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Hart, James, 1896-1959. Letters to Professor James Hart from eminent Americans in the fields of politics and political science on governmental policy and problems [manuscript] 1915-1953.

Title: Letters to Professor James Hart from eminent Americans in the fields of politics and political science on governmental policy and problems [manuscript] 1915-1953.

Correspondents include: Edwin A. Alderman, Warren R. Austin, John S. Battle, Charles Beard, Hugo L. Black, Anna R. Boettiger, Isaiah Bowman, Harry Flood Byrd, James F. Brynes, Thomas Terry Connally, Edward S. Corwin, John Dickenson, Paul H. Douglas, Clarence Addison Dykstra, Stephen Early, Felix Frankfurter, Walter E. George, C. O'Conor Goolrick, Robert E. Hannegan, William Hassett, Leon Henderson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes, Harold L. Ickes, Robert K. Jackson, Eric A. Johnston, Estes Kefauver, James McCauley Landis, William Langer, Theodore Marburg, Marvin H. McIntyre, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, John W. Owens, Thomas Walker Page, Philip Peyton, Roscoe Pound, Thomas Reed Powell, George L. Radcliffe, Robert Ramspeck, Dorsey Richardson, Lawrence Richey, Albert C. Ritchie, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W. Smith, Morris A. Soper, Harold A. Stassen, Hatton W. Sumners, Stuart Symington, Robert A. Taft, William H. Taft, William M. Tuck, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Robert F. Wagner, Edwin M. Watson, Burton K. Wheeler, and Wendell L. Wilkie.

ArchivalResource: 95 items.

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u3904009 View

Williams, Osgood, 1913-. Osgood Williams oral history interview, 1988 May 12.

Title: Osgood Williams oral history interview, 1988 May 12.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Osgood Williams on May 12, 1988 in which he discusses A.T. Walden; Primus King case; black disfranchisement; Plan of Improvement; James V. Carmichael; Gene Talmadge; Tom Watson; Franklin D. Roosevelt; political parties; voter registration in rural areas for 1946; enfranchisement of blacks; NAACP; Atlanta Negro Voters League; Bill Hartsfield; Buckhead; East Point; Ku Klux Klan; MARTA; Daniel Duke and the flogging trials; John Boykin; county unit system; Walter O. Brooks; Senator Walter George; Henry Wallace; Mankin/Davis congressional race (1946); 1954 Morris Abram-James Davis congressional race; Charles Weltner; Scott Candler; Wyman Lowe; Columbians; Helen Mankin; Hank Henderson; county unit system controversy; Margaret MacDougall; "Active Voters" plaques; Sam Sibley; Elbert Tuttle; opposition to Wage Stabilization Board; Huey Long; New Deal in Georgia; and Ellis Arnall.

ArchivalResource: 2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (88 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477743 View

George Van Horn Moseley Papers, 1855-1960, (bulk 1916-1959)

Title: George Van Horn Moseley Papers 1855-1960 (bulk 1916-1959)

Army officer. Correspondence, diary, military reports, statements, notes, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and memorabilia covering Moseley's military career in the Philippines, on the Mexican border, with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, during the Bonus March on Washington, and extending into the period of his retirement.

ArchivalResource: 4,250 items; 49 containers plus 2 oversize; 19.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001037 View

Blair Moody Papers, 1928-1954, 1934-1952

Title: Blair Moody Papers

Detroit newspaperman and United States Senator from Michigan. Correspondence chiefly concerning his 1952 senatorial campaign and his newspaper work in the United States and abroad during World War II; scrapbooks of newspaper articles written by Moody and published for the most part in the and ; tape recordings of public affairs radio program; photographs and motion pictures of public affairs interview programs. Detroit News Barron's

ArchivalResource: 27.5 linear feet (in 29 boxes), 29 film reels, 60 phonograph records, 37 GB (online)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8634?rgn=main;view=text View

Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961, Papers, 1822, 1831, 1845, 1903-2007

