Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of xxThe New York Timesxx from 1935 until 1961 and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company from 1961 until 1968. While he was publisher, circulation of The Times almost doubled; the editorial page developed a reputation for strong opinions; news events were subjected to more analysis and coverage of specialized topics was strengthened; new sections and departments were created for food, fashion, and women; and the overall style of the paper became less rigid and more aesthetically pleasing.
Sulzberger was born in Manhattan in 1891 to Cyrus L. Sulzberger and Rachel Peixotto Hays Sulzberger. He was the middle of three brothers, Leo the eldest and David Hays the youngest. His father owned N. Erlanger, Blumgart & Company, a textile company, and the family was wealthy and socially prominent. Sulzberger graduated from the Horace Mann School in 1909, studied engineering at Columbia University, graduating in 1913. He joined his father's business after graduation and worked there until 1916 when he took a leave of absence to enlist in an officers' training corps in Plattsburgh, N.Y. There he met Julius Ochs Adler, the nephew of Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of xxThe New York Timesxx. The two became friends and Sulzberger spent weekends with Adler at Ochs' Lake George, N.Y. estate, Abenia. There, Sulzberger was reacquainted with Iphigene, Ochs' daughter. The two had met while he was at Columbia and she at Barnard College. They courted over the summer of 1916 and Sulzberger proposed in August. Although his initial proposal was rejected, Sulzberger persisted and by the following year Iphigene consented. Ochs agreed to allow the two to marry on the condition that Sulzberger join xxThe Timesxx. He agreed and the two were married in November 1917.
In his early years at The Times, Sulzberger was officially the assistant to the general manager. Other than managing the paper's charity, the Hundred Neediest Cases, it was a position that had few formal duties. Although Ochs wanted Sulzberger to learn all aspects of the newspaper business, he offered little guidance on how best to do this. Sulzberger soon saw an opportunity by assuming responsibility for the acquisition of newsprint. He was soon traveling to Canada and Scandinavia to scout supplemental shipments and new suppliers. His first success at xxThe Timesxx was convincing Ochs to become part owner in the Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company in Kapuskasing, Ontario. This provided xxThe Timesxx with a consistent source of newsprint at a price they could control.
Sulzberger's next coup was in 1927 when he engineered a contract for exclusive rights to Charles Lindbergh's personal account of his trans-Atlantic flight. While Sulzberger did not have much faith that Lindbergh would reach his destination, his decision to reserve full and exclusive rights to the story was extremely profitable for xxThe Timesxx. While Sulzberger's acquisition of a paper mill for the paper would increase profits in the long run, the rights to the Lindbergh story produced almost immediate profits which greatly impressed Ochs. He began to take a greater interest in Sulzberger's apprenticeship and sent him on a number of international trips to establish contacts with correspondents and foreign offices. During these trips Sulzberger familiarized himself with the news operations of the paper and developed an aptitude for the news business.
Until the late 1920s, Adler had been viewed as Ochs' successor, but Sulzberger's natural abilities soon overshadowed him. Upon Ochs' death in 1935, Sulzberger became publisher and president of xxThe New York Timesxx. In stepping into this new role, he made it clear that he saw himself as a steward who was to preserve the quality and status of The Times. He wanted to continue Ochs' vision for the paper, "to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect or interest involved." He felt it was also his duty to strengthen The Times' reputation as the finest newspaper in the world and to improve the paper before handing it to the next generation.
For the first year he made no changes out of respect for Ochs. After that he began to institute the many innovations that reinvented the image of xxThe Timesxx. He jettisoned the supplements xxCurrent Historyxx, xxMid-Week Pictorial, American Year Bookxx, and xxThe Annalistxx. He introduced more and larger photographs and allowed more leeway with the format of the front page, headlines, and body of the paper. He introduced new technologies to improve all aspects of production, including the Times Facsimile, the transmission of photographs over telephone wires, allowing for the more and larger photographs in the paper. In 1936, he officially hired Anne O'Hare McCormick (she had been a freelancer and regular contributor since 1921 but Ochs did not approve of women working on xxThe Timesxx) and Ruby Hart Phillips in 1937. He instituted a daily luncheon that all members of the managerial staff were expected to attend. Presidents, foreign leaders, industrialists, and many other dignitaries were invited to these luncheons where conversation was off the record. Because leaders were able to speak freely it allowed Sulzberger and his associates to gain greater insight into world events and to cultivate relationships with these people.
Perhaps the greatest change instituted by Sulzberger was on the editorial page. Throughout his time at xxThe Timesxx, Ochs maintained that it was not the role of a newspaper to advance opinions. However, Sulzberger felt that the neutral presentation of the news would in no way be compromised by a strong editorial page; it was moreover the duty of a great newspaper to present educated arguments. He did not impose his own beliefs on the editorial staff, but instead allowed them to debate their side of an issue with him when he disagreed. The person who presented the best argument in these cases won the right to decide whether a column would be printed. On occasion Sulzberger had difficulty having some of his own editorials printed.
Once he became comfortable in his stewardship, Sulzberger became involved in a number of organizations outside of xxThe Timesxx. He was elected a director of the Associated Press in 1943, was a trustee of Columbia University from 1944 to 1959, and was very active in the Red Cross and was elected to a number of positions. He was granted a number of honorary degrees and other awards from institutions across the country and the world.
Sulzberger retired as publisher in 1961 and his son-in-law, Orvil E. Dryfoos took his place. Sulzberger served as the chairman of the board from 1961 until his death in 1968. During this time he relinquished a number of duties to Dryfoos and his successor, Sulzberger's son, Arthur Ochs (Punch) Sulzberger, but maintained a measure of control over the paper. He continued to read the paper or have it read to him every day. He continued to praise and criticize stories, columns, and decisions.
Sulzberger and Iphigene had four children, Marian, Ruth, Judith, and Arthur. The Sulzberger children, with the exception of Judith, were involved in the operation of The New York Times or The Chattanooga Times at one time or another (The Chattanooga Times was Ochs' first newspaper and remained important to him after his acquisition of The New York Times.) Marian was a member of the board of directors of The New York Times Company for 14 years, Ruth was the publisher of The Chattanooga Times and was the director of The New York Times Company for 30 years, Judith received her medical degree from Columbia University, worked as a doctor, and served on the board of many institutions, and Arthur was publisher of The New York Times between 1963 and 1992.
Sulzberger died in 1968 after a long illness. Upon his death, a number of tributes were printed in The Times written by friends, colleagues, and world leaders.
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New York Times, 12 December, 1968.
One part wisdom, one part wit, one part humanity, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, 1891-1968, publisher of the New York times, 1935-1961, Chairman of the Board, 1961-1968. [New York]: The New York Times Company, 1969.
The Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers were originally arranged and maintained by the New York Times Archives. The history of the archives of The New York Times Company begins in 1952, with Lucille Sunshine, an information assistant in the News Department. She was chosen to organize the files of the then publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. According to the history of the archives written by an archivist at The Times, her assignment was to identify historical or biographical information, discard unnecessary material, and reorganize the files so that they could be used as an active centralized file of past and future material for all members of the Publisher's staff. Until that time, the publisher's files were arranged chronologically and housed in filing cabinets in or near his office. Over the next two years, Sunshine read through Sulzberger's files, selected and integrated material, and separated it into two categories, material pertaining to Sulzberger (named the Biographical File) and material pertaining to The Times (named the Subject File). Biographical material was chiefly material of a personal nature relating to Sulzberger, including friendly correspondence and lunch appointments, and material covering a wide range of topics that could not be easily filed in the Subject series. Subject material was mainly anything relating to The Times or material on an easily identified topic that was filed under topical or geographical terms or by organization name. In 1969 the next publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, established an official archives at The Times. He created the department and requested executives, editors, and writers to contribute their records to the archives when they were no longer needed as working files. His memorandum requested business files and any additional material pertaining to public activities that would give insight into the range of their contribution. The mission of the archives was to collect, select, organize, preserve and store materials documenting the history and activities of newspaper, of the company as a whole, and of its principal executives, editors and writers. The first ten years of the archives was mainly spent in collecting material and establishing record groups (publishers, managing editors, other editors, business executives, major columnists and other writers, and some specific departments or "desks"). The next ten years were spent organizing and describing these record groups according to the scheme established by Lucille Sunshine. Over the years, there was a blurring of these distinctions and personal material was filed in the Subject series. Material relating to anniversaries, birthdays, property, and vacations were grouped together and filed in the Subject series. The archives of The Times were donated to the New York Public Library in June, 2007. The order of the records has been maintained and the inventories created by the archivists of The Times have been edited for content. The one major change made by the staff of the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library is the integration of material in the Book and Map Files into their original record groups. Bound items such as photograph albums, scrapbooks, ledgers, and bound commemorative volumes were physically separated from their record group and filed with the Book File. Similarly, oversize items such as maps and architectural drawings were filed in the Map File.
The Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers document Sulzberger's life and career at xxThe New York Timesxx, with the majority of the collection relating to Sulzberger's 26 years as president and publisher of the paper. Included in the collection are correspondence with family members, friends, colleagues, world leaders, and other dignitaries; memoranda regarding the business of the newspaper, including Sulzberger's notes of praise and criticism to his editors, managers, and writers; reports on his meetings with world leaders, including Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman; and photographs of Sulzberger, his family, business trips, vacations, and The Times' buildings.
The bulk of the collection documents Sulzberger's career as publisher of xxThe Timesxx between 1935 and 1961, with additional material dating from his early years at the paper as assistant to the general manager (1917-1935) and his final involvement with the paper from his retirement in 1961 until his death in 1968. He involved himself in every aspect of the paper from editorials down to the placement of advertisements. He corresponded with a great number of people about stories in the paper, events at the paper and in the world at large, and about personal matters. He read the entire paper every day, sending notes to editors and reporters with criticism, praise, and questions. He answered letters from readers, acknowledging or forwarding letters of praise on to the appropriate person, defending stands taken by the paper or the editorial page, and explaining his own beliefs and attitudes and how they affected the paper. While this collection documents Sulzberger's career at xxThe Timesxx, there is material that falls outside of that timeframe, as well as material that dates before and after his life. See series notes for more information.
The papers are divided into two series, People and Subjects, according to a system established at xxThe Timesxx. The People series contains mainly personal correspondence between Sulzberger and friends, family, and others, as well as some business correspondence that could not be categorized in the Subject series. The Subject series contains material relating to xxThe Timesxx, businesses and other organizations, general topics, and some personal material that could be described in topical terms.
New York Times Company Records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
The New York Times Company Records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger Papers are organized in the following series:
Donated by The New York Times Company, June 2007
Processed by Megan O'Shea.
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Cross references for "Photograph file" refer to a file created by The New York Times that is not yet available. Portions of the following files are closed until 2019 per donor agreement:Series I. People: Adler, Julius Ochs, Jr., Blair, William M., Cohen, Richard N., Golden, Ben Hale, Rosenschein, Matthew, Windsor, Duke and Duchess of. Series II. Subjects: Sulzberger Family. The following files are closed until 2034 per donor agreement: Series II. Subjects: Insurance,Pulitzer Prizes, Sulzberger Foundation,Sulzberger, Iphigene Ochs, Trust. The following file is closed until 2039 per donor agreement: Series II. Subjects: Finances, Personal.
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This series contains correspondence, memoranda, photographs, scrapbooks, and other material chiefly of a personal nature relating to Sulzberger and material covering a wide range of topics that could not be easily filed in the Subject series by the Archives of xxThe New York Timesxx. The files are arranged alphabetically by personal name and contain correspondence with and about that person. When applicable, cross-references are provided to relevant files in this series and in the Subject series. Some material relating to personal events in Sulzberger's life may be found in the Subject series under applicable topics. Material that dates before 1891 pertains mainly to Sulzberger's parents and includes correspondence, a notebook containing reminiscences of Rachel Hays Sulzberger, and material relating to Cyrus L. Sulzberger's political aspirations. Material that dates after 1968 includes correspondence regarding Sulzberger's life and achievements, written to and by his wife, children, and staff members of xxThe Timesxx; articles written about him; and articles, clippings, and other material regarding people (other than Sulzberger) in the collection.
