New Chamber of Commerce President J.L. Van Norman (left) shakes hands with economist Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver and retiring Chamber President James L. Beebe stands center at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Economists and educators H. Clay Best, Orra E. Monnette, John Wesley Hill, and W. A. Osborne at the Biltmore after an anti-communist luncheon. This image appears with the article "Menace of Reds Told Rotarians: University Head Depicts Radicals' Campaign in Industry," Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 1930.