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Papers, 1900-1958.

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Correspondence, memoranda, speech and article files, surveys, subject files, financial records, clippings, pamphlets, and memorabilia resulting from personal and family matters; work with the Davis Coal and Coke Co. in West Virginia, 1923-1926, the United States Coal Commission, 1922, and other firms; editorship of COAL AGE and FACTORY AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT, 1927-1933; trip to Russia surveying industrial development for the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1931; affiliation with engineering societies, 1918-1934; work with the Civil Works Administration, the Wagner (NRA) Labor Board and the National Labor Relations Board, 1933-1936, the Rural Electrification Administration, 1936-1939, and the Federal Works Administration, 1939-1941; membership on the United States Maritime Commission, 1941-1946, the President's Water Resources Policy Commission, 1950-1951, and the Small Business Administration, 1951-1953; and his interest in public power projects and labor arbitration, 1944-1950. Correspondents in the general correspondence files include Otto S. Beyer, Francis Biddle, Morris L. Cooke, Herbert Hoover, Harry Hopkins, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Estes Kefauver, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Colonel Walter L. Simpson, Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, and General Arthur Wilson.

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Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Estes Kefauver : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419842 Estes Kefauver was a long-time senator from Tennessee and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for president. From the description of Personal papers, 1934-1939 (University of Tennessee). WorldCat record id: 44918282 Carey Estes Kefauver (b. July 26, 1903, Monroe Count...

Cooke, Morris Llewellyn, 1872-1960

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Westbrook, Lawrence, 1889-1964.

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Carmody, John M. (John Michael), 1881-1962

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Beyer, Otto Sternoff, 1886-1948

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Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946

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Simpson, Walter M.

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Wilson, Arthur, 1864-

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