This series contains mostly personal correspondence, but some files contain material regarding the business of xxThe Timesxx. Files on notable persons contain correspondence and memoranda regarding business and reports on meetings between Sulzberger, members of xxThe Times'xx staff, and the subject of the file. Included in these are files on Winston Churchill which contain correspondence between him and Sulzberger regarding world events and Sulzberger's detailed reports on his meetings with Churchill, files on Dwight D. Eisenhower which contain correspondence between him and Sulzberger regarding events during his term as NATO commander and his Presidency, and files on Franklin D. Roosevelt which contain correspondence between him and Sulzberger regarding events during Roosevelt's Presidency and memoranda regarding Sulzberger's meetings with him and their relationship. Further descriptions of material relating to other well-known and influential figures can be found in the box list.
This series also contains correspondence between Sulzberger, his wife, Iphigene, their children, his parents, and other family members. The correspondence between Sulzberger and his parents includes his letters home from his posts during World War I and his letter announcing his engagement to Iphigene.
Includes correspondence with and about Leo Abt, his daughter and her husband (Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Peissak), and Clark Abt. The Abt family was distantly related to IOS, and several members were helped by her and AHS to immigrate to the United States.
Includes personal and miscellaneous correspondence between AHS and JOA, correspondence about his estate and about Mrs. Adler's investments, personal correspondence with Mrs. Adler, and tributes to JOA.
This folder is closed until 2019 per donor agreement.
This is the son of Viscount Beaverbrook, he renounced the title after his father died.
Includes letters and memoranda about Baldwin's news articles and military affairs column in the NYT, his travels, salary and other compensation, his personal relationship with AHS, documents referring to the Maritime Union's protest demonstration over one of Baldwin's articles (1946), and letters referring to his editorializing and exceeding the scope of military affairs in his column (1942-1946).
This folder is closed until 2019 per donor agreement.
These folders contain AHS's correspondence with Byrd about subjects other than his expeditions, including personal matters, Byrd's career in general, his involvement with the peace movement in the mid 1930's, and with Moral Re-Armament after World War II.
Catledge joined the NYT as a reporter in the Washington Bureau in 1929 and in due course became managing editor, executive editor, and a vice president and director of the Company. He was a close associate and confidant of AHS. These folders contain their correspondence about Catledge's career and compensation, his resignation from and return to the NYT, Catledge's memoranda about diverse news assignments, events, and about several of his fact-finding trips, and diverse personal matters.
These folders contain AHS's correspondence with and about Churchill, AHS's memoranda about his several meetings with Churchill, a detailed record about Churchill's dinner at the NYT, including AHS's welcoming remarks and memoranda by all Times editors and executives who attended the dinner (1949), and Ferdinand Kuhn's report on Churchill's political position following Edward VIII's abdication in 1937.
This folder is closed until 2019 per donor agreement.
Includes correspondence about Daniel's assignments in London, Bonn, and Moscow, requests for promotion, his health, and his marriage to Margaret Truman.
This folder contains AHS's correspondence with the Daniells about mostly personal matters. Two letters dated 1942 by Daniell's first wife, Blanche, (one is unsigned but attibuted to her) are included.
Darnton was a foreign correspondent killed in 1942 while covering the war in the Pacific. The papers in this folder deal with the circumstances of his death (whether it was by enemy action or accidental bombing by American aircraft), a memorial plaque, and Mrs. Darnton's employment in the Women's News Department. Also, there is correspondence about a liberty ship named for Darnton, and a collection of books presented to the ship's library by the NYT.
Includes correspondence with Mrs. de Marwicz's previous husband, David Behar.
Lady Douglas-Hamilton worked for the NYT during the 1940's, when she was Natalie Wales Latham. She was the organizer of Bundles for Britain, and later espoused several other causes, for which she often enlisted the help of AHS and the NYT. This folder contains correspondence about these causes, her work at the NYT, family matters, social events, and documents relating to Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton's death in an airplane accident in Africa.
Includes correspondence about the disposition of Downes' papers and music library (1955-1956, 1962), his political views and acitivities and attacks on him by anti-Communist organizations (1948-1955), and memoranda about his role as consultant to WQXR (1944).
Includes photograph of Drebinger with Joe DiMaggio, Joe Page, and Frank Shea at Yankee's training camp.
These folders contain the personal and miscellaneous business correspondence between AHS and OED, beginning with OED's joining the NYT and his marriage to MSD and ending with the clippings and other documents about his death. Some papers by, to, or about MSD and/or the Dryfoos children are included here, as are those concerning OED and MSD together.
These four contain letters and telegrams on OED's death, sent to AHS. They are in alphabetical order, by the sender's name.
Includes memoranda on three off-the-record interviews with Dulles on international affairs (1955-1958).
Includes reports on off-the-record interviews with Dulles on international affairs (1953-1958).
These folders contain AHS's personal correspondence with Eisenhower and letters and memoranda about diverse subjects during Eisenhower's Presidency, his term as NATO Commander, and his brief term as president of Columbia University. Includes Arthur Krock's report on Eisenhower's dinner and private conference with twelve reporters (1959), correspondence about Eisenhower's gift of one of his paintings to AHS (1958), James Reston's report on a conversation with Sherman Adams about Eisenhower's health and political plans (1957), AHS's reports on his private conferences with Eisenhower (1956, 1957), and memoranda by JOA and Krock on conversations with Eisenhower (1951).
Includes James Reston's report and other memoranda about her qualifications for a position on the NYT, especially the editorial board.
Includes material concerned with Freeman's work at the NYT as a reporter specializing in crime, welfare, and related social problems and her desire to continue working for the NYT after her marriage.
Contains Kathleen McLaughlin's report to Edwin L. James on the Goebbels diaries.
This folder is closed until 2019 per donor agreement.
These folders contain AHS's correspondence, mostly about personal and family matters, with Golden and his wife, Ruth Sulzberger Golden. It begins with letters by Ruth about her forthcoming marriage, covers the birthes of their four children, their houses in Chattanooga, their finances, their divorce in 1965, and and a few letters to Golden of later dates.
These folders contain AHS's more personal correspondence with his daughter during the years of her marriage to Golden, including correspondence that appeared not to concern her husband or the Golden family as a whole and correspondence following her divorce.
Greenbaum was a close friend of AHS, his personal attorney, and the attorney for the Ochs Estate. These folders contain their personal correspondence and some exchanges about articles published in the NYT.
Includes several letters by Gruenther commenting on NATO and on Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harold Callender's report on his private conversation with Gruenther about his impending retirement.
Includes Turner Catledge's letter to Cyrus Sulzberger about offering to transfer Gruson from Mexico to the Washington Bureau (1953), correspondence with Allen Dulles about his suggestion that Gruson be removed from his Central American assignment because of adverse information about his political leanings, prompted by Gruson's reports on the situation in Guatemala, related letters and momoranda, including AHS's file memorandum on the incident (1954), memoranda about Gruson's offer to go to China as correspondent for the NYT at a time when the State Department had barred American citizens from travelling to China (1957), and AHS's note on Gruson's appointment as Foreign News Editor (1964).
Includes correspondence about plans to mark the bicentennial of Hamilton's birth and letters about the bill to make the Hamilton Grange (Hamilton's house in New York City) a national memorial.
The papers in these folders concern Hays' household and financial affairs, her health, arrangements for her funeral, and correspondence about her with other family members.
AHS served as one of the two executors of Hays' estate.
Heyman was a German journalist who worked for The New York Times as a reporter from 1934 to 1948, and served with the U.S. Office of War Information in 1944-1945, while on leave from the Times.Heyman was a German journalist who worked for The New York Times as a reporter from 1934 to 1948, and served with the U.S. Office of War Information in 1944-1945, while on leave from the Times.
Includes Arthur Krock's report on his conversation with Hoover, April 20, 1932.
James was a distinguished war correspondent and foreign correspondent of the NYT and was its managing editor from 1932 to his death in 1951.
This folder contains his correspondence with AHS about personal and miscellaneous business matters and correspondence with his widow, mostly about financial arrangements.
The next folder contains condolence messages addressed to AHS, arranged alphebetically.
Includes James Reston's report on his confidential conversation with Johnson about China and Czechoslovakia.
Kaempffert was the NYT's science writer and a member of the Editorial Board. The papers in this folder deal with his return to the NYT in 1931 and the issue of writing for other publications, his winning of a special Lasker citation in 1954, and his death in 1956.
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Mrs. Kahn was the widow of Leo Sulzberger, AHS's older brother, and the mother of Cyrus L. Sulzberger. She married Ely Kahn in 1938, and died in 1962. Kahn remarried in 1964.Mrs. Kahn was the widow of Leo Sulzberger, AHS's older brother, and the mother of Cyrus L. Sulzberger. She married Ely Kahn in 1938, and died in 1962. Kahn remarried in 1964.
Includes correspondence about luncheon invitations, White House dinners, personal matters, and Anthony Lewis' memorandum reviewing Kennedy's attitude on Joseph McCarthy (1960).
Includes Arthur Krock's private memorandum on his conversation with Kennedy in 1940, in which Kennedy explained his resignation as ambassador to Great Britain and surrounding circumstances.
Mrs. Kiep was the widow of the German Consul General in New York who was executed by the Nazis in 1934. They had been friends of the Sulzbergers. This folder contains correspondence kealing with AHS's efforts to help Mrs. Kiep and her two daughters (197-1952); Mrs. Kiep's correspondence with Mrs. Sulzberger (1964); and papers about a memorial to Otto Kiep (1965).Mrs. Kiep was the widow of the German Consul General in New York who was executed by the Nazis in 1934. They had been friends of the Sulzbergers. This folder contains correspondence kealing with AHS's efforts to help Mrs. Kiep and her two daughters (197-1952); Mrs. Kiep's correspondence with Mrs. Sulzberger (1964); and papers about a memorial to Otto Kiep (1965).
Includes papers concerning the Knopf publishing house could not be segregated from those dealing with Mr. and Mrs. Knopf.
These folders contain AHS's correspondence with and about Krock, mostly in connection with Krock's career and personal matters, Krock's column, "In the Nation," and readers' comments on diverse columns.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, and clippings documenting LaGuardia's often stormy relations with the NYT and other newspapers. The principal issues were his activities connected with World War II and the postwar food shortages, his use of his radio program to disseminate his releases in preference to regular dealings with the press, and diverse problems of New York City.
Includes Leslie Groves' letters to AHS praising Laurence's role in covering the story of the atomic bomb (1945), memoranda by Laurence, Edwin L. James, and AHS about Laurence's desire to be a science writer at large, letters and other documents about Laurence's role in the discovery of a plant yielding a cortisone-like substance for the treatment of arthritis and other diseases (1949), and a memorandum on Laurence's appointment as science editor (1956).
Includes memoranda, clippings, and other documents about Lauren D. Lyman's scoop on Lindbergh's departure for England and copyright infringement by Hearst papers (1935-1937), about Lindbergh's attitude towards Germany and World War II, and Russell Owen's report on interview with Lindbergh (1941).
Includes messages exchanged between MacArthur, AHS, and other NYT employees during and after World War II, memoranda about requests to MacArthur to let the NYT publish his memoirs, memoranda and letters about the award of an honorary degree to MacArthur by Columbia University, the establishment of a history chair in his honor, and Clinton Green's memorandum on his interview with MacArthur in Tokyo.
Includes James Reston's report on a private conversation with Macmillan on international affairs.
In 1964, Markel left the office of Sunday Editor that he had occupied for over 30 years and moved to the 14th floor as Associate Editor. These two folders contain AHS's correspondence with Markel, mostly about personal and miscellaneous editorial and business matters. Included are some of Markel's statements of his journalistic principles and philosophy (1951, 1954, 1964).
Includes Anne O'Hare McCormick's report on her off-the-record conversation with Marshall, 1948.
These folders contain correspondence with and about Herbert Matthews about his career at the NYT, specific assignments, foreign decorations and other awards, and financial and other personal matters.
Includes correspondence about McCormick's contributions to the NYT in the early 1930's, her appointment to the Editorial Board, her travels, her role as adviser to the United States Government during World War II, her service as a delegate to UNESCO, the disposition of her papers after her death in 1954, and a memorial scholarship fund established by the New York Newspaper Women's Club.
