Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because her boat from Australia was delayed and she had a date to sing in Los Angeles, Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad boarded the Japanese Tatsuta Maru at Honolulu rather than wait for a U. S. boat. When the Tatsuta Maru got to San Francisco, polite customs officials sent a launch to meet her, quickly issued clearance papers in the "stream," whisked her to a plane. Department of Commerce officials, not so polite, fined Mme Flagstad the customary $200 for traveling between U. S. ports on a foreign ship. Also fined the same amount each were her husband, her accompanist...
...traps, field crews roam the country, killing rats and squirrels at sight. Rat burrows are sprayed with calcium cyanide. Rat-proofing of buildings is strongly urged, and, when necessary, incoming ships are fumigated. By such constant, vigilant rat-catching, Dr. Eskey expects to forestall an epidemic such as Los Angeles had, in 1924, when 24 people were stricken...
Despite 75-year-old Publisher William Randolph Hearst, 74-year-old Los Angeles Times Publisher Harry Chandler is the pet antipathy of West Coast liberals. Yet last week, Los Angelenos who wanted to support their own concept of a free press found themselves also supporting rock-ribbed old Harry Chandler...