Papers: Series V-VII, 1935-1979 (inclusive).

Wheaton, Anne Williams, 1892-1977

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Anne Williams Wheaton (1892-1977), journalist and public relations expert, was the Assistant Director of Publicity for the Republican National Committee from 1939 to 1957. From 1957 to 1961, Wheaton was Associate Press Secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower. ...

Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008

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Margaret Truman Daniel (1924-2008) was born in Independence, Missouri. She is the daughter of President Harry S. and Elizabeth Virginia (Bess) Truman. She married E. Clifton Daniel, Jr. (a newspaper editor), on April 21, 1956. After graduating from George Washington University in 1946, she embarked on a career as a coloratura soprano. She was also a successful radio personality as co-host of the program Weekday with Mike Wallace. Later, Truman became the successful author of a series of murde...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Nash, Ruth Cowan, 1901-1993

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Ruth Cowan Nash (June 15, 1901 - February 5, 1993) was the first woman war correspondent. She is famous for her coverage of World War II, during which she followed the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and reported on major battles for the Associated Press. Ruth Cowan Nash was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 15, 1901, the only child of parents William Henry and Ida (Baldwin) Cowan. Her father was a mining prospector who died in 1911, at which point Cowan's mother, Ida, bought a homestead in F...

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...

Miller, Helen Hill, 1899-1996

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Helen Hill Miller, economist and writer, daughter of Russell Day and Lucia (Elliott) Hill was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr in 1921, Diploma in Economics and Political Science from Oxford in 1922 and Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1928. She married Francis Pickens Miller in 1927. For three summers (1921, 1923, 1926) she tutored at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry and from 1927-1930 she travelled and studied in E...

Norton, Mary Teresa, 1875-1959

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Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins, March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, she attended parochial schools and Jersey City High School before graduating from Packard Business College, New York City in 1896. She worked as a secretary and stenographer until she married Robert Francis Norton in April 1909. As part of the healin...

MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995

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Margaret Chase Smith was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897. Her entry into politics came through the career of Clyde Smith, the man she married in 1930. Clyde was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1936. Margaret served as his secretary. When Clyde died in 1940, she succeeded her husband. After four terms in the House, she won election to the United States Senate in 1948. In so doing, she became the first woman elected to both houses of Congress. Senator Smi...

Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

Parks, F.L..

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Major General, U.S. Army, Chief, Public Relations Division. From the description of Photocopy of a typed memorandum signed : Washington, D.C., to "Former Accredited War Correspondents, [1946]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775799467 From the description of Photocopy of a typed memorandum signed : Washington, D.C., to "Former Accredited War Correspondents", 1946 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775799618 ...

Wells, Fay Gillis, 1908-

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Nash, Bradley De Lamater, 1900-

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Bradley DeLamater Nash (1900-1997), economist, was assistant to the Secretary of Commerce from 1927 to 1929, and financial adviser to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation from 1932 to 1935. He served as Director of the Bureau of Finance and War Production Board from 1941 to 1942. He was a consultant to the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization in 1953, then served as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation from 1957 to 1961. From the description of...

Simons, Frieda Hennock, 1904-1960.

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A New York lawyer, Simons was the first woman member of the Federal Communications Commission, to which she was appointed in 1948. From the description of Papers, 1922-1960 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006849 ...

Thompson, Malvina, 1893-1953

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Mesta, Perle Skirvin, 1891-

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May, Geraldine P. (Geraldine Pratt), 1895-1997

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Colonel Geraldine Pratt May (April 21, 1895-November 2, 1997) was the first director of Women in the Air Force (WAF) and the first woman colonel in the United States Air Force. May joined the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in July of 1942. She was promoted to staff director of WAC's Air Transport Command in March of 1943. In 1948, May became the first director of the newly created Women in the Air Force (WAF) and was promoted to the rank of colonel making her the first woman colonel in the United Stat...

Westlake, William.

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Colonel William (Bill) Westlake was trained as a pilot in World War I and he worked as a journalist between the wars. He served as public relations Air Force officer for General "Hap" Arnold during the course of World War II in the European and Pacific Theatres. After the war he saw the "Operation Crossroads" nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll in 1946. He was active in Air Force affairs until his retirement in the 1960s. From the description of William Westlake papers, 1910-1970. (...

