Waymack, W. W. (William Wesley), 1888-1960
Variant namesWaymack was a Pulitzer Prize winning editor of the Des Moines Register and tribune, 1931-1946, and one of the original members of the first Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1949. He also served as chairman of the Economic Policy Committee, 1938-1941, and was a member of the Iowa Farm Tenancy Committee, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Allied Mission for the Observation of Greek Elections (1946). Waymack was involved in over one hundred organizations and projects. His correspondents include many of the leading political figures of the day.
From the description of Papers / W.W. Waymack. 1927-1961. (Iowa Sate Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 15141212
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associatedWith | Berry, Don L. (Don Lytton), 1880-1974. | person |
associatedWith | Biermann, Frederick Elliott, 1884-1968. | person |
correspondedWith | Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946. | person |
associatedWith | Des Moines Register and Tribune. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Fox, Fontaine, 1884-1964. | person |
correspondedWith | Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966 | person |
associatedWith | Iowa Farm Tenancy Committee. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Iowa Library Association. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Lange, Dorothea. | person |
associatedWith | Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865). | corporateBody |
correspondedWith | Shambaugh family. | family |
associatedWith | Spivak, John L., 1897-1981 | person |
associatedWith | Spivak, John Louis, 1897- . | person |
associatedWith | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. | corporateBody |
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Birth 1888
Death 1960
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