John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971

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Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State, born Dean Gooderham Acheso, in Middletown, Connecticut, on April 11, 1893. After being educated at Yale University (1912-1915) and Harvard Law School (1915-18) he became private secretary to the Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis from 1919 to 1921. A supporter of the Democratic Party, Acheson worked for a law firm in Washington, D.C., before President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933. During World War II (1941),...

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...

Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986

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Jacob Koppel Javits (May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Javits served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York's 21st congressional district from 1947 to 1954, as the 58th Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1957 until 1981. After graduating from New York University School of Law, he established a law practice in New York City. During World War II, he serv...

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...

Weeks, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1898-1989

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Edward A. Weeks (1898-1989) was an author, essayist, and editor for the Atlantic Monthly . He was also author of more than 10 books, including: Breaking into Print: an Editor's Advice on Writing (1962); In Friendly Candor [1959]; and Writers and Friends (1981). Weeks opposed censorship and, during the 1920's, served as chairman of the Massachusetts Committee to Reform Book Censorship. From the guide to the Edward Weeks Letter to Mrs. Henry Pettit (MS 235), 16 June 1961...

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...

Webb, Walter Prescott, 1888-1963

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Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888 in Panola County, Texas – March 8, 1963 near Austin, Texas) was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas. He is also noted for his early criticism of the water usage patterns in the region. In 2012, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy &#38 Western Heritage Museum. Webb w...

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...

Brooks, Paul, 1909-1998

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Paul Brooks (1909–1998) was a nature writer, book editor, and environmentalist. Born in New York City, Paul Brooks received in 1931 his bachelor's degree from Harvard University, where he was the editor of the Harvard Lampoon. Soon after graduation, he became an employee at the publishing company Houghton Mifflin in Boston and remained with the company for 40 years. He was editor-in-chief of Houghton Mifflin's General Book Department from 1943 until his retirement in 1969. He wrote Two Park S...

Jackson, Gardner, 1896-1965

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Gardner Jackson graduated from Amherst College and attended Columbia University. From 1919-1920, he worked for Boettcher, Porter and Company. During 1920, Gardner also reported for the Denver Times. Later in 1920, he moved to Boston, to work as a reporter for the Boston Globe. In the years 1921-1927 Gardner spearheaded the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti. From 1931-1933, Gardner Jackson reported for several Canadian papers: Montreal Star, Toronto Star and the Toronto Telegram. In 1933, he relocate...

Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), Jr., 1917-2007

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Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism. In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 an...

Haley, Alex, 1921-1992

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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Auto...

Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943

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Kermit Roosevelt I (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943), recipient of the Military Cross, was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. The son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit was a graduate of Harvard College, served in both World Wars (in World War I with both the British and American armies), and explored two continents with his father. He fought a lifelong battle with depression and committed suicide while serving in the U.S. Army in Alaska d...

United States. Department of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 1927-2003

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, also Pat Moynihan, (born March 16, 1927, Tulsa, Oklahoma – died March 26, 2003, Washington, D.C.), American politician, sociologist, and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate and served as an adviser to Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon. Moynihan moved at a young age to New York City. Following a stint in the navy, he earned a Ph.D. in history from Tufts University. He worked on the staff of New York Gove...

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998

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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the...

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979

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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973. He also served as assistant secretary of State for American Republic Affairs for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1944–1945) as well as under secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1954....

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. At one point he helped run his ...

Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000

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From 1971 to 1976 Carl Albert served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the highest elected public office held by an Oklahoman. On May 10, 1908, Albert was born at the Bolen-Darnell mining camp near McAlester to Ernest Homer and Leona Ann Scott Albert. He was the oldest of five children. A few years later the family moved to a farm near Bugtussle (also called Flowery Mound), and Albert attended primary school. In 1923 he enrolled at McAlester High School, his worn overalls belying ...

Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989

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Historian and writer Tuchman (1912- ) received an A.B. from Radcliffe College (1933), and worked as a journalist and editor. She is the author of many prize-winning works, including The Guns of August (1962) and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971). From the description of Letter, 1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007438 New York-born American journalist and historian; Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Guns of August, 1962. Fro...

Kristol, Irving, 1920-2009

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Irving Kristol (born January 22, 1920, Brooklyn, New York-Died September 18, 2009, Falls Church, Virginia) was a journalist known as the "godfather of neoconservatism." Kristol played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half of the twentieth century....