Nordness, Ned.

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Welsh, Estelle.

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Stearns, Jessie.

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McKee, Rose.

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Zirbes, Laura, 1884-1967

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Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959

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George Catlett Marshall (b. December 31, 1880, Uniontown, Pennsylvania-d. October 16, 1959, Washington, D.C.), had a long and auspicious career in the United States (U.S.) Army and to the United States. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1901 and served his country as U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Envoy to China, Army Chief of Staff, and as President of the American Red Cross. Marshall, America's first five-star general, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, ...

Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998

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United States Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Jennings Randolph : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527104 ...

Shepard, Lily Lykes.

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Ström, Else.

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Starzel, Frank, 1904-1994

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General manager of Associated Press. From the description of Papers of Frank Starzel, 1943-1962. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233113963 ...

Smith, Helena Huntington

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West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

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Rebecca West was a British author and journalist. Born Cicily Fairfield, of Scots-Irish heritage, she adopted the name of the strong-willed heroine of Ibsen's play, Rosmershmolm. She trained as an actress, but concentrated on writing and contributed to various liberal journals. In addition to social commentary and literary criticism, she wrote novels; her writing was distinguished by passion, intelligence, and style. Her personal life included a decade-long affair with H.G. Wells, affairs with C...

Price, Byron, 1891-1981

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Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945

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Ernest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize—winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World W...

Mackie, Albert David, 1904-

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Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982

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Elizabeth Virginia “Bess” Truman was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. She served as her husband’s secretary and was known for often voicing her opinions. Whistle-stopping in 1948, President Harry Truman often ended his campaign talk by introducing his wife as “the Boss” and his daughter, Margaret, as “the Boss’s Boss,” and they smiled and waved as the train picked up steam. The sight of that close-knit family gallantly fighting against such lo...

Mannon, Virginia M.

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Murrow, Edward R. (Edward Roscoe), 1908-1965

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965), born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. After the war, in December 1945 Murrow an offer to become a vice president of the CBS network and head o...

Stassen, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1907-2001

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Lawyer; governor. From the description of Reminiscences of Harold Edward Stassen : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513413 American politician. From the description of Letter, 1945 April 30, San Francisco, to Helen M. Taft, Mendon, Mass. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953452 Stassen was born in Minnesota in 1907. His political career began in 1930 when he was elected as Dakota County at...

Pohlman, Millie.

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Reavis, Hazel.

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Prewett, Virginia

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McLaughlin, Kathleen.

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Writer, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Kathleen McLaughlin : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684257 ...

Morse, True D.

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Morgan, Gwen

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Young, Marjorie W. (Marjorie Willis), 1902-

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Wickens, Aryness Joy

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Economist, government executive; interviewee married David L. Wickens. From the description of Reminiscences of Aryness Joy Wickens : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735816 Statistician and economic analyst, Aryness Joy Wickens worked at the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Department of Labor from 1926 to 1970. From the description of Papers, 1936-1978 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record ...

Miller, Paul, 1906-1991

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Paul Miller (1906-1991); 1931 Oklahoma A & M College graduate, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press (1942-1947), chief executive officer of Gannett Co. Inc. (1957-1978) and chairman of the Associated Press (1963-1977). From the description of Papers, 1898-1992 (bulk 1957-1978). (Oklahoma State University Library). WorldCat record id: 29421212 ...

Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961

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Director, Central Intelligence Agency. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to John Steinbeck, 1952 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775807446 From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Bernard Baruch, 1951 Mar. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775806212 Walter Bedell Smith (1895-1961), soldier and diplomat, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of William Long Smith and Ida Frances Bedell, both buyers ...

Solomon, Gladis

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Weis, Jessica, 1901-1963

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Jessica "Judy" McCullough Weis (July 8, 1901 – May 1, 1963) was a two-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Rochester, New York. Born in Chicago, she as educated at the Franklin School in Buffalo, at Miss Wright's School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and at Madame Rieffel's French School in New York City. In 1921 she married Charles William Weis Jr. of Rochester, New York. Judy Weis joined the Rochester Junior League and participated in other local charities, ...