Title: Sam Rayburn papers, 1822, 1831, 1845, 1903-2007

Rayburn served as a Texas legislator from 1906 to 1912, when he was elected to the United States Congress. He was elected House majority leader, Democratic Party, in 1937, holding that position until 1940 when he was named Speaker of the House. He continued in that office until his death in 1961, except for two periods of Republican control when he served as minority leader. Correspondence, speeches, interviews, newspaper clippings, printed materials, financial records, maps, charts, and reports document the political career of Sam Rayburn.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00181/00181-P.html View

Walker, L. C. (Louis Carlisle), 1875-1963. Louis Carlisle Walker papers, 1881-1963.

Title: Louis Carlisle Walker papers, 1881-1963.

Correspondence, scrapbooks, printed materials and miscellanea concerning student activities at University of Michigan, the Shaw-Walker Company of Muskegon, Michigan, unemployment during the Depression, State Republican Party affairs, political conservatism, the Muskegon Red Cross, Liberty Bond drives and the United States Shipping Board during World War II, and his activity as an author and patron of conservative writers.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78784678 View

Wright, David McCord, 1909-1968. Papers of David McCord Wright [manuscript], 1820-1953.

Title: Papers of David McCord Wright [manuscript], 1820-1953.

Correspondence, 1938-1953, of David McCord Wright, including letters from Charles C. Abbott, Willard E. Atkins, D.H. Robertson, Wesley C. Mitchell, George Terborgh, Eugenio Gudin, Charles E. Lindblom, Edward H. Chamberlain, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Eli Shapiro. Correspondence, 1938-1942, from the University of Virginia, including letters from E.I. Carruthers, Tipton R. Snavely, Elbert A. Kincaid, J.L. Newcomb. Personal correspondence, 1939-1952, including letters from A.E. Buckingham, Howard Nicholson, John Gange, Charles J. Kersten, James G. Campaigne, Joseph W. Sharp, and others. Copies of Wright's letters, 1949-1953, including letters to Arthur Smities, Frederick E. Nolting, Murat Williams, Emerson Schmidt, T. Coleman Andrews, Charles C. Abbott, M.B. Swayze, Harry F. Byrd, Lewis H. Haney, Labor and Nation; memo from Victor M. Longstreet to Alvin Hansen, 1941 July 2, regarding manuscript of Wright's. Correspondence of Anton P. Wright, 1928-1947, including letters to Eugene R. Black, Walter F. George, Harry J. Haas, and a memorial to Edward Chase Brennan. There is also material regarding the formation of the University of Virginia Graduate School of Business Administration, 1950-1953, and material regarding the Economics Department of the University of Virginia, and annual reports, 1935-1941, of the James Wilson School of Economics. Notes and class outlines from Wright's graduate studies, including 17 notebooks. Manuscript of Physical versus financial measures of capital consumption, with letter from A.E. Monroe, 1939 June 26. Manuscript and research notes for Langdon Cheves, including letters from James O. Wettereau, Walter B. Smith, and copies of correspondence of Jonathan Roberts, Robert Gilmor, Henry Clay, John Tayloe, Nicholas Biddle and Langdon Cheves; list of economics library of Langdon Cheves. Manuscripts by David McCord Wright, including "A pair of scissors," "Adventure and review," "What sort of man was Shakespeare," "UNESCO report on education in the social sciences and law in the United States," "Langdon Cheves and Nicholas Biddle," "The prospects for capitalism," etc. Reprints and manuscripts of articles by Y. Brozen, Donald Dewey, Seymour E. Harris, Jørgen Pedersen, Alvin H. Hansen, R.F. Harrod, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Gottfried Haberer, Jacob Viner and others. Group photographs of: Upsilon Chapter of Delta Psi, 1931-1935, and Minor Chapter of Phi Delta Phi, 1934-1935.

ArchivalResource: 800 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647846304 View

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-. Jimmy Carter oral history interview, 1987 Feb. 17.