McDonald was a member of the NYT editorial staff (1936-1937), the League of Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees, president of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, a member of the New York City Board of Education, and the first United States envoy to Israel. These folders contain correspondence dealing with all these varied activities, as well as the NYT's coverage of international news and personal matters.
McLean was president of the Philadelphia Bulletin, a director and president of the Associated Press, and a good friend of AHS. The first folder contains their correspondence about mostly personal matters. The second through fourth folders contain correspondence and other documents about a dinner, arranged by AHS, honoring McLean on his 25th anniversary as director and 11th anniversary as president of the Associated Press, including dinner menu, souvenir cartoons, and photographs.
Includes Arthur Krock's memorandum on his private conversation with Meany about diverse labor matters and related memoranda.
Merz was the Editor of the Editorial Page and a good friend of AHS, these folders contain their correspondence about mostly personal matters.
Arthur Krock's report on Mikoyan's remarks at a dinner in Washington and subsequent questions-and-answers session; related memoranda.Arthur Krock's report on Mikoyan's remarks at a dinner in Washington and subsequent questions-and-answers session; related memoranda.
These folders contain Moses' correspondence with AHS about personal matters and about the NYT's news reports and editorials about the diverse projects undertaken by Moses as City Construction Coordinator, Chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, Parks Commissioner, and in other official capacities. Included are disputes with the NYT over a series of articles on slum clearance (1959-1960), AHS's suggestion that Moses run for Mayor (1953), correspondence with Hugh A. and others about a proposal to use Federal armories for recreational purposes (1944), and correspondence about proposals to improve the Times Square area (1940).
Includes Arthur Krock's report on a telephone conversation with Nixon (1955), John B. Oakes's memorandum, "The Case Against Richard Nixon" (1956), and James Reston's report on Nixon's plans and activities (1958).
John B. Oakes, a son of George W. Ochs-Oakes, and thus a first cousin of Mrs. Sulzberger succeeded Charles Merz as editor of the editorial page in 1961. This folder contains his correspondence with AHS about personal and diverse editorial matters (however, correspondence about specific subjects is filed in the appropriate subject folders as indicated by the cross-references following).Of special interest:-- Oakes's reports on his trips to Washington, D.C., and talks with political leaders (1957, 1958).-- Biographical data (1957).-- Correspondence about the Council on Foreign Relations invitation to Oakes to join a special study of British-U.S. relations, declined (1951).-- Memoranda about his first editorials (1949).John B. Oakes, a son of George W. Ochs-Oakes, and thus a first cousin of Mrs. Sulzberger succeeded Charles Merz as editor of the editorial page in 1961. This folder contains his correspondence with AHS about personal and diverse editorial matters (however, correspondence about specific subjects is filed in the appropriate subject folders as indicated by the cross-references following).Of special interest:-- Oakes's reports on his trips to Washington, D.C., and talks with political leaders (1957, 1958).-- Biographical data (1957).-- Correspondence about the Council on Foreign Relations invitation to Oakes to join a special study of British-U.S. relations, declined (1951).-- Memoranda about his first editorials (1949).
Personal correspondence; financial statements; copy of her will; death certificates; condolence messages.Personal correspondence; financial statements; copy of her will; death certificates; condolence messages.
Includes correspondence about Roosevelt Administration policies, NYT news reports and editorials, the Corporation of Yaddo's activities and holdings of NYT stock, and personal matters.
Includes correspondence about Poliakoff's articles on foreign affairs, under the pen name Augur, some of which were published in the NYT.
Hilton Railey's first contact with AHS was in his role as public relations manager for Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expedition. Subsequently, he was involved in several other expeditions that The Times covered or contracted to cover. At the start of the Second World War, he joined The Times staff as an assistant to Hanson Baldwin (1941), and, on special assignment from AHS, conducted a survey of Army morale, which resulted in the "Railey Report" to the President and Secretary of War and was a major factor in the establishment of the information and education program in the U.S. military services.Papers concerning these activities are in the appropriate subject folders as indicated in the cross-references following. The papers in these two folders are mostly personal correspondence between Railey and AHS, including details about his employment by and severance from The Times, financial assistance given him by The Times and by AHS personally, comments about world events and U.S. policies, and Railey's books and poems (the latter published under the pen name Peter Cameron). Photo (1930).Hilton Railey's first contact with AHS was in his role as public relations manager for Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expedition. Subsequently, he was involved in several other expeditions that The Times covered or contracted to cover. At the start of the Second World War, he joined The Times staff as an assistant to Hanson Baldwin (1941), and, on special assignment from AHS, conducted a survey of Army morale, which resulted in the "Railey Report" to the President and Secretary of War and was a major factor in the establishment of the information and education program in the U.S. military services.Papers concerning these activities are in the appropriate subject folders as indicated in the cross-references following. The papers in these two folders are mostly personal correspondence between Railey and AHS, including details about his employment by and severance from The Times, financial assistance given him by The Times and by AHS personally, comments about world events and U.S. policies, and Railey's books and poems (the latter published under the pen name Peter Cameron). Photo (1930).
These four folders contain AHS's correspondence with Reston, and with other persons about Reston, mostly in connection with Reston's career and personal matters. Papers dealing with the general nature of Reston's column on the editorial page and his interpretive articles and news dispatches, as well as with readers' comments on diverse articles, are included here; however, papers dealing with the major subjects Reston covered in his articles and news reports are in the appropriate subject folders, most of which are listed in the cross-references following.Of special interest:--Letters and memoranda about Reston's role in the Washington Bureau, his assignments and responsibilities, and his position vis-a-vis Arthur Krock (1944, 1946-1947).--Reston's memoranda about publishing news in the light of national security considerations (August 29, 1944).--Reston's role in the London Bureau and relations with Raymond Kaniell (1943-1944).NOTE: In his letters to Reston, AHS often addresses him as "Dear PECTOH", which may be assumed to be a transliteration of "Reston" in the Cyrillic alphabet. (Reston had travelled to the Soviet Union with AHS in 1943 on a Red Cross mission). However, these papers give no clue to the origin of Reston's use of "Mr. Gus" in addressing AHS.In 1985, Reston confirmed the interpretation of PECTOH (by telephone) and explained the "Mr. Gus" in a letter included in this file.
Includes letters, memoranda, and other documents about diverse aspects of Roosevelt's policies and actions, many concerning his attitude toward and relations with the NYT and the press in general, AHS's correspondence with Roosevelt, and his memoranda on his three meetings with the President (1936, 1937, 1939).
This folder is closed until 2019 per donor agreement.
These folders contains AHS's correspondence with Judy and her husband, mostly about financial and other personal matters, and his correspondence with others about them. Some of his letters and poems addressed to the Rosencheins' children, James and Daniel, are included, however, the boys were later adopted by Judy's second husband, Richard N. Cohen, and most of the papers concerning them are included under Cohen, Richard N. and Judith Sulzberger Cohen.
AHS met Rusk through the Red Cross. Their mutual interest in the problems of returning World War II veterans prompted AHS to offer him the opportunity to write a regular column on veterans, especially the physically handicapped. This was quickly expanded to cover the problems of the handicapped in general. These folders contain AHS's correspondence with Rusk about his column and diverse related medical matters, about Rusk's many awards and about personal matters. Rusk also had a major role in advising AHS about treatment of his various illnesses.
Includes Walter Waggoner's confidential reports on two off-the-record meetings with Smith, then Under Secretary of State, about international affairs (1954) and correspondence about the NYT's publication of Smith's memoirs as Ambassador to the USSR (1949-1950).
Contains memoranda about James Reston's Dec. 25, 1952 report regarding Stalin's answers to Reston's questionnaire about major international issues, the focus of the memoranda is on Reston's and Arthur Krock's failure to clear this in advance with Turner Catledge and AHS and their responses.
Includes memoranda of private conversations with Stevenson by Arthur Krock (1956), James Reston (1958), and Harrison Salisbury (1958).
These folders contain AHS's correspondence with AOS about personal, family, and miscellaneous business matters, AHS's correspondence with others about AOS, as well as some related clippings and other papers. Includes clippings and memoranda about AOS's election as President and Publisher of the NYT, including a Times Talk article by AOS's sister, Ruth Golden (1963), comments by Turner Catledge and others about his conduct of NYT's affairs (1964-1965), his trip to Nevada to obtain a divorce and about his marriage to Carol Fox (1956), his work in several European bureaus of the NYT (1954-1955), his work as copyreader and reporter at the Milwaukee Journal (1953), his job at the Milwaukee Journal, AHS's visit to Korea, AOS's attendance at the Marine Officers Training School, his graduation from Columbia University, and AHS's note to AOS on "noblesse oblige" (1951), his re-enlistment in the Marines (1948-1950), his marriage to Barbara Grant (1946); and his service with the Marines in the Far East (1944-1946).
This folder contains AHS's correspondence with Barbara Grant Sulzberger following her divorce from AOS.
Includes reminiscences about AHS's parents, especially his Cyrus' views on Zionism and his campaign for Manhattan Borough President in 1903, the settlement of their estates, correspondence with and about his parents, AHS's letters to his parents form military posts in 1917-1918, Rachel's application for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (1905), her letter to Selina, Edward Greenbaum's mother, evidently about the death of one of her children (1894), and 13 letters by Cyrus to Anna L. Dawes, dealing with Jewish matters, politics, and other subjects (1884-1888).
Contains condolence messages received by AHS on his father's death.
Contains miscelaneous notes and momentoes of RHS's youth.
CLS was AHS's nephew, the son of AHS's brother Leo. He became a journalist after his graduation from Harvard College and eventually became the Chief Foreign Correspondent of the NYT. These folders contain AHS's correspondence with CLS, with others about him, correspondence with CLS's wife, Marina, and his children, Marina ("Marinette") and David. Includes cables, memoranda, and other documents about CLS's interview with Nikita Krushchev (1961), letters and memoranda about his desire to move to Washington, D.C. and his possible rivalry with James Reston, about his column and proposals to syndicate it, and about his salary and other compensation, about proposals to syndicate his column, about his style, about cutting and editing of his copy by the Foreign Desk, and about the start of his column, "Foreign Affairs" (Oct. 1954), his column in the Sunday Review of the Week Section (1952), his attempt to get a visa to enter the Soviet Union (1950-1951), and his complaints about the Foreign Desk killing some of his dispatches (1950, his travels, his compensation, and his differences with Lester Markel, his return to Paris at the end of World War II, specific dispatches, and his attempt in April 1945 to arrange an interview with Stalin, his appointment as Chief Foreign Correspondent and his attempt to get a visa for the Soviet Union (1944), correspondence about efforts to free Marina's brother, Alexi, from internment in Greece (1943), his accreditation by the British military command in the Middle East, his draft status, his engagement and marriage to Marina, and the effort to get her and her mother out of Greece (1942), correspondence with Alexander C. Sedgwick, Marina's uncle (1941); CLS's correspondence from the Soviet Union and the Balkans, describing conditions there, and his attempt to interview Stalin (1941), correspondence from the Balkans and papers dealing with his joining the NYT (1938-1940), his work for United Press in Washington (1936), his employment by the Pittsburgh Press (1934-1935), and his studies at Harvard and work on the Harvard Advocate (1931-1934).
Ernest and Paul Sulzberger were brothers and refugees from Nazi Germany. They were evidently not related to AHS, who helped Ernest establish himself in the United States, most of the papers in this folder concern this effort. The correspondence with Paul, who emigrated to Palestine, concerns aid to the Zionist movement and a plan for reparations to be paid by Germany to German Jews after the war.
These folders contain AHS's letters and memoranda to and about IOS about diverse personal matters that did not fit into the established subject classifications. Among these papers are IOS's, usually ananymous, letters to the editor, her advance obituary and other biographical sketches, papers concerning her birthday and the anniversary of AHS's first proposal of marriage which she had rejected, papers about several of her philanthropic and public service activities, some of the awards and honors she received, a copy of her portrait as a young woman, a photograph of her and other recipients of honorary degrees at Columbia University (1951) and other photographs, AHS's letter to his parents announcing their engagament.
This folder contains Marian's correspondence with AHS, mostly during her European trip in 1935 and photographs of her as a baby and as a young girl.
This folder contains AHS's correspondence with Ruth, mostly during her service with the Red Cross in England during World War II and photographs of her as a child.
