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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appealing to you for information which I am confident you can give. What is the seriousness and extent of the infantile paralysis epidemic in Los Angeles? I had planned to spend part of the summer there, but am deterred by newspaper reports, and rumors...
Some 900 cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in Los Angeles County during the past two months. Only seven deaths occurred during the epidemic which, county authorities believe, has passed its peak. In Hollywood cinema folk closed their private swimming pools when Actress Ida Lupino, and Cameraman Hal Rosson, estranged husband of Jean Harlow, contracted mild cases of the disease...
MARK J. HAMPTON Los Angeles, Calif...
Organized in Los Angeles last January. The Utopian Society purports "to give people economic education." Its aims include: 1) Tax reform, with heavier burden on the rich. 2) All persons to be educated until they are 25, work from 25 to 45, then retire. 3) Workers to be paid in nontransferable "units of buying power." Membership is highly secret, members being designated by number. Headquarters claims 200,000 members in 15 major cities and 400 towns. Initiation fee is $3; dues of 10? a month are expected if the member can pay. Neophytes pass through a series of mysterious "cycles...
...forming the Legion of Decency to boycott pictures considered immoral or obscene (TIME, June ii). One day last week the benign, grey-haired Archbishop sat in white cassock and red skullcap on the porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen of Hollywood and Martin Quigley of Manhattan, were pleased to sit in at the Cincinnati porch conference in the hope of working...