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., 1926.
Part II: 1917-1941
Chapter 13 Crime Waves, High Powers, and Union "Gorillas"
1. Times Fundamentalism
"The Times was a fundamentalist newspaper. It backed prohibition and vigorously attacked the "wet" Al Smith in 1928 . . . When Aimee Semple McPherson opened her Angelus Temple in 1923, the Times heralded Los Angeles's new evangelist. Like the other papers in town, the Times loved Aimee for her news value. When the evangelist disappeared in the ocean near Ocean Park beach in 1926, the Times carried lengthy page one stories for several weeks." p. 227