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Luce, Henry, III, 1925-2005

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Henry Luce III (1925-2005) was born in New York City in 1925, the elder son of Henry Robinson Luce, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., and Lila Hotz Tyng. He served in the U.S. Navy and graduated from Yale University. He worked for Time Inc. for thirty years, as publisher of Fortune and Time magazines and a member of the board of directors for Time Inc. and then Time Warner. From 1958 to 1990, he served as president of the Henry Luce Foundation, which was founded by his father in 1936....

Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.

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Lomax, Almena

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Almena Davis Lomax, African American writer, newspaper publisher, and civil rights activist, was born in Galveston, Texas on July 23, 1915. In 1941, she and her husband, Lucius Lomax, began publishing the African American weekly newspaper, the LOS ANGELES TRIBUNE. She served as co-publisher, editor and writer until it ceased publication in 1960. In the late 1950s Lomax became active in the civil rights movement and travelled to the South as a reporter for the Tribune. Lomax also published articl...

Fleming, John Robb, 1910-

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Robertson, Nathan Jacob

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Balk, Alfred, 1930-2010

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Iowa-born, Northwestern-educated journalist. Alfred Balk was born July 24, 1930, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and grew up in Muscatine and Rock Island, Iowa. He began his journalism career as a high school sports reporter for the Rock Island Argus, and continued writing while a student at Northwestern University and the Medill School of Journalism. He also worked as a newswriter for WBBM-TV while in college. In 1952 Alfred Balk married Phyllis Munter, whom he met in high school w...

Catton, William Bruce, 1926-....

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Cousins, Norman.

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American editor of the "Saturday Review of Literature" from 1940-1977. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1960 May 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868047 Editor, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Cousins : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376635 From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Cousins : lecture, 1959. (Colum...

Hagen, Beulah W.

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Assistant to publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Beulah W. Hagen : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737509 ...

Kerr, Walter, 1913-1996

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Bimms, James H.

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De Voto, Avis MacVicar, 1904-1989

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DeVoto was an editor, specializing in cookbooks, for Alfred A. Knopf, 1956-1958. Prior to that, she had handled the correspondence of her husband, Bernard A. DeVoto (1897-1955) author, editor, historian, and literary critic. She was also House Secretary in Lowell House at Harvard and worked in the dean's office at Radcliffe. The DeVotos had two sons. From the description of Papers, 1952-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006572 De Voto was an edit...

Tant, Charles.

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Beecroft, Eric Armour

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Fisher, M.F.K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992

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Author M.F.K. Fisher wrote mainly about food. For biographical information, see M.F.K. Fisher, A Life in Letters: Correspondence, 1929-1991 (1997). Doris Tobias was a freelance food and wine writer. From the description of Letter of M.F.K. Fisher, 1985. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 472792486 Author M.F.K. Fisher wrote mainly about food. For biographical information, see M.F.K. Fisher, A Life in Letters: Correspondence, 1929-1991 (1997). Janet Fries is a lawyer p...

Smith, Robert W., 1926-

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Hahn, Nicholas P.

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Casady, Simon.

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Minnow, Newton Norman, 1926-

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United States World Federalists, Inc.

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Donovan, Hedley William, 1914-

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Gleason, Sarah C.

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Cleveland, James Harlan, 1918-

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Laune, Irene W.

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Macmahon, Arthur W. (Arthur Whittier), 1890-1980

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Macmahon (1890-1980) was Eaton Professor of Public Administration at Columbia University. (Columbia University B.A., 1912; M.A., 1913, 1915-1917; Ph.D., 1923). From the description of Papers, [ca. 1911]-1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122566931 ...

Pfeiffer, Georges

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Church, Frank

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BIOGRAPHY United States Senator from Idaho. From the guide to the Frank Church Speech, 1960, (Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.) Rod Gramer was born in Boise in 1953 and graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in history in 1975. He was a journalist with the Idaho Statesman when he began research for a biography of Frank Church in 1978 with fell...

Smith, Russell Eugene

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1922 graduate of Ann Arbor (Mich.) High School. From the description of Russell Smith visual materials collection. ca. 1922. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 181340569 ...

Sheehan, Edward R.F.

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Ed Sheehan was a longtime personal friend of Steinbeck's and a columnist for the HONOLULU ADVERTISER. From the description of Ed Sheehan collection of papers relating to John Steinbeck, 1953-1999, bulk 1968-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448496 ...

