joke last week in Sacramento. To the Senate reading clerk went a bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river...
...nattily-dressed railroad electrician named Roy O. Widener, 35, was tried in Sacramento, Calif. fortnight ago for flourishing a gun at his landlady and robbing her of $60. While Superior Judge Dal M. Lemmon was instructing the jury, Widener was seized with a coughing fit, left the room to recover, accompanied by two bailiffs. Back in his courtroom chair, Widener heard the finish of Judge Lemmon's jury charge, later heard the jury find him guilty of first-degree robbery and burglary...