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Bonus Plan
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Employees - Crabill, Simeon "Sim"
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Approx. 10 items. Material includes LAT clips on the deaths and memorial services for Della C. Crabill (wife of Sim Crabill), who died in 1927, and S.W. "Sim" Crabill, who died in 1938. Also included is a "Men who made The Times" column from Among Ourselves, 8/1949, about S.W. Crabill.
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Composing room - Bonus plan
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Several related items under the overall title "Productivity Bonus Plan for Composing Room Employees," produced for The Times-Mirror Company, 3/1952. The package begins with a 4-pp. cover letter from McKinsey & Company (management consultants) addressed to "Phillip [sic] Chandler, Vice-President, The Times Mirror Company," etc. Also included are the 12-pp. report, and "Exhibits," which refers to the series of financial charts that supplement the report.
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Chandler, Norman - Tape # 2
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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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Circle Bar Cattle Company - Correspondence
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Approx. 90 items: 2-pp. handwritten letter, 5/20/1933, from "Burt" Cobine to H.E. Downing ; 2-pp. typed letter, 4/17/1933) Cobine to Harry Chandler (Cobine says he is owed over $11,000) ; more correspondence to or from individuals in the "Personal Names" field.
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Harry Chandler with others at a party at the Times building
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Black and white photograph. (L to R) Ben Cardell, Sim W. Crabill, F.X. Pfaffinger, A.B. Dodge and Harry Chandler at Mr. Chandler's party at the Times building. Paul Bertness Collection.
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Chandler, Harry B
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3 items: 59-pp. transcript of interview with Harry Chandler (2nd son of Otis Chandler), 4/22/1980 ; 25-pp. transcript of interview with Harry Chandler, 4/22/1980 ; 20-pp. transcript of interview with Harry Chandler, 4/22/1980. Harry speaks of his childhood, his teen years and his education at Pasadena Polytechnic, Andover and Stanford. He also recounts his interest in art and his working life at Twentieth Century-Fox.
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