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The article focuses on Ilona Bensczko Selle, a columnist and one of the most influential woman in San Francisco, California. She has contact with countless people during war and her fanatical followers of a morning paper know her as "Miss Fixit". They regarded her as the soother of homesick souls, unraveler of torturous problems and the general minister to the needs of fouled-up General Infantry officer. All these descriptions, she hopes someday to cease her laborious job and rest for years.

Focuses on the meeting of the Republican Party in San Francisco, California on July 13, 1964 concerning the crisis faced by the alliance. Purpose of the Republican Citizens Committee's Critical Issues Council; Details of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization paper on government administration; Background on the good men in the government.

The article reports on the emergence of a journalistic question on the ability of commercial photographer Ned Wells to prevent a suicide in San Francisco, California in April 1952. Wells spotted retired banker's wife E. Noel Durant while she was climbing over the rail of the Golden Gate Bridge. Durant jumped to her death after she saw that Wells was taking her picture. "San Francisco Chronicle" managing editor Larry Fanning stressed that Wells's action has influenced the decision of Durant to jump.

The article says that from the American point of view the headlines in European newspapers over reports of the San Francisco, California conference held recently were entirely satisfactory. These newspapers favored the U.S. and predicted defeat of the Soviet Union. U.S. President Harry S. Truman's remarks at the meeting of Democratic Party leaders on the first day of the conference received much more notice than his speech at the Opera House. However, the Continental edition of the London Daily Mail doubted whether the Western powers were well advised to use Russia's own tactics and stifle all debate.

The article focuses on several businessmen who participated in an economic conference in 1957 in San Francisco, California. It highlights business individuals who sought for new investment opportunities in relation with their participation to the conference such as U Tin U and Feng-Jang Leu. It also adds that new business deals from underdeveloped countries which are in need of capital from foreign investors were offered by interested businessmen.

The article offers information on the sale of the paintings of European painters by Safeway Stores Inc. in San Francisco, California.

In this article, the author focuses on the The White House, a department store in San Francisco. The author mentions that 87 year old department store is inspired by the Maison de Blanc in Paris, France, and was built by Raphael Weill, a French trader. It further mentions that Cascade Sprayer Co. is offering orchids to motorists of Wenatchee, Washington as an campaign to prevent the throwing of lighted cigars and matches on roads by motorists.

The article focuses on issues involving union leader Harry Bridges, including his deportation proceedings filed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1941, who is leading his union to the Labor Day parade in San Francisco, California.

The article presents a regional business outlook for several states of the U.S. including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California as in January 1940. Business in Philadelphia is following the national pattern with low production, low steel prices but a steep rise in durable goods. In Chicago, the automobile industry is showing a decline in business. However, San Francisco has showed an increase in farm income by five percent.

The article presents an outlook for the business conditions in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco, California for the year 1939. A fairly rounded recovery has been produced in Philadelphia by the combination of non-durable goods industries. Employment and payrolls in Chicago have been kept by contra-seasonal gains in automobile and steel production at much higher levels. Industrial activity in San Francisco has been running to 10% from 5% ahead of 1938.

The article focuses on the meeting of the National Automobile Dealers Association in San Francisco, California.

The article provides information on the reclamation of Islias Creek in San Francisco, California, in September 1930, which will soon feature a terminal for the Western Pacific and Great Northern railroads.

Focuses on the prevalence of terror in San Francisco that heralded the settlement of the general strike in California. Campaign of slander against the strike leaders; Details on the debate concerning a resolution favoring arbitration of all issues involved in the strike; Conflict between organized labor and a group of open-shop capitalists within the American social structure.

The author says that early in April, en route to Southern California, he stopped off in San Francisco, California and looked up Harry Bridges, the militant president of the International Longshoremen's Association Local 38-79. He had made an appointment with him three days earlier by long distance from Sacramento, California. San Francisco headlines that morning told of a "plot" on the part of a member of the conservative element in the marine unions to kill one of the left-wing leaders, and Bridges-probably the hardest-working man in San Francisco-evidently was under great mental and nervous strain.

