Papers related to the Howard Worth Smith collection [manuscript], 1938-1973.

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Papers related to the Howard Worth Smith collection [manuscript], 1938-1973.

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The collection consists chiefly of papers pertaining to the acquisition of the Smith papers, including access and publication instructions, permission letters to researchers,and inventories and memos from his office. The collection also contains photographic copies of Jefferson Memorial plans, early photographs and a Seibel cartoon of Smith, a map of the 8th Congressional district as of 1938, and a newsclipping and broadside, 1938, pertaining to the CIO and the congressional candidacy of William E. Dodd, Jr. There also clippings regarding Smith's donation of his papers, post congressional years, and death and burial. Of interest is a copy of a letter to Joseph A. Imler, 1971, on President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "First hundred days."

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

Imler, Joseph Anthony

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Dodd, William E. (William Edward), 1905-

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Smith, Howard Worth, 1883-1976

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Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk, Virginia. He completed public school and attended the college of William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Ric...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...