Papers of Frieda Hennock Simons, 1922-1960

Frazier, Alicia Dupont.

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Brewster, Owen, 1888-1961

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Lawyer, statesman, governor of Maine, and U.S. senator; b. Ralph Owen Brewster. From the description of Christmas card, 1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70926064 ...

Schwarz, Hilda G.

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Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1853

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Robert A. Taft More than "Mr. Republican" In 1947, Republican Senator Robert A. Taft was at the peak of his power, commanding a coalition of conservative Republicans and southern Democrats to thwart President Harry S. Truman's domestic agenda. Taft's most impressive achievement came in June. The labor-restricting Taft-Hartley Act survived Truman's veto and won Taft the admiration of the press corps. Yet he did not seek the highest political office in the Senate; indeed, the title "majority...

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 ...

Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976

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Business executive and U.S. postmaster general 1933-1940. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1949. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122446088 James A. Farley was a Democratic party leader and a U.S. Postmaster General. From the description of James A. Farley letter, 1971 Feb. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122411243 Politician. From the description of Reminiscences of James Aloysius ...

Klein, Julius, 1886-1957.

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Director, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1921-1929; assistant secretary of commerce, 1929-1933. From the description of Julius Klein papers, 1928-1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868928 ...

Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910-1991

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Robert F. Wagner, three term Mayor of New York City was born April 20, 1910 on the upper east side of Manhattan, New York. He attended Taft School in Connecticut, Yale University, the Harvard Graduate School of Business, the School of International Relations in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Yale University Law School, from which he graduated in 1937. At the age of 26, Wagner was elected to the State Assembly from the Yorkville District and he served in that position for four years. From 1942 to 1...

White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955

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Executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243854199 Walter Francis White (1893-1955), was an African American civil rights activist and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1931-1955. Walter White married Leah Gladys Powell (1893-1979) in 1922, and they ...

Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963

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Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was an American investment banker and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served from 1933 until 1942 as the 45th Governor of New York and as U.S. Senator from New York between 1949 and 1957. Born in Manhattan, he attended The Sachs School and Sachs Collegiate Institute before earning a B.A. from Williams College. After graduating, Lehman worked in textile manufacturing, eventually becoming vice-president and treasu...

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...

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–...

Edwards, India

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Political activist. From the description of Reminiscences of India Edwards : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122598141 Government official and journalist. From the description of Papers, 1928-1977. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70943999 Edwards was born in Chicago and worked as a journalist (1918-1942) before becoming active in the women's division of the Democratic Party...

Brewster, Owen

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Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Secretary of War Henry ...

Frazier, Alicia Dupont

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Hawkes, Albert W. (Albert Wahl), 1878-1971

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Farley, James

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Wagner, Robert

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United States. Federal Communications Commission

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Hennock, Frieda

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Schwarz, Hilda G.

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Armstrong, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard), 1890-1954

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Edwin Howard Armstrong is one of America's greatest inventors and scientists. He was born in New York City on December 18, 1890 and died there on January 31, 1954. Armstrong studied electrical engineering at Columbia University. In 1912 he invented a feedback circuit that allowed signals to be produced with greatly increased amplification. This invention is the basis of radio and television and for it he was awarded the Franklin Medal, the highest U.S. scientific honor. In 1933 he invention circ...

Klein, Julius

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Julius Klein (1869-1928), a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman was born in Legenye-Michalyi, Slovakia, Austria-Hungary, and emigrated to the United States in 1885. He lived successively in Chicago, Illinois; Toledo, Ohio; and the Bronx, New York City, before settling in Cleveland in 1900. In 1900, Julius Klein and Rebecca Korach (Klein's future mother-in-law) purchased a skirt manufacturing company at 76-78 Bank Street, formerly known as Goodman and Korach Co. In this new company, known as Julius Klei...

Johnson, Edwin M., 1891-1968

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Frieda Hennock Simons, 1904-1960

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Appointed by President Truman in 1948 to the Federal Communications Commission, Frieda Hennock, a New York lawyer, was the first woman member of a major federal regulatory agency. From the guide to the Papers, 1922-1960, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) ...

Taft, Robert A.

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White, Walter

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Epithet: Assistant Sec and Librarian Royal Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x0003dc ...

Fly, James Lawrence, 1898-1966

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Fly was General Counsel of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1934-1939; Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.), 1939-1944; and later in private practice as an attorney before the F.C.C., a member of the board of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a frequent lecturer about radio, television, and freedom of speech. From the description of James Lawrence Fly papers, 1920-1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495526579 ...