Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hustling Los Angeles may not resent TIME'S omission (Nov. 9) of her port at San Pedro as the scene of idle ships in the current maritime dispute. But quiet San Diego would like it known that two, not 22, vessels were tied up at her docks at the strike's outset...
...peace along the Pacific waterfronts because the strikers, anxious to prevent any excuse for armed intervention, had their own patrols keeping order and rounding up drunks. There was peace also because the Attorney General's office in Washington found legal reasons to excuse the U. S. Marshal in Los Angeles for ignoring a court order to unload some 4,000 stems of bananas odorously rotting in the hold of S. S. California...
...Manzanares River which flows through Madrid's western and southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines. The Red militia outnumbered the White Army last week and had received many additional airplanes. In Barcelona, the capital...
Phil Cope, University of Southern California senior, co-holder of the U. S. 120-yd. high hurdles record, dreamed he saw burglars crawling through his bedroom window, sprang up to repulse the invaders, hurdled through the window. At a Los Angeles hospital surgeons took 40 stitches to close gashes in his left hand and both feet. His wife slept soundly through his nightmare and leap. His greatest regret: having to call off a projected fishing trip...
Novelist Gouverneur Morris (The Man Who Played God) and his wife Ruth appeared in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office when the case of their jobless friend Reid Russell's suicide was re-opened at the request of the deceased's mother. Under questioning, Mrs. Morris confessed that, on the advice of oldtime Cinemactress Lila Lee, she had burned a suicide note left by Reid. Still unexplained were such questions as: why Russell's body lay unfound in the Morris' lawn swing for twelve hours; why no bullet was found; whether the shot that...