Ogburn, Charleton, 1911-

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Waller, Theodore

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Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

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Russell was an English logician and philosopher. Marsh edited Russell's Logic and knowledge: essays 1901-1950 and wrote about Russell. From the guide to the Letters to Robert C. (Robert Charles) Marsh, 1950-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Russell, British philosopher and mathematician and the 3rd Earl Russell. From the description of [Letter, 19]44 Dec. 8, Trinity College, Cambridge [to] Dear Sir / Bertrand Russell. (Smith C...

Machemer, Corona.

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Wolfe, Tom, 1931-

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Tom Wolfe (b. March 2, 1931, Richmond, VA) is an American author and journalist, best known for his association with and influence in stimulating the New Journalism literary movement, in which literary techniques are used extensively. He began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, but achieved national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranks...

Knowles, Horace.

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Wilson, Finley.

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Wallace, De Witt.

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Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954

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Editor and author. From the description of Frederick Lewis Allen papers, 1890-1954 (bulk 1933-1954). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979963 Frederick Lewis Allen was vice-president of Harper & Bros., publishers, and editor of Harper's magazine. From the description of Letters, 1926-1953, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155877934 Biographical Note ...

Lapham, Lewis

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American journalist; managing editor and editor, Harper's Magazine, 1971-1981. From the description of Lewis H. Lapham papers, 1971-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871894 ...

Blair, William Sutherland, 1917-

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United States. Board of Economic Warfare

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The Board of Economic Warfare was set up by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II and made responsible for the procurement and production of all imported materials necessary both to the war effort and the civilian economy. The Board was divided into three main parts, the Office of Exports, Office of Imports, and Office of Economic Warfare Analysis. From the description of Records, 1942-1944. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 463434725 ...

Vaughn, Burton E.

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Pickrel, Paul Murphy, 1917-

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Van Dusen, Lewis H.

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Kilpatrick, Carroll

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Perkins, Milo Randolph, 1900-

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Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

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American author. From the description of Typed letter signed : Jackson, Miss., to Charles Ryskamp, Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875021 The short story writer and novelist Eudora Alice Welty was born on April 13, 1909, in Jackson, Miss. In 1946 she published Delta wedding, her first novel. Her novel The optimist's daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. She was a lecturer and writer-in-residence at numerous colleges....

Cary, Joyce, 1888-1957

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Joyce Cary was a British author, best known as a novelist. Born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and raised in England, Cary was a sickly youth who showed a talent for writing and painting; he studied art, but questioned his ability and quit to attend Trinity College, Oxford, instead. He served with the Red Cross during the Balkan War, and joined the Nigerian Political Service, spending his spare time reading and writing. He found initial success with short fiction, and as he began to write nov...

Ellis, James R. (James Reed), 1921-

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Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of James William Fulbright : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743979 From the description of Reminiscences of James William Fulbright : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743991 Epithet: Senator Chairman United States Senate Committee for Foreign Relations British Library Archives and Manuscripts C...

Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994

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Dean Rusk (1909-1994), U.S. Secretary of State, born in Cherokee County, Georgia. From the description of University of Georgia faculty papers, 1952, 1971-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477809 Dean Rusk was born in Cherokee County, Ga., on February 9, 1909. He attended Davidson College, graduating in 1931 as a Rhodes Scholar. He then attended St. John's College, Oxford. In 1946 he became assistant chief of the Division of International Security Affairs of the U.S. De...

United States. Foreign Economic Administration

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Rostow, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1913-2002

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Eugene V. Rostow (1913-2002) graduated from Yale College in 1933 and Yale Law School in 1937. During his career, he served on the Law School faculty and as dean. Rostow also held various governmental positions including that of undersecretary for political affairs during the Lyndon Baines Johnson administration. He published widely in the fields of foreign relations and international security. From the description of Eugene Victor Rostow papers, 1931-1999 (inclusive). (Unknown). Worl...

Von Blon, Philip.

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Case, Everett Needham

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President of Colgate University from 1942-1962. From the description of [Papers.]. (Colgate University). WorldCat record id: 23122856 ...

Harper & Row, Publishers

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New York publishing company. From the description of Harper & Row, Publishers records, 1935-1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 460880020 BIOGHIST REQUIRED New York publishing company. From the guide to the Harper & Row, Publishers Records, 1935-1973, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Published Sellin's book Capital punishment. From the description of Correspondence with Joh...

