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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a Dry was gratified to hear a comparatively substantial gain by The Cause: the name and cheery figure of Santa Claus are to be banned in holiday liquor advertising in no less than 30 States. Research on this question was done by Ethel Hubler, editor-publisher of a Los Angeles Prohibition paper called the National Voice, who wrote to State liquor control boards wherever they exist. A model State, she discovered, is Iowa which permits no liquor display or advertising of any kind. Only State whose board actually favors linking Santa Caus with liquor is New York. There authorities...
...Library building on the gusty lake front, Librarian Roden watches over 45 branches, serves 12,000,000 readers a year. In 1931 he ran the biggest circulating municipal library in the U. S., with 16,000,000 issues, but with declining appro priations Chicago's has yielded to Los Angeles' and New York's. Librarian Roden now has to throw away more books than he buys...
...Jean) Paul Getty, 43, Oxford-educated spokesman for the Los Angeles Getty oil interests, who let one of his representatives, Harold L. Rowland, state his attitude toward the merger of two Tide Water operating subsidiaries with the parent holding company. Although his father left an estate of $21,000,000, Jean Paul Getty, an only son, had to make his own way in the oil world. In 1920 he was $400,000 in debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer...
...labor leaders, radical journalists, jailbirds, futurist artists and philosophical anarchists as sensitively as she had responded to Florentine decadents, soon found her new companions too headstrong for her. She sponsored a modern art show and demonstrations of the I. W. W., entertained one of the dynamiters of the Los Angeles Times during his flight, was written up in the newspapers as a sphinx, a cigaret smoker, a society lady turned radical. But all her deftness in avoiding emotional commitments did not save her when she fell in love with John Reed, revisited Europe with...
UNDER ONE ROOF-Ruth Eleanor McKee-Doubleday, Doran ($2). One reasonably peaceful Thanksgiving Day in a Los Angeles family composed of parents, a neurotic librarian, a teacher with heart trouble, a grass widow, a college girl, a high-school boy, an automobile salesman...