Newspaper reporting in San Francisco during graft prosecutions; chairman, State Board of Control under Governor Hiram Johnson; Johnson administration, personalities, Jack Eshleman, Fremont Older; attorney for William R. Hearst; role of Hearst and Neylan in 1932 nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt; defense of Anita Whitney; views on organized labor; regent, University of California, on finance committee, appropriations, academic attitudes, the
history of the loyalty oath controversy.