Word: olesen
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...west of Los Angeles' midriff, has for two months clamored for the right to use the name Hollywood. Reasons: 1) Culver City boasts three major, several minor film studios;-2) cinemanufacture and Hollywood are synonymous. Not long ago Hollywood's Chamber of Commerce President O. K. Olesen, indignant, maneuvered through the Los Angeles City Council an ordinance defining Hollywood's boundaries, and Culver City, left definitely outside the fence, sullenly threatened to vote itself the name Hollywood anyhow...
...white uniforms, glistening breastplates, black thigh-boots and plumed helmets, Elaine Walker, President of Culver City's chamber of commerce, paraded down Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Stepping between crowd-banks to the theatre entrance, he was greeted by Hollywood's Olesen and California's burbling Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor's name, President Walker with a splendid gesture passed over to the Hollywood camp a box inscribed, "Culver City presents to Hollywood the Culver City...