Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After embarrassing the cinema industry for three weeks with its display of dirty doings, Hollywood's Astor Case was brought to a decent close last week. To Actress Mary Astor, suing her onetime husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for full custody of their 4-year-old daughter, the Los Angeles Superior Court awarded the child for nine months a year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify...
Month ago California's Insurance Commissioner Samuel L. Carpenter Jr. and officials of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. of California went into the Los Angeles court of Superior Judge Douglas L. Edmonds. In a 45-minute proceeding the company was, at the request of Commissioner Carpenter, declared insolvent and its assets placed in his care until reorganization could be worked out. In the same breath, a new company called Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. (i.e., without the "of California") was formed to take over its predecessor's business under a management headed by old Pacific Mutual...
...warning. Next move of Commissioner Carpenter was to file a $511,650 suit for misuse of Pacific Mutual funds against Complainant Cochran and seven of his onetime officers. Meanwhile, Pacific Mutual's inextricably complicated affairs were further tangled by the appearance of more public authorities. Investigators from the Los Angeles District Attorney's office prowled through company files and the Los Angeles Grand Jury's criminal complaints committee began attending all hearings. Last week special counsel for the Treasury Department's Bureau of Internal Revenue marched into court, asked that all papers and motions...
...before the top blew off the Naval oil lease of Elk Hills. Today it is a hodgepodge of the remaining Doheny oil lands in Bakersfield, Long Beach, Ventura, Kettleman Hills, a big interest in Tide Water Associated Oil, a number of California corner lots, an eleven-story building in Los Angeles, four ranches which raise cattle, grain, fruits...
...scene of The Olive Field shifts from the town of Los Olivares to Asturias, and the story comes to a climax with the defeat of the Asturian miners in the revolution of 1934. Although some 50 characters are introduced, most of the violent action revolves around Mudarra, a tall, impetuous Anarchist, a skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store...