Correspondence and papers of Joseph Morrell Dodge, 1913-1964.

ArchivalResource

Correspondence and papers of Joseph Morrell Dodge, 1913-1964.

Contains appointments books; Austrian Treaty assignment papers and correspondence; bank examiner papers (1913-1917); biographical information; banking industry papers and correspondence; director of the Bureau of the Budget papers; papers on Detroit and Michigan finances; Doyle Auto Agency papers; Detroit's 250th anniversary; general correspondence with Ethel Cobo, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lawrence P. Fisher, Henry Ford II, Barry Goldwater, Herbert C. Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Nelson A. Rockefeller, George Romney, among many other notable persons; Germany assignment papers and correspondence; Japan assignment papers and correspondence (1941-1961); Olympics committee; Penn Heat Control Co. papers; photographs and scrapbooks; publicity; speeches; Tractors for Freedom Committee; and war work (1942-1944).

127 boxes (126.5 linear ft.)2 v.

Related Entities

There are 33 Entities related to this resource.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k17x25 (person)

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6776605 (person)

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...

MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qd0tr8 (person)

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64v77vf (person)

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the...

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6998xfr (person)

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973. He also served as assistant secretary of State for American Republic Affairs for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1944–1945) as well as under secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1954....

Wedemeyer, Albert Coady, 1897-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68f0kj0 (person)

General Albert Coady Wedemeyer (July 9, 1897 – December 17, 1989) was a United States Army commander. A 1919 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he was a temporary Lieutenant Colonel at the outbreak of World War II in December 1941. His first major assignment had come earlier in the year when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the War Department to develop tactics to win the war that he believed the U.S. was destined to enter. He was the only U.S. officer to...

Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z31x1j (person)

Dean Rusk (1909-1994), U.S. Secretary of State, born in Cherokee County, Georgia. From the description of University of Georgia faculty papers, 1952, 1971-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477809 Dean Rusk was born in Cherokee County, Ga., on February 9, 1909. He attended Davidson College, graduating in 1931 as a Rhodes Scholar. He then attended St. John's College, Oxford. In 1946 he became assistant chief of the Division of International Security Affairs of the U.S. De...

Fisher, Lawrence P. (Lawrence Peter), 1888-1961

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jq38bz (person)

Tsushima, Hōtō, b. 1888

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60s43h7 (person)

Cohen, Jerome B., 1915-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv23tb (person)

Detroit Savings Bank.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mq1wrn (corporateBody)

Draper, William H. (William Henry), 1894-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r3p16 (person)

Epithet: Reverend; Vicar of Holy Cross, Shrewsbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x0001b5 William Henry Draper (1894-1974) was born in New York City. He received a B.A. from New York University in 1916 and an M.A. in 1917. During World War I, he commissioned in the infantry as a member of the Officers Reserve Corps and served as a battalion commander at Camp Upton, New York. From 1919 to 1940, he worke...

Doyle Auto Agency.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6006w9w (corporateBody)

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n40kzp (person)

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...

Kanō, Hisaakira, b. 1886

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q85t0x (person)

Detroit Bank.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6355dqr (corporateBody)

Martin, William Mcchesney

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m4szg (person)

National Bank of Detroit

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66j080h (corporateBody)

United States. Delegation to Austrian Treaty Commission.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tn44tr (corporateBody)

Ridgeway, Matthew B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67w9pw9 (person)

Ford, Henry, II, 1917-1987

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nk3c08 (person)

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 ...

Detroit Bank and Trust.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pp60wv (corporateBody)

Cisler, Walker L. (Walker Lee), 1897-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65d8z5c (person)

Walker Cisler was a member of the Cornell University Class of 1922, a Trustee from 1949 to 1969, and a Presidential Councillor from 1968. From the description of Walker Cisler papers, 1965-1975. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64083976 Detroit Edison executive, advocate of the need to develop peaceful uses for nuclear power. Walker Lee Cisler was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1896. After graduating from Cornell in 1922 with a degree in...

Ichimada, Hisato, 1893-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xm2tnm (person)

Penn Heat Control Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn80r9 (corporateBody)

Ikeda, Hayato, 1899-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kh5257 (person)

Snyder, John W. (John Wesley), 1895-1985

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m61rpx (person)

Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t72zj6 (person)

Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) was born in Madison Barracks, New York. After he graduated from West Point in 1917, he commissioned in the infantry. During World War I, he became wounded in combat while commanding a battalion in France. He served with the War Department General Staff from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College two years later. Between 1940 and 1942, he served at General Headquarters and then Army Ground Forces. He rose ...

Shoup, Carl S. (Carl Sumner), 1902-2000

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69k8h89 (person)

International Olympic Committee.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68h2r5k (corporateBody)

Pace, Frank, Jr., 1912-1988

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fb5r3n (person)

Lawyer, government official, and corporation executive. From the description of Papers, 1946-1953. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70946860 ...

Germany (West). Office of Military Government. Finance division.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bd0s0k (corporateBody)

Dodge, Joseph M. (Joseph Morrell), 1890-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dn8k5d (person)

Joseph Morrell Dodge (1890-1964) banking executive and government official, was born in Detroit, Michigan. From 1917 to 1932, Dodge was vice-president and general manager of the Thomas J. Doyle Company, an automotive concern, and in 1933 he began a twenty-year presidency of the Detroit Bank. In 1947 and 1948 he was president of the American Bankers Association. In 1941 Dodge was director of a headquarters staff division of Army Service Forces. In 1942 Dodge's government career began when he was ...