Papers, 1918-ca. 1973 (inclusive).

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 1891-1967

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Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1967), neighbor and life-long friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, served under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as Conservation Commissioner of the State of New York from 1929 to 1933. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Agriculture, and member of the Taconic State Park Commission. Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morgenthau served as Chairman of the Federal Farm Board from March to May 1933, as Governor of the Farm Credit Administration from May to No...

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)

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"Negro Week" was a program on the contributions of blacks to American culture held at the New York World's Fair in July 1940, and consisted of festivals, exhibitions, song and dance recitals, choral and symphonic music, concerts, religious services, guest speakers, and a children's program. From the description of New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122580393 From the guide to the New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940, (The...

Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960

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John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in Midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center, making him one of the largest real estate holders in the city. Towards the end of his life, he was famous for his philanthropy, donating over $500 million to a wide variety of different causes, including educati...

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Knox, Frank, 1874-1944

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William Franklin "Frank" Knox (January 1, 1874 – April 28, 1944) was an American politician, newspaper editor and publisher. He was also the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936, and Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Knox flanked by his assistant John O’Keefe walked into Roosevelt's White House study at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST announcing that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. Knox was mentioned by name in Adolf Hitler...

Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

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Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for President. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940...

Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Webb.

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Barnard College

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Barnard College was given its first provisional charter by the Regents of the State of New York on Aug. 8, 1889. From the description of Barnard College charters and statutes, 1934-1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 275960020 Junior Month was a summer project in sociological theory and practice founded in 1917 and supervised by the Charity Organization Society of New York City. In a one month period juniors from twelve eastern colleges a...

Columbia University. Teachers College.

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Committee on International Economic Policy

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New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company

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The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the railroad predominant railroad in the region from 1872, when it was established through the merger of the New York and New Haven Railroad and the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, to 1969, when it was absorbed into Penn Central. From the description of New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecess...

Mills, Ogden Livingston, 1884-

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U.S. representative from New York and U.S. secretary of the treasury; died 1937. From the description of Papers of Ogden Livingston Mills, 1920-1939 (bulk 1926-1933). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009862 ...

American Heritage Foundation

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Tuskegee Institute

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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...

New York Yacht Club

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New York club of yacht owners and racing enthusiasts; established 1844 and incorporated 1865. From the description of Minutes, 1895-1896. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58772144 ...

International Chamber of Commerce.

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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

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Welfare Council of New York City

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National War Fund (U.S.)

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Salter, Arthur, 1881-1975

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Epithet: Baron Salter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x0002f9 University of Virginia professor. From the description of Baron Salter letter to Herbert Emmerich [manuscript], 1962 March 13. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972936 ...

Enterprise (Yacht)

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New York Community Trust

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McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 1880-1955

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Watson, Thomas John, 1874-1956

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Thomas John Watson (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who served as the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. He turned the company into a highly effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956....

Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959

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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), was the fifty-third Secretary of State of the United States for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He had a long and distinguished public career with significant impact upon the formulation of United States foreign policies. He was especially involved with efforts to establish world peace after World War I, the role of the United States in world governance, and Cold War relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dulles was born on February 25, 1888 ...

Rockefeller (Family : New York)

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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...

Butler of Saffron Walden, Richard Austen Butler, Baron, 1902-1982

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Statesman. From the description of Reminiscences of Richard Austin Butler : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724838 ...

Ruml, Beardsley, 1894-1960

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Educator and businessman. A.B., Dartmouth College, 1915. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1917. Director, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, 1922-1929. Dean of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1931-1933; professor of education, 1931-1933. Treasurer, R.H. Macy & Company, 1934-1945; Chairman of the Board, 1945-1951. From the description of Papers, 1817- 1960. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246985 Beardsley Ruml (1894-1960), probab...

American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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Macmillan, Harold, 1894-1986

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Biographical/Historical Note Prime minister of Great Britain, 1957-1963. From the guide to the Harold Macmillan speech, 1960, (Hoover Institution Archives) Prime minister of Great Britain, 1957-1963. From the description of Harold Macmillan speech, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869741 Publisher and later British Prime Minister. From the description of Letter : London, to Ralph Ho...

Lee, Ivy L. (Ivy Ledbetter), 1877-1934

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A member of the Princeton Class of 1898, Lee first worked as a journalist in New York and held a press job with the Democratic National Committee. Post-1904, he was an adviser on public relations to leading industrialists, such as John D. Rockefeller and the Guggenheims. In 1916, he opened Ivy Lee and Associates, a public relations firm that took on many prominent clients, including various investment houses, industrial organizations, and philanthropic institutions. Lee was the author of a numbe...

Chase National Bank of the City of New York

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The Chase National Bank of New York City, named in honor of Salmon Portland Chase, was organized by John Thompson in 1877. The Chase National Bank merged with the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955 to form the Chase Manhattan Bank. From the description of Records, 1877-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490673 ...

