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Dills, Ralph C., 1910-. Oral History Interview with Ralph C. Dills, 1989. Transcript. / by Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

Title: Oral History Interview with Ralph C. Dills, 1989. Transcript. / by Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

Dills discusses his background, education, early political involvement in the EPIC movement and in the Democratic party, tenure as a municipal court judge particularly during the Watts rebellion in 1965, and provides considerable information on his chief legislative interests and accomplishments while serving initially as a California State assemblyman and then as a California state senator.

ArchivalResource: 455 p. of typescript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540192 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

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Edison Sheet Music Collection, 1830-1958, (bulk 1890-1940)

Title: Edison Sheet Music Collection 1830-1958 (bulk 1890-1940)

The collection consists chiefly of American sheet music published in the United States between the years 1830-1930. While a significant minority of the music in the collection is instrumental music, the vast majority is for voice and piano. Notable in this collection are imprints from California dating from before 1850, first editions by Irving Berlin and others, and many European imprints among the instrumental pieces.

ArchivalResource: circa 13,000 items; 148 containers; 444 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002003 View

Anderson, Glenn M., 1913-1994. The Glenn M. Anderson Papers, 1870s-2000, 1940-1994

Title: The Glenn M. Anderson Papers, 1870s-2000, 1940-1994

This collection comprises papers related to the long political career of Glenn M. Anderson, who served in California as mayor of the city of Hawthorne, as State Assemblyman, and as Lieutenant Governor, then represented the state in the House of Representatives. The wide-ranging collection contains legislation, reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, newsletters, audio-visual material, and other items recording Anderson's deep involvement in the political issues facing California and the United States, and his work with many of the major political figures of the twentieth century, including Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevens, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, and others.

ArchivalResource: 649 boxes430 linear feet

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680289325 View

Johnny Green additional papers, 1923-1989.

Title: Johnny Green additional papers, 1923-1989.

Scores and papers of Americanconductor, arranger, and composer Johnny Green.

ArchivalResource: 104 containers (111 linearft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02074/catalog View

Gerald L. K. Smith Papers, 1922-1976

Title: Gerald L. K. Smith Papers 1922-1976

Founder of the America First Party, head of the Christian Nationalist Crusade, and outspoken antisemite. Correspondence, speeches, oral history transcript, memoranda and other materials detailing his criticism of America's participation in World War II, his Michigan senatorial race in 1942, his campaign for the presidency in 1944, his opposition to the spread of communism after the war, and his support of conservative Christian causes and right wing individuals and organizations; and photographs. Portraits of Smith and his wife, Elna Smith; photographs of meetings and conventions of the America First Party, of picketing and other political activity in support of Smith and his platform, and of Smith's associates and supporters; also photographs and portraits of celebrities, buildings, and activities, which Smith collected, probably for use in his publication, . The Cross and the Flag

ArchivalResource: 102 linear ft. Photographs. 3 linear ft

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85818?rgn=main;view=text View

Tenney, Jack B. (Jack Breckinridge), 1898-1970. California legislator : Los Angeles, Calif. : ms., 1969.

Title: California legislator : Los Angeles, Calif. : ms., 1969.

Typescript copy of autobiography based on tape-recorded interviews conducted 1965-1966 by Donald J. Schippers under auspices of Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles. Career as musician; activities in musicians' union; career as state assemblyman and senator, 1936-1954; Merriam, Olson and Warren administrations; chairmanship of Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities; views on political figures; political campaigns; anti-communist activities; charges of antisemitism; candidacy for vice president of U.S., 1952.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. ([19], 1998 leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26597647 View

Glenn M. Anderson Papers, 1870s-2000, 1940-1994

Title: Glenn M. Anderson Papers, 1870s-2000, 1940-1994,

This collection comprises papers related to the long political career of Glenn M. Anderson, who served in California as mayor of the city of Hawthorne, as State Assemblyman, and as Lieutenant Governor, then represented the state in the House of Representatives. The wide-ranging collection contains legislation, reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, newsletters, audio-visual material, and other items recording Anderson’s deep involvement in the political issues facing California and the United States, and his work with many of the major political figures of the twentieth century, including Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevens, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, and others.

ArchivalResource: 649 boxes,; [430 linear ft]

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