Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honest Mayor. He became mayor almost by accident. A native son, he had started out in the world as a reporter on the San Francisco Sun after graduating from the old Los Angeles High School (now being torn down to make way for Hollywood Freeway) and spending two years at the University of California at Berkeley. He achieved his biggest youthful ambition in 1917; after years of studying law in his spare time, he was admitted to the California...
What Los Angeles architects hoped could someday be done about all this was shown in models of compact units that included offices, homes and factories, separated by recreational greenbelts; of broad freeway highways with tunneled traffic intersections. Visitors were confronted with mural blowups of ballots, marked with an X in a space labeled "better planning...