Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bomb blew up last January in the automobile of one Harry Raymond, a private detective who had been hired by a group of reformers to get dirt on the administration of Mayor Frank L. Shaw. When the bomb was traced to two of Mayor Shaw's intimates on the police force, public indignation blew the mayor out of City Hall. In a special election in September, Los Angeles voters recalled seamy Mayor Shaw, installed curly-headed, cherubic Superior Judge Fletcher Bowron as his successor (TIME, Sept...
...lieutenant who was regarded as kingpin of the Shaw regime. Joseph Shaw retired from the Navy on pension in 1933. That year his older brother was elected mayor and he promptly moved in with him as secretary. Although Brother Joseph modestly described himself as a flag officer to Brother Frank, the admiral, the impression got about that Brother Joseph really ran things. To him went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports. He also got credit for other things: rumor was that...
...think Mr. Thomas Corcoran or Mr. Jerome Frank suggested that," chuckled Wendell Willkie...
...Some of the Irish wanted to help some of the Jews. A committee of Catholics and Jews was formed in Dublin under Frank Fahy, Speaker of the Dail, to make a public appeal for funds to rescue and house 20 families of German and Austrian refugees...
...investigating further, readers were relieved to find that no one had yet actually been burned to death. Nonetheless, the impression persisted that a gigantic holocaust was destroying most Los Angeles suburbs. It was reported that the homes of Richard Dix and Directors Sam Wood and Frank Lloyd were completely demolished...