The City That Was
Suspense · November 17, 1957 · 24 min · 3,712 words
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suspense and the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills the master of mystery and adventure William and Robeson. It is now 50 years since the first motion picture was made amidst the orange groves of a sleepy little California village called Hollywood and a latter-day gold rush began Hollywood quickly became a sprawling brawling boom town true to the tradition of the Western frontier a
tradition it helped to create and has fondly fostered Hollywood lived violently. And not a few of its citizens died violently with and sometimes without their boots on. The stakes were high, worldwide fame and undreamped of fortune.
And the passions that poured onto the silver screen sometimes spilled over into private lives with lethal results. Of such passions and such results, you were about to hear. And who better to tell this story than a man who was there?
A man who has starred in more motion pictures than any other actor living or dead, Francis X. Bushman. Listen, listen then as Mr. Bushman tells about the city that was in exactly one minute. Memo on medals, interesting information about our military awards and decorations.
Campaign medals were authorized by Congress in 1905 for all officers and men engaged in specified wars and military action, including such widely divergent battles as the Civil War in the United States and the Boxer Rebellion in China.
The Navy and Marine Corps have a special Manila Bay Medal for members of the United States Asiatic Squadron under command of Commodore George Dewey in May of 1898. The Haitian Campaign of 1915 is commemorated with a medal, as is the Santo Domingo Expedition which suppressed to revolt in that country and preserved order during elections in 1916.
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