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Description:: Jury and alternate jurors chosen for the William Bonelli liquor license bribe trial. Bonelli, along with at least six other government officials, is linked to a liquor license pay-off scandal to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: February 19, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The nineteen members of the Los Angeles County Grand Jury for the year 1934. The jury first met on February 20, 1934, after some trouble in the selection process.
Date:: [circa February 20, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Frank Lawrence Shaw (February 1, 1877 – January 24, 1958) was an American politician. In 1933, he successfully ran for mayor of Los Angeles. He was re-elected in 1937 but was recalled from office on September 16, 1938 by the citizens of Los Angeles.
Date:: Between 1937-1938
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Meeting of various civic leaders at the Hall of Records (220 N. Broadway) called by Supervisor McDonough to discuss the relief problem in Los Angeles county. The meeting will address how to handle relief and employment issues for people who have no interest in becoming permanent residents of the county.
Date:: June 30, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Former F.B.I. chief Joseph E. P. Dunn with attorneys Otto Christensen and Alfred MacDonald during an investigation of the feud between former law partners Col. William H. Neblett and Senator William Gibbs McAdoo
Date:: March 24, 1938
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Elsie Hinman Bush entering court during a divorce battle with her ex-husband, former Superior Court Judge Guy F. Bush. The couple was married on Christmas Day 1939 in Las Vegas then separated three days later. Judge Bush filed for divorce against his wife citing a charge of cruelty then Mrs. Bush counter-filed with the same charge; neither party described their charge. It was the 3rd marriage for Mrs. Bush and the 4th for Judge Bush.
Date:: March 4, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Myrtle Takaoka and her brother Hal Takaoka in court at a preliminary hearing involving the murder of their dancer sister, Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Date:: August 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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