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Sinclair, Upton (1 of 2)

Description: Approx. 80 items: dozens of copies of LAT news stories and editorials hostile to Sinclair and his message (especially during Harry Chandler era) ; several extended segments copied from Sinclair's book, I, Candidate for Governor and how I got Licked, 1935 ; segment copied from Rebel at Large, by George Creel, 1947 ; complete original issue, Southern California Quarterly, Winter 1974 - issue devoted to material on Sinclair ; LAT obit copy, 11/26/1968, "Upton Sinclair, 90, noted author, dies." Split into two folders.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1920 - 1974
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
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Sinclair, Upton (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 80 items: dozens of copies of LAT news stories and editorials hostile to Sinclair and his message (especially during Harry Chandler era) ; several extended segments copied from Sinclair's book, I, Candidate for Governor and how I got Licked, 1935 ; segment copied from Rebel at Large, by George Creel, 1947 ; complete original issue, Southern California Quarterly, Winter 1974 - issue devoted to material on Sinclair ; LAT obit copy, 11/26/1968, "Upton Sinclair, 90, noted author, dies." Split into two folders.

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Articles (1 of 2)

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Approx. 40 items: articles about Dorothy Chandler from LAT, Journal, Fortune, Los Angeles (magazine), Westways, New West, People and other publications; 8-pp. booklet, "Humanitarian Award (presentation banquet) - Dorothy Buffum Chandler," for Variety Clubs International Annual Convention, 5/31/1974; complete issue, The Barker (Variety Clubs International.), 2/1974, pp. 4, "Humanitarian Award to Mrs. Chandler," handwritten note from Editor Charles Gnaegy inside mag ; complete issue, PSA - the California Magazine, 6/1974, segment of cover story, pp. 60, on Dorothy Buffum Chandler; complete issue, Westways, 2/1975, pp. 18, "Soul of the [Music] Center - ...Dorothy Chandler...did her city proud." Split into two folders.

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Johnson, Hiram (1 of 2)

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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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Articles (2 of 2)

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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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Free Press - Fair Trial (1 of 2)

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Approx. 80 items: letters, memos, newspaper clippings, reports, booklets and other material related to LAT and the Free Press - Fair Trial issue during 1966. Notable items: multi-page article copied from American Bar Association Journal, 7/1966, "Libel and public men," by William O. Bertelsman ; correspondence between NBW and Robert Notson, Exec. Editor of The Oregonian (Portland) ; ongoing correspondence between NBW and J. Edward Murray, Managing Editor, Arizona Republic ; correspondence between LAT execs and American Newspaper Publishers Assn. and American Society of Newspaper Editors ; legal documents in the case of Eason Monroe vs. City of Los Angeles ; 30-pp. complete issue of Nieman Reports, 9/1964 (filed with '66 material) ; complete issue, The Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 7/1966 ; 12-pp. "FREE PRESS AND FAIR TRIAL - Remarks by Gene Robb, Publisher of Albany Times-Union and Knickerbocker News (6/24/1966) ; more.

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