Title: Jimmy Carter oral history interview, 1987 Feb. 17.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Jimmy Carter on February 17, 1987 in which he discusses his father's interests and influence on Carter; civic interests after the Navy; Carter's reasons for running for state senate; early political career; CCC and REA programs; father's attitudes toward Franklin Roosevelt and Walter George; mother's political interests; racism in 1964 presidential election; racial discrimination; chairman of school board; obstacles to voter registration; Georgian attitudes on discrimination; Joe Hurst voting fraud; county unit system; Carter's approach to politics; 1966 governor's race; Carter's agenda as governor; accomplishments and disappointments of governorship; George Busbee; George Wallace; multi-racial committees to solve racial differences; 1970 decision to run for governor; 1970 problems with Atlanta newspapers; newspapers during administration; Hal Gulliver; Lester Maddox; Ed Muskie; methods for getting programs through the legislature; Tom Linder, Jr.; and Richard B. Russell.

ArchivalResource: 1 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (39 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477576 View

Walker, L. C. (Louis Carlisle), 1875-1963. Louis Carlisle Walker papers, 1881-1963.

Title: Louis Carlisle Walker papers, 1881-1963.

Correspondence, scrapbooks, printed materials and miscellanea concerning student activities at University of Michigan, the Shaw-Walker Company of Muskegon, Michigan, unemployment during the Depression, State Republican Party affairs, political conservatism, the Muskegon Red Cross, Liberty Bond drives and the United States Shipping Board during World War II, and his activity as an author and patron of conservative writers.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34420843 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Thomas G. Corcoran Papers, 1792-1982, (bulk 1965-1980)

Title: Thomas G. Corcoran Papers 1792-1982 (bulk 1965-1980)

Lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, notes, reports, briefs, opinions, testimony, family papers, business records, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers documenting Corcoran's private legal practice and his government service during the first two presidential terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 175,175 items; 638 containers plus 1 classified; 245.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003011 View

Pilcher, John L. (John Leonard), 1898-1981. John L. Pilcher papers, 1941-1976 (bulk 1953-1964).

Title: John L. Pilcher papers, 1941-1976 (bulk 1953-1964).

The collection consists of congressional papers of John L. Pilcher from 1941-1976. Includes correspondence, speeches, telegrams, reports, newsclippings, press releases, legislative materials, and photographs documenting Pilcher's activities as a U.S. Representative from Georgia. The bulk of the materials cover his term in Congress from 1953-1964 and reflect his interests in agriculture, small business, civil rights, and foreign affairs. Also includes documentation of Pilcher's strong support of the 1960 Kennedy-Johnson presidential ticket. Correspondents include Ellis Arnall, Walter George, Lyndon B. Johnson, Carl Sanders, and S. Ernest Vandiver.

ArchivalResource: 70 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477408 View

President's alphabetical file, 1933-1945.

Title: President's alphabetical file, 1933-1945.

Correspondence from the general public, referral sheets on correspondence referred to other agencies, and cross reference sheets on correspondence filed elsewhere in the White House; letters that remained in this file generally concerned requests for jobs, pensions, and small favors or expressed general effusions of support for and opposition to Roosevelt and his policies. Material represents an approximate 2 percent of the total, except for the alphabetical series, Aa through Fleming, 1933-1937, which was preserved on microfilm in its entirety. Includes correspondence with Walter F. George, 1933-1945; William Green (American Federation of Labor), 1933-1945; Joseph F. Guffey, 1933-1945; Morris Shepard, 1933-1940; the American Labor Party, 1937-1945; Viola Ilma, 1933-1944; Florence S. Kerr, 1936-1944; Louis Ludlow, 1933-1945; Claude Pepper, 1933-1945; the United Mine Workers of America, 1941-1943; and Burton K. Wheeler, 1933-1945. Also, letters concerning Japan and the Japanese, 1937-1945.

