Records, 1940-1941.

United States. Council of National Defense. Advisory Commission.

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The Advisory Commission was created in 1940 to advise the Council of National Defense whose function was to coordinate efforts of American industry in defense production; functions were transferred in 1941 to the Office of Production Management. From the description of Records, 1940-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525174 ...

Davis, Chester C. (Chester Charles), 1887-

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Agriculturist. From the description of Reminiscences of Chester Charles Davis : oral history, 1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309732303 ...

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949

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Industrialist and statesman. From the description of Clippings relating to Edward R. Stettinius, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068013 Industrialist, Secretary of State, delegate to the United Nations. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : to Darryl F. Zanuck, Beverly Hills, California, 1944 November 11 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647836060 From the description of Financial records of Edward R. Stettinius [...

Knudsen, William S., 1879-1948

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William Signius Knudsen (1879-1948) was born in Denmark on March 25, 1879. He apprenticed as a bicycle mechanic then held a variety of positions in the United States with Ford Motor Company and Chevrolet Motor Company. He served as vice president, then president of General Motors from 1933 to 1942. He received his appointment as lieutenant general on January 28, 1942, as director of production in the Office of the Under Secretary of war. He was director of Army Air Forces Materiel and Services f...

Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946

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Tom Darcy was born in Brokklyn, NY in 1932. He received his art education at the school of Visual Arts in New York. In 1958 he began his editorial cartooning with Newsday on Long Island. In 1970, Darcy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his incisive cartoons of the Vietnam War and racial discrimination. He won many awards in 1970's, some of these were: Best Cartoon on Foreign Affairs in 1970 & 1973, Meeman Conservation Award in 1972 & 1974 as well as the National Headliners' Club award i...

Budd, Ralph, 1879-1962

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McReynolds, William H. (William Henry), 1880-1951

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Government official. McReynolds entered government service in 1932 and served as Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt and Liaison Officer for Personnel Management, 1941-1945. From the description of Papers, 1939-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524162 ...

Elliott, Harriet Wiseman, 1884-1947

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Harriet Wiseman Elliott (1884-1947), of Carbondale, Ill., and Greensboro, N.C., served as Dean of Women at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina and as an active member of various political, civic, and federal government committees in the late 1930s and early 1940s. From the description of Harriet W. Elliott papers, 1900-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71788984 ...

Henderson, Leon, 1895-1986

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Leon Henderson (1895-1986) was born in Millville, New Jersey. He served in the U.S. Army in World War I. He graduated from Swarthmore College and taught at the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Henderson served as Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and worked at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York before moving to Washington, D.C. In Washington, he joined the National Recovery Administration...