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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles, Calif...
...Chicago but did not take a Ph.D. After teaching political science at Ohio State and the University of Kansas, he became executive secretary of the Cleveland Civic League in 1918. That work appealed to him so much that he spent four years with similar organizations in Chicago and Los Angeles, where he worked up to be commissioner and director of personnel of the city water and power department before going to Cincinnati in 1930. During the worst of last January's flood City Manager Dykstra, granted unprecedented dictatorial powers by Cincinnati's city council, became a national hero...
...temple for his San Francisco flock, to contain in its cornerstone a pinch of Buddha's ancient ashes and 50,000 lotus petals. Turning temporarily from his plans, the little Japanese took the gold Buddha down to Fresno, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. There Rinban Masuyama gave the statue to a Fresno priest named Enryo Shigefuji, and spent the weekend elevating Fresno's two-story, pagoda-roofed Temple to the status of San Francisco's that of Betsu-in or chief in the locality...
...last month killed himself in the barn back of his home at Van Nuys, (Los Angeles) Calif...
Died. Mark Lawrence Requa, 70, oil mining tycoon, onetime (1932-36) California Republican National Committeeman, crony and California campaign manager of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and 1932; after a fortnight's illness; in Los Angeles. As an official of the Wartime Fuel Administration he instituted gasless Sundays...