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- GLC#
- GLC07366.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 8, 1943
- Author/Creator
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Title
- to Lewis L. Strauss
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 26.5 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
Hoover asks for help in raising money for the "Boys' Clubs of America" (now the Boys & Girls Clubs of America) by asking corporations for donations. He lists several corporations that gave donations of $500 the previous year, including: American Express Company, General Reinsurance Corporation, Biddle Purchasing Company, Stackpole Carbon Company, Weirton Steel Company, Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, United Air Lines Transport Corporation, Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Company, Borden Company, Middle Atlantic Securities Corporation, J. Walter Thompson Company, with a pledge of $500 from the Continental Can Company. On Herbert Hoover stationary and signed by Hoover.
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