Papers, ca.1905-1989

Willis, Frances Elizabeth, 1899-1983

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Frances Elizabeth Willis was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, Norway and Sri Lanka. She was the third woman to enter the U.S. Foreign Service in 1927 and the first woman to make a career of it....

Wheaton, Anne Williams, 1892-1977

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Anne Williams Wheaton (1892-1977), journalist and public relations expert, was the Assistant Director of Publicity for the Republican National Committee from 1939 to 1957. From 1957 to 1961, Wheaton was Associate Press Secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower. ...

Priest, Ivy Baker, 1905-1975

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Ivy Baker Priest was born on September 7, 1905 in Kimberley, Utah. She became active in politics in the early 1930s, and joined the Young Republicans. Although she repeatedly won leadership positions in the Republican Party, she was defeated in a 1934 race for the Utah state legislature. Shortly after the legislative race, she was elected to a two-year term as co-chairman of the Young Republican organization for the eleven western states, from 1934 to 1936. From 1937 to 1939, Priest served as th...

Pace, Pearl Carter, 1896-1970

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Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace was born in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky on January 25, 1896. From 1917 to 1918 she was a public school teacher in the Cumberland County community of Marrowbone. Pace married Stanley Dan Pace on December 24, 1917, and they resided in Burkesville, Kentucky most of their married life. They had three children. Pace began her business career as a bookkeeper in 1924. In 1938, Pace achieved an outstanding goal: being the first woman in Kentucky to be elected to a ...

Howard, Katherine Graham, 1898-1986

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Katherine G. Howard (1898-1986) was born in Guyton, Georgia, also spending childhood years in North Carolina. Howard attended private girls' schools in North Carolina; Salem Academy and Salem College, where she majored in fine arts. She completed her bachelors degree at Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in politics and government. In 1921 she married Charles P. Howard, an attorney, who maintained a Boston Law practice and served periodically in a variety of public service posts. ...

Adkins, Bertha Sheppard, 1906-1983

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Bertha Sheppard Adkins (1906-1983) was a graduate of Wellesley College and later served as Dean of Women at Western Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland from 1934 to 1942. From 1948 to 1958 Adkins served with the Republican National Committee, and from 1958 to 1960 she served as Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. She served in the Nixon White House as a Special Assistant on President Nixon's Advisory Committee on Social Security. During 1971, she served as Vice Chairman at the...

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008

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Margaret Truman Daniel (1924-2008) was born in Independence, Missouri. She is the daughter of President Harry S. and Elizabeth Virginia (Bess) Truman. She married E. Clifton Daniel, Jr. (a newspaper editor), on April 21, 1956. After graduating from George Washington University in 1946, she embarked on a career as a coloratura soprano. She was also a successful radio personality as co-host of the program Weekday with Mike Wallace. Later, Truman became the successful author of a series of murde...

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a me...

Neuberger, Richard L. (Richard Lewis), 1912-1960

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Richard Lewis Neuberger (December 26, 1912 – March 9, 1960) was an American journalist, author, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served as a U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1955 until his death. Born in rural Multnomah County, Oregon, he grew up in nearby Portland where he attended public schools. Neuberger graduated from the University of Oregon in 1935, where he had served as editor of the student newspaper, the Oregon Daily Emerald. Neuberger began writing for the...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Nash, Ruth Cowan, 1901-1993

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Ruth Cowan Nash (June 15, 1901 - February 5, 1993) was the first woman war correspondent. She is famous for her coverage of World War II, during which she followed the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and reported on major battles for the Associated Press. Ruth Cowan Nash was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 15, 1901, the only child of parents William Henry and Ida (Baldwin) Cowan. Her father was a mining prospector who died in 1911, at which point Cowan's mother, Ida, bought a homestead in F...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Rogers, Edith Nourse, 1881-1960

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Edith Nourse Rogers (March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Born in Saco, Maine, her parents' affluence allowed Edith Nourse to be privately tutored until she was fourteen. She then attended and graduated from Rogers Hall School, a private boarding school for girls in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Madame Julien's School, a finishing schoo...

Miller, Helen Hill, 1899-1996

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Helen Hill Miller, economist and writer, daughter of Russell Day and Lucia (Elliott) Hill was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr in 1921, Diploma in Economics and Political Science from Oxford in 1922 and Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1928. She married Francis Pickens Miller in 1927. For three summers (1921, 1923, 1926) she tutored at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry and from 1927-1930 she travelled and studied in E...

Sullivan, Leonor K. (Leonor Kretzer), 1902-1988

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Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (August 21, 1902 – September 1, 1988) was an American educator, consumer advopcate, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman from Missouri to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri, serving twelve terms between 1953 and 1977. Born Leonor Kretzer in St. Louis, she took night classes at Washington University in St. Louis, focusing on vocational psychology. During the 1930s, she worked as an instructor in business and acc...

Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977

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Frances Payne Bingham Bolton (March 29, 1885 – March 9, 1977) was a Republican politician from Ohio. She served in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio. In the late 1930s Bolton took an isolationist position on foreign policy, opposing the Selective Service Act (the draft) in 1940, and opposing Lend-Lease in 1941. During the war she called for desegregation of the military nursing units, which were all-white and all-female. In 1947 she...

St. George, Katharine, 1894-1983

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Katharine Price Collier St. George (July 12, 1894 – May 2, 1983) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, and a cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Born Katharine Delano Price Collier in Bridgnorth, England and raised in Tuxedo Park, New York, she was later schooled in France, Switzerland, and Germany. In April 1917, Katharine Collier married George St. George who, by 1919, operated a wholesale coal brokerage on Wall Street. Katharine St....

Norton, Mary Teresa, 1875-1959

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Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins, March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, she attended parochial schools and Jersey City High School before graduating from Packard Business College, New York City in 1896. She worked as a secretary and stenographer until she married Robert Francis Norton in April 1909. As part of the healin...

Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...

MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

Spaatz, Carl, 1891-1974

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Carl Andrew Spaatz (born Spatz; June 28, 1891 – July 14, 1974), nicknamed "Tooey", was an American World War II general. As commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe in 1944, he successfully pressed for the bombing of the enemy's oil production facilities as a priority over other targets. He became Chief of Staff of the newly formed United States Air Force in 1947. Spaatz retired with the rank of general on June 30, 1948. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Servic...

Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995

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Margaret Chase Smith was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897. Her entry into politics came through the career of Clyde Smith, the man she married in 1930. Clyde was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1936. Margaret served as his secretary. When Clyde died in 1940, she succeeded her husband. After four terms in the House, she won election to the United States Senate in 1948. In so doing, she became the first woman elected to both houses of Congress. Senator Smi...

Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. Rankin graduated from the University of Montana in 1902. She subsequently attended the New York School of Philanthropy (later the New York, then the Columbia, School of Social Work) before embarking on a care...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971

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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, but lost the election to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Ha...

Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987

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Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician from the Republican Party. He served as the twenty-sixth Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. He was the Republican Party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt who won the electoral college vote 523 to 8. Born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, Landon spent most of his childhood in Marietta, Ohio before moving to Kansa...

Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965

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Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, and farmer who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd vice president of the United States, and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was also the presidential nominee of the left-wing Progressive Party in the 1948 election. The oldest son of Henry C. Wallace, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924, Henry A. Wallace was born in Adair County, Iowa in...

Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981

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Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, holding the rank of General of the Army. Bradley was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War. Born in Randolph County, Missouri, Bradley worked as a boilermaker before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from the academy in 1915 alongside Dwight D. Eisenh...

Maynor, Dorothy

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Singer. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy Maynor : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733402 ...

White, Katharine Elkers

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Roosevelt, James, 1828-1900

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Miller, Paul, 1906-1991

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Paul Miller (1906-1991); 1931 Oklahoma A & M College graduate, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press (1942-1947), chief executive officer of Gannett Co. Inc. (1957-1978) and chairman of the Associated Press (1963-1977). From the description of Papers, 1898-1992 (bulk 1957-1978). (Oklahoma State University Library). WorldCat record id: 29421212 ...

Fry, Grace

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Furman, Bess, 1894-

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Harwell, Coleman

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Tildy, Madame Zoltan

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Zirbes, Laura, 1884-1967

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Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982

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Ingrid Bergman (b. 29 August 1915, Stockholm, Sweden-d. 29 August 1982, London, England) was a Swedish acrtess. After starring in Intermezzo (1939), she rose to fame in the US. Bergman is well known for Casablance (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), and several Alfred Hitchock films. She was married Petter Aron Lindstrom and later married director Roberto Rossellini....

Gulick, Carol (Moffett)

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Weis, Jessica, 1901-1963

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Jessica "Judy" McCullough Weis (July 8, 1901 – May 1, 1963) was a two-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Rochester, New York. Born in Chicago, she as educated at the Franklin School in Buffalo, at Miss Wright's School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and at Madame Rieffel's French School in New York City. In 1921 she married Charles William Weis Jr. of Rochester, New York. Judy Weis joined the Rochester Junior League and participated in other local charities, ...

Thompson, Malvina, 1893-1953

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Horak, Henriette

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Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961

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Director, Central Intelligence Agency. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to John Steinbeck, 1952 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775807446 From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Bernard Baruch, 1951 Mar. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775806212 Walter Bedell Smith (1895-1961), soldier and diplomat, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of William Long Smith and Ida Frances Bedell, both buyers ...

