Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Subject: Meetings--California--Los Angeles and Activism - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: From left to right: film producer Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens in the luncheon room at the Biltmore Hotel where 400 leading Californians had gathered to discuss the campaign to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mr. Mayer spoke at the meeting saying, "this battle is not for greed or power, but for human good without distinction of race or creed" and acknowledged the presence of Rabbi Magnin and Bishop Stevens (among others) as a sign that we live in a "land where men of different faiths combine to aid humanity"
Date:: December 12, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives