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. A letter from John Anson Ford the the Editor of the Los Angeles Times, offering corrections regarding an article that appeared in the Times on September 9, 1936. Anson had just been elected chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee and writes that the article, in referring to him as an Epic candidate, was incorrect. He states that he was not endorsed by the Epics, and that he has no plans to run for mayor, concluding "there are people who assume public office, or other public position, for the purpose of sincerely rendering service, and without ulterior purposes. I aim to be such a person." The letter is typed on station with the letterhead: John Anson Ford Company/Advertising - Publicity/916 C. C. Chapman Building/Los Angeles/Established 1920 John Anson Ford (1883-1983) was an American journalist, advertising executive and Democratic Party politician. He was a long-serving member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Text from negative sleeve: 7004. Oct 28 1936. Mrs Newton Cleveland. T.M. Carlson & copy of letter from John Anson Ford Co. to times. 10/21/31
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14590 ark:/21198/zz002j86n1
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Politicians--California--Los Angeles Political elections--California--Los Angeles Ford, John Anson
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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