Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles, when Samuel Whitaker was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, he flung up his arms, cried: "If I am guilty of this horrible crime, may God strike me dead before I get to my cell." Before he reached his cell at San Quentin Prison, Samuel Whitaker suffered a heart attack, fell dead...
...Kissed (by Raymond Van Sickle; Bonfils & Somnes, producers) inauspiciously marks the debut as Broadway producers of Helen G. Bonfils-earnest, stage-struck daughter of the late, blatant publisher of the Denver Post-and her husband, George Somnes. It is a limping comedy about a Los Angeles boardinghouse full of unconvincing and brassily overacted characters, most of them dazedly circling the fringes of Hollywood...
...Immigration Service pistol team: the national midwinter pistol-shooting championship; at Tampa, Fla. In fourth place, behind Miami and Los Angeles police teams, were the Federal Government's famed...
...Francisco is served by only one airline, United, which flies in from New York and also operates up & down the coast from San Diego to Vancouver. TWA, which now flies from New York to Los Angeles, and once flew from there to San Francisco, has long wanted to start an off-line spur from Albuquerque to San Francisco. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce backed the scheme, but United naturally opposed it. Under Section 15 of the Air Mail Act of 1934, the I. C. C. has power to authorize new lines, but. apparently may not permit a new service...
...unknown hoodlums who winged District Attorney Buron Fitts of Los Angeles last fortnight (TIME, March 15), unwittingly gave the Los Angeles Times a long-awaited chance to detect a rival in a shabby deception...