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The "little Dies committee" at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940

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Title: The "little Dies committee" at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: February 5, 1940
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
(Left to Right) Assemblymen Lee T. Bashore, Jack B. Tenney, Sam Yorty, Seth Millington, and Harrison W. Call, the "little Dies committee" which questioned members of the Los Angeles Country State Relief Administration (S.R.A.) on charges of Communist activity. The hearings lasted only one day and ended with a recommendation that action be taken against some of the witnesses for perjury, but no one was immediately fired.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L - R Lee Bashore - Jack Tenney - Sam Yorty - Seth Millington - Harrison Call
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1387_22658-10
ark:/21198/zz0025gv11
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Communism--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Anti-communism--California--Los Angeles
Legislators--California
Governmental investigations--California--Los Angeles
Yorty, Sam, 1909-1998
Tenney, Jack B. (Jack Breckinridge), 1898-1970
Call, Harrison W
Bashore, Lee T
Millington, Seth
California. State Relief Administration
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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