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Golenpaul, Dan. Reminiscences of Dan Golenpaul : oral history, 1964.

Title: Reminiscences of Dan Golenpaul : oral history, 1964.

INFORMATION PLEASE ALMANAC; genesis and production of "Information Please"; Heywood Broun, Oscar Levant, Clifton Fadimam, John Kieran and others on the program; relations with advertising agencies and sponsors.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 205 leaves.

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Kuper, Theodore Fred, 1886-1981. Reminiscences of Theodore Fred Kuper : oral history, 1963.

Title: Reminiscences of Theodore Fred Kuper : oral history, 1963.

Education, New York University Law School; early practice, New York, N.Y.; oil buxiness; Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1923-32; acquisition of Monticello; efforts to preserve other Virginia antiquities; consultant to New York, N.Y., Board of Education, 1927-43. Impressions of Fiorello La Guardia and Claude G. Bowers.

ArchivalResource: Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

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Bowles, Dorothy S. (Dorothy Stebbins). Reminiscences of Dorothy Stebbins Bowles : oral history, 1963.

Title: Reminiscences of Dorothy Stebbins Bowles : oral history, 1963.

Description of the political events in the life of Chester Bowles, especially in Connecticut; John Bailey, William Benton.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 86 leaves.

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Sachs, Walter E., 1884-1980. Reminiscences of Walter Edward Sachs : oral history, 1964.

Title: Reminiscences of Walter Edward Sachs : oral history, 1964.

Description of the investment banking business in general and the operations of Goldman, Sachs in particular; anti-trust trial before Judge Harold Medina.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 230 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

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Barco, James William, 1916-. Reminiscences of James William Barco : oral history, 1963.

Title: Reminiscences of James William Barco : oral history, 1963.

Family background, education in Michigan; Harvard Law School; Home Owners Loan Corporation, 1941-42; United States Navy, World War II; wartime London, preparations for D-Day; United States State Dept. posts, from 1946; United Nations Good Offices, Commission for Indonesia, 1948; United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 1948-49; United States mission to United Nations, 1949-61; various international problems and crises; Indonesian question, 1947-51; Middle East, Arab nationalism; Suez and Hungary, 1956; India; Congo; Cuba; United States foreign relations; United Nations diplomacy; United Nation policies. Impressions of many international figures, including John Foster Dulles, Warren Austin, Philip Jessup, Jawaharlal Nehru, Achmed Sukarno, Nikita Khruschev, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, Dag Hammarskjold.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 1,061 leaves.

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Schuster, M. Lincoln (Max Lincoln), 1897-1970. Reminiscences of Max Lincoln Schuster : oral history, 1964.

Title: Reminiscences of Max Lincoln Schuster : oral history, 1964.

New York City childhod; copy boy, New York EVENING WORLD, 1913; Columbia School of Journalism, 1917; early literary and journalistic interests; intellectual ferment and radicalism; journalistic experience in Washington and New York City, 1917-24; formation of Simon and Schuster, 1924; crossword puzzle books; STORY OF PHILOSOHY.

ArchivalResource: Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

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Curran, Joseph, 1906-1981. Reminiscences of Joseph Curran : oral history, 1964.

Title: Reminiscences of Joseph Curran : oral history, 1964.

Early life; National Maritime Union, president, 1931; influence of Communist party in unions; vice president, AFL-CIO.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 193 leaves.

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Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986. Reminiscences of Chester Bowles : oral history, 1963.

Title: Reminiscences of Chester Bowles : oral history, 1963.

Education at Choate and Yale; advertising, 1925; Benton and Bowles; radio advertising, product research and pricing; Defense Council; America First movement; Connecticut rationing administrator; Price Administrator; relations with Congress, Cabinet, and government officials; Office of Price Administration; stabilization, postwar period; campaign for Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Connecticut, 1946; Americans for Democratic Action; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, United Nations Relief and Rehablitation Administration, 1946-1947; Governor, Connecticut, 1948-1950; appointment of William Benton as Senator from Connecticut; 1950 campaign; Ambassador to India, 1951-1953; Senate campaign, 1958; posts and relationships, Kennedy administration; Ambassador to India, 1963; Observations on national and international political figures, especially Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, James Byrnes, Donald Nelson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Adlai E. Stevenson.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 866 leaves.

