Manuscripts

"Leadership"

Description: Leadership program from Ben L. Wells & Company Sales and Leadership Training. Includes a variety of tests analyzing personality, temperament. This copy was Philip Chandler's.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1944 - 1945
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Leadership

Manuscripts

1 item, divided into categories by tabbed sheets: this material was in a heavy binder labeled "Vance Stickell." The entire package is the Johnson Temperament Analysis Profile as used by Ben L. Wells & Co. It is assumed these were Stickell's materials when he took the leadership course early in his LAT career.

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Programs

Manuscripts

Materials created and/or distributed by the Los Angeles Times or Times Mirror Co. for training programs for managers, including "Leadership in Industry"-a publication for industrial foremen; leadership training; affirmative action awareness; the Management Training Program; and the Times Mirror Management Conference. Of note is the Circulation Roadman Training Program materials used by Otis Chandler and the Ben L. Wells leadership training and testing materials used by Norman Chandler. Date range is 1941-1944.

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Leadership in Industry - No. 27 - 52

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Issues 27 - 52 of of Leadership in Industry, a motivational series published by Robert Palmer Corp. ; six issues of Foreman's Letter (National Foreman's Institute), 1953 - 1954 ; Philip Chandler memo (12/2/1954) related to Leadership in Industry.

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Chandler, Norman - Tape # 2

Manuscripts

1 item: 25-pp. typed and annotated transcript of interview with Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 12/13/1972 and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: on Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler says, "he liked (people) and he had a soft heart," Dorothy Buffum Chandler said of him, "He was not a generous man to his family, nor to people close to him" (pp. 1 - 2) ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler says that Harry Chandler upheld rigid discipline for Norman Chandler but that Harrison Chandler and Philip "were not in any way disciplined" (pp. 3) ; Harry Chandler's personality quirks (pp.-4) ; more on Harry Chandler personality (pp.-5) ; Harry Chandler's political views (pp.-7) ; DC offers that Harry Chandler would talk of business and politics but never anything philosophical (pp. 7) ; on how Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler lived "very economically...scratch(ing) to make ends meet" (pp. 10) ; William Randolph Hearst (pp. 11 - 12) ; Harry Chandler's travel across USA in 1880s (pp. 17 - 18) ; Los Angeles Times was "the first newspaper in the country to set up a personnel department" (pp. 22) ; Harry Chandler and Norman Chandler on running for public office (pp. 24 - 25).

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Leadership in Industry - No. 1 - 26

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Issues 1 - 26 of of Leadership in Industry, a motivational series published by Robert Palmer Corp.

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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 1

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: 18-pp. transcript of Bassett interview of Otis Chandler, 7/29/1975, wide range of subjects - youth, Stanford, his personality, social & political opinions of his wife, "Missy," The Mirror, etc ; 2-pp. bio on Otis Chandler ; 5-pp. "Add Tape 1, 8/18/1975 ; 35-pp. interview transcript sent by Jack Hart of Cal State Northridge, 7/1/1973 - subjects are handwritten on cover sheet ; 3-pp. transcript of interview on KNXT (TV), 10/13/1975, of Otis Chandler by newsman Joseph Benti on Chandler's feelings about power vs. opportunity, about his leadership style, women in journalism, etc ; several more installments of the Benti interview ; 26-pp. transcript of interview (prob. KABC radio) with Michael Jackson as host (no date, no other info on transcript).

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