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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prohibition: for President, Claude Watson, 63, a lawyer and retired Free Methodist preacher from Los Angeles; for Vice President, Dale H. Learn, real-estate operator of East Stroudsburg, Pa. The party polled 74,758 votes...
...Swiss dentists reported their impressions of Los Angeles. Said Dr. Georges Lebet: "Everything here is automatic. Automatic machines toast your bread, pour your soft drinks, change your phonograph records, even shave your face." Said Dr. P. H. Lugeon: "Your beer is nearly frozen. Your beefsteak, vegetables, milk, are frozen nearly hard. Everything is refrigerated, even your young ladies...
Century of Progress. In Los Angeles, Arthur Moon was arrested for drunkenness on his 100th birthday...
Their stories were almost identical. Maine-born Mildred Elizabeth Gillars, 47, went to Europe in 1929 to study music. When war came she stayed on in Berlin, broadcasting a mixture of sirupy music and defeatist propaganda to U.S. troops. Los Angeles-born Iva Toguri d'Aquino, 32, went to Japan in 1941 "to see a sick aunt," was caught there by Pearl Harbor. Along with half a dozen English-speaking Japanese girls, she became the corporate voice which Pacific troops nicknamed Tokyo Rose. Just before war's end, she married a Portuguese newsman...
Last week the Taxicab Bureau, Inc. of New York reported that Manhattan cab drivers were no longer netting the $34 a day they need to pay for their cabs. Los Angeles' Yellow Cab Co., in the twelve months ended in July, rang up 63,547,-570 fare-miles, 9% more than in the preceding twelve-month period, but lost money because of an 8½% rise in costs...