Michael T. Florinsky Papers, 1914-1918.

Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson, 1861-1939

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Edwin R. A. Seligman served on the Columbia University faculty (1885-1931); the Tax Committee of New York City (1914-1916) and of New York State (1929-1931); the League of Nations committee on economics and finance (1922-1923); and as financial advisor to Cuba in 1931. ...

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...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Parés, Bernard (1867-1949).

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British historian. From the description of Sir Bernard Pares miscellaneous papers, 1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866970 Biographical/Historical Note British historian. From the guide to the Sir Bernard Pares miscellaneous papers, 1919, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Karpovich, Mikhaĭl Mikhaĭlovich, 1888-1959.

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Dewey, John, 1859-1952

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John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imp...

Florinsky, Michael T., 1894-1981

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Columbia M.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1931. Florinsky taught economic history at Columbia from 1931-1963. Among his major works were "Russia: A History and an Interpretation" and "Integrated Europe?" He also edited publications of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and for Collier Books' "Russian Civilization Series." From the description of Michael T. Florinsky Papers, 1914-1918. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320409539 ...

Svi︠a︡topolk-Mirskiĭ, Dmitriĭ Petrovich, Kni︠a︡z, 1890-1939.

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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...

Bakhmeteff, Boris Aleksandrovich, 1880-1951.

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Ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States (1917-22), engineer, Columbia professor, businessman, and founder of the Humanities Fund. From the description of Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmeteff Papers, 1914-1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320410957 ...

Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of James Thompson Shotwell : oral history, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734188 From the description of Reminiscences of James Thompson Shotwell : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608356 American historian. From the description of A visit to the Canadian battle fields : typescript, 1919. (Unknown). WorldC...

Prokopovich, S. N. (Sergeĭ Nikolaevich), 1871-1955

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Russian economist and writer. From the description of Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich Papers, 1920-1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320409297 ...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Meyendorff, Aleksandr (Feliksovich), baron, b. 1869.

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