Manuscripts

Legal Department

Description: Series includes bound briefs regarding litigation by or against the Times Mirror Company and Chandler family members, as well as the criminal trials related to the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Also included are amicus curae briefs filed on behalf of Times Mirror and other material related to legal issues. Six boxes. Date range is 1911-1989.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911-1989
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Legal - Federal Trade Commission Case

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: clip, 8/18/1977, LAT, "FTC accuses Times of ad discrimination"; Wall St. Journal clip (same date), rate structure at (LAT) attacked"; several teletype tear sheets, 9/25/1981, sample headline, "Times Mirror to seek dismissal of FTC complaint"; LAT clip, 9/26/1981, "FTC tentatively approves Times ad discount accord"; article copy, AdWeek, 10/5/1981"; LAT ad run in Editor & Publisher, 7/24/1982, "A special message to our friends--thank you!...On August 17, 1977, the (FTC) filed charges against the (LAT).....on July 7, 1982, the FTC unanimously voted to dismiss the charges..."; etc.

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United States and California Supreme Court Documents

Manuscripts

8 items: various brief legal documents in the case of "The Times-Mirror Company and L.D. Hotchkiss vs. The Superior Court of the State of California..." (most items are staple-bound documents under 50-pp.) ; 57-pp. "Brief for Respondent in Opposition to Petition for Writ of Certiorari," October Term, 1939. 7 items: various brief legal documents in "The Times-Mirror Company and L.D. Hotchkiss vs. The Superior Court of the State of California..." (most items are staple-bound documents under 50-pp.) ; 65+ pp. "Supplemental brief on behalf of Respondent," October Term, 1940. 29-pp. (on 15 sheets) copy of legal document, "In the Supreme Court of the State of California - The Times-Mirror Company... and L.D. Hotchkiss vs. The Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles," (L.A. No. 16928), "... Harry Chandler and L.D. Hotchkiss (L.A. No. 16929), "Brief for American Newspaper Publishers Association as Amicus Curiae," n.d. - ca. 1939. 4 items: various brief legal documents in "The Times-Mirror Company and L.D. Hotchkiss vs. The Superior Court of the State of California..." (items are staple-bound documents under 50-pp.) ; 21-pp. staple-bound, "Nos. 1, 3.--October Term, 1941," also names "Harry Bridges, Petitioner."

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Accounting Department

Manuscripts

The full range of Times Mirror's financial activities during this period are documented in this series. The series constitutes the central files of the times Mirror Accounting Department and describe the affairs of Times Mirror, the Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror Press, Harry Chandler and his descendants, and the Chandis Securities Company. The material dates from the founding of the corporation in 1884 through 1966, but was compiled and maintained by the accounting department between 1925 and 1960. Material after this date was collected by the Times History Center.

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Department mandate by Otis Chandler

Manuscripts

Handwritten statement of purpose; copies of Otis Chandler's Times Mirror management bulletin announcing the appointment of Lois Markwith as Archivist for the Times (and thus the establishment of the Times Archives).

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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1956

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: form letter, 8//1/1956, "To all Times-Mirror stereotype employees and their families," urging these employees to vote "No" on joining a union; letter 8/2/1956, to "All division and department heads" (attached to previous letter) providing information about the polling of LAT employees; article copy, LAT, 8/4/1956, "Stereotypers at Times-Mirror turn down union in election"; letter, 8/21/1956, by Norman Chandler, "To all Times-Mirror stereotypers and members of their families," thanking them for rejecting the union; related items.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - History

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."

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