Hughes, Jack

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Wirtz, Willard, 1912-2010

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Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of William Willard Wirtz : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122343066 ...

Calkins, Robert De Blois, 1903-

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Pearce, Richard E. (Richard Edward), 1964-

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Carr, John Dickson, 1906-1977

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Roosevelt, Belle Wyatt Willard.

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Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005

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Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006

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Galbraith taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973248 John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada in 1908. He emigrated to the United States in 1931 and became an American citizen in 1937. He received degrees from Ontario Agricultural College (1931), University of California (1933, 1934), and studied at Cambridge, England (1937-38). His academic career has...

Cochran, Clay L.

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Clay L. Cochran (1914-1982) was a professor of economics at the University of Oklahoma from 1949-1952, an economist and department director with the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association from 1952-1958, an agricultural labor specialist in the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO from 1958-1966, and executive director of Rural America from 1966-1979. Cochran was denied tenure at the University of Oklahoma in 1952 in part due to alleged communist and social...

Hine, Thomas J., 1961-

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De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955

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American educator, novelist, and Literary Editor of the Mark Twain Estate. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Lincoln and Cambridge, Mass. ; White Plains, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, [n.d.] and 1935-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863883 Betty White was one of De Voto's students at Northwestern in the 1920's. She was literary, and the best friend of Avis MacVicar, whom De Voto shortly married. As a senior at Northwestern, Betty Whi...

Hutchinson, W. H. (William Henry), 1910-1990

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W.H. (William Henry) Hutchinson, a noted western historian, was born in Colorado in 1911. Hutchinson served in the merchant marines from 1933-1946, seeing duty in World War II. After being discharged, Hutchinson was a freelance writer until 1959, when he received his M.A. from California State University, Chico. He later served as a professor of history at his alma mater from 1964-1978. Hutchinson was nominated for the pulitzer prize for his biography of Thomas Bard, entitled "Oil, Land, and Pol...

Maverick, Ellen Davis.

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Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of C. Vann Woodward : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419190 C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, on November 13, 1908. He received his Ph.B. from Emory University in 1930; his M.A. from Columbia University in 1932; and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1937. He began his professional career as an assistant professor of history at the Univer...

Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997

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Editor. From the description of Reminiscences of Brendan Gill : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742429 Brendan Gill (1914-1997), author and columnist. William Shawn (1907-1992), editor. From the description of Brendan Gill letters to William Shawn, 1960-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193978 ...

John and Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Kenyon college

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Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996

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Governor of Maine, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of state, of Waterville, Me.; d. 1996. From the description of Christmas card, 1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70926049 United States senator from Maine. From the description of Address : at water symposium, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1966 June 15. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33841361 Politician, governor of Maine, U.S. senator from Maine, and U.S. Secretary of State; d....

Fischer, John Sylvester, 1910-1978.

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Editor and writer; editor at Harper's, 1935-1967 (editor-in-chief, 1953-1967); editor for Harper? speech writer for Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy; author of six books. From the description of John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122370012 Editor and writer; editor at Harper's, 1935-1967 (editor-in-chief, 1953-1967); editor for Harper & Brothers, 1947-1953; speech writer for Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy; author ...

Grinyer, Margaret.

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Leighton, George Ross, 1902-1966

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George R. Leighton planned to write a history of world's fairs, a subject that had interested him from childhood. He researched the subject for years but did not complete the project. From the description of George R. Leighton collection, 1928-1971 (bulk 1958-1965). (California State University, Fresno). WorldCat record id: 206519320 ...

Foster, Malcolm

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Sloane, William J. M.

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United States Information Agency

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Price, Donald K., 1910-

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Montgomery, Robert Hargrove

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Lewis, David, 1917-2002

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Brooks, Daniel, 1894-1961.

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Harrison, Walter T.

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Ponte, Lowell Alton, 1946-

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Fischer, Elizabeth Wilson.

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Brandt, Joseph A. (Joseph August), 1899-1984

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Katsuki, Hiroshi.

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O'Donnell, Terence, 1888-

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Neustadt, Richard E.

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Political scientist. From the description of Reminiscences of Richard Elliott Neustadt : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741331 Richard Elliot Neustadt (b. 1919), educator, political scientist, and government consultant, was a professor of government at Columbia University from 1954 to 1964) and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 1965 to 1975. Neustadt is the author of Presidential ...

