Reminiscences of Luther Harris Evans : oral history, 1965.

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Reminiscences of Luther Harris Evans : oral history, 1965.

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Early life and education: University of Texas, Stanford, Yale, Pennsylvania Military College; instructor at New York University, Dartmouth, Princeton; Works Progress Administration, 1935-1939; director of Historical Records Survey; director of Legislative Reference Service; Librarian of Congress, 1945-1953; new projects, programs; establishment of Council of National Library Association; United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): United States National Commission, 1946; Executive Board, 1949, director-general, 1953, delegate to General Conference, 1947-1951; UNESCO program development: education, agriculture, mass communication, financial aid; Brookings Institution; National Education Association; automation project; United States Commission for Refugees; American Civil Liberties Union. Impressions of Harry Hopkins, Archibald MacLeish, Torres Bodet, Henry Cabot Lodge, Dag Hammarskjold, Lyndon Johnson.

Transcript: 844 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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