Records, 1945-1951 (inclusive).

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Records, 1945-1951 (inclusive).

Contains general administrative and budgetary files, memoranda, correspondence, manuscripts, minutes of meetings, a complete run of Common Cause, lectures by committee members, original proposals and plans relating to the Committee's founding, and manuscripts by people involved with the World Movement for World Federal Government. Correspondence reflects the relationship between the Committee and other organizations advocating a world government. Correspondents include Stringfellow Barr, Norman Cousins, Alan Cranston, Albert Guérard, Richard McKeon, Thomas Mann, Milton Mayer, Lewis Mumford, John U. Nef, and more.

17.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7651670

University of Chicago Library

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World Association of World Federalists

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McKeon, Richard (Richard Peter), 1900-1985

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Philosopher, educator. A.B. Columbia University, 1920; A.M., 1920; Ph. D., 1928. Taught at Columbia University, 1925-1935. Visiting professor of history, University of Chicago, 1934-1935. Professor of Greek, University of Chicago, 1935-1974; professor of philosophy, 1937-1974. Dean of the Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1937-1947. Appointed Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor, 1947. Member, U.S. Delegation to UNESCO, 1946, 1947, 1948. From the description of Pa...

Cranston, Alan MacGregor.

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Cranston was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Calif., 1969-1993. From the description of Alan Cranston letters : TLS, 1969 and 1972. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122539548 ...

Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958

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Anthropologist. J.D., University of Chicago, 1924; Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1928. Assistant professor of anthropology, University of Chicago, 1928-1934; professor, 1934-1958; dean, Division of the Social Sciences, 1934-1946; chairman, Department of Anthropology, 1947-1949. Died 1958. From the description of Papers, 1925-1958 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52250075 The association of Robert M. Hutchins and Robert Redfield ...

Borgese, Elisabeth Mann

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Elisabeth Mann Borgese, youngest daughter of the German author Thomas Mann, was a founding member of the environmental organization The Club of Rome. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, an Italian-American author and a political philosopher, was born near Palermo, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in 1931. He taught at Smith (1932-1935) and at the University of Chicago (from 1936). His works include the novels RUBÉ (1921), GOLIATH: THE MARCH OF FASCISM (1937), and COMMON CAUSE (1943). ...

Wright, Quincy, 1890-1970

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Quincy Wright, 1890-1970, was professor of international law at the University of Chicago. From the description of Papers,f1926-1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122377031 Political scientist. A.B., Lombard College, 1912; A.M, University of Illinois, 1913; Ph. D, 1915. Assistant and instructor in international law, Harvard University, 1916-1919. Assistant professor, University of Minnesota, 1919-1921; associate professor, 1921-1922; pro...

Committee to Frame a World Constitution

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The Committee to Frame a World Constitution was organized in 1945 by Richard P. McKeon and Giuseppe Borgese with the support of University of Chicago Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins. Members included Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilbur O. Katz, Charles H. McIlwaim, Robert Redfield, and Rexford G. Tugwell. The Committee published The Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution (1948) and the journal Common Cause (1947-1951), edited by Elizabeth Ma...

Barr, Stringfellow, 1897-1982

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Historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. From the guide to the Stringfellow Barr letters to Broadus Mitchell, 1952, 1954, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) University of Virginia professor; co-founder of St. John's College's "New Program" based on the classics; president of the Foundation for World Government. From the description of Papers of Stringfellow Barr [manuscript], 1915-1958. (...

Tugwell, Rexford G. (Rexford Guy), 1891-1979

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Economist. From the description of Reminiscences of Rexford Guy Tugwell: oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527904 From 1934 to 1937 Tugwell was under secretary of agriculture. From the description of Rexford Guy Tugwell [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by Charles O. Jackson, June 7, 1968. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 49322584 Rexford G. Tugwell (1891-1979) was...

Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986

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Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio, 1882-1952

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Borgese was an author and a literature professor at the University of Chicago; he was married to Elisabeth Mann, the youngest daughter of the author Thomas Mann. From the description of Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1944. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862976 Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, an Italian-American author and a political philosopher, was born near Palermo, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in 1931. He taught at Smith (1932-1935)...

Nef, John Ulric, 1899-

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Professor of economic history. Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1929-1950; chairman and professor, Committee on Social Thought, 1945-1964. From the description of Papers, 1909- [ca. 1970]. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246436 Writer, historian. From the description of Reminiscences of John Ulric Nef : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451879 ...

Cousins, Norman.

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American editor of the "Saturday Review of Literature" from 1940-1977. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1960 May 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868047 Editor, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Cousins : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376635 From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Cousins : lecture, 1959. (Colum...

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Guérard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1914-

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Guérard is an emeritus professor of English at Stanford University and a novelist. From the description of Research materials on John Hawkes, 1959-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866725 From the description of Research Materials on Lya de Putti and Lois Moran, 1923-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510610 Albert Joseph Guérard is Professor Emeritus of English at Stanford University, and a novelist. From the description of Albert J. Guéra...

Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001

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American philosopher, educator, author. From the description of Papers, 1939-1944. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 80110800 Mortimer Jerome Adler, philosopher, educator, writer. The Mortimer J. Adler Papers include information on his work with the Great Books, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the Institute for Philosophical Research as well as material relating to his many publications. The collection consists ...

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977

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University president; interviewee d.1977. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Maynard Hutchins : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740103 American author and University administrator. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : Chicago, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1941 Feb. 4 and Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868116 From the CSDI Collection (Mss 18) descriptio...