Committee on Public Information Four-Minute Men correspondence and pamphlets, 1917-1919.

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Committee on Public Information Four-Minute Men correspondence and pamphlets, 1917-1919.

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State director's correspondence concerns local four-minute men group organization and supply; speech subjects and locations; groups in other states; local chairmen; and a State Fair conference. Pamphlets concern peace; demobilization; public speaking; and Marshall Field's patriotic advertising campaign. Record also includes a clergy directory; publicity notices; governing committee minutes; Illinois and other state chairmen lists; mailing lists; speech texts; congressmen's positions on conscription; photographs; and newspaper clippings concerning peace and reconstruction.

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