Records on relief work in Czechoslovakia, 1938-1946.

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Records on relief work in Czechoslovakia, 1938-1946.

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Chiefly the records of Frederick May Eliot, president of the AmericanUnitarian Association from 1937 to 1958, who was on the Committee on Relief inCzechoslovakia, an early effort on behalf of several agences to aid the victims ofwar-torn Europe. The collection also includes considerable correspondence to and fromRobert Dexter, a member of the executive committee of a later group called theCommission for Service in Czechoslovakia, and some case file information onindividuals the Service Committee tried to assist.

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Committee on Relief in Czechoslovakia

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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...

Commission for Service in Czechoslovakia

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Waitstill Sharp

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T. G. Masaryk

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American Commission for Relief in Czechoslovakia.

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Masaryk, Jan

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Stransky, Charles

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Unitarian Service Committee

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The Unitarian Service Committee (USC) was formed as a standing committee of the American Unitarian Association in May 1940. Its purpose was to investigate opportunities in America and abroad for humanitarian service. During and after World War II, the Unitarian Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Service Committee continues to endeavor to advance human right...

Hull, Cordell

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Howlett, Duncan.

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Duncan Howlett was born in 1906 in Newton, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard, receiving an LLB degree in 1931. After practicing law for two years, he returned to Harvard in 1933 to study religion, receiving an STB degree in 1936. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1936 and served in churches in Salem, New Bedford, and Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to Center Lovell, Maine, and began to manage the forestland adjacent to his home. Interested in good forestry management and realizing th...

Theis family,

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