Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours Dr. Colvin had been named his Party's choice for the White House. Then with a whoop the Drys nominated as his running mate Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee. When that A. E. F. hero, who had not been consulted, promptly declined, the Prohibitionists picked a Los Angeles lawyer named Claude A. Watson for the Vice-Presidency...
...rejected that journalistic canon which pre scribes balanced objectivity in news presentation, with opinion confined to editorial columns. A sample "news'' lead on its front page last week: "Gov. Alf M. Landon tonight brought his great crusade for the preservation of the American form of government into Los Angeles. ..." A prime Tribune headline, over a piece exposing vice in Superior and Hurley, Wis. last fortnight...
...potent Republican sheets, Moe Annenberg's Philadelphia Inquirer, Harry Chandler's Los Angeles Times, and the Detroit Free Press have been outstanding members of the McCormick school of damnation. The late, loud Frederick...
Harold Brett Wallis, 39, went to Chicago's McKinley High School, got his first job sweeping out the office of an electric company, soon became sales manager for Hughes Electric Heating Co. From sales, he branched into advertising, later into show business. In Los Angeles he was managing the old Garrick Theatre when he met the late Sam Warner, went to work in the latter's publicity department. Increasingly, the Warner Brothers came to rely on Hal Wallis for production as well as exploitation decisions, put him in charge of First National when they bought that studio...
Defeated only once this season, fast coming of age as a major football power in the Pacific Coast Conference, University of California at Los Angeles, paced by Fullback Billy Williams who broke a 13-to-13 tie with a place kick in the last quarter, beat Oregon State...