The article profiles television celebrity Jack Randolph Webb who is one of the most successful announcers in the U.S. entertainment industry in 1954. Jack Webb started as an unknown news announcer in a radio station in San Francisco, California in 1946. According to the author, Webb attracts all sorts of people but he has few friends and he has no social life. The author mentions that he has read only one book within five years.

The article reports on the latest developments in the efforts by both the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) unions to unionize the department stores across the U.S. According to the CIO union, it appointed its Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America unit to do the task. The AFL, meanwhile, tasked its Teamsters Union, the Building Service Employees Union and the Retail Clerks International Association to do the job. The situations in various cities are examined, including in San Francisco, California.

The article offers information on Kern County Land Co., a company in San Francisco, California involved in cattle and farming. It explores the diversification and growth program of the company, with emphasis on oil exploration which has helped the firm to gain more opportunities. Furthermore, it mentions that the company is chaired by George G. Montgomery and presided by Dwight M. Cochran.

The article reports on the factors which triggered the success of Gump's Inc., a retail store in San Francisco, California. It states that the popularity of the store is due to its unique variety of products and its commitment to offer good items to its customers. Furthermore, the shop's independent approach in merchandising also increased its sales in the state. It also mentions the contributions of corporate president Richard Gump on the success of the business.

The article reports on the efforts of San Francisco, California businessmen called the Blyth-Zellerbach (B-Z) Committee led by J. D. Zellerback to redevelop the state's Golden Gate City and promote government spending and cost study. It states that the redevelopment effort has helped revive several other old redevelopment clearance projects in the city. It mentions that the B-Z Committee aims to reawaken the civic pride in the city by rebuilding the community and governmental reconstruction.

The article discusses several socio-political issues. What would have been pronounced, inconceivable a month ago has happened. Tammany has nominated as its candidate for Mayor a man who has pronounced Tammany government "the most insolent and audacious, as well as the most reckless assault one have yet known upon the welfare of Greater New York, and of the masses, especially the less fortunate masses, of its people," and that, too, at a time when Tammany was far less offensive than it has since become. Two murders, half a dozen deaths, three thousand personal assaults, one hundred of these so severe as to call for surgical treatment, the sacrifice of a large part of this year's crop in the surrounding country, of several million dollars in delayed shipments, and of more than half a million in wages, this is the cost of the war which has for several weeks been raging in San Francisco, California under the name of a strike.

The article focuses on the agreement reached by the San Francisco Employers' Council with the culinary unions of San Francisco, California. It describes how in this dispute, the employers were demanding collective bargaining while unions were refusing, and how they forced the walkout of employees. It mentions that under the agreement, the lockouts, strikes and work stoppages were banned, and the old shop card system was eliminated.

This article presents information about the politics and government of the U.S. The U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's reception on the Pacific Coast appears not to have been the unmixed ovation that many American newspapers would have their readers believe. Of course he drew large audiences and, with the exception of one meeting in San Francisco, was received with the respect to which his office entitled him. There was, however, a distinct disposition, not in evidence earlier in the trip, to ask questions and demand facts. The demand of San Francisco laboring men for a statement on Ireland was only one instance.

This article focuses on some recently published books. Henry Holt & Co. on March 18 announced the publication of the book "The Fulfillment," by Emma Wolf. "By Motor to the Firing Line: An Artist's Notes and Sketches with the Armies of Northern France," by Walter Hale, has also been announced for publication by Century Co. Paul Elder & Co. has announced the publication of the book "The Great Spiritual Writers of America," by George Hamlin Fitch. "Women, World War and Permanent Peace," by May Wright Sewail, is an account of the International Conference of Women Workers held at San Francisco, California on July 4-17, 1915, in connection with the Panama Exposition.

Presents information on Thomas J. Mooney, a member of the moulders union in San Francisco, California. Tactics adopted by a District Attorney to mould and adjust the testimony to fit changing theories of Mooney's crime; Information that long before 1916 Mooney broke with the established union leaders of San Francisco; Claim that he was engaged at the time of the explosion in sprinkling acid on a certain kind of unfair automobile.

