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1903/06/22
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
to Charles Emory Smith re: responsibility of leadership to take chances in crisis
Also discusses the inevitability of irregularities occurring and rooting out scandal. Noted "Private" at top.
GLC06616
1902/11/28
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
to Joseph Cannon re: problems facing the Philippines after six years of war
Discusses problems in the Philippines after six years of war with the United States and recommends U.S. aid.
GLC06649.01
22 April 1919
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
[Sentence commutation for Fernando Robert Edward Ludicke, convicted for violating the Espionage Act on 18 September 1918]
Fernando Ludicke, alias Robert Edwards, was convicted of violating the espionage Act of June 15, 1917 in the U.S. District Court of Western Pennsylvania and sentenced to 18 months to be served in the Maryland State Penitentiary at Baltimore, Maryland...
GLC06598
25 November 1900
Willett, Grace, fl. 1900
to Sylvia Willett
Discusses women suffrage in Wyoming in the election of 1900. Comments that turnout among women was high, but "their voting does not help purify politics." Willett supported the candidacy of Williams Jennings Bryan. Also comments on bad weather...
GLC06594
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
circa 4 November 1918
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
[Speech concerning the end of World War I]
Delivered while Coolidge was a Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, the speech is written in pencil and signed at the top of the first page. Notes indicate that the speech was delivered on November 4 at Faneuil Hall, just before the election and...
GLC05314
1923/12/22
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
15 December 1911
[Presidential pardon of Charles L. King, convicted of Army desertion on 23 April 1908 and sentenced to two and one half years at Fort Leavenworth]
Sentence published in General Orders, No. 65, Department of the East, 30 April 1908. Secretary of War recommended pardon, which was granted by William H. Taft. Partially handwritten. With James Finch (signed), pardon attorney, warrant for pardon...
GLC07318
1915/11/08
to Henry A. W. Wood re: a speech by President Wilson
GLC07756
1909/06/28
to R.U. Johnson re: free art amendment to tariff bill
Taft proposes that he will most likely be able to prevent the free art amendment from being altered in committee. He does state, however, that the 20 year proviso might not be as detrimental to the bill as Johnson might think.
GLC07896
1910
Lincoln Said Women Should Vote
Washington woman suffrage poster, featuring Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I go for all sharing the priviledges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women."
GLC09103
13 March 1912
to the Senate and the House
Inflation and the cost of living. "How far the system of cooperative organization which flourishes in various European countries may be adapted to our highly organized and individualistic social organization may perhaps only be determined by...
GLC09098
January 1927
National Association 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
January 1930
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
January 1932
NAACP 1931 22nd annual report: a year's work for justice to the Negro
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1932. Foreword declares that the NAACP's aims "are in the path of manifest destiny of the darker races of the world. The world crisis and the social and political experiments that are its accompaniment all...
GLC06135.06
1915 circa
Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York
Women in the home
Argues that a woman's place may be in the home, but that she can perform these domestic duties much better if allowed the vote, since she will have greater control outside events that influence her housekeeping, such as public health and clean food....
GLC08964
1915
Modern [20th century] photograph of petition recommending Captain Ulysses S. Grant for the office of county engineer.
GLC04360.117
May 1905
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Draft of Ladies Home Journal article "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs."
Draft of Ladies Home Journal article "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs." Opposing women's suffrage." Let it be here distinctly understood that no sensible man has fears of injury to the country on account of such participation. It is its dangerous...
GLC08000
1915/06/23
to Oscar King Davis
"I am pretty well disgusted with our government ... in a democracy like ours people will always do well or ill largely in proportion to their leadership. If Lincoln had acted after the firing on Fort Sumter in the way that Wilson did about the...
GLC08003
13 July 1902
Fox, James D., fl. 1902
[Clerical copy of the resolutions sent to President Theodore Roosevelt concerning to the Friar Lands].
Also with the clerical signatures of John Sullivan, John Vance, Thomas P. Cullen, and William Brennan. Protests the banishment from the Philippines of the friars now doing God's work there. Notes that a copy of the resolutions was mailed to...
GLC01625.07
13 November 1916
Lane, Franklin K., 1864-1920
to G. B. Lunn
Possibly intended for George Richard Lunn, who served as United States Representative from New York 1917-1919. Lane congratulates Lunn on his recent unspecified victory (possibly his election to the House of Representatives), stating "it is good to...
GLC03481.27
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
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