Word: los
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceeded last week into, through, and roundabout the Southwest and California. He caught a black bass at Fort Worth, Tex.; posed with sombrero and steer horns; crossed the Mexican border to see the hard-boiled racing town of Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went to Hollywood and lay abed late...
Last week, Polish and U. S. pilots complained. Poles, employed by the commercial Aerolot Co., demanded higher wages and, when their demands were refused, set a precedent for air pilots by going on strike. U. S. assistant pilots on the "model airway" between Los Angeles and San Francisco found their new duties beneath the dignity of flying men. Their duties: cooking and serving buffet luncheons for passengers, Pullman porter service for dusty topcoats and hats. They grumbled, did not strike...
...three mornings on the train, passengers receive copies of the Overland Mail at the breakfast table. A box on the front page greets them with: "Good morning! How did you sleep?" No attempt is made to cover current news, the papers being printed before the train leaves Chicago (or Los Angeles). But many an oldtime miscellany is published. For example...
Died. Dr. Lawrence Roland Sevier, 50, vice president of the Bank of Italy (California) and brother-in-law of famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini (Bancitaly orp., Bank of Italy, etc.) ; in Los Angeles...
...grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, a gangling 26-year-old youth in 1924, set out to pander to the public by founding three tabloid newspapers, against the wishes of his family. He used on his masthead the phrase: "The public be served." Within two years, his tabloids (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami) went bankrupt (TIME, May 10, 1926, et seq.]. Vanderbilt IV then functioned as special writer for the Hearst New York Mirror, appealed to the masses with sneering remarks about his family's plutocratic mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...