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...still foreigners. Francis Biddle's measures struck most West Coast citizens, indeed, as wishy-washy, especially in giving aliens one to three weeks of grace to move from restricted zones. From California's Attorney General Earl Warren, from 100 sheriffs and district attorneys and from Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron came a demand that all enemy aliens be removed at least 200 miles inland. The Los Angeles County Defense Council wanted them all interned...
...LaGuardia recognized the ingredients of spaghetti sauce,* the duets in Tristan & Isolde, missed when he said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from God" he would run for office again...
More cinema stars than had ever turned out for any public occasion showed themselves at Los Angeles' "Moon Festival" for United China Relief, but it was silken-banged Anna May Wong who rode in the parade with Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Supporting cast of more than 100 in the charity festival included Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney. Result: for China's sufferers, roughly...
...Angeles, while Isolationist Charles Lindbergh* was calling for a negotiated peace at an America First rally, Mayor Fletcher Bowron proclaimed a citywide Loyalty Day. To President Roosevelt by air and train went several thousand pledges of unity, first of 2,000,000 to be circulated in Los Angeles County...
With the announcement of Bernard R. Bowron, Jr. and Malcolm Stearns as counsellors for next year by Dumas Malone, chairman of the Faculty committee, assurance was given, that the American Civilization Program for Freshmen will be carried on next year...