Includes correspondence about Sunshine's positions and assignments at the NYT, especially her work on AHS's files and ASO's correspondence files.
Toynbee's review of Lionel Trilling's book "The Liberal Imagination" contained a sentence criticizing Catholics. The NYT published a correction saying that this sentence should not have appeared. The attack as well as the correction provoked a large amount of letters to AHS and to the editor, to which AHS replied that the correction was published because the NYT held an attack on an entire group unjustifiable.
Includes correspondence with John Dewey and Suzanne La Follette about Ferdinand Kluckhohn's reports from Mexico on the investigation of Trotsky's trial in the USSR.
Includes correspondence about the Truman Library and AHS's contributions to it (1965-1966), AHS's messages about E. Clifton Daniel's engagement and marriage to Truman's daughter and Truman's replies (1956), correspondence about the NYT's publication of Truman's memoirs and the arrangements with Life Magazine and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1953-1956), Arthur Krock's memoranda on his private talks with Truman (1948, 1950, 1951), Krock's exchange of letters with Truman about Truman's attitude towards the press (1949), letters and clippings about Truman's attack on AHS over AHS's 1948 audience with the Pope, in which AHS voiced doubts that Truman would win the 1948 Presidential election (1949), AHS's memoranda on his private talks with Truman (1946, 1947, 1948), and AHS's correspondence with Truman about appointments to the Red Cross (1945, 1949).
White was the NYT's chief South American correspondent from 1932 to 1941. These folders contain correspondence and clippings related to his news reports and the difficulties he encountered with several South Americann governments, American envoys there, and the United States State Department. They also contain correspondence about the interim coverage he and his wife, Florence Dover White, provided for the NYT and Wide World News Photo Service from 1929 to 1932, financial arrangements with them, and White's relations with La Nacion and other Argentinian newspapers. Includes White's letters describing conditions in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Uruguay and his reports on German activities and American moves in regard to military bases at the start of World War II, the latter causing protests by the State Department and President Roosevelt and leading to his recall in 1941.
Includes AHS's file memorandum about Wilson's refusal to send a message to ASO on his 25th anniversary as NYT publisher, as told to AHS by Bernard Baruch (1947), correspondence with Allen Dulles and others about a letter written by Wilson to then Secretary of State Robert Lansing, suggesting that Wilson would resign as President if he were defeated in the 1916 election and correspondence about Lansing's book (1928-1931).
Includes correspondence with Winchell and others about some of his columns attacking or gossiping about the NYT or AHS personally, about Winchell's statement that the Ochs Estate planned to sell NYT stock (1938) and about Winchell's column charging favortism in awarding Pulitzer Prizes (1951).
Includes memoranda and letters about Newbold Noyes's articles on King Edward's relations with Mrs. Simpson prior to his abdication (1937), letters and memoranda about meetings with and invitations to the Duke and Duchess (1937, 1944-1951), and CLS's letter to AHS on a dinner party with the Duke and Duchess (1954).
This folder is closed until 2019 per donor agreement.
This series contains correspondence, memoranda, photographs, scrapbooks, maps, blueprints, and other material relating to Sulzberger's career at xxThe Timesxx that the Archives at xxThe Timesxx was able to describe by topical, geographical, or organizational terms. Material on the activities and organization of xxThe New York Timesxx can be found here. This series also contains material relating to Sulzberger's properties and personal events that could be grouped by topic, including his birthdays, wedding anniversaries, anniversaries as publisher, and vacations. When applicable, cross-references are provided to relevant files in this series and in the People series. Material that dates before 1891 includes the original marriage contract of Daniel Levi Peixotto and Rachel M. Seixas, Sulzberger's grandparents, and photographs of other ancestors. Material that dates after 1968 includes correspondence regarding Sulzberger's life and achievements, written to and by his wife, children, and staff members of xxThe Timesxx; articles written about him; and articles, clippings, and other material regarding people in the collection.
Included in this series are files on advertising with Sulzberger's notes about the quality of the product advertised and the content and placement of the advertisement; expeditions by Richard E. Byrd and others which were syndicated by The Times; labor relations between the management of xxThe Timesxx and its employees, including material on strikes and changes in the management of xxThe Timesxx; material relating to the staff of xxThe Timesxx, including correspondence with staff members, memoranda regarding performance, milestones, and other topics; and trips taken by Sulzberger on xxTimes'xx business, including trips to Germany after World War II and to Asia in the late 1950s. Further descriptions of material relating to other significant events, organizations, or topics can be found in the box list.
There is no file with the heading "New York Times". Material relating to the paper may be found in the files for such topics as Advertising, Buildings, Circulation, Editorial, Staff, and the foreign offices including Berlin, London, and Paris.
Includes correspondence with Walter Rothschild about the Brooklyn warehouse owned by Abraham & Straus, about a possible lease by the NYT of space in the warehouse to store newsprint, and correspondence about advertising rates.
This is not the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
These folders contain correspondence, memoranda and reports on advertising rates, linage, and revenues, correspondence with advertisers about the cost of advertising and the position of advertisements, complaints, and problems involved with certain advertisements. Includes Monroe Green's 1965 memorandum on advertisers' attempts to pressure newspapers, which AHS used as background material for his oral history interview, AHS's 1943 response to a reader's complaint about advertising luxury items in wartime, a 1935 letter from J. M. Landis, Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission, on rules for advertising new securities offerings, and AHS's 1933 speech on the role of advertising in newspaper typography.
Includes correspondence and memoranda about a boycott of the NYT by 15 department stores over an increase in ad rates in 1943 and a 1925 draft of a New York City Publishers Association policy statement if a boycott occurs.
Includes memoranda and reports on rates, volume of classified advertising, and pagination and AHS's 1938 article for the Classified Journal on the role and value of classified advertising.
Includes letters, memoranda and other documents about the NYT's policy on accepting or rejecting certain kinds of advertisements, the review procedure, and the implementation of this policy. Among the major issues that provoked controversy with advertisers and readers were books and movies considered salacious, provocative fashions, advertisements by political organizations, advertisements for pro-Communist books and Soviet publications, pro- and anti- Zionist ads, ads for German products, and ads for medical books and procedures, drugs and cosmetics. A sharp and protracted controversy was caused by the NYT's refusal to print ads for Paul Blanshard's book on the Catholic Church and most of the material dated 1949-1952 deals with this.
Includes correspondence about ads that contain or imply some age, racial, or religious restrictions.
Includes memoranda and letters about ads and other promotional activities of the NYT, use of advertising agencies, tours of the NYT, promotional booklets and leaflets, ads in other periodicals, radio, and television, and reports on promotion costs and results. Also includes a consultant's report on the Promotion Department's organization and activities from 1945, a 1936 memorandum ordering all NYT's ads to carry the slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print", and AHS's 1929 memorandum to ASO suggesting the creation of a Promotion Department.
This is not the Academy of Political Science.
Includes correspondence from 1935 about advertising rates, from 1941 about monotone rotogravure printing, AHS's speech at the 1941 annual convention, memoranda about a civil antitrust suit brought against the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA), and four other media associations in 1955, and the counsel court's consent decree in the suit and the AAAA report on the suit and settlement in 1956.
Includes correspondence regarding AHS's early support of the Council, his role in drafting its policy statement in 1943, an attack on him and the NYT by the American Jewish Conference in 1943, and his letter reporting his resignation from the Council in 1944.
Includes correspondence about a controversial NYT survey of college freshmen regarding their knowledge of American history.
Includes material about the organization of a committee to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America.
Includes an invitation to AHS to become member, which he refused in 1923, because of Legion's policies, correspondece about and readers' reactions to Irene Corbally Kuhn's 1951 article in Legion magazine claiming that the Times Book Review favors pro-communist books and reviewers, correspondence about a revival of these charges and a meeting with Legion officials in 1953, and a letter attacking a NYT editorial critical of the Westchester County Legion's Un-American Activities Committee in 1955.
Includes material concerning postal rates, racial desegregation, and Workman's Compensation Insurance for newsboys (1956-1957), the proposed United Nations conventions on the flow of information and rights of the press and the reactions of the ANPA, American Bar Association, and other organizations (1950), Spain's restrictions on foreign journalists (1950), the Taft-Hartley Act (1947-1949), AHS's proposal on how to solve the British newsprint shortage (1947-1948), reports on craft union wage scales, newspaper operations, newsprint shortages and conservation, international conservation, and postal rates (1941-1946), ANPA's effort to have newspapers be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (Wage and Hour Law) (1938-1940), AHS's 1936 speech to an ANPA convention on freedom of the press, the exemption of newsboys from the Child Labor Law (1933-1936), and a 1929 ANPA survey related to an Interstate Commerce Commission's investigation, to which the NYT refused to supply financial data.
Contains a resolution honoring AHS, adopted by NYT's stockholders.
Contains letters and menu, guest list, and photographs of a testimonial dinner.
Contains a special issue of the NYT marking AHS's 30th anniversary of joining the NYT.
Memoranda about anti-Semitic manifestations in U.S. and especially in New York City, and efforts to combat them; diverse publications, leaflets, etc. (1938-1948).Readers' letters protesting alledgedly anti-Semitic terms in news articles and headlines; AHS's and AOS's replies (1967-1968).Memoranda about anti-Semitic manifestations in U.S. and especially in New York City, and efforts to combat them; diverse publications, leaflets, etc. (1938-1948).Readers' letters protesting alledgedly anti-Semitic terms in news articles and headlines; AHS's and AOS's replies (1967-1968).
Includes memoranda about the NYT's policy of rejecting ads for such products.
Memoranda and letters about establishing the position of architecture critic and the appointment of Ada Louise Huxtable.Memoranda and letters about establishing the position of architecture critic and the appointment of Ada Louise Huxtable.
Includes correspondence about the difficulty of NYT correspondents in Argentina, restraints on domestic newspapers there, political conditions, especially the Peron regime, detailed, confidential letters of United States Ambassador George Messersmith, the dispute between him and NYT correspondent Frank Kluckhohn, Kluckhohn's mistreatment by the police, and NYT executives' comments on these (1946-1947), and correspondence with Dr. Milton Eisenhower about NYT reports and editorials on the Peron regime and United States policies (1953).
Includes AHS's memoranda on modern art and Dore Ashton's reviews in the NYT.
Includes material on the quality of the Associated Press (AP) service, competition among news services and resulting distortions and exaggerations, editing of dispatches to falsely indicate sources and updating, the free flow of information world-wide, misleading or inaccurate bylines, the accuracy of some AP reports and war dispatches, misleading terms and datelines, editing to falsely indicate updating, disputes between the AP and the NYT about proprietary rights, AP's use of advance copy and proofs of the NYT as tips to its own reporters, the right to dispose of photos after distribution to newspapers, a dispute between the AP and the Newspaper Guild, election news coverage, faking of news, and the NYT's violation of AP release time.
Includes correspondence and memoranda about the Chicago Sun's civil antitrust suit to compel the AP to admit all qualified newspapers, ending territorial exclusivity of the AP's membership, and the resulting revision of the AP's bylaws.
Contains records of the annual cocktail party given at and by the NYT to meet the directors and officers of the AP.
Includes a report of the Secretary of State's committee on international control of atomic energy (1946), James Reston's report on interviews with Lewis L. Strauss, Henry De Wolf Smyth, Vannevar Bush, and Robert Oppenheimer about the Oppenheimer security-clearance case (1954), William L/ Laurence's report on the development of a U-238 bomb, with contrary articles in The Nation and memorandum by Hanson Baldwin, and memoranda between Baldwin and James Reston on atom bombs and the likelihood of conventional, limited war (1956).
Includes reports by William Laurence, Robert Plumb, Waldemar Kaempffert, and Dr. Howard Rusk on the effects of fallout (1954), Laurence's confidential report on his off-the-record interview with Isidor Rabi on the proposed moratorium of weapons tests (1956); memoranda by Laurence and others about AHS's plan to attend the Nevada tests (1957), memoranda about proposals to suspend the Nevada tests (1958-1961), and memoranda about the NYT's exclusive reports on a high-altitude test (1959).
Includes mainly letters and memoranda about cars bought by AHS or the NYT for his use, but some material dealing with general automotive news and traffic problems is included.
Contains awards from China, France, Japan, and Korea.
