Word: los
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Leslie H. Quigg of the Miami, Fla., police force, had a famed caller, a burly person whose face is a grim combination of smiles and scars. It was Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, ganglander, ousted from his Chicago home, rejected by Los Angeles, still seeking residence (TIME, Dec. 19). "Do I stay or do I get out?" asked Capone. Chief Quigg announced: "If he's just here to have a good time and doesn't start any rough stuff, I won't bother him." Rumor said that Capone would buy a Miami night club. Capone said...
...littoral playground of Californians and their visitors. Let oil-drilling be remitted, asked Governor Young, until means could be found to prevent the defacement and pollution of scenery whose value is "unmeasurably greater than the value of all the oil. . . . " Governor Young's article appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner, owned by Oil man William Randolph Hearst...
...Los Angeles posted $10,000 for a Golf Tournament as is the annual custom, and drew famed, formidable golfers. At Miami, Fla., the prize totalled $3,000, but the field was almost as formidable. MacDonald Smith, Long Island professional, won in the West with rounds of 74, 70, 69, 71; in the South Gene Sarazen was paid first prize for shooting...
...band played "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." He, pleased, mounted the stage, took the conductor's baton, led the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the last number of the program. He was William Andrews Clark Jr., guarantor of the orchestra. He had just pledged financial backing (lacking which the orchestra was about to disband) for another five years...
Cincinnati, January 17-19. Louisville, January 19-21. St. Louis, January 23-24. Kansas City, January 25-26. Denver, January 28-30. Salt Lake City, January 31-February 1. Los Angeles, San Diego and Pasadena, February 2-6. Santa Barbara and Ojai, February 7-9. San Francisco, February 10-11. Honolulu, February 15-24. Seattle, March 5-6. Portland, Ore., March 7-8. Spokane, March 9-10. Minne apolis and St. Paul. March 12-14. Mil waukee, March...