Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles, Calif...
...District of Columbia a Civil Works Administration supervisor was arrested last week for collecting bribes from workers seeking advancement. In Los Angeles two women were arrested for conspiracy to defraud the Government in CWA work and a grand jury was just warming up for a series of indictments. In Pennsylvania a CWA engineer was dismissed for having taken a commission on a CWA job. The Oregon department of the American Legion passed resolutions complaining that people not in need were getting CWA jobs, that CWA was full of favoritism and inefficiency. In Harvey, outskirt of Chicago, six employed politicians were...
...Grace Mackay Smith . . . worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study." The fact is that Tibbett's venture East was made possible by the generosity of a Los Angeles businessman who loaned him a sizable sum of money for the purpose...
...chuckle. Appearing at the Chicago convention as a Son of the Desert from Texas, Charley Chase greets Laurel & Hardy when they arrive from California by whacking them with a paddle. He invites them to his table and puts in a long distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife. Stupid Charley Chase does not know that he has nearly precipitated a domestic crisis. He plants a fat wallet on the floor, continues to paddle arriving Sons of the Desert when they stoop to pick it up. This trick he considers...
...Year's Day rain in southern California ruined a great deal more than the Tournament of Roses pageant at Pasadena. For 30 hours it came down in silvery sheets-eight inches of it in Los Angeles, a whole foot in Pasadena. From fire-scarred hillsides the water spilled down in yellow torrents into every gully, inundating roads, washing away bridges, flooding towns. When the storm subsided, at least 31 persons were dead, scores were missing. In La Crascenta, a 25-ft. wall of water struck a building where the Red Cross was giving first aid, milled the building...