Paul H. Douglas papers, 1932-1971.

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Paul H. Douglas papers, 1932-1971.

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Chiefly constituent correspondence, research files, recordings, scrapbooks, and other papers, from Douglas' career as U.S. Senator (Democrat, Illinois, 1949-1969), relating to election campaigns, labor, unemployment, social security, preservation of natural resources, congressional ethics, government contracts, Truth in Lending Bill, preservation of the Indiana Dunes region for recreation, Krebiozen method of treating cancer, foreign policy, and other matters; and correspondence, student papers, syllabi, and other material relating to his career as instructor in labor relations and economics at the University of Chicago, together with a few items relating to his service as a Chicago alderman, 1939-1942. The collection also contains 49 scrapbooks 1938-1969.

323 sound recordings.

Chicago History Museum

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Chicago History Museum

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Shulman, Howard

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Douglas, Paul, 1892-1976

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Howard Douglas : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309732848 From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Howard Douglas : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527416 U.S. Senator (Democrat, Illinois). From the description of Paul H. Douglas papers, 1932-1971. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat ...

United States. Congress. Senate

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United States. National Commission on Urban Problems

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...