Manuscripts

Pulitzer Prize - First Amendment

Description: Approx. 10 items - letter, 9/19/1940, from Willis Booth of New York to Harry Chandler, with attached NY Times editorial of same day endorsing Wendell Willkie for president, which Booth refers to as "a masterpiece" ; letter to HC from his Editor L.D. Hotchkiss, discussing outlook for Republican candidates for president in 1940 - Hotchkiss refers to "the great majority" of voters as "unthinking... rabble" ; article copies, 1938 & 1940, on the "contempt case."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Pulitzer Prize

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: letters of congratulations related to the Pulitzer Prize awards in 1942. Correspondents include L. D. Hotchkiss and editors of other newspapers. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.

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Approx. 15 items: 35-pp. printout off Lexis-Nexis, material from US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; 3-pp. descriptions of "Awards of the Pulitzer Prizes and Traveling Scholarships"; collection of LAT stories on the lead-up to the "Contempt Trial"; collection of LAT articles related to LAT receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1942, including the headlines "Tribute Paid 'Times' by American Press...great newspapers, wire associations and men in public life send congratulatory messages" (5/7/1942) and "Prize emblem sent to 'Times' "; teletype printout, 5/4/1942, reading in part, that LAT had earlier "instituted litigation which produced a Supreme Court opinion last December upholding the right of newspapers to publish criticism of judicial opinion, even in cases still pending, unless the comment would cause 'extremely serious' evil"; The "Contempt Case" began in 1938, and lasted nearly four years.

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Opinions, Writs, Briefs, and Petitions

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: legal documents - writs, briefs and petitions - related to the court proceedings in "Contempt" case against Times-Mirror Company, Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler and L.D. Hotchkiss. Also a small number of letters attached to the documents. All materials 1939 and 1940.

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Pulitzer Prize

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items. Memos, letters, telegrams, postcards acknowledging nominations. Subjects include: telegram to Norman Chandler from Grayson Kirk, Pres. Columbia Univ.; news releases from Columbia Univ. (Journalism School there awards the prizes); material related to LAT winning the Public Service Award for Gene Sherman's series on narcotics smuggling; letters of congratulations from Sen. Thomas Kuchel, Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk, UC Pres. Clark Kerr, etc. Also in the folder is the Pulitzer Prize Certificate (original) and other related items.

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Pulitzer Prize

Manuscripts

Fifteen items comprising twenty-two pages pertaining to the Pulitzer Prize, containing letters, memos, and an invitation.

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Pulitzer Prize

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: clippings, reprints, congratulatory letters and telegrams related to the Los Angeles Times winning two Pulitzers in 1969.

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