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6 December 1927
Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)
Message of the President... to the two Houses of Congress...
State of the Union address, signed by Coolidge at the conclusion.
GLC01132
6 March 1920
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
[Sentence commutation for Charles Manfri, convicted of selling heroin in New Jersey 19 December 1918, and sentenced to four years imprisonment]
Charles Manfri, alias Charles Mansfield, was convicted of violating the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey and sentenced to four years in the State penitentiary in Baltimore, Maryland. Wilson commuted his sentence to...
GLC01622
29 March 1922
Harding, Warren G. (1865-1923)
to Edna Sheldon Blair
President Harding rejects Blair for appointment as a civil service commissioner, "in view of the fact that there is one woman serving on the Board already I have not thought it preferable to consider a woman applicant for the vacancy." Concludes that...
GLC02008
circa 1920
Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964)
[Hoover's signature on White House card]
White House card.
GLC02346.02
27 February 1925
Mitchell, William E. (1879-1936)
to Mrs. Olive Crook Henderson
Discusses working for the common good during peacetime so they may be prepared in time of war. Concludes saying the national defense system is in dire need of revision. Written on War Department, Air Service, Office of the Assistant Chief...
GLC02431.01
21 February 1924
Weeks, John W. (John Wingate) (1860-1926)
to Harry New
Writes, "I cannot, under present conditions, make any arrangements to go out of town to make speeches. As you know, there are too many things pending here to warrant my being away from my own job. Just yesterday the House ordered an investigation...
GLC02431.02
1924-1928
Austin, Stephen F. (1793-1836)
The Austin papers (Annual reports of the AHS 1919, 1922)
Papers of Moses and Stephen Austin edited by Eugene C. Barker. There are three (physical) volumes, but they are labeled vol. 1, and vol. 2 parts 1 and 2.
GLC00267.105
22 December 1923
Taft, William H. (1857-1930)
to Gertrude Ely
Notes that he shares Ely's "impatience and amusement" with the Molly Pitcher Club. Discusses attempts to alter the Volstead law and his personal opposition to prohibition. But because of his belief in popular government he must respect the law....
GLC07319
17 June 1926
[Presidential commutation for Arthur Franzblau, convicted of mail fraud 24 February 1924 in New York]
Arthur Franzblau was convicted of using the mails in a scheme to defraud in the U.S. District Court of Southern New York and sentenced to one year in the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. He appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on 2...
GLC07326
[ November 1923 ca. ]
Thanksgiving Message
"On Thanksgiving Day it is urged that the people gathered in their homes and in their usual places of worship give expression to their gratitude for benefits bestowed and ask the guidance of Almighty God."
GLC08026
1925
Message of the President.
Signed State of the Union Address.
GLC03945
1921
Edmonston
[Signed photograph of President Warren G. Harding and his cabinet]
Signed by President Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge. Also signed by his cabinet: Herbert Hoover, Charles E. Hughes, Andrew W. Mellon, John W. Weeks, Harry M. Daugherty, Will H. Hays, Edwin Denby, Albert B. Fall, Henry C. Wallace, and...
GLC04097
11 May 1920
[Presidential sentence commutation for Richard E. Polen, who was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon 7 December 1912]
Richard Polen was convicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and sentenced to ten years in the State penitentiary at Baltimore, Maryland. The judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeals and Polen began serving his sentence November...
GLC04544
3 August 1920
to Clarence Atwood Nado
Written on Senate stationery, thanking him for his message of congratulation -- apparently for being nominated to the presidency.
GLC04675.30
8 May 1922
to Martin B. Madden
Transmitting the report of the Director of the Budget for the fiscal year ending 30 June 1922, "prepared in response to...House Resolution 285," to an Illinois congressman. Discusses reductions in government costs and expenditures and concludes that...
GLC04678
19 October 1920
Cox, James M. (James Middleton) (1870-1957)
[Appointment of H. P. Kochheiser as notary public of Cuyahoga County, Ohio]
Partially printed. Signed by Cox as Governor and Harvey Claude Smith as Secretary of the State of Ohio. Signed on verso by Kochheiser and Deputy Clerk P. M. [Givens?] 21 October 1920. Contains two record office stamps, one signed by Edward B....
GLC03481.36
circa 6 December 1924
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945)
to Al
Written on stationery of Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, as bank Vice President, possibly to New York Governor Alfred Smith. Suggests Frances Perkins for an appointment: "all the ladies of my acquaintance are keen to have you put Miss...
GLC02369
1928/04/20
to Francis Prescott re: his determination not to seek another term
Signed as President on White House stationery. Prescott was chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee.
GLC02793.077
17 November 1921
to Carl Bronner
Regarding the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. Written on White House stationery.
GLC03144
23 February 1924
Wadsworth, James Wolcott, Jr. (1877-1952)
to Oliver K. Hand
Thanks Hand, a New York City lawyer, for a letter received 21 February. Writes "Naturally I am glad to know that you and I are so nearly in agreement with reference to the constitutional amendment which I have been pressing, and the education bill....
GLC03481.29
1924-1930
Mellon, Andrew (1855-1937)
to Hamilton Fish, Jr.
Three letters typed in blue inks on Treasury Department stationery: n.d., 3/5/1929 and 5/15/1924, regarding efforts to stop manufacture and traffic in addictive drugs. With additional TLS of H. J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics...
GLC05185
9 October 1920
Brough, Charles (1876-1935)
to Elmer T. Clark
Governor of Arkansas Brough gives his approval of the Methodist Episcopal Church's efforts to improve Christian Education. He displays confidence and pride in the selection of Dr. John Hugh Reynolds (president of Hendrix College in Arkansas) to the...
GLC05508.050
1929
Webster, J. Clarence (1863-1950)
Samuel Vetch
An address by Dr. J. Clarence Webster of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada on the occasion of the dedication of a monument to Samuel Vetch first British Governor of Nova Scotia. Printed in 1929.
GLC03107.05333
circa 1920-1940
to R. D. Cooper
Discusses his concern that an increase in milk prices will harm the health of poor in New York. Furthermore, he contends that the decrease in consumption will hurt the dairy industry. Desires the support of Cooper's committee.
GLC04568
1920/04/29
to Otto A. Rosalsky re: as Gov. of Mass., urging leniency for Bernard Manning
Written as Governor of Massachusetts (on stationery) to Judge Rosalsky, asking leniency for Bernard Manning of Northampton, his hometown. He attests to the character of Manning's family and asserts that "[i]t appears to me simply a case of a country...
GLC04476
January 1927
National Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People
17th annual report NAACP for the year 1926
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1927, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states "More and more, has it been borne in upon the Association that for the present the avenue to affirmation and defense of the Negro's fundamental rights...
GLC06135.03
January 1929
19th annual report NAACP for the year 1928
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword commemorates twenty years of NAACP activity. Reports on legal cases such as that of Robert Bell and Grady Swain, two boys sentenced to death on a flimsy...
GLC06135.04
1922-1927
[Letters belonging to Sharpless D. Green dated 1922-1927] [Decimalized .01 - .03]
A collection of three letters dated 1922-1927 addressed to Sharpless Dobson Green from Franklin D. Roosevelt. Materials are related to correspondence between the president and educator on the matters of education and politics.
GLC09783
27 November 1927
to Sharpless D. Green
One letter From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Sharpless Dobson Green, dated November 27, 1927. Note refers to a personalized message included in a bound version of Roosevelt's speech, "Whither Bound."
GLC09783.03
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