Question

A 1930 essay by Louis Adamic (“ah-DAM-ick”) credits Los Angeles’s growth to Charles Nordhoff, who promoted California as a place for sufferers of this disease. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this disease, whose sufferers were nicknamed “lungers” due to the blood they coughed up. Sanatoriums treated people with this disease.
ANSWER: tuberculosis [or consumption; or TB]
[10m] According to Adamic, one of the key players in California’s “healing industry” was this evangelist, who converted an abandoned church in Echo Park into the Angelus Temple.
ANSWER: Aimee Semple McPherson [or Aimee Elizabeth Semple Kennedy]
[10h] Charles Nordhoff once lent his name to this California town, where Annie Besant founded a branch of the Krotona Institute and developed the 465-acre Happy Valley complex in an attempt to make it a Theosophist utopia.
ANSWER: Ojai (“OH-hye”)
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