1. Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state.
14 Facts About Harold Harby
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Harold Harby was reelected in 1943 and served until 1957.
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Harold Harby attended high school in that country and came to the United States in 1910.
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Harold Harby was married in 1917 to Emmalee Thompson of Great Falls, Montana.
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Harold Harby moved to California in 1918 to work at West Coast shipyards and then became associated with the oil business, working at various times for Shell Oil, Richfield Oil and Pacific Western Oil.
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Harold Harby died November 24,1978, in Laguna Hills, California, after a lengthy illness.
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Harold Harby said he had been given permission to use the vehicle and the City Council voted to confirm the use as official business.
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The City Council appointed Dave Stannard to take his place in May 1942, but the next year, 1943, Harold Harby was reelected by a vote of 6,392 for himself and 5,988 for Stannard.
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Harold Harby switched his position from "yes" to "no" in December 1951 to block a City Council vote of 8 to 7 a proposed $100 million public-housing plan that had divided the city, with business and real-estate factions on one side and labor and progressive interests on the other.
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Harold Harby was known for his opposition to modern art, sculpture and music.
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Harold Harby was the principal opponent to a statuary group by sculptor Bernard Rosenthal that had been designed for the new Police Building across Main Street from the City Hall.
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Harold Harby was appointed to a committee of five council members in May 1940 to call on Mayor Fletcher Bowron to complain about "persistent and erroneous" remarks the mayor made about the council in his radio addresses.
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At one point, Harold Harby "reached over" and shoved Hahn back into his seat.
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In October 1952, Harold Harby joined a group of people supporting a House Committee on Un-American Activities probe into Communist sympathies among Los Angeles attorneys.