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Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008) to Morris "Moe" Weiner

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09414.0053 Author/Creator: Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008) Place Written: [Brooklyn, New York] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1 June 1943 Pagination: 4 p. ; 21.6 x 14 cm.
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Sylvia wishes she knew whether he was going to stay where he is so she could send him a subscription to PM. Glad he used the $10 she sent him to get away from camp and that he saw "Mission to Moscow" and enjoyed it

PM was a leftist daily newspaper published in New York City from June 1940 to June 1948; financed by Chicago millionaire Marshall Field III.
"Mission to Moscow"-Motion picture, staring Walter Huston, about US Ambassador to Russia,under FDR, Joseph Davies.

Weiner, Morris "Moe," 1909-1988
Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008
Field, Marshall, 1893-1956
Davies, Joseph Edward, fl. 1943
Huston, Walter, 1884-1950

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