Lucius Storrs letter to Will Owen Jones [manuscript], 1925 March 7.

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Lucius Storrs letter to Will Owen Jones [manuscript], 1925 March 7.

Storrs discusses a photograph of himself, unwanted publicity and comparison to Will Hays and Judge Landis. Mentions being a Universit of Nebraska alumnus.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7450582

University of Virginia. Library

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Storrs, Lucius Seymour, 1869-1945

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Lucius Seymour Storrs was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on 4 Jan. 1869, the son of Origen and Janet Rankin Storrs. He attended the University of Nebraska where he graduated in 1890 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Storrs returned to the university to complete his graduate work later in life, earning a doctorate in engineering in 1927. From 1890 to 1894 he worked as an assistant geologist for the Colorado Fuel Company, and was a geologist for the Northern Pacific Railroad and special writer for the U....

Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944

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Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954

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Republican politician, namesake of the Hays Code for censorship of American films. Born in Sullivan, Indiana in 1879. Hays served as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918-1921, managing the successful campaign of Warren G. Harding for the presidency in 1920. Following Harding's election, Hays was appointed Postmaster General in 1921, a post he held until 1922, when he resigned in order to become the first President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America...

Jones, Will Owen, 1862-1928,

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