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  Bank of Italy

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  9 items: clips and correspondence related to a conspiracy case involving the Bank of Italy, 1925. FACSIMILES MAY NOT BE COPIED OR PUBLISHED.

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  Banks - Los Angeles

  Manuscripts

  7 items: "keepsake"-type booklet, The Farmer's & Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles...Fifty Years of Banking Service, 1921; advert. / greeting card, "Life more abundant," from Bank of Italy National Trust and Savings Association, 1927; brochure, "President's Statement," from The First National Bank of Los Angeles - Pacific Southwest Bank, First Securities Co., 8/9/1927; 1-pp. letter (no signature, subsequent pages may be missing), to Don Taylor of LAT, on Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles letterhead, with historical "information about the second home of the Farmers & Merchants Bank," dated 10/24/1956; pp. 336 - 341 copied from a book titled A Mirror for Californians [Oliver Carlson, 1941]; two undated ads (ca. 1925) for Citizens...Bank of Los Angeles.

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  Pilgrimage Play Association

  Manuscripts

  Approx. 45 items: bank books and check books for Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, assigned to H.E. Downing as trustee for Harry Chandler and M.R. Clarke ; canceled checks on same bank ; legal documents of the estates of Erskine M. Ross ; 3-pp. "Agreement releasing and satisfying certain indebtedness," involving Marie R. Clark, Harry Chandler, and Pilgrimage Play Association ; more.

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  Articles

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  5 items: article copy + cover note from Dennis Stanfill to Otis Chandler, Forbes, 9/1/1965, "Stock analysis - 81 years young (Times Mirror Co.)"; tear sheet + three copies of Wall Street Journal article, 10/13/1965, "A family empire - Times Mirror builds on newspaper base, makes diversity pay."

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  Willys - Overland Pacific Company

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  Los Angeles Times Editorial Content; Los Angeles Times Automobile content; includes Harry Chandler, R.W. Trueblood memoranda

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  Chandler, Norman - Tape # 3

  Manuscripts

  1 item: 28-pp. transcript of interview Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 12/19/1972 and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: Harry Chandler's interest in "monkey gland treatments" (pp. 1 - 3) ; Harry Chandler's diet (pp. 3 - 5) ; Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler agree they were served the same meal every Thursday night, when they ate at Harry Chandler's home - it was "(fried) chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and peas, and ice cream" (pp. 5) ; Norman Chandler clarifies aspects of the legend that Harrison Gray Otis had a cannon mounted on the hood of his car -- "it was...just a decoration" (pp. 5) ; liquor ads and Los Angeles Times ; Harry Chandler was a "teetotaler" (pp. 7) ; attitudes of both Harry Chandler and Norman Chandler toward alcohol consumption (pp. 7 - 8) ; Harry Chandler rarely attended social and public events (pp. 9) ; in the years right after WW II "smog" became an issue in L.A. (pp. 10 - 12) ; Los Angeles Times dabbles in radio - KHJ (pp. 13) ; Los Angeles Times dabbles in television - KTTV (pp. 15) ; The Mirror (pp. 16 - 20) ; Norman Chandler - "on the whole I was pleased with the progress of (Los Angeles Times) while I was publisher," (pp. 21) - he wanted Los Angeles Times to be FAIR, RESPECTED, AND TO RENDER PUBLIC SERVICE, (pp. 22) - agrees that prior to late 1950s, Los Angeles Times was politically biased, biased on labor reporting ; L.D. Hotchkiss (1940s+ editor) and his personality (pp. 25 - 27).

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