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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
100+ items: LAT news stories and editorial copies on the activities and career of Earl Warren during the 1948 - 1950 time frame, when Warren was governor of California. Also included, lengthy excerpt (pp. 164-200) copied from Warren - the man, the court, the era, by John D. Weaver, 1968.
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Approx. 90 items: LAT news stories and editorial copies on the activities and career of Earl Warren during the 1959 - 1975 time frame. Warren was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 until 1969, when he retired. The folder also contains these items: Page One LAT obit copy, 7/10/1974, "Earl Warren, 83, Chief Justice for 16 years, dies" ; clip, 7/16/1974, Santa Monica Outlook [conservative], He seized Golden Chance to become liberal hero," closes with the phrase "here was a great American" ; original 55-pp.booklet, In Memoriam - Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice , Supreme Court of the United States, 5/27/1975, text of tributes and testimonials to the memory of Justice Warren.
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100+ items: LAT news stories and editorial copies on the activities and career of Earl Warren during the 1943 - 1947 time frame, when Warren was governor of California.
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100+ items: LAT news stories and editorial copies on the activities and career of Earl Warren. During the 1938 - 1943 time frame, Warren was District Attorney of Alameda County, later Attorney General and Governor of California.
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100+ items: LAT news stories and editorial copies on the activities and career of Earl Warren during the 1951 - 1956 time frame. Warren was governor of California from 1947 until 1953, when he was named to the United States Supreme Court.
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Approx. 60 items: collection of news stories and editorials on political career of Hiram Johnson, who was involved in a decades-long feud with first H.G. Otis, later Harry Chandler. LAT reports and comments on Johnson were uniformly negative, or LAT ignored him. Notable items: 6 sheets torn from Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (1950s?), "Hiram Johnson and World War I...a Progressive in transition" ; 3-pp. copied from Current Biography, 1941, entry for Hiram (Warren) Johnson ; LAT obit, 8/7/1945, "The death of Hiram Johnson," is not kind to the deceased but, as LAT put it, "it would be hypocritical to forget or retract..." ; letter copy, 8/19/1940, from LAT's Kyle Palmer to Sen. Hiram Johnson, on Palmer/LAT endorsement of Johnson for Senate, "an editorial which...I never thought [I would] either write or read."
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