Buckner family papers, 1889-1973.

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Buckner family papers, 1889-1973.

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A small collection of papers of members of the Buckner and Sorrell families of Missouri. Contains: correspondence, 1935-1937, between Harry S. Truman, then a U.S. Senator from Missouri, and Champ Clark Buckner, then the National Youth Administrator in Jefferson City, Missouri, regarding affairs of the National Youth Administration and political matters; two autograph letters, signed, 1930, from author Pearl S. Buck to Alice G. Sorrell of Columbia, Missouri, regarding the death of missionary Wayne Sorrell; letter to Mrs. Sorrell from C.A. Burch, United Missionary Society, Kiangsu, China, 1934 November 3; certificate to preach the gospel for George W. Buckner, 1889; and clippings regarding the Buckner family and Pearl S. Buck.

.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7014082

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Buckner, Champ Clark.

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

United States. National Youth Administration

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Buckner family.

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Sorrell, Alice G.

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Sorrell, Wayne.

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