Contains awards from Bolivia, China, Finland, France, Greece, Mexico, Poland, and Yugoslavia.
Contains awards, etc. from the American Hospital Association, Baron de Hirsch Fund, Carver Seal Committee, Clipper Club, Dallas, Texas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Employees of the New York Times, Greater New York Hospital Association, Honor Legion of the Police Department of the City of New York, John F. Kennedy, National Union of American and Greek War Veterans, Poor Richard Club, and Publication and Production Departments of the New York Times.
Contains awards, etc. from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Red Cross, Army of the United States, Arthur Hays Sulzberger Plaza, Associated Press, Columbia University, Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, Graf Zeppelin, Jack Daniels, John H. Finley Award, Metropolitan Conference of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, National Geographic Society, New York Times Pressroom, Thirty Year Club, Time Magazine, and Voice of a Free Press.
Correspondence about Ayer's ads for The Times, its own institutional ads, and company's internal affairs.Correspondence about Ayer's ads for The Times, its own institutional ads, and company's internal affairs.
Contains a confidential memorandum by Hanson Baldwin on the United States' use of propaganda, weather, and reconnaissance balloons.
Includes letters and memoranda about attempts at censorship and seizure of copies of the NYT by the Nazi regime, plans to close the bureau at the outbreak of World War II, resumption of operations at the end of the war, and plans to move the bureau to West Germany.
Contains a special issue of the NYT for AHS's birthday.
Includes material on the policies governing the reviews and reviewers in the Sunday Book Review Section and daily book pages, plans for editorial changes, controversies between reviewers, columnists (especially J. Donald Adams), Lester Markel, and AHS, and controversies with Alfred Knopf and other publishers.
Contains handwritten copies of prose and poems by famous authors.
Includes memoranda on diverse properties owned by the NYT including F. A. Cox's reports on valuation of all properties (1959) and tax assessments (1959-1961).
Includes correspondence about repairs required, plans for a printing plant to be built above the railroad cut, possible sale of property, and renting of stores (1932-1938), possible uses of the property, a proposal for acquisition of a New York City school and a small factory, located in the same block (1951-1954).
Includes engineers' drawing of a possible NYT plant (1954) and a title company's survey (1931).
Includes letters, memoranda, and other documents about an appraisal of the Astor leasehold (easterly part of plot) (1930), use of subsurface strip, rental of stores at the western end (1936), purchase of the 44th Street Theatre, plans for major renovation of building and expansion to the 44th Street side, including new elevators, newsprint storage space, and space for WQXR, zoning regulations; financing of project (1943-1944), construction problems, progress, and delays (1945-1948), construction of WQXR studios (1947-1950), memoranda on the possible sale of the building in light of the proposed move to the West Side Plant (1955-1960), and memoranda on further alterations undertaken or proposed (1960-1962).
Includes letters, memoranda, and other documents about building repairs, maintenance and alterations, space rentals, effects of subway operations, electric news sign and New Year's Eve display, Francis E. J. Wilde's patents for the electric news sign, contract for its installation, Wilde's letter explaining the cost overrun and offering to forfeit royalties, and AHS's letter explaining how the news bulletins are selected and edited (1927-1936), reports on the condition of the building and steps to repair and modernize it, the sale to Douglas Leigh, Inc., the resale to and modernization by Allied Chemical Corp., (1956-1966), and the building's designation as a landmark (1957).
Contains plans for a section of the electric news sign (1927) and exterior repairs (1938).
Includes material regarding the acquisition of the 101 West End Avenue property from the New York Central Railroad Co., construction problems and progress, maintenance and traffic problems, and temporary space rental to other companies.
Contains architectural drawings of the proposed Plant.
Includes a cable regarding ASO's gift of the building to IOS (1924), correspondence about legal matters, repairs, maintenance, insurance, efforts to sell the building, and its ultimate sale to Lewis S. Rosenstiel (1950).
Includes letters, memoranda, legal documents, bills and receipts, and other papers dealing with the management of these properties by the Ochs Estate and its efforts to dispose of them.
Contains blueprints for proposed alterations to 308 West 75th St.
Includes correspondence about purchase of the apartment, floor plans, with proposed alterations, memoranda, notes, etc. about maintenance and furnishings of the apartment, and appraisal of furnishings as of April 1958.
Contains a blueprint and architectural drawings of the apartment.
Includes correspondence about repairs, maintenance, and staff, papers about the acquisition of an adjacent property from the Peabodys (1925), and documents about the sale of Abenia (1939, 1956, 1960).
Includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, legal documents, and other records about the estate. They concern mainly the initial purchase and the acquisition of adjacent properties, maintenance of the house, other buildings, the grounds, and relations with neighbors. The property was acquired in part by the Ochs Estate and in part by AHS personally, and many of the documents concern the legal ramification of this, and include correspondence with the children and attorneys about the acquisitions and future disposition of the property. Included are correspondence on the disposition of the property after his death (1960, 1965), lists of property acquired, with acreage and cost (1960-1961, 1965), a list of property improvements since 1949, correspondence with the architect, builder, landscape architect, and other contractors, specifications, bids, contracts, and a brochure about the initial property (1949).
Includes correspondence about ASO's purchase of the estate, repairs and maintenance, the sale of the property by the Ochs Estate, and its subsequent disposition.
Contains blueprints and architectural drawings of the estate.
Includes memmoranda and correspondence about the selection of cartoons, the NYT's reasons for not publishing its own cartoons, and the practice of reprinting cartoons from other newspapers without payment.
Includes memoranda about the alleged use of agents under the guise of journalists and James Reston's memorandum on the Agency's requests to newspapers to publish certain stories without attribution to any government sources
Includes material regarding general policies, operations, management changes, and other issues at the Chattanooga Times, changes in operations following the separation from the News Free Press, especially the publication of the new afternoon paper, the Chattanooga Post, the problems of dual ownership of newspapers, Ben Golden's daily reports to AHS, masthead changes and executives' compensation, and problems and reorganization following ASO's death.
This material covers the joint operation between the Chattanooga Times and the Chattanooga News-Free Press, under an agency agreement, from its inception in 1941 to the separation in 1966 and the many problems encountered.
Includes material on shortcomings in the Chattanooga Times' news coverage and editorial page, efforts to remedy these, and specific problems and issues in the news, especially the many aspects of the desegregation issue.
Includes correspondence and clippings about the Chattanooga Times' radio and television programs.
Includes correspondence about newspaper booklets created from the NYT and Chattanooga Times and workshops for teachers on how to use newspapers in their classrooms.
Includes correspondence and memoranda about staff increases, replacements, compensation, and benefits, employees planning to run for elective office, employees appearing regularly on radio or television programs, compensation and benefits for employees while in or after returning from military service, and postwar bonuses for executives, and on the staff reorganization following ASO's death.
Includes correspondence about Guild demands for closed shop or Guild shop (1937-1942), AHS's letter to Charles Puckette demanding that Ben Golden take part in all union negotiations (1951), and AHS's memoranda to Ben Golden about Guild's strike threat and his memoranda about Golden's attitude concerning negotiations (1959).
Includes material mostly about the NYT's editorial stand on the United States' policies towards Communist China and Nationalist China (Taiwan), news coverage of China, and relations with Chinese officials and news organizations and journalists. The principal contents may be summarized as follows: controversy between John Oakes, Orvil Dryfoos, and others over a series of editorials on seating China in the United Nations (1961), the issue of sending reporters to mainland China in view of the State Department's ban, including correspondence between AHS and John Foster Dulles on this topic, which was published in the NYT, the decoration presented to AHS by Chiang Kai-shek (1956-1957), the Sun Li-jen affair (1955), Foster Hailey's speech urging recognition of Communist China (1954), the problems in reporting the news from China, the issue of the United States' policy on defending Formosa and the off-shore islands against the Communists, including Douglas MacArthur's reply to AHS's question about the policy, Henry Lieberman's reports on conditions in China and his three internments there (1946-1953), Hallett Abend's letters on conditions in China, and letters and memoranda about the quality of Abend's reports (1928-1936).
AHS collected British and American first editions of Churchill's writings, and eventually amassed a nearly complete collection. These folders contain correspondence with dealers, sellers, other collectors, and Churchill about the collections, memoranda and notes about organizing the collection and installing it at Hillandale, about Randolph Churchill's biography of his father and other books about Churchill that were later included in the collection. A set of catalog cards and chronological and alphabetical lists of the volumes in the collection are included.
Includes material about the publication of Churchill's memoirs by the NYT and Life Magazine.
Includes correspondence and other documents about the painting Churchill gave to AHS in 1955 for AHS's 20th anniversary as publisher of the NYT.
Includes circulation reports with AHS' questions and comments, correspondence and memoranda about the volume of circulation, effects of price increases, problems of distribution in distant United States areas and overseas, comparisons with the Herald-Tribune and other New York newspapers, the effects of strikes, newsdealers' attitudes, and specific news events on circulation, expanding suburban circulation, correspondence with readers about delivery problems, a dispute with the Union News Co. about its unauthorized raising of price (1960), memoranda and notes about effects of the Deliverers' strike against suburban wholesalers (1957), disagreements on price increase (1956-1958), vending machines (1954), shipments to Europe (1946-1947), and free distribution to military personnel (1941-1942).
Letter asking AHS for funds to establish college and for fund-raising advice, declined; private letter by Dean Rusk stating that Rockefeller Foundation had refused support and indicating some suspicion about quality of proposed college.Letter asking AHS for funds to establish college and for fund-raising advice, declined; private letter by Dean Rusk stating that Rockefeller Foundation had refused support and indicating some suspicion about quality of proposed college.
AHS was deeply involved in and devoted to his alma mater. He served many years as a trustee, endowed a scholarship, was active on numerous committees, and chaired the commitee in over-all charge of the university's bicentennial celebration. He contributed finacially to Columbia in various ways, both personally and through the New York Times Foundation.
AHS was instrumental in planning the bicentennial celebration and, as chairman of the central committee, overseeing the arrangements. He is credited with defining the theme, Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof, and worked tirelessly to spread its gospel. This material documents the extent of his involvement and achievements and give evidence of the degree to which he attended to myriad details.
Includes memoranda regarding the cost of cable and wireless communication.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, clippings, leaflets and other documents about the Communist movement in the United States and the reactions to it. The series begins with papers about the anti-Fascist, anti-war effort of the 1930's, and covers the Alger Hiss and other cases involving national security, the hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the charges of senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the investigations of his Senate committee, his eventual censure by the Senate, and the Cold War and other foreign policy issues which prompted the anti-communist agitation. Throughout, the focus is on the NYT: its news coverage, its editorial stance, the commentary of its columnists, and, especially in the years 1950-1954, its book reviews, with allegations that communists were employed in its news and editorial department, and that its news, editorials, and reviews were slanted in favor of the left. The papers include many letters by readers, both attacking and supporting the NYT, articles by rightist newspapers and magazines, columns by such writers as Westbrook Pegler and Walter Winchell attacking the NYT, and ringing defenses by AHS and his associates of the NYT and the democratic ideals it was propounding.
Includes text of and correspondence regarding AHS's speech delivered to the New York Historical Society's meeting on Columbia University's bicentennial.
Includes AHS's interviews during his trip to Hawaii and his Charter Day speech at the University of Hawaii criticizing McCarthyism.
Includes text of and correspondence regarding AHS's speech at John Carroll Univeristy proposing amnesty for people who joined the Communist movement but left before 1948.
Includes material about the charges of Harvey M. Matusow, made in the press, in speeches and before congressional committees, that there were some 120 communists employed by the NYT. The papers include Matusow's affidavits, made after an interview with Gladwin Hill, stating that his allegatioin was based on an unverified estimate and that he could name no more than six individuals who were or had been communists while employed by the NYT, Hill's detailed report on the interview, documents about the arrangements for the interview (Sept.--Oct. 1953), a transcript of Matusow's testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, excerpts from the subcommittee's report, and related documents, Matusow's affidavit submitted in the trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, et al. (1955), correspondence about Robert R. Young's speech to the Sales Executives Club in which he cited Matusow's charges (Sept. 1953), A. J. Gordon's detailed report on Matusow's career, photographs (June 1953), and memoranda by AHS and others about efforts to rebut Matusow's charges, including contacts with J. Edgar Hoover, Louis Budenz and others (Dec. 1952 - May 1953).
