Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office of Collector of Customs for the Port of Los Angeles Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the recommendation of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, appointed a well-to-do 48-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who bears one of the most famed names in U. S. political history: William Jennings Bryan...
With water damaging Los Angeles to the extent of three million and devestating much Southern California life and property, it is easy to think that the series of floods in America constitute a westward movement. Although little truth lies in certain movie heroes became real for a day, ob-the report that the migration was paralyzed when viously the wetting Hollywood got was the biggest spectacle since De Mille threw Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States...
Gullible Radio Gossiper Robert Garrett was last week barred from all Hollywood studios, then fired. His indefensible offense: broadcasting over Los Angeles radio station KEHE that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer officials had propped up dead Actor Robert McWade (TIME, Jan. 31), photographed the back of his head to complete a scene in Of Human Hearts. To backers of New York's proposed Berg Bill, designed to bring radio slander under the libel laws, Hollywood's resounding reproof of Gossiper Garrett brought great satisfaction; to harebrained radio gossipers, pause...
...Los Angeles, after 43 years, Mrs. Elsie Pearl Minser tired of supporting her husband, paying him taxi fare to drive her to work in his car, paying him for cutting the grass in their yard, obtained a divorce...
While Gold Is Where Yo Find It was being edited & cut, a hillside in Los Angeles' Elysian Park started shifting, tumbled boulders down on a highway beneath. To the scene rushed Warner cameramen with Technicolor equipment, floodlights for an all-night watch. Script writers got right to work on a landslide sequence to be added to the film. But the hill refused to budge for the cameramen. Last week Nature was more cooperative. As the Warner Bros, prepared to present their film simultaneously in 200 theatres throughout the U. S., flood waters swept out over the Sacramento Valley, inundated...