At 1:07 a.m. on Oct. 1, 1910, the people of Los Angeles were awakened by six rapid, violent explosions. The Los Angeles Times building had been dynamited. In four minutes it was a roaring mass of flame. The Times's 46-year-old assistant general manager, Harry Chandler, who happened to be on the street outside, took brisk, efficient charge of the disaster. But when it was over, 20 mangled Times employes had died in the fire or leaped to their deaths on the pavement.
When the McNamara brothers, one an A.F. of L. union official, were arrested for the dynamiting, it was called a...
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