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San Marino, CA 91108
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1 item: 2-pp. text, probably a draft for part of Bassett's history of LAT. This segment hypothesizes about the courtship of Harry Chandler and Marian Otis in the early 1890s. It also quotes from a letter Harrison Gray Otis wrote to his 18-year old granddaughter, May, praising the personal traits possessed by her parents, Harry and Marian Chandler.
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The following are bound and loose in box 185: No. 12550 In the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. May Chandler Goodan, Marian Otis Chandler, Norman Chandler, Philip Chandler, Constance Chandler Crowe, Helen Chandler Garland, and Ruth C. Williamson. Brief for the Petitioner, Brief for the Respondents, Transcript of Record; No. 9735 United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, George D. Martin, Internal Revenue Agent, v. Chandis Securities Company and H.E. Downing. Appellees' Brief (2 copies), Appellees' Cumulative Brief (3 copies), Transcript of Record (2 copies, one with tabs); Before the Tax Court of the United States Docket No. 3034, Trust No. 1; Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler, and Marian Otis Chandler, trustees v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Brief for Petitioner (3 copies), Reply Brief for Petitioner (3 copies); Before the Tax Court of the United States Docket No. 3035, Trust No. 2; Marian Otis Chandler, et. al., present trustees v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Brief for Petitioner (3 copies), Reply Brief for Petitioner (3 copies); No. 8262 United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Marian Otis Chandler. Brief for Petitioner, Brief for Respondent, and Transcript of Record (2 copies).
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Original letter, typed transcriptions, and published copies of letter from Harrison Gray Otis to Harry and Marian Chandler regarding the transfer of ownership and control of the Los Angeles Times, dated November 12, 1914. Published copies are from 1917.
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2 items: 4 sheets, with two elements--listing personnel of "The Times Phalanx-the organization as it stood in November, 1908," with Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Marian Otis Chandler, etc., and three pages copied from the TM Co.'s 19th Annual Report, 1904 - 05; summaries, 7-pp. item titled "Summaries of key Times people for Dick Schlosberg," (printed 9/7/1988), giving brief [and glowing] biographies of LAT publishers up to Otis Chandler, plus editors, marketing execs., etc.
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Mounted and unmounted cuts and engravings: 1 - Pressroom copper engraving, from Fred W. Standiford (who received it from Mr. Grider, Production Dept.). 5 - Harry Chandler, 3 x 4 1/4". 7 - Harrison Gray Otis head shot, 4 1/2 x 6 1/2". 8 - Fine screen cut of Harry Chandler, 5 1/4 x 7". 9 - Antiunion organizing flyer plate "Choose the Right Path", from Sharon Mestel, Employee Relations, 10 1/2 x 13 1/2". 11 - Norman Chandler, 1 1/2 x 2". 14 - Paper plant in Oregon City, Oregon, from Among Ourselves, 3 1/2 x 8". 15 - Harry Chandler, 6 x 7 1/2". 19 - Phillip Chandler, 4 x 5". 22 - Times building, 7 x 8", July 1, 1935. 23 - Old style eagle (facing left - wrong way), 3 3/4 x 5" with 1981 Service Awards booklet showing the imprint, from Chong Lew Feb. 1982.
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2 items: 19-pp. typed and annotated transcript of "Tape # 1 - James Bassett/Norman Chandler, Transcribed 12/4/1972" and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: Nick Williams becomes Editor (pp. 2) ; Norman Chandler's memories of Harrison Gray Otis (pp.4 - 6) ; Norman Chandler meets Dorothy Buffum at Stanford, they married in 1922, Norman Chandler did not graduate - "I wasn't enthusiastic about college" ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler comments that in the 1920s, Los Angeles Times did not mean as much to her and Norman Chandler as it did later, it was just a job (pp. 12) ; In the early 1940s, Norman Chandler began to be motivated to run the paper (Harry Chandler died in 1944, pp. 14) ; the recall of Mayor Frank Shaw, "he was a bad egg and we went overboard in supporting him...which I think was a mistake" (14 - 15) ; politics - Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan (pp. 16) ; Otis Chandler named publisher (pp. 17) ; Bassett asks Dorothy Buffum Chandler if, in the late 1950s, she felt Los Angeles Times needed to "shift more to the middle of the road? - she answered "Very much so."
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