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Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1932.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1932.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from several members of the Federal Council, Churches of Christ in America.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (12 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155888975 View

Michael Stoner vs. Richard Henderson, 1775-1809.

Title: Michael Stoner vs. Richard Henderson, 1775-1809.

This collection consists of papers from a lawsuit heard in the Court of Quarter Sessions in Madison County, Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 44 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16388680 View

Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836,. Kenton vs. McConnell and Keene depositions, 1789-1795, 1789-1790 (bulk dates).

Title: Kenton vs. McConnell and Keene depositions, 1789-1795, 1789-1790 (bulk dates).

This is a collection of depositions submitted to a court in Danville, Ky. in a suit over improvements in the neighborhood of a pond on land in dispute between Simon Kenton and the estate of Francis McConnell.

ArchivalResource: 13 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13531744 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Papers relating to John Wright Buckham's book, George Holmes Howison: Philosopher and Teacher, 1929-1935

Title: Papers relating to John Wright Buckham's book, George Holmes Howison: Philosopher and Teacher, 1929-1935

Includes letters written to Buckham, mainly after the publication of the book, and a few anecdotes by Buckham concerning Howison.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 1 portfolio

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McConnell, Francis John, 1871-1953. Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1940.

Title: Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1940.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181757534 View

American Association for Old Age Security. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from Bishop Francis J. McConnell, President and Abraham Epstein, Executive Secretary, Amer. Assoc. for Old Age Security.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (8 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155897638 View

Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Title: Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Consists of letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1852-1918, U.S. senator from Indiana and vice president (1905-1909), and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks, 1878-1938, newspaper publisher. The Charles Warren Fairbanks material, which comprises the bulk of the collection, consists of correspondence with prominent political figures, businessmen, bankers, friends, relatives and constituents; manuscript and printed speeches of Fairbanks; law office papers; bills and receipts; miscellaneous papers; newspaper clippings; invitations; calling cards; pictures; slides of Fairbanks's trip around the world, 1909-1910; and miscellaneous printed matter. The Warren Charles Fairbanks papers, 1918-1938, relate to the settlement of the estate of his father, Charles Warren Fairbanks; the Indianapolis News; the Fairbanks Blue ridge farms in Piatt County, Illinois; and the Fairbanks Valley farms in Greene County, Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 150,006 items

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American Association for Social Security. American Association for Social Security. Series 6. Miscellaneous, 1909-1944.

Title: American Association for Social Security. Series 6. Miscellaneous, 1909-1944.

Includes bulletins of the Association, articles by Epstein, speeches and scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63890954 View

Learned Hand papers

Title: Learned Hand papers

Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald Gunther of Stanford Law School and others, of Judge Hand, his family and associates.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear feet linear feet (in 235 boxes and 18 paige boxes)

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Medical Bureau and North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1937-1939.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1937-1939.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from several members of this committee.

ArchivalResource: 18 items (19 leaves + 1 pamphlet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892161 View

American Association for Social Security. American Association for Social Security. Series 1. Correspondence, 1927-1944, bulk 1931-1944.

Title: American Association for Social Security. Series 1. Correspondence, 1927-1944, bulk 1931-1944.

Chiefly concerns unemployment insurance, federal social security, health insurance, merit rating, old age pensions, state legislation and workmen's compensation. Correspondents include Harvey Lebrun (acting executive director, AASS); Bishop Francis J. McConnell (president, AASS); Frances Perkins (secretary of labor); additionally, considerable routine business correspondence of the Association. Correspondence concerning unemployment insurance (l930-l942) deals with the Wagner-Lewis unemployment bill; federal excise tax on unemployment insurance; AASS conference held at Brookwood Labor College on proposed standards for unemployment insurance; AASS's annual census of unemployment insurance developments; data on U.S. Employment Service; unemployment compensation; and the proposed Laidler State Employment Insurance Bill (1930). Other topics include criticism of AASS's old age pension plan system and other AASS sponsored public assistance programs; tentative qualification standards for unemployment insurance established by AASS and embodied in a model bill for unemployment insurance; and changes in the federal Social Security Act. Also concerns state efforts to establish unemployment relief bills (California, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin); federal legislation on unemployment insurance; criticism of the New York Unemployment Insurance Act; Byrne-Killgre Bill; Municipal Assembly bill on unemployment insurance (N.Y. City). The correspondence also concerns William Leiserson's committee to study operation of the Unemployment Insurance Law; Byrne-Condon Bill with AASS suggested revisions; the Stamp Plan vs. payroll tax plans for unemployment insurance; experience rating and interstate hearings on unemployment compensation. There is also correspondence between Prof. Herman Gray and Lincoln University regarding blacks and social security, and other miscellaneous or routine correspondence. The correspondence concerning federal social security (l93l-1943) deals with the pros and cons of making unemployment compensation a federal problem; correspondence with I.S. Falk and Eleanor L. Dulles concerns changing the 50-50 matching system of federal grants in aid to be more equitable to the needy, the aged, the blind, and dependent children, and legislation to aid mothers; correspondence with Margaret Wagner regards Ohio gubernatorial candidate Martin Davey and the AASS position on tax freezing; and correspondence from M.D. Litman concerns injustice of the unemployment system. The correspondence concerning health insurance (1929-l943) deals with the reactions to the AASS model bill; letters from Epstein to Frances Perkins, Robert Wagner, and Mayor La Guardia regarding AASS's proposed health insurance program; correspondence between Epstein and J. Douglas Brown and E. Wight Bakke regarding expansion of New Jersey's unemployment compensation system to include illness coverage; notes on proposed New York State Health Insurance Plan Principles; opposition to Rhode Island's proposed illness compensation bill; and routine correspondence. The documents concerning merit rating (1940-1944) include a list of organizations opposed to merit rating; criticism of merit rating; reports on experience rating in unemployment compensation; and A.F. of L. sentiments for repeal of merit rating laws. The correspondence concerning old age pensions (1925-1942) includes letters from New York and New Jersey recipients of old age assistance expressing their gratitude for payments; industrial pension plans (General Electric, Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation, Mississippi State Senator Putman, Harry Kaplan, E.D. Hackett); pension programs of the Board of Pensions and Relief of the Methodist Episcopal Church; state retirement laws and programs; AASS request for the elimination of almshouses; and trade union pension plans and relief systems. The correspondence concerning state legislation (l943-l944) deals with information concerning various state programs for the blind; Aid to Families with Dependent Children; state public welfare programs and old age assistance programs. The correspondence concerning workmen's compensation (1942-1944) deals with the possible amalgamation of the AASS with the American Association for Labor Legislation; advances in workmen's compensation during 1942-1943; and changes in workmen's compensation during 1943. The correspondence with Harvey Lebrun (1943-1944) deals with Lebrun's appointment as acting executive director of AASS following Epstein's death; Lebrun's lecture on U.S. Social Security, delivered at Jefferson School of Social Science; and his and Epstein's mutual interest in research on old age assistance and social security. The correspondence with Bishop Francis J. McConnell (1928-1943) deals with routine matters and McConnell's twenty-fifth anniversary of service in 1937. The correspondence with Frances Perkins (1933-1938) regards agendas of labor conferences dealing with safety and health, minimum wages, old age pensions, unemployment insurance legislation, etc.; protests to Perkins concerning the exclusion of AASS from conference on labor legislation; also Dept. of Labor sponsorship of a conference on social insurance.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64755382 View

McConnell, Francis John, 1871-1953. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1938-1939.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1938-1939.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155891949 View