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Tensions grow at Occupy L.A. as deadline nears
Activists and L.A. officials faced difficult choices over the next phase of the Occupy L.A. movement as a 12:01 Monday deadline approached for the departure of nearly 700 protesters from an encampment on City Hall grounds.
On Sunday evening, Mayor...Tags: Bill Rosendahl, Politics, Occupy Wall Street, Demonstration, NOFX (music group)
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PASSINGS: Hubert Schlafly, Alice Ward, Emil 'Jack' Kluever, Philip F. Jones
Hubert Schlafly
Inventor of the teleprompter
Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, 91, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter, died April 20 at a hospital in Stamford, Conn., after a brief illness.
Schlafly helped start the TelePrompTer Corp.,...Tags: Southeast Missouri State University , Science and Technology, Judges, Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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'Nothing to Fear' by Adam Cohen
Nothing to Fear FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America Adam Cohen Penguin Press: 372 pp., $29.95 Adam Cohen's cogent chronicle of the pell-mell opening months of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration couldn't be...Tags: Great Depression (1929), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unemployment Benefits, Sociology, Henry Wallace
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Letters to the editor
-------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Hoover Dam: The caption on a photo of Hoover Dam that ran Feb. 27 said: "Under FDR, the U.S. built huge dams, such as Hoover Dam, to spur economic recovery." Construction of the dam began under President Hoover and was...Tags: Republican Party, Albert Einstein, Vaccines, Autism, Hurricanes
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Are we depressed yet?
A grisly banner was held aloft the other day at a demonstration on Wall Street. Its graphic message advised denizens of the street to "Jump!" It was a frightful reminder of perhaps the most widely believed legend about the Great Depression of the 1930s;...Tags: Great Depression (1929), Consumer Confidence, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New York University, Unemployment Benefits
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'My Father's Bonus March' by Adam Langer
My Father's
Bonus March
Adam Langer
Spiegel & Grau: 244 pp., $26
In June 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, a ragtag collection of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., to demand money the government had promised them. About...Tags: Douglas MacArthur, Armed Forces, Defense, Judaism, Veterans Affairs
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Historic Long Beach band shell is restored to its former glory
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Bixby Park Bandshell isn't really a shell, but the name is ingrained in the Long Beach vernacular. The 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival open stage in Long Beach looks nothing like the grand, curving band shells of Boston and Chicago. "There's supposed...Tags: Indiana Hoosiers, Lifestyle and Leisure, Building Material, World War II (1939-1945), Metal and Mineral
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Gen. Patton's loot
TONY PLATT, professor emeritus of social work at Cal State Sacramento, is the author of "Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, From Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial."THE METROPOLITAN Museum of Art in New York and the Getty Center in Los Angeles are facing charges of complicity in the acquisition of looted art. The objects in question are ancient artworks and artifacts, but loot can come from any time and any place....Tags: Crimes, West Point, Death, U.S. Military, Gustav Klimt
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Derring-do: More from 101-year-old shipbuilder
Several details from a lengthy interview with Newport News retiree and former shipyard designer Russell Derring didn't make it into a lengthy May 10 profile. Derring, 101, started his shipbuilding career in 1929, and as an apprentice installed pipes on...Tags: Shipbuilding, U.S. Navy, Christopher Johnson, Environmental Issues, Calvin Coolidge
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Rocklin Company to Bring Jobs Back to California
FOX40 NewsGutter guard manufacturer Gutterglove, Inc. announced Wednesday that it plans to bring jobs back to California from China. Due to rising production costs, Gutterglove founder Robert Lenney opted to do business with a Chinese production company. Lenney...Tags: U.S. Army, Consumers
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Rolling Road lived up to its name in the early 1900s
100 Years Ago Rolling out the welcome mat In the Times social column: "Mr. Henry J. Bender has returned to his home on Rolling Road after visiting friends in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Davis have returned to their home on Rolling Road after...Tags: Rabat (Morocco), Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Politics, Patapsco, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Letters to the Editor - Sept. 30
Dreyfuss’ efforts should be applauded To the editor: I applaud the efforts of Richard Dreyfuss to establish The Dreyfuss Initiative to advocate for the return of civics as a core course in public school education. The need to understand our...Tags: Politics, Physical Fitness and Exercise, United Nations, Constitutional Issues, Economy, Business and Finance
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