Manuscripts

Speeches - Misc

Description: Approx. 12 items: texts of various speeches delivered by Norman Chandler during the decade of the 1940s. Notable items: 2-pp., "Speech at KTTV Inc. dedication," 1949 ; remarks made on radio between halves of the Rams - Redskins Charity Football Game, in both 1947 and 1948 ; 5-pp. speech transcript, 8/3/1948, when NC announced the future startup of The Mirror ; 11-pp. text of NC's "Christmas 1943 (message)" ; 2-pp. "Mirror" speech at 10/1948 kickoff of that newspaper.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1940 - 1949
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Misc

Manuscripts

4 items: speech transcripts of Norman Chandler for the decade of the 1950s. Notable items: 12-pp. transcript, "(KTTV) The Television Station of Today and Tomorrow," 1951? ; 8-pp. speech transcript, "What should we do about big labor?" (mid-1950s) ; single page "Norman Chandler's Sports Award Dinner Speech" ; more.

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History

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Approx. 12 items - letters, memos, reports, article copies and other material. Notable names and items include: 4-pp. letter to James Bassett (LAT) from J. Edward Murray (Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, newspaper) giving Murray's memories of "how and why The Mirror [was] started" ; various reports with titles such as "Saga of the Los Angeles Mirror," "Pioneering a metropolitan daily," "approx. 10-pp. report on the cornerstone ceremony 10/11/1948, which opens "Guests of honor began arriving..." ; 15-pp. report (blue binder) titled "A history of changes in The Mirror as announced in Among Ourselves or indicated on personnel records" ; more.

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Times Mirror Company Annual Shareholder Meeting

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1 item: 14-pp. Norman Chandler speech, titled "Sixty-Second Annual Report - Year 1948 - The Times Mirror Company." The speech was delivered at the Annual Stockholders Meeting, 1/21/ 1949. 1 item: 10-pp. text, Norman Chandler "Sixty-Third Annual Report - Year 1949 - The Times Mirror Company." Norman Chandler delivered the speech at the Annual Stockholders Meeting, 4/4/1950."

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Speeches and Articles

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7 items: 12-pp. speech text, "The state of the university," a commencement address by Chancellor Murphy at UCLA, 6/14/1968; 4-pp. text, headed "Shareholder Meeting, 1969," and "Following Dr. Murphy's talk" (there was a question and answer session); booklet, text of an address in 1971 to the 25th National Conference of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, titled "Over 50 looks at under 30"; 6-pp. transcript of "Address to Shareholders" at TM Annual Meeting, 5/26/1976; 38-pp. transcript of Dr. Murphy's speech at Times Mirror Luncheon, 3/27/1979 (incl. intro by Ellen Sacher of Paine Webber, et al.), with handwritten notes in pencil making changes; 9-pp. text headed "Draft #3 [Franklin D. Murphy speech, 1980] to TM meeting; 3-pp. stapled, no date, no heading, and pages are numbered 4 o 6;booklet, "Pluralism...Hallmark of American Society," being "Remarks by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chairman of the Board, Times Mirror," upon the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Richard Gilman as president of Occidental College; 3-pp. reprint from Financial Executive, 10/1975, "Government, education and the economy," by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chairman and CEO of The Times Mirror Co.

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Speeches

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5 items: decorative card (flowers & "merci beaucoup" on front), dated 1/11/1956, to "Mrs. Chandler" from "Mary Ann," who writes of "the wonderful experience of hearing your speech...you were as warm and forthright (speaking to 400) as in a small group"; brief letter, 1/11, to "Mrs. NC [Norman Chandler]" from "mb", refers to "your excellent talk"; decorative card, 1/11/1956, from "Gladys Tyson" to "My dear Mrs. Chandler," thanking her for "the wonderful talk"; brief note (same date as previous?), Josephine Ferguson, thanking Mrs. Chandler for "Sharing with us your experiences and impressions of Russia"; 4-pp. handwritten letter, dated 10/31 (year not given), headed "En route Prague to Vienna - out from the Iron Curtain -- Dear Hotch and Bud," giving her impressions of traveling in eastern Europe. Home-made greeting card on large sheet of blue construction paper. Signed by approximately one hundred women (probably sent following Mrs. Chandler's speech to 400 women employees of Times Mirror, 1/1956). Mounted on the blue sheet is a smaller white (now yellowed) sheet with decorative illustrations along the left margin and verses of poetry above the closing phrase, (from) "All your girls in Classified..."

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Speeches

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Approx. 15 items: 7-pp. speech transcript, "...to the University of California, Berkeley," 3/14/1984, opens, "Who made Gary Hart?" ; 6-pp. speech text (and attached material), "...to the New Mexico Judicial Conclave," 6/15/1984 ; 12-pp. speech transcript, "Why Justice Black was right--an absolutist's view of the First Amendment," 6/7/1975 ; 8-pp. speech transcript, Pepperdine University--Los Angeles commencement, "remarks by Anthony Day," 4/12/1974 ; 9-pp. speech transcript, "American Jewish Committee, remarks by Anthony Day," 5/21/1975 ; 2-pp. speech text, "Remarks by Anthony Day at the dinner for Pepperdine Univ. Associates for Will and Ariel Durant," 11/8/1977 ; 9-pp. speech text, "Speech to the Caltech Y," n.d. ; 7-pp. speech text, "Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council," 1/299/1981 (two copies) ; 14-pp. speech transcript, "International Press Institute Symposium - Toronto, Canada," 11/23/1981 ; preview copy of John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech (1/20/1961), from Pierre Salinger of the Kennedy Press Office - someone (Day?) jotted stars on the sheets to "mark applause" at the time the speech was delivered.

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