Papers of Booton Herndon, 1939-1986.

Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (...

Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973

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Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker, also known as "Fast Eddie" or "Rick" (October 8, 1890 – July 23, 1973) was an American fighter ace in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. With 26 aerial victories, he was the United States' most successful fighter ace in the war and is considered to have received the most awards for valor by an American during the war. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation,...

Herndon, Booton, 1915-1995

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Booton Herndon was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on December 9, 1915. He attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and later relocated to New Orleans, where he worked for the Item Tribune. He served in the United States Army from 1943 through 1945, and resided in Manhattan, in New York City in the late 1940s. Herndon wrote prolifically, authoring dozens of books on a variety of topics, and thousands of articles. He died in Charlottesville, Virginia on March 29, 1995....

Hailey, Arthur

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Ford, Henry, II, 1917-1987

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For information on the Fords, see an encyclopedia. For information on Cumming see his papers at the Clarke. A copy of the book by Bennett is also available at the Clarke. From the description of Correspondence, 1967. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 43884289 ...

Gaston, Paul M., 1928-

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Professor of History at the University of Virginia. From the description of Oral history interview of Paul M. Gaston by Charles E. Moran [manuscript], January 12, 1988. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920335 From the description of Oral history interview of Paul M. Gaston by Mohini Shapero [manuscript], November 29, 1995. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920177 ...

Saturday Evening Post.

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Kenyon, Dorothy, 1888-1972

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Lawyer; Judge; activist. Municipal Court Justice, New York City, 1930's; president of the Consumers' League of New York; appointed to a League of Nations Commission to Study the Legal Status of Women, 1938; U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1947-50. Charged by Senator Joseph McCarthy with membership in communist organizations and was the first person to appear before Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee, 1950. Was on National Board of the American Civil Lib...

Saga

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McNally, John Victor.

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Caplin, Mortimer Maxwell, 1916-

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Loomis, Robert D. (Robert Duane), 1926-

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Duke, Patty, 1946-2016

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Patty Duke (b. December 14, 1946, New York, NY–d. March 29, 2016, Coeur d'Alene, ID) was an American actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), a role which she had originated on Broadway. The following year she was given her own show, The Patty Duke Show, in which she portrayed "identical cousins"....

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, 1911-1956

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American female athlete, Olympic medalist and professional golfer. From the description of Papers. (Lamar University). WorldCat record id: 40925228 ...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Wilkinson, Max, 1904-1985

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Reed, James A. (James Alexander), 1861-1944

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Spong, William B. (William Belser), 1920-1997

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U.S. Senator from Virginia. From the description of Papers of William B. Spong [manuscript], 1957-1988. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647826998 From the description of Papers of William B. Spong. 1965-1974. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 78606371 WWII Veteran; Member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Virginia Senate and United States Senate; Dean of Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary; President Old Domini...

True, the man's magazine.

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966

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Fulton Lewis, Jr. (1903-1966) was an American television and radio commentator and columnist. Born in Washington, D.C.. April 30, 1903 to Fulton and Elizabeth Lewis, he was educated at Western High School, Washington, D.C., and attended the University of Virginia. On June 28, 1930, he married Alice Huston. Fulton Lewis began his career as a reporter for the Washington Herald in 1924, where he later became the city editor. He worked with the Washington Bureau, Universal S...

Littauer and Wilkinson.

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Hammond, Thomas Taylor.

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Thomas Taylor Hammond, professor emeritus of history and founder of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, taught at the UniversIty from 1949-1991. From the description of Papers of Thomas Taylor Hammond [manuscript], 1955-1986. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647997902 From the description of Thomas Taylor Hammond papers [manuscript], ca.1949-1992. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647926312 ...