Includes memoranda about storing records at Putnam Trust Co. in Greenwich, Connecticut and microfilming records.
Includes material on Herbert Matthews' confidential reports on the situation in Cuba and on United States policies, especially the Central Intelligence Agency's role in attempts to overthrow Castro.
Includes AHS's memorandum of interview with Edvard Benes, related correspondence, and his subsequent interview with Neville Chamberlain concerning the crisis in Czechoslovakia (1938) and James Reston's report on his private discussion with U. Alexis Johnson about conditions in Czechoslovakia (1958).
Includes correspondence about purchases and gifts of AHS's favorite drink, other gifts by the distillery, and small plot of land near distillery acquired by AHS as a "Tennessee Squire".
Includes a letter from the New York League for the Hard of Hearing on misleading information in a NYT article on hearing aids and techniques to treat hearing disabilities and reprint of the article in an Aurotone Corporation ad, and AHS's reply that reprints of articles for promotional purposes is prohibited.
Includes AHS's letter to his executors (1932) outlining the procedure to be followed when he dies (cremation, no formal funeral), similar letters "to whom it may concern" (1949, 1955, 1963) all emphasizing his distaste for embalming and display of the body.
Includes copies of a corporate diary prepared for AHS and instructions on how to make entries. The diary contains entries about NYT operations and events, contributed by all the principal officers of the NYT.
Contains sparse, handwritten entries by AHS.
The NYT entered into a contract with the American Council of Learned Societies devoted to Humanistic Studies in 1924 in which the NYT agreed to advance a sum for the preparation of the Dictionary. Includes correspondence about financial arrangements with Scribner's and the American Council of Learned Societies, sales and royalties reports, correspondence about the NYT's decision to waive royalties, requests for reprint permissions, and related correspondence about copyright implications.
Includes memoranda and correspondence about AHS's dogs and those of visiting family members, licenses and veterinary certificates, notes and poems to and about the dogs, lists of dogs owned by AHS, and correspondence about the NYT coverage of news of dogs.
Includes correspondence with Robert Choate and others about a possible dowsing experiment at Hillandale and neary-by properties.
Includes correspondence with W. E. Scripps about compiling biographies and photographs of aviation pioneers.
Includes memoranda about the closing times of various editions and scoreboard on which closing of pages is recorded.
Includes memoranda and clippings about appointments of editorial writers and meetings of the board (sometimes called the Editorial Council), lists of members, AHS's confidential letter to Ted Dealey describing his relations with Charles Merz and his predecessors, about the degree of control AHS has exercised, AHS's note to John Oakes on the latter's appointment as Editor (1961), AHS's letter to John Bassett describing the Editorial Council (1941), AHS's exchange with Arthur Krock about Merz's appointment as Editor (1937), and letters and memoranda explaining editorial correspondence, i.e., articles by editorial writers from out-of-town (1934).
Includes memoranda and letters about changes in the page's layout, format, typography, the position and frequency of columns by Arthur Krock, James Reston, Cyrus Sulzberger, Anne O'Hare McCormick, and of the Topics of The Times column, about changes in the masthead, and readers' mail about the changes, including suggestions made by Felix Frankfurter.
These folders contain memoranda, letters, clippings and other documents about the NYT's policies in covering and presenting the news and its editorial positions. The papers comprise exchanges between AHS and his principal associates as well as correspondence with readers. The issues discussed include matters of judgement and good taste, allegations of bias or distortions in the news stories, the distinctions between straight news, news analysis, and interpretive articles, coverage of local news and the balance between it, national, and international news, the choice of photographs, and related matters. Papers relating to specific subjects have been included if they have broad implications for the editorial policy in general or if the subject involved appears to have little significance of itself. Includes AHS's exchanges with Orvil Dryfoos and John Oakes about the way decisions on editorial positions are reached, AHS's reply to Ted Dealey on a publisher's role in determining editorial policies (1961), AHS's memorandum to Dryfoos advising on way to handle any disagreement with the editor (1960), Turner Catledge's memorandum to AHS requesting that he channel criticisms through the managing editor, not transmit them directly to the editor or writer involved, AHS's letter to Lewis Strauss on the problem of owning two newspapers with differing editorial policies, AHS's note to Dryfoos about IOS's attempt to direct certain news coverage (1959), correspondence about A. H. Raskin's interview, in the Vineyard Gazette, about how decisions about editorial positions are reached (1955), AHS's letters to Sevellon Brown about publishing a story from a trustworthy source that is promptly denied by responsible and equally trustworthy persons (1951), text of AHS's speech to teachers outlining the NYT's policies (1945), and AHS's letter to John Huston Finley outlining policy changes and Charles Merz's response (1937).
Includes letters and memoranda about NYT editorials and interpretive articles dealing with economic conditions, farm policies, finance, taxation, and related subjects. These papers comprise exchanges between AHS and the principal writers on these subjects, as well as correspondence with government officials, business executives, and general readers.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, clippings, and other documents about the NYT's coverage of elections, campaigns, the national conventions, individual candidates, and its editorial endorsements. The bulk of the material deals with the Presidential elections. Much of the material consists of readers' mail, AHS's replies, and his memoranda to his associates at the NYT, often containing significant explanations of the NYT's and his own political and journalistic philosophies. Readers' mail is filed in the same folder with other papers except for 1952 and 1940, where the quantity of material made this inadvisable. In these years the readers' letters are filed alphabetically by the writers names.
Includes letters, memoranda, and clippings about the NYT coverage of foreign news and its editorial positions on foreign policy and events abroad. Papers pertaining to specific countries and events are under appropriate subjects.
Includes material regarding the principles of education and their role in the media, surveys of education in specific fields, quality of education of teachers, NYT coverage of education news, the appointment of an Education News editor, and otehr topics.
Includes material on the College and School Service, courses and publications for teachers, tours of the NYT for school groups, dinner meetings with teachers and school administrators, and similar topics.
Includes correspondence with Marcellus Hartley Dodge about Equitable's loans to ASO for acquisition of the NYT and for the mortgage on the Times Tower.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, and records of bank accounts and securities transactions, all involving the administration of the Ochs Estate. Securities transactions involved the common and preferred stock of the NYT, as well as bonds in which the estate's funds were invested. Some of the records concern loans to AHS, IOS, and their children, and gifts to the children and grandchildren. The papers of the 1930's and early 1940's deal largely with the valuation of the estate, federal and state taxes, and efforts to raise cash to pay these.
Correspondence about the United States' efforts to help evacuate and aid children in Great Britain and other European war zones, reports on NYT articles, editorials, and other publicity efforts, AHS's personal contributions (1940-1941), and iresettling Jewish children from Poland and Germany (1946).
Includes letters and memoranda about the syndication of Amundsen's story and financial results, AHS's report to ASO about the origin of the arrangements regarding Amundsen and protective arrangements for coverage of the concurrent Byrd and Darcis expeditions.
Includes correspondence about coverage of the United States Navy's operation Deepfreeze expeditions.
These folders contain letters, cables, radio messages, clippings, maps, booklets, and other documents about the several Antarctic expeditions led by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, ranging from the first expedition in 1927-1928 to Byrd's participation in the United States expeditions of the mid-1950s. They include correspondence about the NYT's arrangements for publishing the stories and pictures of the expeditions with Current News Features and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as well as arrangements with the American Geographical Society for separate booklets and other publications reprinting the NYT articles. Correspondence with Colonel Hilton Railey, who was the executive director of the Byrd Expedition organization, and with Russell Owen, the NYT correspondent who accompanied Byrd, is also included. The NYT was an active promoter of the expeditions and AHS and Byrd were close personal friends. The NYT furnished Byrd with radio and facsimile transmission equipment. Several geographic features and installations were named for ASO, AHS, and members of the Sulzberger Family.
Includes letters, cables, memoranda, and other documents about Byrd's flight to the North Pole with Floyd Bennett in 1926, arrangements with Current News Features for syndication of articles about it, arrangements with St. Louis newspapers, and memoranda about Bernt Balchen's book about the expedition (1949-1958).
Includes correspondence about a reported effort to vindicate Cook as the discoverer of the North Pole and to discredit Robert E. Peary.
Includes material regarding Cooper's proposal for exploration of the "Empty Quarter" of Arabia by airship, under the auspices of American Geographical Society, with the NYT to get exclusive rights.
Includes correspondence about the NYT's purchase, with David Lawrence's Consolidated Press Association, of exclusive rights to news of a French expedition to the Arctic, which was aborted, and litigation in France and subsequent settlement of accounts with Lawrence. The purchase was made to protect news of concurrent expeditions by Roald Amundsen and Richard E. Byrd, and articles were to be syndicated as a package.
Includes correspondence about Martin's breach of contract with the NYT by supplying articles and photos of his expedition to East Africa to World's Work magazine.
Includes correspondence about the attempt by Railey, Lake, and associates to locate and raise the SS Lusitania, which had been torpedoed by the Germans in 1917.
Includes letters and memoranda about Nicholson's expedition to explore Carlsbad Cavern, his contact to publish articles on the expedition in the NYT, local protests against the project, and charges by the New York Daily News that the expedition is a fake.
Includes correspondence about rights to articles and news reports of the proposed North India and Tibet expeditions by Ancel Keys and H. DeTerra.
Includes correspondence with Robert A. Peary's daughter, Marie Peary Stafford, about her expedition to York Bay to erect a memorial to Peary.
Includes material about special editions published by the NYT in San Francisco during the Republican National Convention in 1956 and the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945. The editions were distributed free to delegates and visitors at both events, train and plane commuters, and some members of the general public.
Includes correspondence and reports about diverse experiments in facsimile transmission, with samples.
Includes memoranda about fashion news coverage in the daily NYT, the Sunday Magazine, and special fashion sections.
Includes correspondence and memoranda about the annual "Fashions of The Times" show, its cost, donation of the proceeds to the Fashion Institute of Technology's Scholarship Fund, and its discontinuance.
Includes correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover and others about suspected criminal activities, NYT reports on crime,a dn other topics.
This folder is closed until 2039 per donor agreement.
Includes memoranda and other documents about costs, revenues, taxes, NYT stock transactions and dividends, currency transactions, financial reporting, and investments.
Includes memoranda about fires in a locker room (1957) and the press room (1959).
Includes memoranda on the appropriate display of flags on the NYT buildings.
Includes memoranda and letters about plan to establish Times Foundation scholarships at Columbia University and Barnard College for the children of U. S. Foreign Service officers, its implementation, and its expansion to other colleges.
These folders contain correspondence, reports, and other records of the joint efforts of committees of the American Bar Association, American Newspaper Publishers Association, and American Society of Newspaper Editors to resolve the issue of news coverage of criminal trials, with special regard to the problems of photography in the courtroom and live coverage by radio. The effort was prompted by excesses in the coverage of the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
These six folders contain correspondence, clippings, and other records concerning the ideal of freedom and democratic principles in general. There is considerable overlap with the papers filed under Communism and under Freedom of the Press.
Includes AHS's correspondence with Arthur Krock and Charles Merz about the United Nations Conventions on Human Rights and on Freedom of Information (1949-1951), AHS's letters to Editor & Publisher and others criticizing the apparent substitution of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms for the four freedoms in the Bill of Rights (1942-1943), and AHS's letters to Henry Morgenthau, Jr. proposing a special observance of American freedom in connection with the 150th anniversary of the Constitution in 1937 (1933-1934).
Includes material regarding AHS's speeches to the Army Information School at Ft. Slocum, N.Y. (1951) and at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. (1947).
Includes material regarding a question-and-answer session with Columbia University Journalism School alumni and AHS's speech to the Columbia University Alumni Association.
Includes material regarding AHS's proposals to teach college students about the importance of a free press, suggesting an essay contest and a scholarship competition and for a press freedom plank in the major party platforms.
Includes material regarding AHS's speech to congregation Shearith Israel, "A Plea for Responsible Newspaper Readers".
Includes correspondence and clippings about the U. N. conference on freedom of information and the press and about the U. S. Commission on Freedom of the Press.
Includes correspondence about the use of Gallup surveys in the NYT, suggestions for polls, a report on Gallup readership survey of the NYT and the Herald-Tribune, and a letter from George Gallup to AHS explaining his methods.