Collins, Jean E.

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Simons, Frieda Hennock, 1904-1960.

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A New York lawyer, Simons was the first woman member of the Federal Communications Commission, to which she was appointed in 1948. From the description of Papers, 1922-1960 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006849 ...

Morse, True D.

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May, Geraldine P. (Geraldine Pratt), 1895-1997

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Colonel Geraldine Pratt May (April 21, 1895-November 2, 1997) was the first director of Women in the Air Force (WAF) and the first woman colonel in the United States Air Force. May joined the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in July of 1942. She was promoted to staff director of WAC's Air Transport Command in March of 1943. In 1948, May became the first director of the newly created Women in the Air Force (WAF) and was promoted to the rank of colonel making her the first woman colonel in the United Stat...

Kernodle, Margaret

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Overseas Press Club of America.

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The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in New York City in the 1940s by a group of 42 foreign correspondents. From the description of Records, 1976-1991. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 27137284 ...

Landon, Margaret Fleming

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White House Conference on Aging 1961 Washington, D.C.

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Pavlichenko, Liudmila

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Mendes-France, Pierre

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Pohlman, Millie

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Nash, Bradley De Lamater, 1900-

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Bradley DeLamater Nash (1900-1997), economist, was assistant to the Secretary of Commerce from 1927 to 1929, and financial adviser to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation from 1932 to 1935. He served as Director of the Bureau of Finance and War Production Board from 1941 to 1942. He was a consultant to the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization in 1953, then served as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation from 1957 to 1961. From the description of...

Westlake, William

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Welsh, Estelle

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Hoskins, Samuel

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Jagger, Claude A.

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Murrow, Edward R. (Edward Roscoe), 1908-1965

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965), born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. After the war, in December 1945 Murrow an offer to become a vice president of the CBS network and head o...

Houston Chronicle

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McKee, Rose

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Deadline Delayed

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Webb, James E. (James Edwin), 1906-

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Government official and businessman. From the description of Letter : Washington, D.C., to Mattie U. Russell, 1976 Sept. 22. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 26997249 James Edwin Webb (1906-1992), lawyer and government official, was the Director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1946 to 1949, Under Secretary of State from 1949 to 1952, and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1961 to 1968. From the description of We...

Women's Press Club of London.

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Cooper, Kent, 1880-1965

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Journalist and Associated Press executive. From the description of Papers, 1905-1985. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 39178606 ...

McLaughlin, Kathleen.

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Writer, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Kathleen McLaughlin : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684257 ...

Price, Byron, 1891-1981

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Dunnigan, Alice Allison, 1906-1983

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Teacher, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Alice Allison Dunnigan : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419371 Alice Allison Dunnigan, journalist and author, was born in Russellville, Kentucky in 1906 and died in Washington, D.C., in 1983. After teaching school and working as a writer for several Kentucky newspapers, Dunnigan moved to Washington, DC, where, from 1947 to 1961, she served as chief of the ...

Arne, Sigrid

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Reading, Lady Stella

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Roosevelt, Elizabeth

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Prewett, Virginia

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Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982

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Elizabeth Virginia “Bess” Truman was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. She served as her husband’s secretary and was known for often voicing her opinions. Whistle-stopping in 1948, President Harry Truman often ended his campaign talk by introducing his wife as “the Boss” and his daughter, Margaret, as “the Boss’s Boss,” and they smiled and waved as the train picked up steam. The sight of that close-knit family gallantly fighting against such lo...

Cowan, Ida Baldwin, 1865-1944.

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West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

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Rebecca West was a British author and journalist. Born Cicily Fairfield, of Scots-Irish heritage, she adopted the name of the strong-willed heroine of Ibsen's play, Rosmershmolm. She trained as an actress, but concentrated on writing and contributed to various liberal journals. In addition to social commentary and literary criticism, she wrote novels; her writing was distinguished by passion, intelligence, and style. Her personal life included a decade-long affair with H.G. Wells, affairs with C...

Associated press

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Randolph, Jennings, 1902-

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Coe, Richard L. (Richard Livingstone), 1914-1995

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Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975

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Journalist, biographer of Fritz Kreisler. From the description of Louis Lochner papers, 1914-1958. 1914-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 658833559 From the description of Louis Lochner papers, 1914-1958. 1914-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984260 ...

United Press Associations

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News wire service. From the description of United Press Associations miscellaneous records, 1940-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869208 Biographical/Historical Note News wire service. From the guide to the United Press Associations miscellaneous records, 1940-1941, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Strom, Else

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American Newspaper Women's Club

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Starzel, Frank J.