ArchivalResource: 54 linear ft., 178 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155525221 View

Oliver Max Gardner Papers (#3613), 1892-1966

Title: Oliver Max Gardner Papers (#3613) 1892-1966

Oliver Max Gardner (1882-1947), lawyer of Shelby, N.C., and Washington, D.C.; state senator, 1910-1915, lieutenant governor, 1916-1920, and governor, 1929-1933, of North Carolina. He married Fay Webb (1885-1969), who was active in the Democratic Party and in women's organizations. The collection includes corrrespondence, legal documents, financial records, speeches, press releases, political campaign materials, photographs, college notebooks, and scrapbooks of O. Max Gardner, 1892-1947; of Gardner family members, 1905-1966; of Shelby lawyer, businessman, and politician Odus M. Mull, 1930-1942; and of Shelby educator Isaac C. Griffin, 1917-1918. Included are items relating to Fay Webb Gardner and other family members. Legal papers give insight into adoption, child custody cases, land sales, and estate and debt settlements in Cleveland County, N.C.; into corporate litigation, 1920s-1930s; into the establishment of the Ackland Art Museum; and into legal affairs of the textile, soft drink, and aviation industries. Political papers describe the state State Democratic Executive Committee's organizing efforts, 1908-1915, 1930-1936; state and national political campaigns, 1900s-1950s; and the offices of North Carolina lieutenant governor, 1916-1921, and governor, 1929-1933. Letters comment the New Deal; Democratic Party patronage; the Supreme Court packing controversy of 1937; and economic policy, taxation, and industrial policy. Business papers document Shelby Public Schools during World War I and the operation of family businesses. Personal correspondence, photographs, notebooks, and scrapbooks document the Gardners' courtship; family activities during World War II; the endowment of Gardner-Webb College; administration of North Carolina State College and the University of North Carolina; the role of the political wife; and the activities of women's organizations. Significant correspondents include Graham Anthony, Josiah W. Bailey, William T. Bost, J. Melville Broughton, Cale K. Burgess, Josephus Daniels, Victor Emanuel, William C. Friday, Edwin M. Gill, Ben Gossett, Frank P. Graham, John W. Hanes, Robert M. Hanes, Clyde R. Hoey, H. Wiseman Kendall, Russell Leonard, A. J. Maxwell, Angus McLean, Holt McPherson, Julian S. Miller, Cameron Morrison, Fred W. Morrison, Odus M. Mull, John Parker, D. Hiden Ramsey, Harry Riemer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Rogers, W. Kerr Scott, Robert Stevens, Vernon Taylor, Bess Truman, Harry S Truman, William B. Umstead, Lindsay Warren, Lee Weathers, Edwin Y. Webb, James E. Webb, J. Wallace Winborne, and Robert Woodruff. Additions include deeds and other documents relating to real estate transactions in and around Shelby, N.C.; items relating to the death of O. Max Gardner; and family correspondence, particularly of Gardner's sisters, one of whom lived in Alberta, Canada, and his niece, who lived in rural Washington state.

ArchivalResource: About 32,000 items (47.0 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Gardner,Oliver_Max.html View

Busbee, George, 1927-2004,. George Busbee oral history interviews, 1987 Mar. 24 and 31.

Title: George Busbee oral history interviews, 1987 Mar. 24 and 31.

The collection consists of oral history interviews with George Busbee on March 24 and 31, 1987 in which he discusses childhood and family background; education; values; early law career; early political career; influence of Walter F. George; rural roads controversy; Sibley Commission; law partners following governorship; Jimmy Carter's contested 1962 legislative election; political positioning in the General Assembly; county unit system; reapportionment; Arthur Bolton; George L. Smith; Maddox Hale; assessment of various governors; power of various political appointments; Carter's governmental reorganization; Robin Harris; influence of Dot Wood; strategy in 1974 governor's race; finances; main programs while governor; political appointments; government reorganization; prisons; style of administration; Jesse Bowles affair; Busbee's pension; racial policies; and current interests and activities.

ArchivalResource: 3 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (89 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477572 View