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In Sacramento "The Assembly today sent to its Federal Regulations Committee a resolution asking President Roosevelt to determine immediately whether or not Harry Bridges, CIO leader, is an 'undesirable alien.'..." — Jan. 5—
"...'Now Treasure Island belongs to the world,' they said, in that opening ceremony of the Golden Gate International Exposition, yesterday noon. And the world did its best to take possession! From the hour the gates opened — even beating that 8 o'clock gun by many minutes — they came by thousands, tens of thousands, then scores of thousands." Official attendance, at 11 o'clock in the evening, stood at 127,222. — Feb. 19
"Widespread infestations of insects — grasshoppers in the southern valleys, caterpillars in the north — raised fears of California agriculturalists." — April 20
"Across the street from its former home, the 85-year-old Hastings, men's clothiers, is today housed in a handsome store, built by San Franciscans for San Franciscans, and rated as one of the nation's finest men's stores." — May 2
"Forced to flee Germany because of the Nazi racial purge, Dr. Frederick Nussbaum, grandson of the late Adolph Sutro, multimillionaire and one-time mayor of San Francisco, arrived at Los Angeles Harbor today on the liner Drechtdyk. ......... With him were his wife and their 15 year old daughter." — June 8
Georges Braque's "The Yellow Cloth" wins $2,500 prize at Golden Gate International Exposition, sparking controversy: A forthcoming exhibit at the Legion of Honor is being planned "in retaliation against the radical and Communist moderns. ......... 'Art should be a source of pleasure and not of propaganda,' said a director of the Sanity in Art Society, which is sponsoring the Legion of Honor Exhibit." — July 18
"The message of American freedom, 'Keep U.S. Out of War — Be Neutral,' spread through California yesterday, as citizens in thousands pasted new, red, white and blue stickers to the windshields of their automobiles." — Aug. 5
Germany invades Poland and World War II "reached into San Francisco last night, and the center of mobilization was a little church-like building in the Mission ......... the Polish Club, at 3040 Twenty-second Street ......... (where) Polish groups met to formulate plans to do what they can to help the fatherland." — Sept. 2
"A possible jam-up in the San Francisco turkey market was foreseen yesterday after the local Butchers Union notified all wholesale poultry dealers that the birds cannot be accepted from farmers today (stripping) the farmers, at the peak of the delivery run, of one day out of the four remaining before Thanksgiving." — Nov. 19
Mayor Rossi proclaims "moral rearmament weekend" prompting Sen. Harry S Truman of Missouri, here on a tour of military establishments, to declare that the spread of the moral rearmament program in America will offer "fresh certainty of the safety and security of the nation." — Dec. 3