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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having gone through a grueling Presidential campaign last fall, Los Angeles had little wind left for its municipal primary last month, still less for its runoff election last week in which Mayor Frank Lawrence Shaw was returned to office for four more years with a majority of 25,000 votes over his opponent, County Supervisor John Anson Ford...
...Los Angeles municipal candidates run without party labels, but everybody knew that Mayor Shaw is a nominal Republican and that Candidate Ford is currently Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, although he made an unsuccessful race for Congress as a Republican in 1932. Because 53-year-old Candidate Ford, an oldtime newshawk, was identified as a liberal and Mayor Shaw, a former grocery salesman, was known as a tried and true conservative, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. In Los Angeles, no one damned as a liberal can count on the all-powerful support of the Red-hating Chamber...
...candidates did their best campaigning in the Los Angeles Daily News Editor Manchester Boddy saved himself a lot of trouble by giving them each a battle column after the fashion of the New York News in the last Presidential campaign...
Fanchon is married to William H. Simon, proprietor of a string of Los Angeles dairy lunches. They have adopted two children. She is a tall woman with aquiline features and wild hair who, like many over-energetic people, walks with a shuffle. She admires Strindberg's plays, feels that men make better actors than women and that her sex has little place in the production end of show business. "Once a woman stops being feminine, people don't like to have her around." Her present deal is the result of an interview with Adolph Zukor in which...
...Los Angeles, when his house caught fire, the odor of his three goats kept Kris Krivopseh, 50. from smelling smoke. When fire engines belatedly arrived, Kris Krivopseh's goats playfully butted over firemen every time they stooped to lay hose lines. The house burned to the ground...