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History - Chronologies/Milestones
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Approx. 40 items. [Materials compiled between 1987 and 1993] Subjects include: "Major Events in Recent Los Angeles Times History," multi-page lists of LAT events and accomplishments, dated 12/92, 2/93, etc. Other document titles include "Technological Milestones," "Highlights of 1992," "Recent (also "Major...") Changes at the Los Angeles Times," a history of "LAT Sunday Supplements," "Some LAT Firsts,"L.A.T. Timeline, 1960-1980," etc.
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Anniversaries, 1932 - 1981
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Approx. 12 items. Material includes clippings and photocopies of LAT "birthday" articles from various years, including 1941, 1956 (75th), 1959, and text of speech given by U.S. Sen. William F. Knowland at LAT 75th Anniversary luncheon, 12/4/1956. Also in the folder is one copy of "Some Famous Firsts in Los Angeles," an insert published by LAT in 1956.
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Speeches - Women's Coalition
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2 items: 3-pp. transcript of "Welcome remarks...Jim Boswell," undated, delivered to the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles County ; 14-pp. transcript of "Speech by Narda Zacchino - delivered Saturday (9/26/1987) at Women's Coalition of Orange County, Political Women III Conference
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Los Angeles - Firsts
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2 items: one original tear sheet, one copy of article, Los Angeles (mag), "Firsts!," a compendium of a variety of firsts in the history of Los Angeles. Date - ca. 1980.
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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Accounts
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Approx. 30 items. Subjects relate to the 1910 bombing of LAT building: 14-pp. report on the bombing and the circumstances surrounding it (with covering note by Durham J. "Durrie" Monsma; 3-pp. letter (7/8/1957) to LAT "Editor" from "Ernest Rhoads, Ex-Battalion Chief," L.A. Fire Dept., who not only fought the fire caused by the bombing, but spoke in person to "Tom [J.B.] McNamara" decades later in prison, and asked him, "Would you do it again?" The letter provides the answer and more details; several accounts of the bombing written in later years; lists of news clippings and editorials related to the bombing and trial; 12+ pp. headed "James B. and John J. McNamara - Papers, 1905-1961"; 30-pp. "Special Report," by "H.G. Otis," dated 10/31/1910 (30 days after bombing), "Our Sad Misfortune: the dynamiting and destruction of the Times Building."
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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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