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He was living with his brother, Clifford, because his mother
(who was also Clifford’s mother) died a month after he was
born from childbirth infection and fever.
David H. Clinton, another of Clifford’s brothers, also
lived in Clifford’s household a lot.
Note: Concerning the grandparents of Clifford E.
Clinton: His grandfather was David Harrison Clinton, born
18 Oct. 1843 in Vernon County, Missouri; died 1 April 1927
in San Francisco, California. His grandmother was Anna
Elizabeth Terrill, born 25 July 1846 in District 91, Schuyler
County, Missouri; died 6 Dec. 1885 in Missouri.
The father of David Harrison Clinton was Bennet J.
Clinton, born in 1815.
The parents of Anna Elizabeth Terrill were Henry
Terrill, born in about 1818 and Elizabeth Terrill, born in
about 1821. In the 1850 U.S. Census the family was living
in District 91, Schuyler County, Missouri. Other household
members were: Edmund Terrill, age 7. John R. Terrill, age
5. Ann Aliza Terrill [or Anna Elizabeth Terrill (1846-1885)],
age 4. Susan T. Terrill, age 2.
12. Time.1938. California: Restaurant reformers. June 27.
• Summary: Clifford E. Clinton, youthful, slim and squarejawed
is owner of the “World’s Largest Cafeteria” in
downtown Los Angeles. But his customers brought him so
many stories of vice and corruption in Los Angeles politics
that last year he began a personal campaign to clean up Los
Angeles politics. This story is about his work and its general
success. Clinton hired lawyer “Arthur Brigham Rose” and
Rose hired the highly regarded private investigator, Harry
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Raymond, who was once a Los Angeles patrolman and later
Police Chief of San Diego.
In January Raymond was nearly killed by a pipe bomb
wired under the hood of his car.
When asked when the Los Angeles Times, which had
been part of the Los Angeles corruption that Clinton was
investigating, started to report events more fairly and
objectively, Donald Clinton (Clifford’s son) replied (Jan.
2011): “The LA Times came around to better reporting the
facts of the political campaign 2-3 months after our home
was bombed, on 29 Oct. 1937. Then on 14 Jan. 1938 dad’s
private investigator, Harry Raymond, stepped on his starter
and was blown sky high... but lived to tell the tale in court
and brought down the LAPD [Los Angeles Police
Department] Captain Earle Kynette, who set the bombs in
both instances. The wall of cover-up and corruption then
came tumbling down and the pieces were laid bare for the
city to see. The court sent the captain to jail for 10 yrs, the
Chief of Police soon fell and the Mayor was recalled that
fall... The Times couldn’t hold back the truth any longer...
Even today, the paper is very slanted in its biases.”
13. Photograph of Clifton’s Brookdale taken from street
level about five years after it opened. 1940.
• Summary: On the first floor, at street level, is the main
dining room, serving counters, and main kitchen. On the
2nd floor are the mezzanine dining rooms where simulated
wood boards arch over three windows facing the street. The
cement facade was made to look like rough-sawn redwood
lumber. Above the windows is written: “World’s Largest.