Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired to practice law, saw him elected to the U. S. Senate in 1932. Last July, on the grounds that their interests were divergent and that her health did not permit her to live in Washington's climate, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo formally divorced her Senator in Los Angeles. Though he rated as the Senate's foremost frequenter of night clubs, spry, fun-loving old Senator McAdoo was not one to enjoy single life. Social Washington was fully prepared to see him marry one of the gay young women with whom he often danced at the swank Shoreham Hotel...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Jean Harlow Carpenter Bello, 40, mother of Cinemactress Jean Harlow; from Marino Bello, her second husband whom she married in 1927 and who used to pose as Actress Harlow's chauffeur (TIME, Aug. 19); in Los Angeles. Grounds: he embarrassed her by flying into rages in public places...
...former student of this University, now studying law at Harvard, tells us that the elite East has never heard of the University of California. When asked occasionally where he spent his undergraduate years, this particular graduate will say, "California." Then the person will say, "That's in Los Angeles, isn't it?" or, "You have pretty good football teams...
...Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco, last week candles gleamed, incense rose hazily. Auxiliary Bishop Stephen Joseph Donahue of New York celebrated solemn pontifical mass. In heavy cope and towering mitre, Bishop John Joseph Cantwell of Los Angeles and San Diego approached a wiry, bespectacled prelate, wearing no cope but kneeling with mitre in hand. Over the head of the kneeler Bishop Cantwell slipped a white wool band decorated with black crosses-a pallium. Thus invested with the sacred symbol which signifies that he shares the supreme pastoral power of His Holiness Pius XI, San Francisco's new Archbishop...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny, 79, Los Angeles oil tycoon; after a three-year illness; in Los Angeles. A mule-driver at 16, he looked for gold for 20 years, found little, switched to oil. tapped the Los Angeles field and another great pool near Tampico in Mexico, built up a $155,000,000 petroleum empire. He was indicted for bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with $100,000 to secure the Elk Hills oil lease from the Government. was acquitted in 1930 when he convinced a Washington jury that the $100,000 in a "little black...