Office of the Provost records, 1942-1943.

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Office of the Provost records, 1942-1943.

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Correspondence and other items pertaining to university opposition to a bill to place a limitation upon estate deductions for charitable purposes (proposed to Congress ca.1942) and to President F.D. Roosevelt's proposal that personal incomes be limited to $25,000 after taxes. Included are correspondence with Mary Donlon; Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; Edward B. Eastman; Daniel Alden Reed; Gustav J. Requardt; Thomas B. Gilchrist; and Norman Vincent Peale, in his capacity as an officer of the Committee of Constitutional Government; and with colleges, universities, and associated groups, churches, hospitals, and charities; and related memoranda. Also, a copy of "A Fireball in the Night," by James Truslow Adams.

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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