Manuscripts

Samish, Artie

Description: Approx. 15 items: article copy, Collier's, 8/13/1949, "Artie Samish runs an invincible lobby that dominates the politics of The Golden State" ; article copy, Newsweek, 8/22/1949, "The lobbyist has nine lives" ; article copy, Frontier, 11/15/1949, "What's wrong with Artie" ; selected chapters (approx. 50 pp.) copied from book, The Secret Boss of California by Samish & Thomas, 1971 ; LAT obit (AP) clip, ?/?/1974, "Arthur Samish, once-powerful lobbyist in legislature, dies."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1949 - 1971
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.

Environment - Smog - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items: approx. 10 reprints of LAT editorials, 1969 - 1976, on topic of smog ; article copies, LAT, Westways, Southern California Quarterly, & other sources, on contribution to smog by industry, autos, buses, and on possible solutions to the serious air pollution problems of southern California. Also included is a booklet of LAT reprints from 1/8/1961, "Where we stand on Smog problem, what's been done, what's ahead."

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Freedom of the Press - Articles and Commentary

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items - "wire" stories, article copies, letters and other material related to LAT court case (ca. 1939 - 40) and the Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Notable names and items include: multi-page copy of segment from book, The Pulitzer Prize Story, by John Hohenberg, 1959 ; articles about the court decisions, etc., from Among Ourselves, Editor & Publisher, Collier's and Liberty ;12-pp. "Federal Bar Association - Speech notes," 11/15/1966, "J.B. speech [Jim Bassett?] handwritten ; 16-pp. copy, "CASE HISTORY" (LAT "contempt of court case) ca. 1942, source unclear ; multi-page (long, tan sheets) - "An Address by Col. Robert R. McCormick - Editor and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune, before the Chicago Bar Association," 12/10/1938.

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Kaufmann, Gordon

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: LAT news stories on the career of architect Gordon Kaufmann. Notable items: LAT article copy, 9/14/1938, "Medal for Times building design presented [to Kaufmann] at meeting" ; LAT article copy, 1/21/1948, "G.B. Kaufmann elected Boy Scout area chief" ; LAT obit copy, 3/2/1949, "Gordon B. Kaufmann, 61, famous architect, dies." (folder includes LAT obit on widow Elsie Kaufmann, 6/10/1968)

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Underwood, Agnes

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: copy of review of Underwood's 1949 book, Newspaperwoman - source unknown ; several segments copied from that book ; LAT article copy, 1/20/1961, "Mrs. City Editor, Aggie Underwood" ; LAT, 7/8/1984, Jack Smith's column, a tribute to Underwood, with whom Smith worked for in the early 1950s.

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Board of Directors - Dillingham, Lowell S

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: LAT article copy, 3/20/1968, "Dillingham predicts economic boom to sweep Pacific region"; LAT article copy, 3/24/1968, "Ominous note on cars, man," mentions that Dillingham was a "third generation member of the pioneer Hawaiian family"; two telegrams (one several hundred words long), 8/1969, from PR office at Dillingham Corp. to PR office at Times Mirror; several bus. news clips from 8/1969 to 9/1969 on Dillingham, age 58, being elected a director of Times Mirror.

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Employees - Trueblood, Ralph

Manuscripts

Approx. 22 items: 6-pp., typed bio information and impressions of Trueblood given by co-workers, headed "Ralph Waldo Trueblood (m.e., 1926 - 1934) - [Managing Editor]; booklet, (ca. 1925), "Directions for sing the Telephotograver... News Pictures by Wire"; LAT and Among Ourselves articles by and about trueblood from 1920s - 1940s; article, Among Ourselves, 1/1945, "Editor Ralph Trueblood retires after 35 years"; two copies LAT obit, "Retired Times Editor Ralph Trueblood dies"; LAT editorial page article copy, 5/8/1954, "Passing of a great newspaperman"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1949, "Men who made The Times," on Trueblood; etc.

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