Letters and memoranda to Robert K. Gooch [manuscript], 1947-1949.

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Letters and memoranda to Robert K. Gooch [manuscript], 1947-1949.

The collection contains a letter from Dean J. N. G. Finley to R. K. Gooch and D. S. Norton reviewing the personality-and-policy clash in the management of radio station WUVA. The collection also contains an address by Cord Meyer, Jr., of the Washington chapter, United World Federalists, regarding the U.W.F. stand on the Baruch Plan. With it is a letter from Clarence Streit inviting Gooch to a conference; and a circular letter to "Dear World Federalist" from James Collier Marshall, secretary of the Albemarle County Chapter, U.W.F., on Congressional hearings over the structure of the United Nations. In addition there is a statement of understanding between the Liberian government and the Stettinius Associates-Liberia, inc. regarding aid to Liberia through The Liberia Company. The collection also contains a note to T. Keister Greer from Edward R. Stettinius regarding the former' s desire to study at Oxford; and brief notes to Gooch from U.S. Senator Richard H. Heindel and F. H. Woodward of the Oxford & Cambridge University Club.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7931399

University of Virginia. Library

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Liberia Company

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United World Federalists (U.S.)

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The United World Federalists was a non-partisan, non-profit organization with members in forty-eight states. This organization was founded in Asheville, North Carolina on February 23, 1947 as the result of a merger of five existing world government groups: Americans United for World Government; World Federalists, U.S.A.; Student Federalists; Georgia World Citizens Committee; and the Massachusetts Committee for World Federation. The organization became World Federalists, ...

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949

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Industrialist and statesman. From the description of Clippings relating to Edward R. Stettinius, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068013 Industrialist, Secretary of State, delegate to the United Nations. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : to Darryl F. Zanuck, Beverly Hills, California, 1944 November 11 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647836060 From the description of Financial records of Edward R. Stettinius [...

Hiden, Martin B.

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Streit, Clarence K. (Clarence Kirshman), 1896-1986

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Author, editor, and journalist. From the description of Papers of Clarence K. Streit, 1838-1990 (bulk 1939-1986). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071998 From the description of Papers, 1910-1987 (bulk 1939-1977). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28495262 American journalist and author. From the description of Letter to Mr. Williamson [manuscript], 1935 January 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647976010 ...

Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965

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Baruch, a financier and public adviser, was a millionaire by the age of thirty thanks to his investments in the stock market. He put his wealth to use in politics and public affairs and became an adviser to Woodrow Wilson, who appointed him chairman of the War Industries Board and a member of the president's war council. After World War I, he took part in the postwar peace conference and later became an adviser to President Roosevelt on defense matters and industrial preparedness for war. After ...

Gooch, R. K. (Robert Kent), 1893-1982

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Chairman, Department of Political Sciences, University of Virginia. From the description of Robert Kent Gooch papers [manuscript], 1952-1953. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647877439 From the description of Robert Kent Gooch papers [manuscript], 1944-1962. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647877431 Robert K. Gooch, b. Roanoke, Va., university prof.; taught government at William and Mary College (1920-1922) and political science at Univers...

Marshall, James Collier, 1879-1964,

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Meyer, Cord, 1920-2001

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Intelligence officer, internationalist, and newspaper columnist. Died 2001. From the description of Cord Meyer papers, 1922-2000 (bulk 1982-1989). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983397 Biographical Note 1920, Nov. 10 Born, Washington, D.C. 1927 1933 ...

Stettinius Associates

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Greer, T. Keister, 1921-

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Historian of Charlottesville, Va. From the description of Genesis of a Virginia frontier [manuscript] : the origins of Franklin County, Virginia, 1740-1785 / T. Keister Greer, 1946. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647860958 ...

Woodward, F. H.,

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WUVA (Radio station : Charlottesville, Va.)

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Norton, Daniel Silas, 1908-1951

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Heindel, Richard Heathcote, 1912-

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Finley, John Norville Gibson, 1898-

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