Manuscripts

Coolidge, Calvin

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924 - 1927
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Johnson, Hiram (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

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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Employees - Jacobs, Jody

Manuscripts

4 items: LAT tear sheet, 6/20/1974, "Eyeball to eyeball with Rex Reed," by Jacobs; clip from Los Angeles (mag), 1/1975, on Frank Sinatra feud with LAT; clip from Los Angeles (mag), 2/1975, brief in "What's Up" column providing more on Frank Sinatra feud with LAT; LAT tear sheet of Jody Jacobs last column for the paper (date not included).

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Rochester, George

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT news copy, 5/21/1936, "Rochester to be Fitts opponent...former state senator enters primary race for office of district attorney" ; LAT news copy, 5/18/1938, "Gambling ship raid ruled legal by Webb" ; LAT news copy, 1/4/1965, "Study group suggests ways to speed justice," reads in part, "the blue-ribbon commission of 12 judges and lawyers [is] headed by attorney George W. Rochester..." ; more.

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Harding, Warren G

Manuscripts

5 items: LAT editorials and news stories from July and August of 1923, on his final tour of Alaska and the Pacific coast, his sudden illness and death in San Francisco. The front page headline for 8/3/1923 has been copied - "Harding's death stuns nation...President Coolidge sworn in."

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California Magazine

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: correspondence related to California (magazine) and a feud of sorts that existed between LAT and that magazine in the time frame of the early 1980s.

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Ryskind, Morrie

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos. Some letters are from readers urging LAT to resume publication of conservative Morrie Ryskind's columns. (R. had ceased submitting material following LAT refusal to run one in late 1965) Most of the remaining correspondence involves LAT staff conducting a sort of "post-mortem" on Ryskind's association with LAT. Some are exchanges between Rex Barley (LAT Syndicate) or Nick Williams and Ryskind. The LAT declined to run certain of his columns when they believed he was making unsubstantiated allegations regarding media outlets. Also, Ryskind was a member of the John Birch Society and did not approve when LAT did an expose on the group, which seemed to fuel the "feud." A 6-pp. memo Williams wrote to Otis Chandler contains much information about the situation. It is dated March 7, 1966. Also in the file are another group of letters critical of LAT for "censoring" Ryskind.

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Coolidge, Calvin

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