Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOTTES Los Angeles, Calif...
...Los Angeles, New Hampshire's blue-eyed, chunky Senator Styles Bridges resumed a national tour. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft plodded through the Midwest. Michigan's Vandenberg sawed wood, kept mum in Grand Rapids. Texas newshawks held an "Evil Old Men's" dinner in honor of John Garner. In Baltimore, Montana's Senator Wheeler said pretty things of Franklin Roosevelt. In New York City, Thomas E. Dewey polished up a GOPresidential bandwagon, prepared to start it rolling in Minneapolis...
Victor. Only national figure to emerge from the California election was Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Fortnight ago the ex-sports writer landed in Los Angeles and began sending out appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with...
...week from the Supreme Court. The Court was unanimous and its spokesman was Mr. Justice William Orville Douglas, who first made his jurisprudential name as a Yale Law School professor by analyzing bankruptcies for the SEC. Actually the case did not concern a railroad at all. It concerned obscure Los Angeles Lumber Products Company, Ltd. and was chosen as a kind of Schechter case for a New Deal test of Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...
Under 776, the company's Common stockholders had got over 67% of preferred holders to agree to a plan giving them a piece of the solvent, new company (to be known as Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.), had got their plan past the Federal courts as fair, feasible and equitable...