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Potofsky, Jacob S. (Jacob Samuel), 1894-1979. Reminiscences of Jacob Samuel Potofsky : oral history, 1964.

Title: Reminiscences of Jacob Samuel Potofsky : oral history, 1964.

Family background and education in Russia; emigration to United States, Chicago; first job in Hart, Schaffner and Marx; 1910 Chicago clothing worker strike; United Garment Workers; Sidney Hillman; arbitration agreements; formation of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; industrial unionism; union banking; experiments with unemployment insurance; cooperative housing; the Depression; the New Deal.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 833 leaves.Tape: 3 reels.

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Goldstein, Jonah J., 1886-1967. Oral history interview with Jonah J. Goldstein, 1966.

Title: Oral history interview with Jonah J. Goldstein, 1966.

Early life in New York, N.Y., New York University Law School, 1909; Educational Alliance, Grand Street Boys; Secretary for Alfred E. Smith, 1911; numerous Jewish philanthropies; administering relief program, Palestine, 1929; Judge: accounts of court cases and work for court reform, 1931-56; Republican candidate for mayor, 1945; relationships with Felix Warburg, Senators Robert F. Wagner and Herbert Lehman, Mayors James Walker, Fiorello LaGuardia, William O'Dwyer.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 686 leaves.Tape: 3 reels.

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Cook, Charles D., 1924-. Reminiscences of Charles D. Cook : oral history, 1964.

Title: Reminiscences of Charles D. Cook : oral history, 1964.

Education and training in Michigan; United States Navy, 1943-1947: V-12 program, Saipan; Columbia University: Law School, School of International Affairs; United States Mission to United Nations (UN), 1950-1962: UN civil service, the Secretary Generalship, UN diplomacy, relations with United States State Department, Uniting for Peace resolution, admission of new members, voting, various crises; Henry Cabot Lodge, John Foster Dulles, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, Krishna Menon.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 658 leaves.

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Landis, James McCauley, 1899-1964. Reminiscences of James McCauley Landis : oral history, 1964.

Title: Reminiscences of James McCauley Landis : oral history, 1964.

Family background; childhood and education in Japan and United States; Harvard Law School ;early legal writings; secretary to Justice Louis Brandeis; professor, Harvard, 1926-34; government service, 1933-37; Dean, Harvard Law School, 1937-46; later government service: Civil Defense, World War II; Civil Aeronautics Board; Middle East; government studies and reports, 1953-60; 1956 and 1960 campaigns, elections; presidential adviser. Comments on Justices Felix Frankfurter, Oliver W. Holmes, and Benjamin Cardozo; Samuel Williston, Roscoe Pound, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph P. Kennedy, John L. Lewis, Fiorello La Guardia, King Farouk, Lord Moyne.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 685 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

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Dowling, Edward Duryea, 1894-1976. Reminiscences of Edward Duryea Dowling : oral history, 1963.

Title: Reminiscences of Edward Duryea Dowling : oral history, 1963.

Family background; childhood and education, Rhode Island; early vaudeville career; 1919-20 FOLLIES; Actors' strike, 1919; early plays: SALLY, IRENE, AND MARY; HONEYMOON LANE; SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK; Chrysler-Ziegfeld Radio Follies; New York City Democratic politics: William F. Kenny's Tiger Room; national and state campaigns, 1926-40, organization and finances; banking crisis; 1932 Federal Theater Project; organizer and first president, United Service Organizations Camp Shows, World War II; Tennessee Williams, THE GLASS MENAGERIE; Eugene O'Neill, THE ICEMAN COMETH; comments on many people in the theater, Hollywood, business, finance, and politics, including L. B. Mayer, Marcus Loew, Sarah Bernhardt, Boris Said, George Jean Nathan, Alfred E. Smith, J. J. Raskob, Tim Mara, Henry Morgenthau, Frank Hague, Joseph P. Kennedy, Michael Curley.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 838 leaves.

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