Letters, 1942-1945.

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Letters, 1942-1945.

Personal and professional letters to Alfred Sutro, discussing writing, lecture tours, debates with Oswald Garrison Villard & Arthur Garfield Hays, boycotting of his lectures. Also lecture trip schedules; mimeo text of lecture "The home front"; text of debate with Villard, "Just what is democracy?" ("Wake up America!" radio braodcast, Jan. 4, 1942); typescript text of Pollard's "A plan for post-war employment" (submitted in 1944 for the Pabst awards); clippings; tearsheets; carbons of letters to others.

110 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6913337

Ohio State University Libraries

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Hays, Arthur Garfield, 1881-1954

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Hays taught in Kuna, Bruneau, and Boise. After he retired he accepted the directorship of the prison educational program in Boise. From the description of Papers, 1830-1958. (Idaho State Historical Society Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 42927298 Active in civil liberties issues, Hays took part in a long list of important cases, including the Scopes trial in 1925, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and the Scottsboro case. Hays also attended the Reichstag trial in Ber...

Pollock, Channing, 1880-1946

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American journalist, playwright, and drama critic. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : Shoreham, Long Island, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1934 June 18 and Sept. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868185 American playwright and author. From the description of Papers of Channing Pollock, 1922-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80691647 Author, dramatist, lecturer, publicist. From the description of Letters, 1942-1945. (Ohio State...

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949

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Epithet: US journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x000092 Villard, a journalist and author, was president of the New York Evening Post (1897-1918), editor and owner of The Nation (1918-1932), publisher and contributing editor of The Nation (1932-1935), a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of Yachting Magazine, and owner of the Nautical Gazette. His father ...

Sutro, Alfred, 1869-1945

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