Records, 1902-1960.

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Records, 1902-1960.

Early material from predecessor organizations, the International Library (1902-1910) and the International School of Peace (1910) include correspondence, publications, and organizational records. World Peace Foundation records (1910-1960) include scattered Board of Trustee minutes (1910-1950), financial records (1911-1959), extensive correspondence files of its Directors (1924-1950), and correspondnece with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. There are literature reviews and preparatory material and documents about conferences it helped sponsor, including the Canadian and American Conference on Foreign Relations (June 1951).

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, established by Andrew Carnegie in 1910, is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Carnegie selected 28 trustees who were leaders in American business and public life; among them were Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot; philanthropist Robert S. Brookings; former Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph H. Choate; former Secretary of Sta...

Permanent Court of International Justice

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Rich, Raymond T. (Raymond Thomas), 1899-1959

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Raymond Thomas Rich (1899-1959), public relations consultant and editor, was a relief worker in Europe after World War I. From the description of Raymond T. Rich papers, 1922-1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122626709 From the guide to the Raymond T. Rich papers, 1922-1928, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Blakeslee, George Hubbard, 1871-1954

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Angell, Norman, 1874-1967

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British political scientist. From the description of Letter : New York, N.Y., to [Georges] Schreiber, [ca. 1935]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122597878 Author, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Sir Norman Angell : oral history, 1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722800 Writer, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate. ...

Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960

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Epithet: Professor of International Law Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x000133 Law professor, judge, international mediator, legal scholar. Prof., U. of Mo. Law School, 1910-1919, Harvard L.S., 1919-1954. Attached to American Comm. to Negotiate Peace, Paris, 1918-1919. Member, legal section of League of Nations Secretariat, 1922-1933. Appointed member, Permanent Court of Arbitration,...

Dennett, Raymond, 1913-1961

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Dennett earned his Harvard AB in 1936. From the description of Examination papers in history, May 1936. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511751 ...

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

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Educator, author, and naturalist. From the description of Papers of David Starr Jordan, 1861-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068098 Zoologist David Starr Jordan was elected president of Indiana University in 1885. He left IU in 1891 to become Stanford University's first president. Jordan died in 1931. From the description of David Starr Jordan papers, 1874-1929, bulk 1895-1929. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 61225195 American ichthyolog...

Eckstein, Anna B., 1868-1947

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Anna B. Eckstein; born in Coburg, Germany; came to the United States ca. 1886, was naturalized as an American citizen; joined the Boston [Massachusetts] Peace Society; became an ardent champion of world peace and gave numerous lectures and wrote many articles on peace problems of the United States and of Europe; was a vice-president of the American Peace Society (1905-1911), and an honorary member of the Liberal Christian League in London and of many other social and education societies; collect...

Duggan, Stephen, 1870-1950

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Professor of Philosophy. Duggan was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1890. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1890-1950] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502544 ...

Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956

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Frank Aydelotte, seventh President of Swarthmore College, was born on October 18, 1880 in Sullivan, Indiana; he was the first president of the College who was not a Quaker. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Indiana in 1900, and three years later received an M.A. from Harvard. He became a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Oxford University from 1905-1907. He then taught at University of Indiana from 1908-1915. Afterward he taught English Literature at M.I.T. where he worked until he ...

International School of Peace

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League of Nations

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Jones, S. Shepard (Samuel Shepard), 1909-

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Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937

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Boston lecturer and writer on social and historical topics; Editor of the New England Magazine (1889-1901). From the description of Edwin Doak Mead letter to Mrs. Leland and Christmas card [manuscript], 1911 Dec 19 and n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 299067309 Epithet: of Boston, Mass., USA; founder of the World Peace Federation British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000220.0x0002fa ...

World peace foundation

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In 1910, textbook magnate Edwin Ginn founded the International School of Peace in Boston, renamed the World Peace Foundation shortly thereafter. The World Peace Foundation was founded with the express purpose of educating and mobilizing public opinion towards the cause of peace. Early trustees of the foundation included Edwin Mead, founder of The New England Magazine; Sarah L. Arnold, dean of Simmons College; A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University; and Joseph Swain, president of Swa...

Nasmyth, George William, 1882-1920

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Suttner, Bertha, von (1843-1914).

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Bertha von Suttner; b. 1843, Bertha Sophia Felicita Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau, in Prague; Austrian writer and peace activist; first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1905); founder of the Austrian and German Peace Associations; author, lecturer, feminist, influential friend of Alfred Nobel, Andrew Carnegie, Theodor Herzl; d. 1914. From the description of Bertha von Suttner collected papers, 1881-1917, 1993-1995. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id...

Hero, Alfred O. (Alfred Olivier), 1924-

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

International Library (Firm)

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Holt, Hamilton

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Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975

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Journalist, biographer of Fritz Kreisler. From the description of Louis Lochner papers, 1914-1958. 1914-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 658833559 From the description of Louis Lochner papers, 1914-1958. 1914-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984260 ...

Goodrich, Leland M. (Leland Matthew), 1899-1990

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Professor of international relations. From the description of Reminiscences of Leland Matthew Goodrich : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734376 ...

Ginn, Edwin, 1838-1914

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