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Title: Junior Chamber of Commerce members at a meeting probably at the Biltmore, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
As president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, E. Richard Smith guided their efforts to curb communism in 1934, assisted by other organization members, including Kent H. Redwine (attorney), Leroy D. Owen (realtor of industrial properties), Leonard Firestone (Vice-President of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.), Judge Kincaid, Harrison Chandler (Vice-President of Times-Mirror Printing Company), and A. C. Stewart (Division Sales Manager of Union Oil Company). These members are identified as participants in the "American Crusade" effort in the article "Many Back Red Attack: Junior Chamber Drive Aided," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jul. 1934: A1.
Photograph of E. Richard Smith (center), president of the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, flanked by Kent H. Redwine (L) and Leroy D. Owen (R); in the back row are (L to R) Judge Clarence L. Kincaid, Harrison Chandler, an unidentified man, A. C. Stewart, and Leonard Firestone. They stand behind a table with the leftovers of a meal a pile of papers, and there is a mural on the wall behind them.
Text from negative sleeve: Kincaid, Clarence L. Judge
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5193
ark:/21198/zz002cv5pm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Anti-communism--California--Los Angeles
Chambers of commerce--California--Los Angeles
Meetings--California--Los Angeles
Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Stewart, A. C. (Arthur Stewart), 1905-1998
Owen, LeRoy D. (LeRoy David), 1897-1973
Firestone, Leonard K. (Leonard Kimball), 1907-1996
Kincaid, Clarence L
Junior Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles
West, E. Richard (Erling Richard), 1901-1970
Chandler, Harrison Gray Otis, 1903-1985
Redwine, Kent H. (Kent Hyram), 1898-1985
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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