Editorial correspondence files, W-Z, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1919-1972 (bulk 1922-1949).

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Editorial correspondence files, W-Z, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1919-1972 (bulk 1922-1949).

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The collection contains files W-Z of Jaffé's editorial correspondence. Topics include Norfolk civic issues, including the establishment of Seashore State Park, improved race relations, Al Smith and the election of 1928, his Pulitzer Prize, Norfolk history, the firing of U.Va. professor Whipple for pacifist views, articles for Virginia Quarterly Review, and Duke University. Many of the letters are from job seekers, and many others concern columns and book reviews. Among the correspondents are Julius John Lankes, John Calvin Metcalf, Campbell Bascom Slemp, Lindsay Carter Warren, Duke professor W.H. Wannamaker, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Junius Edgar West, Leon R. Whipple, Charles Harris Whitaker, Newman Ivey White, Walter Francis White, William Allen White, James Southall Wilson, Carter W. Wormeley, editor R. Charlton Wright, P. Bernard Young, Stark Young and Thomas W. Young.

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University of Virginia. Faculty.

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Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...

Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960

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Woodcut artist; Durham, North Carolina. From the description of Letter : Durham, North Carolina, 1955-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539131 Julius J. Lankes was a maker of woodcuts whose work was represented at the Weyhe Gallery. Carl Zigrosser admired his work and promoted his career. As with many American artists of his generation, Lankes' career was never financially stable, and he also worked as an illustrator, an art educator and as a technical artist for the F...

Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, 1879-1966

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T.J. Wertenbaker was a professor of history at Princeton from 1910 to 1936, serving as department chairman from 1928-1936. Wertenbaker published several highly regarded works on colonial American history, and was a popular teacher. His eventual appointment as president of the American Historical Association underscored his deserved reputation as one of the nation's eminent historical scholars and even after his retirement from Princeton he continued to publish extensively and receive important a...

Warren, Lindsay Carter, 1889-1940,

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White, William Allen, 1868-1944

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American journalist known as the "Sage of Emporia"; owner and editor of the "Emporia Gazette." From the description of Papers of William Allen White, 1890-1940 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837106 Journalist. From the description of Letters, 1889-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644557 Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. From the description of William Allen White letter...

White, Newman Ivey, 1892-1948

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The songs in v. 1-2 were collected at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Those in v. 3 are partly a supplement and partly a further collection made at Trinity College, Durham, NC. From the description of Negro songs and folk-lore : with some songs, etc., of the southern whites / collected by Newman Ivey White : manuscript, 1916, 1920. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612807388 Newman Ivey White was an educator and Percy Bysshe Shelley scholar. He served as Professor of ...

White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955

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Executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243854199 Walter Francis White (1893-1955), was an African American civil rights activist and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1931-1955. Walter White married Leah Gladys Powell (1893-1979) in 1922, and they ...

Young, Stark

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American author and critic. From the description of Belle Isle : typescript unsigned, 1940 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129868 American journalist and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bedford, New York, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1944 Jun. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584560 American author. From the description of Letter to Minnie Nielson Butler [manuscript], 1950 March 14. (University of Vir...

Wannamaker, W. H.,

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White, James Southall, 1880-1963,

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Jaffe, Louis I. (Louis Isaac), 1888-1950

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Editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. From the description of Editorial correspondence files, S-V, of the Virginian-Pilot, 1907-1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135349 From the description of Editorial correspondence files, M and N, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1918-1954. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647846337 From the description of Editorial correspondence files, H-L, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1917-1950. (U...

Duke University

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Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948

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Young, Thomas W., d. 1967.

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Slemp, C. Bascom (Campbell Bascom), 1870-1943

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Congressman, 1907-1923, from Virginia's 9th District and private secretary to Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1925. From the description of C. Bascom Slemp scrapbooks [manuscript], undated. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648004695 C. Bascom Slemp of Big Stone Gap, Va., was a lawyer, businessman, and U.S. Representative from Virginia. From the description of Additional papers of Campbell Bascom Slemp, h 1920-1931. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id:...

West, Junius Edgar, 1866-1947,

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Whitaker, Charles Harris, 1872-1938

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Charles Whitaker (1876-1947) was a student at North Carolina State University (1898). From the description of Charles Whitaker papers, 1895-1897 [manuscript]. (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 466878595 ...

Metcalf, John Calvin, 1865-1949

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University of Virginia professor of English. From the description of Papers of John C. Metcalf [manuscript], 1904-1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823087 ...

Wright, R. Charlton,

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Wormeley, Carter Warner, 1874-

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Young, Plummer Bernard, -1962

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Whipple, Leon, 1882-

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