Includes family trees.
These folders contain correspondence with family members and researchers about David Hays, AHS's maternal grandfather, and Hays' paternal ancestors. Included are family trees, photographs, genealogical documents, biographies, extensive correspondence with Myer Solis-Cohen and family members about data sought by him, and letters to AHS' mother seeking information about the family.
Includes a family tree, correspondence, articles, and other papers about Daniel L.M. Peixotto, the maternal grandfather of AHS's mother, and other members of the Peixotto family, photographs of the Peixotto family seal, and the marriage contract of Daniel Peixotto and Rachel Seixas.
Contains the original marriage contract of Daniel Levi Peixotto and Rachel M. Seixas, grandparents of AHS, AHS's note about the contract, a translation of the contract, and genealogical material.
Includes correspondence and other papers about the family of Rachel Mendez Seixas Peixotto, the maternal grandmother of AHS's mother. Most deal with her ancestors Moses Seixas, who headed the Touro Congregation in Newport, R. I., and Benjamin Mendez Seixas, an officer during the Revolutionary War, and AHS's mother's application for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, based on her descent from Isaac Mendez Seixas.
Includes family trees, a miniature photo of an unidentified ancestor, with memoranda about his probable identity, documents about several ancestors, and correspondence with and about relatives.
This book was intended for AHS's children and grandchildren, tracing his and IOS's ancestry through charts, pictures, and narrative.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, clippings, photographs, and other documents dealing with events in Germany and the NYT's coverage of these events. The papers of the 1950s and the 1960s deal mainly with visits of Konrad Andenaur, Willy Brandt, and others to the NYT and with meetings with them in Germany. The papers of 1945-1950 deal with the Allied occupation of Germany including, AHS's correspondence with Lucius D. Clay (1945-1948), the tour by AHS and other U. S. newspaper executives of Germany, Austria, and Italy, particulary AHS's notes on his findings and his report to Robert P. Patterson (1946), charges by Christopher Emmet and others of anti-German bias in Drew Middleton's reports (1949-1950). The papers of the 1930s cover the policies of the Nazi regime and pro-Nazi activities in the U. S. and South America, including letters about the NYT's failure to report on the plight of Catholics in Germany (1938), the attempt by some British peers to offer a large loan to Germany in return for a cessation of attacks on Jews, the Olympic Games of 1936 in light of the Nazi ban on the participation of Jews (1936), the confiscation of several issues of the NYT by German police (1935), the abortive revolt against Hitler (the Roehm Putsch), Germany's plans for re-militarization and territorial expansion, the application of new treason laws to newspapers, letters by AHS explaining why the NYT did not publish letters to the editor about Germany (1934), pro-Nazi activities and the boycott of German goods in the U. S., Catholic publications' criticism of the NYT's reporting on the persecution of Jews in Germany but not that of Catholics in Spain and Mexico (1933), and Fredercik T. Birchall's first report on the Nazi movement and its prospects (1932).
Includes memoranda by AHS, Arthur Krock, and Charles Merz about Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to devalue the dollar and go off the gold standard and E. H. Collins' 1955 comment on this.
Includes correspondence about an annual New York City Publishers Association-New York Retail Dry Goods Association tournament.
Includes correspondence with NYT executives and correspondents who have gout, prompted by a report linking gout with above-normal intelligence.
Includes material about the State Department's programs to transmit news and opinion about the United States to Europe to promote international understanding. The papers deal chiefly with the efficacy of the Voice of America and the NYT surveys of it (1950-1953), the use of foreign aid funds to defray the cost of distributing certain U. S. periodicals, including the NYT, abroad (1948-1951, 1957), the controversy over the Associated Press' refusal to make its service available to the Government for transmission abroad, and the refusal being based on the principle that any news service may be compromised if it lends itself to a government propaganda agency for dissemination (1946).
This is a poem, written by John Huston Finley, that has been used as a prayer at NYT luncheons.
Includes memoranda and letters about a luncheon meeting to discuss a controversy with the New York Port Authority over use of its own terminal.
The Hall of Our History was conceived as a giant national memorial, to be located on Pine Mountain, Georgia, but was abandoned for lack of sufficient private financial support. AHS served as a trustee and as a member of the executive committee. These folders contain lists of prospective and actual trustees, correspondence with nominees, officers, and contributors, financial reports, publicity brochures and releases, and clippings.
Includes miscellaneous notes by and to the 14th floor secretaries, collectively known as the harem. Additional material may be found in their individual folders.
Includes a letter by Nicholas Murray Butler opposing the statehood of Hawaii and related memoranda.
Includes correspondence with doctors, AHS's notes and memoranda, get-well messages, and his replies, instructions and memoranda about medications, diet, insurance, and bills. These folders contain records of AHS's major illnesses, including Dupuytren's contracture (1946), the cerebral stroke he suffered while in Burma in 1957, cataracts, for which he was operated on in 1962, and his terminal illness. Very few documents refer to the heart attack he suffered in the early 1930s. Many letters and memoranda by AHS following his stroke in 1957, while dealing with other matters, contain references to his condition, and in many instances give a moving description of his disabilities and efforts to overcome them. These may be found in almost any subject folder in the collection and in the personal correspondence filed in the biographical segment.
Includes memoranda, letters, and other documents about the history of the NYT, memorabilia and notes about several persons associated with the paper, AHS's interview about the NYT's history (1965), memoranda about updating the existing history (1956), and a compilation of important dates in the NYT's history (1896-1933), memoranda about the hiring of Charles Merz to work on a history (1931).
Meyer Berger was chosen to write a new history of the NYT for the centennial in 1951. This folder contains correspondence about the arrangements with him and with the publisher, Simon & Schuster, background notes and corrections by AHS, IOS, and Orvil Dryfoos, and correspondence about the companion booklet of 100 famous front pages.
Includes correspondence and a Newsweek clipping about a bogus NYT editorial quoted at the Republican National Convention (1964) and AHS's letter apologizing for an obituary of New York University Dean William B. Baer published as a result of student prank (1942).
AHS's diplomas from the Horace Mann School and Columbia College are included.
Includes a memorandum about a store operated by the NYT in the Cross-County Shopping Center in Yonkers, to supply information, accept ads, etc..
Includes reports and memoranda on diverse types of ink, price increases, inking problems and solvents, and letters complaining about ink rub-off.
This folder is closed until 2034 per donor agreement.
These folders cover the operation of the International Edition from 1949, when materials were flown to printing plants in Europe, South America, and Asia, to 1967, when the NYT joined the Herald Tribune and the Washington Post in the publication of a single, combined newspaper in Paris. The documents comprise circulation and financial reports, memoranda on financial, operational, and editorial matters, and competition with the Herald Tribune and include Turner Catledge's summary of its history, intended as background for AHS's oral history interview (1965), a study of the operation by Lester Markel and Robert Alden (1964), memoranda about the start of same-day publication in Paris (1960), memoranda on proposed distribution in the USSR (1955), correspondence about distribution in Europe, including a petition by British Members of Parliament to halt the free distribution to them (1950-1951), and memoranda and letters about the first issue printed in Paris (1949).
This material deals mainly with the international situation and United States policy before, during, and after World War II and during the Cold War. It includes Herbert L. Matthews' report on European reactions to United States policies (1960), AHS's letter to Lester Markel and a memorandum voicing his fear of the United States reaching "maximum strength" in armaments (1951), AHS's exchange with James Reston on the United States' stance in the Cold War (1950), material about securing peace once World War II ends, AHS's speech to returning soldiers and questions posed by the soldiers to AHS, correspondence with John Foster Dulles about the Federal Council of Churches' Six Pillars of Peace program (1941-1944), correspondence and clippings about the United States' neutrality policy (1935-1938), a memorandum on AHS's conversation with French Premier Leon Blum (1938), and Arthur Krock's memorandum on the Locarno Pact meeting (1931).
Includes material regarding AHS's speech to the Hundred Year Association and the NYT Magazine article "The Basis of an Honorable Peace" based on the speech.
Includes articles and speeches by AHS about the post-war situation and the Cold War (1950-1953), his interview in London urging the West to refuse to deal with U. S. S. R. until it lifts the Iron Curtain (1947), Arthur Krock's memorandum on his interview with Dwight D. Eisenhower(1946), and AHS's letter to Anne O'Hare McCormick about the "ideological division" of Europe and United States policy (1945).
Includes correspondence with Japanese government officials and newspaper and other business executives about their visits to NYT, AHS's visit to Japan, AHS's speech to the America-Japan Society in Tokyo, correspondence between AHS and a young Japanese girl, Kazuko Shinjyo, who was an ardent Yankees fan (1956-1958), correspondence with Hallett Abend, NYT correspondent in China, memoranda about his dispatches on the Sino-Japanese War, and a report on a rift within the command of the Japanese Army in China, and correspondence about the Japanese Economic Mission's visit to the United States (1937).
Includes correspondence and other records dealing with the publication of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Princeton University, under the editorship of Julian Boyd. The project was funded by a large grant of the NYT Foundation.
These folders contain correspondence and other documents about AHS's association with the Seminary and its president, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein. Most of the papers deal with the policies and programs of the Seminary, particularly controversies over Judaism as a religion vs. Jews as an ethnic group, and the effects of political Zionism and the establishment of Israel. Much of the correspondence also concerns the annual Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, sponsored by the Seminary, its Institute for Religion and Social Studies. and its financial support by the New York Foundation.
Includes correspondence and memoranda about Jews as a race or a people, AHS's own views on this, and NYT news coverage and editorial stand on related problems, AHS's memoranda defining his personal attitude toward Judaism and religion (1963, 1962, 1959, 1944, 1930), his letter to his father attempting the same (1920?), memoranda about having a single reporter, Irving Spiegel, assigned as a specialist to cover Jewish news (1953, 1958-1959), correspondence about an AP dispatch on James M. Curley's speech about Jews decorated for military action in World War II, Frank S. Adams' report on incidents of anti-semitism in New York (1944), with Editor & Publisher about its article on Jewish ownership of news media (1941), with Simeon Strunsky on assimilation of Jews and marriage to non-Jews (1937), and a letter denying widespread anti-semitism in Chattanooga (1932).
Includes correspondence about NYT news coverage and editorial positions on conditions and events in Korea and correspondence with Syngman Rhee, including an exchange about restrictions on the Korean press.
Includes memoranda, letters, and other documents about the outbreak and conduct of the War, the handling of prisoners of war, the fate of the civilian population, diplomatic action in the United Nations, the truce negotiations, and the NYT's editorial coverage of events.
Includes letters and memoranda on the NYT's coverage of this area, including correspondence with William Green about A. H. Raskin's report on moves to merge the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Inudstrial Organizations (CIO) (1942) and about the NYT's support of the Taft-Hartley Law (1947), memoranda on making coverage of labor news a regular assignment (1949), and several memoranda questioning Raskin's objectivity and his suitability for the assignment in view of his union activities.
Includes memoranda and letters about the status of various union negotiations, the NYT's and other newspapers' relations with the unions, AHS's draft of a general statement to the unions (1960), his file memorandum on his attitude toward unions (1959), a draft of the NYT's policy statement vis-a-vis the New York City Publishers Association (1954), and a table of craft union wage scales and hours in New York City (1946).
These folders contain material concerning the NYT's relations with the Newspaper Guild and cover the Guild's efforts to become the bargaining agent for employees in the business, news, and editorial departments, contract negotiations, grievances, and other disputes. Includes AHS's note about his first meeting with Heywood Broun and his letters to Felix Frankfurter about this (1958, 1962), the Guild's demand for specific salary data on individuals in its jurisdiction (1955), AHS's memorandum on the untrustworthiness of the Guild, arbitration of wage dispute (1953-1954), the NYT's voluntary grant of a wage increase to offset inflation (1951), the arbitration of wage dispute and length of contract (1950), correspondence with A. H. Raskin and others about Raskin's proposal that the NYT improve its contract offer in order to strengthen the new, conservative leadership of the Guild (1948), a dispute over wage scales and cost-of-living increases (1946), a War Labor Board ruling approving a maintenance-of-membership clause (1944), a dispute over pay increases and maintenance of membership, appeal to War Labor Board (1943), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling on dispute over dismissals, Guild shop issue, and good-faith bargaining, union representation election, correspondence with Harry F. Byrd (1941), NLRB proceedings with drafts of testimony by AHS and others (1939), Guild effort for recognition and employee support, and negotiations with the NYT and Wide World Photos (1934-1938).
