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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles, Calif...
General Rodríguez is known on the border as the in & out leader of Mexico's exiguous Los Dorados ("The Gold Shirts"). Four years ago he had a few thousand followers in Mexico City who sported gold-colored jackets and Texas hats, if they could afford them, attacked small Jewish shopowners. Then they made the mistake of trying to break up a workers' parade and soon after General Rodriguez was flown to the border. On the U. S. side of the line he has gathered about him no 800,000 men but a handful of other disgruntled...
...easy for Chicagoans to get such serums the late Samuel Deutsch, Chicago steelman, established a Serum Center at Michael Reese Hospital, which now stocks serums against infantile paralysis and scarlet fever as well as measles. But in all the U. S. there are only six similar serum centres-Manhattan, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit...
...diminutive Frenchman named René Belbenoit. In 1927 he supplied Blair Niles with the background material for her best-selling romance, Condemned, to Devil's Island. On May 2, 1935, Rene Belbenoit made his fifth escape from Devil's Island. When he arrived in Los Angeles, two years later, an emaciated, toothless old man of 38, the legends circulated about that sensational escape had made him the best-known fugitive ever to be confined to French Guiana's famed penal colony. With him he carried, wrapped in oil paper, 30 pounds of closely-written manuscript describing...
...truck and Shank's mare he reached La Libertad. There he stowed away on a freighter bound for Vancouver. Seven days later he staggered out of the hold, walked unmolested down the gangplank at San Pedro. When he asked where the car tracks went, a workman said: "To Los Angeles, you done...