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Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 1854-1941

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Hager, Alice Rogers

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Sayre, Mrs. Raymond

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Troxel, Dorothy A.

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Margot Knight

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Harlow, Bryce L., 1949-

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Hall, Nana

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Louchheim, Katie, 1903-

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Louchheim was a government official and active in the Democratic Party. From the description of Oral histories, 1974-1976 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008480 Government official Louchheim was born in New York City, graduated from Rosemary Hall School (1921), and attended Columbia (1926-1927). She worked for the League of Women Voters and held numerous positions in the Democratic Party. From the description of Interview, 1968. (Harvard...

Smith, Helena Huntington

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Stassen, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1907-2001

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Lawyer; governor. From the description of Reminiscences of Harold Edward Stassen : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513413 American politician. From the description of Letter, 1945 April 30, San Francisco, to Helen M. Taft, Mendon, Mass. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953452 Stassen was born in Minnesota in 1907. His political career began in 1930 when he was elected as Dakota County at...

Federal Council on Aging (U.S.)

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Shaver, Dorothy

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Dierks, Barry

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Estill, Alice King

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Hope, Pauline

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Hackler, Victor

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Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959

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George Catlett Marshall (b. December 31, 1880, Uniontown, Pennsylvania-d. October 16, 1959, Washington, D.C.), had a long and auspicious career in the United States (U.S.) Army and to the United States. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1901 and served his country as U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Envoy to China, Army Chief of Staff, and as President of the American Red Cross. Marshall, America's first five-star general, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, ...

Stevenson, Ellen Borden

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Former wife of Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr. From the description of The free press : handwritten poem, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980791 ...

Thomsen, Annelise

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Taft, Martha

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Gray, Gordon

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Fleeson, Doris

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Reavis, Hazel

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Mitchell, Ruth Crawford, 1890-

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Career: born June 2, 1890, Atlantic Heights, New Jersey; daughter of Stanford and Gertrude (Smith) Crawford; B.A. Vassar, 1912; M.A. Washington University, 1915; married LeRoy Bradley Mitchell, November 27, 1923. Activities and honors include Social Survey of Prague sponsored by War Council of the Y.W.C.A., U.S.A.; Czech-American Summer Training School for Social Workers; return trips in 1925, 1936, 1946, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1969; Treasurer, Masaryk Publications Trust, 1959- ; The Cross of Knight ...

Kennedy, Edward

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Young, Marjorie W. (Marjorie Willis), 1902-

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Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945

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Ernest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize—winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World W...

Wells, Fay Gillis, 1908-

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Solomon, Gladis

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Sparkman, Ivo

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Albert, Irene

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Stassen, Esther

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Roberts, Kenneth Creighton

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Patton, Beatrice

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Nordness, Ned

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Wickens, Aryness Joy

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Economist, government executive; interviewee married David L. Wickens. From the description of Reminiscences of Aryness Joy Wickens : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735816 Statistician and economic analyst, Aryness Joy Wickens worked at the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Department of Labor from 1926 to 1970. From the description of Papers, 1936-1978 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record ...

Benson, Flora Amussen, 1901-1992

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Gould, Alan J.

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Helm, Edith

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Parks, F. L.

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Bunnelle, Robert

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Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-2009

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Edward Moore Kennedy (b. Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Mass.-d. Aug. 25, 2009), graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1956, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He was elected democratic senator from Massachusetts in 1962, served until his death in August 2009. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County from 1961 to 1962, and sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1980....

Mesta, Perle Skirvin, 1891-

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Morgan, Gwen

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Tabouis, Genevieve

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Stearns, Jessie

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Hickok, Lorena A.

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Newspaper reporter, author. Hickok (1893-1968) was a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. She was assigned to cover Mrs. Roosevelt during the 1932 Presidential campaign. She worked with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933-1936, and was the author of several books on Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Keller. From the description of Papers, 1913-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155523285 ...

Vasilakos, Steve

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Jones, Gladys Moon

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Canadian Red Cross Society

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Mannon, Virginia M.

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Shepard, Lily Lykes

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Beale, William L., Jr.

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Van Asch Van Wijck, Cornelia

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Republican National Committee (U.S.)

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Landon was the 1936 Republican presidential nominee. He lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt, but had the second highest number of votes out of a number of contenders for the position. He was governor of Kanses, 1933-1937. From the description of Campaign Pamphlets, [1935]. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 42033301 ...

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Hornaday, Mary

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Bonnier, Tora

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San Antonio Evening News

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Gingras, Angele de Tranaltes

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Herrick, Genevieve Forbes

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Washington Press Club Foundation

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Van Kleffens, Mme. Eelco Nicolaas

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Davis, Robert

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Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x00028d ...

Palencia, Senora Isabel de

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Mackie, Albert David, 1904-

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