The San Francisco Bay Area

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Excerpt from The San Francisco Bay Area: Its Problems and FutureThe Institute of Governmental Studies is pleased to present this vol ume bringing together seven of the Franklin K. Lane monographs dealing with, the problems and future of the San Francisco Bay Area. The series takes its name from Franklin Knight Lane (1864 a distinguished Californian who was successively New York correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, City and County Attorney of San Francisco, member and later Chairman of the U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission, and Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson.Shortly after Mr. Lane's death, a group of friends arranged for the establishment of a fund to be held and invested by Herbert Hoover, Adolph C. Miller and Franklin D. Roosevelt for the benefit of Mr. Lane's widow during her lifetime, and thereafter for some purpose to perpetuate his memory. In 1939, the three trustees acted to create the Franklin K. Lane Memorial Foundation at the University of California, Berkeley. The general purposes of the foundation are to promote better understanding of the nature and working of the American system of democratic government, particularly in its political, economic and social aspects, and the study and development of the most suitable methods for its im provement in the light of experience.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.