In this article, the author discusses the dispute on registering and operational-izing foundations under the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's policy in San Francisco, California. He illustrates a case of a California-based Charitable Trusts whose registrar, Frederick C. Auforth, was fighting with the local division of the American Cancer Society over some $4 million. Auforth said that the division is hoarding this amount, refusing to spend it on cancer victims. The dispute had wide significance among private charities because foundations were growing at a dramatic rate and supervision over them was inadequate. California government attempted to keep a strict watch on such organizations, but its vigilance was not typical.

The article reports on the comeback of Fireman's Fund Insurance Premium Co. into business in San Francisco, California. It states the Fireman has suffered a net underwriting loss of 22,251,000 dollars but company began to look better in the first quarter of 1957 as it chalked up a net underwriting loss of 1.4 million dollars and were able to draw adequate reserves from their surplus funds. Moreover, the company has opened its 4.5-million-dollar building of glass and steel in Laurel Heights.

This section calls for papers for the Latest Developments programs at the 1971 Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association in San Francisco, California. One of the major obstacles to securing for the annual convention those papers representing the latest developments in speech communication is the deadline for convention program copy. Each division will have allocated to it a Latest Developments program, specifically designed to accommodate papers completed after competitive program deadlines had already elapsed. Members wishing to submit papers for the program should send completed manuscripts to the appropriate division chairman not later than November 1, 1971. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be given not later than December 1, 1971. Although the titles of the specific papers will not be listed in the convention program, they will be printed in the convention flyer.

The article offers information on the Chinatown in San Francisco, California. It mentions that the area is bounded by Pacific Street on the north, Kearny Street on the east and the California and Stockton streets on the south and west side and asserts that its buildings are decorated in the brightest colors. It states that Chinese men make presents to their white friends during the Chinese New Year celebration.

Reflects on the prevailing psychology of Southern Californians that is a compound of iridescent people with snappy jazz bands and jolliest ways and the attitude of the elderly man from the Middle West who has retired with a little money and wants to spend his declining years where it is warm, and without working. Depiction of Southern California as an open-shop community with low wages, insecurity of employment and an oversupply of would-be workers who have drifted to the West Coast; Propaganda with the aid of photographs like quasi-nude chorus girls by Southern Californians to lure the well-to-do and rich as tourists or permanent residents and discourage the poor; Growth of vigilantism that seeped into Southern California from San Francisco and has left a mark on the state.

This article presents essential sections of the reports of an investigation of the files of the Industrial Association of San Francisco, California pertaining to documents called Strike Violence Memos 301 and 306, reproduced in "The Nation" of August 29, 1934, which seemed to indicate a connection between the association and the police raids on radical organizations during the general strike. The investigation was made by Chester S. Williams and Ernest Besig of the Northern California Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, with the advice and cooperation of Austin Lewis, chief counsel of the Union.

Presents letters to the editor published in the November 5, 1924 issue of the journal "The Nation." Information on the anti-fundamentalists' meeting in San Francisco; Discussion on the campaign carried on by the reactionaries against U.S. legislator Robert Marion La Follette; Types of control of Radio Corp.

The article presents information on development of branch department stores in San Francisco, California. It refers to a new branch of Emporium department store shortly opening in the city. The new branch, which will have 92 departments, is costing 3.5 million dollars. According to Edward Crossley Lipman, president of the Emporium, there is a market of about 400,000 people around the new branch.

The article presents Trammell Crow, head of Texas-based Trammell Crow Co., the largest real estate developer in the United States as of April 1971. Particular focus is given to Crow's business approach which involves keeping most of the buildings his firm invested in. The company's history, partnerships, market value, and the worth of its projects are reviewed. Plans involving the construction of warehouses in the area of San Francisco, California are also discussed.

