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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dockweiler of Los Angeles and six other candidates including pompous James Francis Thaddeus ("Jefty") O'Connor, onetime U. S. Comptroller of the Currency. As silvery of tongue as of hair, Mr. Olson first showed his political potency in 1934 when, as nominee for State Senator, he carried Los Angeles County by 400,000 votes while the rest of the Democratic ticket lost the county by 52,000 votes. His favorite charge is that Governor Merriam, last week renominated by Republicans, is tied up with the State's big oil companies. He demands that the State take control...
...caused a sensation in international tennis last year with his either-handed, both-handed racket grip. On the U. S. side was the world's No. 1 amateur, U. S.-English-French-Australian Champion Donald Budge; his doubles partner, Gene Mako; and 20-year-old Robert Riggs, the Los Angeles "quickie" who in two years had jumped from the municipal tennis courts to next-to-top national billing. Unquestionably the second-best tennist in the U. S., Riggs had never before played anything but ping-pong with the Australians, had never matched his strokes against international tennists...
Only event to prove much else was the Bendix transcontinental race-Los Angeles to Cleveland, then on to Bendix (N. J.) Airport. Pert, blonde Jacqueline Cochran, only woman entrant in the field of ten, flew in first and fastest to win $12,500 and demonstrate Designer Alexander de Seversky's 3,000-mile-range pursuit ship...
...qualifying flight Los Angeles Racer Russell Chambers crashed in a vegetable garden, was fatally injured
...April was divorced from Spanish Cinemactor Rafael Lopez de Onate), fourth of the five daughters of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (see p. 25) by the first two of his three wives; to William A. Hinshaw, 22, French horn player for the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra; in Los Angeles...