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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Culver City, seven mi. west of Los Angeles' midriff, has for two months clamored for the right to use the name Hollywood. Reasons: 1) Culver City boasts three major, several minor film studios;-2) cinemanufacture and Hollywood are synonymous. Not long ago Hollywood's Chamber of Commerce President O. K. Olesen, indignant, maneuvered through the Los Angeles City Council an ordinance defining Hollywood's boundaries, and Culver City, left definitely outside the fence, sullenly threatened to vote itself the name Hollywood anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Hatchet | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

During the past year the members of this body were: Perry J. Culver '37, Lowell, chairman; Charles D. Ruch '38, Adams; Irving Banner '37, Dudley; Gardner C. Brooks '38, Dunster; F. Gorham Brigham '37, Eliot; Wiley E. Mayne '38, Kirkland; William J. Moore '38, Leverett; and Daniel E. Burbank '37, Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Samborski Report Of Last Year On House Athletics | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

David R. V. Golding, Brooklyn--Culver Military Academy, Culver, Indiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen from Everywhere Win Scholarship Awards---Names Listed Below | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...spotted an outline of Greater Los Angeles on the desert with circles and triangles representing such legitimate combatant bomb targets as munitions plants, railheads, bridges. First blood last week went to Brigadier General Gerald C. Brant's attacking force which theoretically blasted the Douglas Aircraft factory at Culver City to bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: War Games | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

When Donald MacDonald, 20, and Tod ("Speed") Morgan, 21, turned up on the broad beaches near Culver City and Beverly Hills a few months ago, they were just two handsome young men from the East, seemingly bent on harmless fun. As such they soon met a number of boys and girls. MacDonald told his new friends that he was the New England middleweight amateur boxing champion.- Morgan said he was a boxer too. A quick success with the girls, the pair persuaded a shy young appointee to Annapolis (whose name was withheld by the police last week) to let them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Culver City Nest | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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