Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers and Their Influence on Southern California, G.P. Putnam's Sons: NY, 1977. 603 pp., 1920s
Part II: 1917-1941
Chapter 12
Chapter 13 Crime Waves, High Powers, and Union "Gorillas"
1. Times Fundamentalism
"Los Angeles, Harry Chandler's Times had often reminded its readers, was the "White Spot of America," blessed by the absence of crime and labor unrest. The message appealed to those middle-class Angelenos of the 1920s and 1930s who identified with the paper's Midwinters, its Monday morning religious sermon reprints, its weather reports on the "storms back east." its "oil news" and "shipping news," its Southland provincialism, and its constant barrrage of anti-radical, anti-union reports.
"The Times was a fundamentalist newspaper. It backed prohibition and vigorously attacked the "wet" Al Smith in 1928 . . ."