Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Los Angeles in the 1920s was a reactionary period. There was a cheap labor movement, a boom in Hollywood's major film studios, as well as an oil boom, and issues of racism to contend with. John Clinton Porter, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, was elected mayor in 1929. It was a time of economic and demographic change, when the city's population more than doubled in size (from 577,000 in 1920 to over 1.2 million in 1929). In the mid decade, the immigration of Mexican families earned the city the nickname of the \"Mexican capital\" of the United States, with the Mexican population tripling from 1920 (33,644) to 1930 (97,116).Extensive modernization took place in 1920s, characterized by the vast sprawl into the suburbs, and the formation of a western business and financial center. Automobile usage in the city increased dramatically."@en }
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- Los_Angeles_in_the_1920s abstract "Los Angeles in the 1920s was a reactionary period. There was a cheap labor movement, a boom in Hollywood's major film studios, as well as an oil boom, and issues of racism to contend with. John Clinton Porter, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, was elected mayor in 1929. It was a time of economic and demographic change, when the city's population more than doubled in size (from 577,000 in 1920 to over 1.2 million in 1929). In the mid decade, the immigration of Mexican families earned the city the nickname of the \"Mexican capital\" of the United States, with the Mexican population tripling from 1920 (33,644) to 1930 (97,116).Extensive modernization took place in 1920s, characterized by the vast sprawl into the suburbs, and the formation of a western business and financial center. Automobile usage in the city increased dramatically.".