Nisewaner, T. Andrew.

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Andrews, Wayne D

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Andrews (1913-1987) was a professor of art history at Wayne State University, and a friend of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. From the description of Letters from Joseph Cornell and related printed material, 1946-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78067410 Wayne Andrews (1913-1987) was born in Kenilworth, Illinois and educated in the Winnetka public schools, Lawrenceville School, and Harvard. He received his doctorate in American history at Columbia Universi...

Bessie, Simon Michael

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Publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Simon Michael Bessie : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726992 ...

Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Harris, Michaelyn.

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Yarbrough, Tom

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Gavin, James M. (James Maurice), 1907-1990

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James Maurice Gavin (b. Mar. 22, 1907-d. Feb. 23, 1990) was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his commission in the infantry from West Point in 1929, and later served as an instructor at the Academy in 1940 and 1941. He advanced to the rank of brigadier general in September 1943 and served as Assistant Division Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, parachuting with troops during the Normandy D-Day Invasion on June 6, 1944. He then served as the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Di...

Macleish, Archibald

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...

Adams, Mark, 1925-2006

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Mark Adams, painter and tapissier (San Francisco, Calif.) Beth Van Hoesen, painter and printmaker (San Francisco, Calif.). From the description of Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen interviews, 1983 Aug. 31 - 1984 Feb. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220178050 Adams became established early in his career as a tapestry and stained-glass designer who could wonderfully blend art with architecture. He designed the windows for Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco's largest synagogue, in...

Canfield, Cass 1897-

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Chairman of the Board, Harper & Brothers. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1951. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526747 American author. From the description of Letter to Lola L. Kovener, 1939 November 20. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54022734 ...

Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002

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John William Gardner (1912-2002) was vice president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1949 to 1955, and president of the Carnegie Corporation from 1955 to 1965. He was a member of President Kennedy's Task Force on Education in 1960, on President Johnson's Task Force on Education in 1964, and he served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1965 to 1968. From the description of Gardner, John William, 1912-2002 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)...

McCune, Shannon. (1913-1993).

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Elliot, George P., 1918-

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Thomas, Evan W.

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Cowles, John, 1929-2012

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Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991

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Writer, critic; New York, N.Y. Died 1991. From the description of Russell Lynes interview, 1973 June 20 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123379778 Russell Lynes (1910-1991) was writer and critic from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Russell Lynes, 1973 June 20 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596674 Writer, art critic, art historian; New York City and North Egremont, Mass...

Stowe, Leland, 1899-....

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Journalist, free-lance writer, radio commentator, and professor of journalism, University of Michigan, 1956-1969. From the description of Leland Stowe papers, ca. 1926-1990. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418480 American journalist, author, foreign correspondent for the Chicago daily news during World War II. From the description of Leland Stowe papers, 1929-1988. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 187963114 Winner of a...

Newlands, Margot R.

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Saxton, Mark

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Canfield, Cass 1897-

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Chairman of the Board, Harper & Brothers. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1951. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526747 American author. From the description of Letter to Lola L. Kovener, 1939 November 20. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54022734 ...

Wyeth, M. S.

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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...

Forbes, Henry

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Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998

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American educator; chairman, International Council for Educational Development, 1970-1990; chairman, President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, 1978-1979. From the description of James Alfred Perkins papers, 1955-1998. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384036 President, Cornell University, 1963-1969. From the description of James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1990. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64692109 From the d...

Rose, Frederick Phineas, 1923-

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Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986

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United States ambassador to India, 1951-1953 and 1963-1969. From the description of The Indo-American development program : the problems and opportunities : mimeograph, 1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867525 Chester Bowles was born on April 5, 1901, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University in 1924 (B.S.) and established the advertising firm of Benton and Bowles, with William Benton, in 1929. Bowles served in the Office of Price Administration ...

McEuen, Ronald.

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Pẽna, Joseph A.

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Oakes, George W., 1909-1965

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Kennedy Writers Bureau.

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Morris, Willie

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Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994

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African American author, born Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994) in Oklahoma to a family who migrated from South Carolina. From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1990-1994. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 32828103 African American author and educator. Born 1914; died 1994. From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1890-2005 (bulk 1930-1994). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983760 Ralph Ellison began writing seriously in 1939....