Douglas, Lewis W. (Lewis Williams), 1894-1974

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Legislator, U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Ambassador to England. The Douglas family arrived in Bisbee in 1881 and was active in the mining industry. From the description of Oral history interview, 1973 Apr. 7 [sound recording]. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 45076910 Lewis W. Douglas was a businessman, Democratic politician, philanthropist, and diplomat. He served in the Arizona State Legislature, 1922-1925; U.S. House of Representa...

Gore, Thomas Pryor, 1870-1949

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T.P. Gore was a lawyer and a Democratic party member. He represented Oklahoma in the U.S. Senate, 1907-1921 and 1931-1936. He chaired the following Senate committees: Railroads, Agriculture and Forestry, and Interoceanic Canals. From the description of Congressional papers, 1890-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 45759757 ...

Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977

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Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (b. June 12, 1897-d. Jan. 14, 1977), British Foreign Secretary from 1935 to 1955 and British Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957. From the description of Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581894 ...

Greek War Relief Association

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Nehru, B. K. (Braj Kumar), 1909-2001

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Chase Safe Deposit Company and Securities Corporation.

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America-Italy Society.

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The America-Italy Society, a cultural organization, was established in 1918 as the Italy-America Society, and incorporated in 1935. It was inactive during World War II, because of Italy's alliance with the Axis powers, and was dissolved in 1948. In 1949, it was reestablished under its present name. The organization is social and cultural in nature and has as its purpose promotion of friendship, based on mutual understanding, between Italy and the United States. From the guide to the ...

American Bankers Association.

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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30 November 1874. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before joining the Army in 1895 and serving in India and Sudan. After leaving the Army in 1899, he worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post and the following year was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham. In 1904, Churchill decided to join the Liberal Party, and in 1906, was elected Liberal MP f...

United Negro College Fund

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Founded in 1944 to enhance the quality of education by providing financial assistance to deserving students, raising operating funds for member colleges and universities, and increasing access to technology for students and faculty at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). From the description of Statistical reports, 1986-1988. (Benedict College). WorldCat record id: 70967588 Research Dept. was established in 1968 to gather and disseminate information about Un...

Federal reserve bank of New York

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Taylor, Myron Charles, 1874-1959

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After receiving his law degree from Cornell University, Myron Charles Taylor (1874-1959) worked primarily in the corporate law sphere, starting in the textile and banking industries in New York City. He later became Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. He was also a Vice Chairman of the international Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees. From the guide to the Myron Charles Taylor papers, 1935-1939, (Brooklyn Historical Society) Industrialist, lawyer....

Flying Cloud (Yacht)

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American Merchant Marine Library Association

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Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Hadley.

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United States. Dept. of Commerce. Business Advisory Council.

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Rockefeller, David, 1915-2017

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David Rockefeller (born June 12, 1915, New York City – died March 20, 2017, Pocantico Hills, New York) was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, and family patriarch from July 2004 until his death in March 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and a grandson of John D. Rockef...

Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1853

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Robert A. Taft More than "Mr. Republican" In 1947, Republican Senator Robert A. Taft was at the peak of his power, commanding a coalition of conservative Republicans and southern Democrats to thwart President Harry S. Truman's domestic agenda. Taft's most impressive achievement came in June. The labor-restricting Taft-Hartley Act survived Truman's veto and won Taft the admiration of the press corps. Yet he did not seek the highest political office in the Senate; indeed, the title "majority...

Presbyterian Hospital (New York, N.Y.)

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Presbyterian Hospital was organized in 1868 and opened in 1872 on a site bounded by Madison and Park Avenues, 70th and 71st Streets. It affiliated with Columbia University in 1911 to form the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center which opened in 1928 at West 168th St. and Broadway. In 1997, Presbyterian Hospital and New York Hospital merged to form New York-Presbyterian Hospital. From the description of Presbyterian Hospital patient records, 1872-1929, 1941-c.1970s. (Columbia Universi...

United Hospital Fund of New York

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International Paper Company

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The International Paper Company was formed in 1898 by Hugh Chisholm as a result of the merger of 17 pulp and paper mills in the northeastern United States. It currently owns over 8 million acres of land in the U.S. and its primary products are paper and paper distribution, packaging and forest products. From the description of Records, 1873-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 73518022 ...

Aldrich, Winthrop W. (Winthrop Williams), 1885-1974

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Banker, diplomat, philanthropist, yachtsman. A.B. Harvard (1907). J.D. Harvard Law School (1910). President, Chase National Bank (1930-1953), chairman of the board (1934-1953). Ambassador to Great Britain (1953-1957). From the description of Papers, 1918-ca. 1973 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269593895 Epithet: US Ambassador in London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000...

Page, Arthur W. (Arthur Wilson), 1883-1960

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Business consultant; editor. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Wilson Page : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742563 ...

Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953

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Alumnus of City College, Class of 1898. From the description of Papers, 1926-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155504196 ...