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...about 25% of the voters. If the five boroughs of the city (coterminous with its five counties) are considered as separate municipalities, the eight most populous cities of the U. S. are in approximate order: 1) Chicago. 2) Brooklyn, 3) Philadelphia, 4) Manhattan, 5) Detroit, 6) The Bronx, 7) Los Angeles, 8) Queens. The difficulties of Tammany's Manhattan political machine can therefore be compared to that of a Philadelphia political machine if it tried to dominate the politics of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and also of Richmond, Va. (which has about as large a population as New York...
LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL Occidental '28 Los Angeles, Calif...
...Los Angeles private detective, Mrs. Pearl Antibus. sued Millionaire Thomas W. Warner, onetime General Motors director, for $510,000. Her story: Police hired by Mr. Warner had broken into her apartment, beaten her. Mr. Warner's reply: The police had gone to rescue his son who was being held captive by Mrs. Antibus and a Mrs. Jean MacDonald. Thomas W. Warner Jr.'s explanation: He had hired Mrs. Antibus to ascertain whether or not Mrs. MacDonald's romantic interest in him was sincere or mercenary. Assured, by a dictaphone which Mrs. Antibus had placed in Mrs. MacDonald...
...While Los Angeles newspapers headlined young Warner as a "love captive," he disappeared on a yachting trip. Asked to clear up the confusion, Mr. Warner Sr. snapped: "I am.very much annoyed...
That compensation for invalidism may have its drawbacks was suggested by 139 nurses of Los Angeles last week. They had contracted infantile paralysis nursing in the 1935 epidemic. They had been awarded $40 to $90 a month as compensation. In California such income sets them apart from the horde of indigents and makes them ineligible for free medical care. Unable to pay for both living and medical expenses, the 139 crippled nurses asked a Los Angeles grand jury for help. Powerless to do anything more concrete, the grand jury amplified and echoed the appeal in hopes of getting California...