Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Meetings--California--Los Angeles and People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

Description:: McLaughlin was California State WPA (works Progress Administration) head, Haggerty and Hart were labor union leaders, Connolly was LA county Public Works Administrator, Hammond is unknown. Possibly related to WPA dealings.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Clayton E. Triggs, director of the Los Angeles County Relief Administration during a meeting about a potential dole increase for unemployment relief.
Date:: [between 1936-1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Walter S. Van Dyke and Archibald B. Young of the Citizen's Relief Committee at a meeting with Clayton E. Triggs, director of the Los Angeles County Relief Administration discussing a potential dole increase for unemployment relief.
Date:: [between 1936-1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Great Britain's foremost film producer Alexander Korda during a week long visit to America for meetings with Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin of United Artists. Also pictured is Robert Fairbanks, brother of Douglas.
Date:: September 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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