Focuses on several issues related to the San Francisco, California conference of the United Nations. Report that the Soviet Union had arrested 16 non-Communist Polish political leaders; Speculations over the effect of this situation on the ongoing conference; View that the Soviet Union needs American help in the task of postwar reconstruction; Issues related to Russia's relations with other countries after the war; Report that the isolationist American press is having a field day over the arrest of the Polish leaders, but for that matter, the press has been having a field day with the conference; Information on delegations of several countries; View that California's famous hospitality to strangers has gradually become evident as the conference has gone on.

The article reports on the current manpower shortages in canneries in the Western regions in the U.S. like the states of California, Oregon, and Washington as of October 1942. It cites the various fruits and vegetables that are being canned including pears and peach. It presents the various civic and business organizations that organize "save the crops" groups, including the San Francisco Wartime Harvest Council and the California Processors & Growers.

The article reports on the plans for acquisition of the idle, repossed land of California by the migrant families and its impact on the non-relief families. It states that when Committee on Migrants of the California State Chamber of Commerce were urging federal aid, businessmen in Los Angeles and San Francisco were seeking a scheme of migrant rehabilitation on large scale. It mentions that the initial program would require establishment of homesteads and reports how banks are cooperating.

Focuses on the type of night-time entertainment found in San Francisco, California. Offer of a four-or-five-course dinner at fifty, seventy-five and eighty-five cents in French and Italian restaurants; Availability of open and sidewalk saloons where people talk in their natural voices; Features of the Tavern, a Bohemian hot spot frequented by bond salesmen, stenographers, debutantes and students; Popularity of public poker clubs throughout the city and in the business district.

Reports on the fifth quadrennial International Industrial Conference that took place from September 17-21, 1973 in San Francisco, California. Theme of the conference; Number of executives that attended the conference; Topics discussed at the conference.

The article reflects on the implications of the signing of the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco, California for the symbolic dove of peace of the Communists, especially the Russians, in September 1951. It discusses the history of the illustration of the symbolic dove of peace by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso in 1949 wherein the wings of the dove beat over several continents including Europe and Asia. The author also explains the start of the call of Communists for peace in Europe.

Focuses on the policies of Sheriff Richard Hongisto regarding facilities in jails of San Francisco, California. Demand for additional funds to operate jails by Hongisto; Criticism of policies of Mayor Joseph Alioto by Hongisto; Improvements made by Hongisto in jails.

Presents several letters to the editor related to articles previously published in the periodical. Clarification regarding coal supply and exhaustion in the U.S.; Comments regarding remarks in deprecation of the New York City Hall; Controversy regarding Toulumne river water sharing by San Francisco, California.

This article presents information on the state of education in San Francisco, California. San Francisco is a typical Northern city in which 10 per cent of the 800,000 population is Negro. While there is some danger in generalizing, the educational problems that San Francisco faces are similar to those of other Northern cities. The San Francisco School District is one of the richest in California. It operates 103 elementary schools, fifteen junior high schools, seven senior high schools and one junior college. More than 4,000 teachers are concerned with the education of 130,000 students, or more than one-sixth of the total population of the city.

The article presents information on social, political and economic conditions of several countries across the world. Rapid transit by rail the only common-sense resolution to the traffic paralysis attacking our streets and highways, got a big boost from San Franciscans when they approved, a $792 million bond issue for a seventy five mile rail construction project. There are, one supposes more painful ways of committing suicide than by setting one's clothes afire, but they are hard to imagine. That a South Vietnamese Buddhist priest, protesting governmental oppression, should have chosen this method bespeaks a most un-Western temperament, true, but also the greatness of the provocation.

The article features M. Justin Herman, San Francisco's Redevelopment Agency head who pushes for low-to-moderate-cost housing in the city and for more social and cultural amenities. Herman was not trained as an architect nor an urban planner but was trained as an economist at the University of Rochester, has spent a year at Harvard Business School and was an executive trainee at Eastman Kodak Co. He said that the development of the Japanese complex in the city is one of the nearest to his heart as he and his wife are fond of the Japanese culture.