Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attraction than scenery or climate. Visitors from the East don't show much interest in Yosemite, the Redwoods or the orange groves, but they fall all over themselves to see evidences of our human phenomena-such as the folks at Aimee's Angelus Temple and on Hollywood Boulevard, the Iowans at Elysian Park, and supporters of the "$30-every-Thursday." In short, the pinheads have at last eclipsed the halfdomes on the California scene...
Before a colonnaded white house on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard last week collected gaping curiosity seekers and frightened neighbors. Outside, a posse headed by U. S. Marshal Robert P. Clark had waited ten days to take peaceful possession of the house in the name of the U. S. Government. Inside. Mrs. Anna Laura Lowe Barnett, onetime wife of "World's Richest Indian'' Jackson Barnett, sat waiting too. Marshal Clark said he would enter the house without violence. Mrs. Barnett said she would keep him out with knives & guns. And if they failed, threatened Mrs. Barnett...
Career: Robert Johns (not "Bob" but "Roy") Bulkley has more hair and more money than most Senators. Scion of a well-heeled pioneer family-Cleveland has a Bulkley Building, a Bulkley Boulevard-he graduated from Harvard in 1902, two years before Franklin Roosevelt, with whom he worked on the undergraduate daily Crimson. From Harvard Law School he returned to Cleveland to practice corporation law, manage his inherited real estate, and indulge a gentleman's interest in low-tariff Democratic politics which got him into Congress in 1911. Once there, he blossomed out as a prot...
...Construct a 43-mile bulkhead motor highway, part parkway, part boulevard well above high-tide line the length of the sandspit from Fire Island State Park to Southampton...
...white-haired "Nick" Bogomoletz, now 67, eking out a living as a cobbler on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard, this chronicle last year seemed very remote. But someone called the attention of the Bureau of Immigration to the fact that Nicholas Bogomoletz did not divorce his Russian wife until 1929, year that he and Anna were given their U. S. citizenship. The bureau started proceedings (aided by affidavits of long-memoried U. S. Army officers who were still bitter over the incident at Posolskaya). Result: Bogomoletz' and Anna's citizenship was revoked, and he was arrested for deportation...