Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind flights, arrests, rumors, was the fight of the Falange and the Army, a conflict older than the peace. During the war, General Franco merged 3,000,000 Falangists-extreme Fascists-and 800,000 Carlists-conservative monarchists-into the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista de los Jons, a top-heavy Fascist party modeled on those of Italy and Germany. Reorganized, cleaned out, it had 1,700,000 rank & file members and 20,000 "militant members" made up of Generalissimo Franco's general staff, commissioned and non-commissioned officers in his Army, hand-picked pro-Franco members of the Falange...
...Los Angeles' swank Town House staged, at Warners' instigation, a dinner for 26 males who decided she had more "oomph"' than any girl in town. "Oomph," said Dudley Field Malone, "is a very beautiful thing that convention demands be clothed." Said Screenwriter Graham Baker: "Oomph is something in a girl which begets propositions not proposals, gets her chased instead of chaste." As the Oomph Girl, Cinemactress Sheridan was more photographed, talked about, gossip-columned than any recognized Hollywood star...
...year-old Gene Mako of Los Angeles, who has played doubles (with Don Budge) on three Davis Cup teams and will probably be selected for the doubles again this year (maybe with Parker) if he can keep his mind off swing bands and the drums he loves to play...
Among the Buchmanite testifiers who told the Bowl meeting how MRA had helped them were two whose appearance was, to the Los Angeles Evening News, "almost painfully exquisite." They were a Chinese girl, a Japanese man who, after speaking their pieces, shook hands, stood silently smiling. The Bowl audience, predominantly middleclass, was equally pleased when Charles Copperman, boss of the Imperial Valley Teamsters' Union (A. F. of L.), vowed his friendship for G. G. Bennett, president of the Imperial Valley branch of the reactionary Associated Farmers...
...glad to escape from that "rarefied atmosphere," says she, "because I am fearful of becoming the centre of a cult." Ladies and Gentlemen, after opening in Santa Barbara, last week started a month's tryout on the West Coast-two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Miss Hayes said her husband felt that, if she must play in his piece, it had better begin as far from Broadway as possible...