Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exuberant, mellow-voiced George H. McLain, the husky, 48-year-old Los Angeles promoter, who is the self-appointed leader1 of California's aged, was ready. McLain, a former Ham & Eggs organizer, who sometimes kneels in public to show his followers how he prays for them, was already making five radio speeches a week over 22 stations, setting up a vast precinct system to "protect the old folks against future dangers." California faced the biggest political fight in years...
Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, an on-again, off-again Communist Party member, found old ties still binding. When he sought a visa to attend a Los Angeles testimonial dinner, the U.S. embassy politely referred him to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Protested Rivera: "I don't have the honor to belong to the Communist Party. I'm just a simple democrat like anybody else...
...just hasn't caught on." In other cities, dealers reported that LP records were the only ones for which there was a big demand. Many retailers had trimmed prices of standard (78 r.p.m.) records as much as 50% in order to keep stocks moving. Moaned a Los Angeles dealer: "The manufacturers have got everybody in a dither...
...nearly three years the New Mexican had to sit on the biggest local story it ever had-Los Alamos and the atom bomb. As a reward for not even hinting at the story only 35 miles from Santa Fe, the Army gave the New Mexican an international beat on the 1945 announcement of what had been going on at Los Alamos. Will Harrison thinks his crusading journalism also pays off. Since he took over, the New Mexican's circulation has gone...
...nearly three years the New Mexican had to sit on the biggest local story it ever had-Los Alamos and the atom bomb. As a reward for not even hinting at the story only 35 miles from Santa Fe, the Army gave the New Mexican an international beat on the 1945 announcement of what had been going on at Los Alamos. Will Harrison thinks his crusading journalism also pays off. Since he took over, the New Mexican's circulation has gone...