Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Hopkins got back to Washington he found the kickbacks had been swift and vigorous. In big centres of unemployment, notably Manhattan and Los Angeles, reliefers had instituted sit-down strikes. Some of the New Deal's strongest supporters were having fits. One of them, Publisher J. David Stern, editorialized in his New York Post...
...difference between "clean and dirty practical politics" was the point the jury had to say it understood last fortnight before it began hearing evidence of criminal wrongdoing against Mrs. Helen M. Werner of Los Angeles...
Practical politics in Los Angeles have produced no more colorful figure than plump, blonde Mrs. Helen (''Queen Helen") Werner, who was an apple-cheeked Tennessee mountain girl when she went West to make good. She has lived in Los Angeles since 1920 when she married Erwin P. ("Pete") Werner, an indifferently successful lawyer, who she determined would someday be Governor. As she pushed her husband onward and upward, Queen Helen became adept at the solid kind of political maneuvering that women master infrequently. In 1929, after she had managed Pete Werner's successful campaign for city attorney...
Prettily dimpled, with a mature lyric soprano voice that made her a sensation on the radio when she sang on Eddie Cantor's hour this autumn, Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded...
...boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police in the Hollywood area recently had to clean up an outbreak of car "jockeys''-youths who jumped on the running board, wiped the windshield with a dirty rag, refused to budge until tipped. Berliners are bothered by car-watching on Kurfurstendamm, Chicagoans in the Loop, Viennese...