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14 December 1915
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
to R. Fulton Cutting
Asks Cutting to join Herbert Hoover's enlarged Commission for the Relief of Belgium during World War I.
GLC02339
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
8 November 1910
Mosby, John S. (1833-1916)
to James Ewell B. Stuart, Jr.
Offers assistance in an unspecified endeavor of Stuart's (possibly a political appointment or campaign). Encourages Stuart, son of Civil War General James Ewell Brown Stuart, to call on President Taft when Taft travels to Richmond, Virginia....
GLC05252
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
5 April 1922
Unknown
to Guy Fenton
He hopes Fenton is well and says he is having dinner with the dear English soldier boys who were gassed during the war.
GLC02766.056
9 May 1907
to Sam Chapman
Written on stationery of the Department of Justice. Discusses Grant's endorsement of Lee's pardon after the war, and Johnson's refusal to grant it. He discusses politics during the Reconstruction era. He comments "there was more vindictiveness...
GLC03293
January 1930
National Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People
20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people."...
GLC06135.05
24 December 1908
Taft, William H. (1857-1930)
to Herbert Parsons re: endorsement of Jacob M. Dickinson for Attorney General
Signed as President-elect. With autograph postscript. Dicksinson served 1909-11 as Taft's Secretary of War.
GLC03509
17 November 1920
Dawes, Charles (1865-1951)
to my dear mother
Written while waiting on a friend to go to the Opera. He has decided to publish is notes on the war. He will include some of the letters he wrote her.
GLC02679.42
19 April 1918
Dawes, Charles G. (1865-1951)
He has enclosed some souveniers of the war (not included here). Some amazing things have happened which will remain in posterity but he can't write of it here because of the censors.
GLC02679.15
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