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Rochester, George
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Kegley, Carl S
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Approx. 25 items: 2-pp. "KEGLEY INDEX -- from 1933 to date [1968]" - a chrono. summary of collected articles ; LAT news story copy, 9/21/1933, "Fitts [D.A.] clashes on crime drive...denunciation of Minute Men interrupted by Kegley" ; LAT article, 3/22/1968, "City attorney (Kegley) agrees to draft 'unconstitutional' ordinance," for San Clemente.
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Coolidge, Calvin
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5 items: LAT "news" stories and editorials, on the nomination of Coolidge for president and acts while in office. One 1924 story, exact date not seen, is not so much news as an attack on Hiram Johnson, an opponent of Coolidge. The LAT - Hiram Johnson feud spanned two publishers--Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler.
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Fitts, Buron
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Approx. 25 items. LAT news stories and editorials, a partial biography, single-sheet, titled "Buron Fitts - the Man," and other biographical materials. An LAT story, 3/30/1973, gives the details of his apparent suicide - "Former Dist. Atty. Buron Fitts found shot to death at home" in Three Rivers, CA. Also an 8/8/1930 letter from Fitts to the "Fitts-for-Governor" Headquarters, reading in part, "I do not want to end this campaign heavily in debt...I am not financially able to assume the burden."
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Government Assistance - Welfare - George McLain
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Approx. 15 items: tear sheets and copies of LAT editorials and news stories related to the activities of pension activist George H. McLain between 1942 and 1954. Also in the folder is an article copy from Frontier (mag), 4/1951, "Lobbyist for the aged," pp. 5-9. LAT was critical of McLain. A 1954 editorial was headed "Pension grab is with us again."
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Newspapers - Daily News
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Approx. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."
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Yorty, Sam - 1968
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Approx. 75 items. Transcripts of press conferences and other public gatherings, news summaries from Yorty's office, news clippings, letters. Subjects include: Yorty refers to Otis Chandler and L.A.'s District Attorney as "practically in a conspiracy to get (me)" - Radio-TV Reports, 10/15/1968; Yorty's forays into international affairs; Yorty says he may sue LAT over an editorial cartoon; much more of the same in the Yorty-LAT face off; several letters from Yorty to LAT foreign correspondent William Tuohy; Yorty files a $2 million libel suit against LAT (12/1968); copy of the libel suit Yorty filed with County Superior Court; Yorty accuses LAT of protecting "friends" and "harpooning" their "enemies"; Yorty sponsors creation of his own editorial cartoons criticizing Otis Chandler & LAT; etc.
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