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"Tunic frocks get better and better as the winter swings along, and they are showing up handsomely in the spring models." — Jan. 21 "Smashed by squalls, the world's largest airship, the U.S.S. Macon, toppled out of the skies last night and plunged into the Pacific Ocean off Point Sur, 110 miles south of San Francisco. Aboard the dirigible were 83 officers and men; 81 were rescued." — Feb. 13 "Criminal aliens, anarchists and reds should be deported, Edward W. Cahill, District Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, declared yesterday upon his return from a conference with department chiefs in Washington, D.C." — March 19 City Engineer John J. Casey convinces merchants that a new 90-foot-wide street, from Bryant to Market and Mason, between Fifth and Sixth streets, is the best way to bring traffic from the Bay Bridge terminus to the downtown shopping district. — April 6 "Girl attorneys take oaths as members of the bar." State Supreme Court swears in 124 new lawyers, seven of them women. — May 3. "We're a bit shy of screaming that good times are here again, having listened to so many prophets rise to the occasion during the past few years, but the fact remains that Pacific Coast passenger business is definitely doing things. The two Dollar liners leaving here today, the President Hoover for the Orient, the President Lincoln for New York, have approximately 1,000 customers aboard apiece, with each ship showing a considerable percentage increase as against the corresponding voyage last year." — June 14 "Late peninsula commuters were later getting to their jobs yesterday morning when a film fan's dream came true at the Third and Townsend streets depot. There, alighting from the Lark, was one of the most star-studded Hollywood delegations ever to visit San Francisco" including Joe E. Brown, Glenda O'Farrell, Olivia de Haviland, Pat O'Brien and George Jessel. — Aug. 10 In his last game as a San Francisco Seal, Joe DiMaggio goes 3 for 8 in a double-header, helping to lift the team to a Pacific Coast League championship. — Sept. 30 "Spanish dons and padres, sailors of the seven seas, ranchers and two-gunmen will walk the streets" of San Francisco again as the city celebrates its one-hundredth birthday." — Oct. 11 "With fireworks, music and cheering, San Franciscans, massed along the Marina, bade the China Clipper — Pan-American Airways' 'flying boat' — farewell before she disappeared beyond the Golden Gate on her epic flight beginning regular air-mail service to Honolulu and Manila." — Nov. 23 District Attorney Matthew Brady denies clamping down on nightlife: "I am not on any killjoy expedition. There is a sharp difference between rackets and the proper amusements of a cosmopolitan city. For example, a night club properly run is a legitimate amusement. On the other hand a night club that is paying graft for the privilege of violating the law by the use of slot machines or by permitting disorderly conduct in the place is a racket." — Dec. 5 |
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