The James Logan Courier

By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent

Now days, individuals may improve standards of living within a relatively short period of time. This ability originated with the abundance of opportunities to buy things on credit. It started with the acquisition of cars and was followed by the popularization of credit cards. One of my stored ideas, for a future book, is to analyze the social mobility within my own family from a feminine perspective during the last century because we are the ones usually closer to poverty and discrimination.

After my great-grandmother left Lebanon –by herself arriving to Mexico in search of the father of her two children without knowing a word of Spanish, my grandmother –her daughter, ended up living in a small town where she raised nine children and all males were able to attend college in the city.

Edmund Gerald “Pat” Brown, Sr. (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.

Brown was born in San Francisco, California, one of four children of Edmund and Ida Schuckman Brown. His father was an Irish Catholic, his mother a German Protestant. He acquired the nickname "Pat" during his school years; the nickname was a reference to his Patrick Henry-like oratory. When he was 12 and selling Liberty Bonds on street corners, he would end his spiel with, "Give me liberty, or give me death."

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