Alexander L. Crosby papers 1921-1980

White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985

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American author and humorist E.B. White was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell. After graduation he worked on odd jobs and travelled; while working as a copywriter, he submitted some essays to the newly founded New Yorker, which led to his long-term relationship with the magazine. White is generally credited with supplying New Yorker's signature style, a clever, whimsical, and highly allusive tone; over the years he contributed everything from essays and stories to photo capt...

Crosby, Alexander, 1906-1980

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Ajay, Abe

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Abe Ajay, painter and sculptor. Born 1919. Ad Reinhardt, painter. From the description of Abe Ajay correspondence with Ad Reinhardt, 1963-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502742 d. 1998. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122447838 B. 1919. From the description of Abe Ajay artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 22843213...

Boudin, Leonard, 1912-1989

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Lawyer. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Boudin, 1983. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722236 ...

Hiss, Alger.

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Alger Hiss was born in Baltimore in 1904, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1929, where he was a protege of Felix Frankfurter. He worked in several departments of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's New Deal administration before joining the Department of State in 1936. He accompanied Roosevelt to the conference at Yalta and served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in 1945. Hiss left the State Department in 19...

Aronson, James

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Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983

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Radical professor; socialist; pacifist during World War I era; author and lecturer; leader of "back-to-the-earth" movement. From the description of Papers, 1943-1988. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 20061606 American sociologist. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Toledo, Ohio, to Eckstein Case, Cleveland, Ohio, 1917 April 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806119 Scott Nearing began his career as a t...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Crosby, Alexander L.

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Active in union affairs of Local 3, New York City of the American Newspaper Guild in the late 1930s and early 1940s. On staff of the Labor Press and served several years as its unit chairman. He also served a term as vice-president of the Newark Guild, was a member of the New York Executive Committee, and was active in union negotiations. From the description of Alexander L. Crosby papers, 1933-1944, (bulk 1941-1942). (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat ...