Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government construction of a large dirigible for training Navy personnel, to replace the decommissioned Los Angeles...
...generalissimo of Mexico's war on the Catholic Church, Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, was last week in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an operation on his gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...
...Los Angeles, one Robert Coy of Peoria, Ill., was hospitalized with swollen ankles after playing 459 holes in 39 hours over the 6,500-yd. golf course at Potrero (a record...
Next to Singer Lawrence Tibbett, Flyer James Harold Doolittle is the most famed member of the Class of 1914 at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School. In 1922 he became the first man to cross the U. S. in less than 24 hours. In 1931 he became the first to do it in less than twelve. Last week American Airlines invited him to pilot one of its eight-passenger single-motored Vultees on a non-stop coast-to-coast...
Blown far off his course by crosswinds, forced to fly blind the whole way through fog and snow, Pilot Doolittle averaged 217 m.p.h., reached New York from Los Angeles (2,600 mi.) in 11 hr. 59 min., just in time to beat the transport record by four minutes. Said modest Flyer Doolittle: "I guess it was just a case of poor piloting. . . . The old man is slipping...