Includes correspondence and memoranda about contract negotiations, grievances about foremen, staffing, productivity, work stoppages, the use of the Allied Printing Trades label, and an arbitration agreement (1926, 1932).
The first two folders contain memoranda and correspondence about the Deliverers city-wide strike, NYT operations during the strike, reactions of readers and associates, and the aftermath of the strike. Operations during the strike included expanded news broadcasts on WQXR, three television shows, and a daily bulletin-type news digest for the staff, which was later used for a published catch-up section. Includes a notice to staff from management regarding the strike, AHS's letter to AOS on the policy of keeping employees on the payroll during the strike, OED's report on talks with major department store executives, memoranda on James Reston's confidential talks with Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell and George Meany, the first issue of the daily news digest, a detailed account of the strike, AHS's letters detailing the effects of the strike, and Francis A. Cox's report on strike insurance. The third folder contains letters of gratitude by groups of employees and individuals and with AHS's responses.
During this prolonged strike and the negotiations preceding it AHS was on the sidelines, mainly because of ill health. This folder contains his notes of praise and encouragement to the NYT's principal executives and negotiators, related correspondence, and Edward S. Greenbaum's letter to AHS about his talk with James Reston about the NYT's policy in the strike and future developments.
Includes correspondence, statements, and memoranda about the photo-engravers strike against all members of the Publishers Association of New York City except the Herald Tribune, the Herald Tribune's arrangements with struck newspapers and subsequent shutdown, the Guild's and other unions' refusal to cross picket lines, the Guild's attempt to raise dues, strike settlement, resumption of publication, the NYT's catch-up sections, letters from NYT staff members, associates, and readers, and drafts of a report to the stockholders.
Includes memoranda and letters about the selection criteria, delays in puiblication, letters disputing factual statements in news articles or editorials, editing of letters, the form of rejection slips, lists of notables whose letters were published in given years, and ASO's wire to AHS saying that letters to the editor should be under the control of the News Department (1931). Letters on specific subjects are in the appropriate subject files.
Includes letters by AHS, published and unpublished, with memoranda of comment and letters in response. Many of his letters were signed with pseudonyms, mostly "A. Aitches" but including also "Observer", "Puzzled", "Patient", "Harkeness P. Vilion","R. E. Adler", and "Bertha Levy".
Includes correspondence with Louis Loeb, Godfrey Nelson, and others about diverse libel charges, litigation, and settlements. Includes George Norris' memorandum on outcome of all the suits filed between Jan. 1, 1923 and Oct. 28, 1948 and his report on his 40 years as the NYT's lawyer on libel cases (1959).
In 1960, the Governor of Alabama and local officials of Bessemer, Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, brought suits against the NYT, some over an advertisement by the Committee to defend Reverend Martin Luther King and others over an article in a series by Harrison Salisbury ("Fear and Hatred Grip Birmingham"). Litigation was eventually carried to the Supreme Court and resulted in the landmark decision, Times v. Sullivan, which states that public officials must prove actual malice in order to win libel judgments. The records in this file comprise correspondence with AHS commenting on various aspects of these cases, work by the attorneys, witnesses, and supporters, and views of other newspapers, magazines, and residents of the South. AHS was involved only peripherally in the activities connected with these suits.
Correspondence about a Liberty Ship named for Rabbi Wise.
Includes Chester Lewis' article in Library Journal describing the services of the NYT library, his memorandum on special services to NYT staff (1951-1952), and memoranda about library personnel (1942, 1948).
Includes letters and memoranda about the NYT's plans, changes to those plans, and correspondence with beneficiaries.
Includes correspondence about Prohibition, liquor advertising, and AHS's personal purchases.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, and other papers about the Bureau's personnel, its location in the London Times building, office facilities, and related administrative matters, the business office, including the office of Wide World News Photo Service, and about the corporate entity in England, The New York Times Co., Ltd. Since the NYT's European headquarters was in London, the position of bureau chief was particularly important. Much of the material here deals with the assignemnts of Herbert Matthews, Raymond Daniell and Drew Middleton to this position.
Includes memoranda about the NYT's transfer of its legal business from Cook, Lehman, Goldmark & Loeb, prompted by Louis Loeb's switch to Lord, Day & Lord (1947), report on pending legal action against the NYT (1955), documents about personnel changes, memoranda about miscellaneous legal matters, and a memorandum about the reduction in Loeb's obligations to the NYT and the shift of some lgal work to Alan Sweetser as the staff attorney in the NYT's own Legal Department (1961).
Includes AHS's memoranda on attendance by top executives of the News, Editorial, and Sunday departments at the daily luncheons, correspondence about luncheons for foreign diplomats (1954-1968) and for the heads of major women's organizations (1947). Correspondence with or about specific guests is filed in the appropriate subject folders or under their names.
The papers in these folders concern changes in the Publisher's office, other top executive offices, and in the Board of Directors. They comprise memoranda, letters, news releases, clippings, drafts of statements and releases, and similar documents. Included are materials regarding Paul van Anda's resignation from the Board of Directors, the appointment of Francis A. Cox as Vice President and the realignment of Andrew Fisher's and Ivan Veit's responsibilities (1967), the appointment of Harding Bancroft as Executive Vice President, of Fisher, Veit, and Monroe Green as Vice Presidents, and of Cox as Secretary and Treasurer (1963), the resignation of MSD as Director, the appointment of Bancroft as Vice President and Fisher as Business Manager for Production (1963), Eugene Black's election as Director to replace George Woods (1962-1963), memoranda about electing Bancroft and RSG as Directors (1961-1962), Richard Cohen's election as Director, the appointment of Bradford as Vice President and General Manager, of Green and Veit as Business Managers, of Fisher as Assistant to the General Manager (1960), Woods' election as Director, AHS's election as Chairman of the Board (remaining Publisher and Chief Executive), OED's election as President, the appointment of Bradford as Vice President and Business Manager, of Green and Veit as Assistant Business Managers, Bancroft as Secretary (1957), Hoyt Miller's resignation as Director, OED's election as Director, Bradford named Secretary, Cox named Treasurer (1954), OED's appointment as Vice President (1953), the creation of the post of Assistant Secretary (1952), JOA's appointment as General Manager, remaining Vice President and Treasurer, Godfrey Nelson's election as Director (1935), and AHS's letter to IOS about his conversation with ASO about his plans for the management of the NYT after ASO's death (1934?).
Contains NYT's stockholders' resolution honoring AHS on his retirement.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, and other documents about AHS's views and the NYT's reports and editorials on military matters, AHS's visits to military installations and defense plants, speeches to military schools, attendance at conferences on diverse aspects of the defense program, visits of military officers to the NYT, and related matters. A recurrent theme is the need to inform troops about current affairs, especially the reasons for military action and the need for peacetime defenses. In 1941 AHS assigned Hilton H. Railey to conduct a survery of morale in Army camps. The survey was not published in the NYT but was sent to the pertinent Cabinet officers. This survey was instrumental in the creation of the Army Information and Education School and many documents in these folders concern the survey and other aspects of the information and education program. Also included here are AHS's speech to the Air War College on "Public Opinion in the Modern State" (1956), correspondence about AHS's visit to Fort Myer, Va., the Defense Department, and other installations in the Washington, D.C. area (1955), the possible closing of the Army Information and Education School at Ft. Slocum (1953-1954), B. Fine's survey of military information programs (1951), the unification of the armed services, which AHS favored (1945-1947, 1950, 1951), AHS's participation in a special meeting of the Personnel Policy Board (1949), a Defense Orientation Conference attended by AHS (1948), correspondence with Vannevar Bush about military research and problem of national security vs. press responsibility to report developments, correspondence prompted by Hanson Baldwin's report on military developments that allegedly breached security and related memoranda (1947-1948), correspondence about an Air War College seminar for civilians attended by AHS and subsequent trip to Eglin Field, Florida (1947), correspondence about AHS's service on a citizens committee for universal military training, pamphlets and reports from this committee, and his speech to NYC teachers and school administrators advocating Universal Military Training and Universal Military Service, and letters about the speech (1943-1945), a letter to Secretary of the Nave James Forrestal, after AHS's tour of Red Cross installations, criticizing the Navy's attitude toward the Red Cross and cooperation with other services (1944), correspondence about AHS's participation in a tour of military bases in the South by newspaper editors and publishers (1944), correspondence about the War Department's documentary and education films (1943-1944), AHS's trip to Western defense plants, Railey's report on the possibility of sabotage (1942), memoranda about Railey's survey of Army morale (1941), and a memorandum of issues to be discussed at a special editorial conference on national defense (1938).
In 1941 AHS assigned Hilton H. Railey to conduct a survery of morale in Army camps. The survey was not published in the NYT but was sent to the pertinent Cabinet officers. This survey was instrumental in the creation of the Army Information and Education School.
Includes correspondence about reunions of AHS's unit (322nd Field Artillery Regiment), his financial contributions, meeting with its commanding officer, A. B. Warfield, booklets and newsletters, correspondence with fellow veterans, AHS's note of recollections about entering military service and wartime experiences (1962), AHS's letters to AOS relating some of his experiences (1951), a report on the 322nd Field Artillery's action at the front for Sept.-Oct. 1918 (undated), Louis Johnson's letter about obtaining AHS's appointment as a lieutenant colonel in the Reserves, with a memorandum about his eligibility (1939 or 1940), records relating to AHS's discharge from the Army (1917-1921), and photographs of groups of soldiers including AHS.
Contains service documents and photographs.
These five folders contain diverse letters, memoranda, and other papers that have no connection with specific subjects but that are of biographical interest or shed light on AHS's personality. The first folder contains memoranda to family members and NYT's associates, ranging from stories evidently intended for children to notes about personal or business relationships. Included are his contemplative reminiscences of 1958-1959, his note to OED comparing their relationship to AHS's with ASO (1959) and his letter to Morris S. Lazaron on the need for compromises (1945). The second folder contains official papers including AHS's birth certificate, grade school report card, military identification cards, driver's license, etc. The third folder contains correspondence, mainly about unusual requests or suggestions but includes letters by AHS's boyhood acquaintances and by some writers who could not be identified. Some of the letters ask about his aspirations, others about the causes of his success. The fourth and fifth folders contain Lucille Sunshine's collection of excerpts from AHS's articles, letters and speeches.
Includes correspondence with Rabbi Abraham Feinstein and others (1950-1966), correspondence and memoranda about the transfer to adjacent property from the Ochs Estate to the Congregation (1947-1948), AHS's address to the Temple Brotherhood on the Congregation's 80th anniversary, the history of the Congregation and role of Ochs family (1946), a photograph of the memorial to ASO, correspondence about the Congregation's financial problems and payments by Ochs Estate, including bequests under ASO's will (1935-1956), and correspondence with MBO, Henry B. Herts and others about the Julius and Bertha Ochs Memorial Temple, with cost estimates, drawings and other documents.
Includes letters and memoranda about the use of the morgue, OED's note calling the morgue "uninsurable because it is irreplaceable" (1955), Chester M. Lewis' memorandum about microfilming clipping files (1948), and a letter asking that obsolete derogatory material about the writer be removed from the files, with AHS's reply, refusing equest and explaining policy (1947).
Includes memoranda and cables about staffing, coping with Russian censorship and visa requirements, supplying bureau staff during World War II, the cost of maintaining the bureau, and the possibility of closing it during the postwar era.
Includes letters, memoranda, clippings, and other material about movie reviews by Bosley Crowther and other NYT critics and about NYT articles on the movie industry. Includes correspondence about Jack Gould's series on the effect of television on movie theaters (1951-1952), memoranda about the Fire Department of New York's action against the theater showing the controversial film, The Miracle (1951), correspondence about permission to use the NYT's name or a front page in films (1944-1946, 1952), correspondence with Will H. Hays about the portrayal of newspapers and reporters in films (1939) and about films considered immoral (1945), and correspondence with Howard Cullman and others about the listing of films for children (1936) and reviews of stage shows in movie theaters (1934).
Includes memoranda and letters about the NYT's reviews and critics, coverage of news of music and musicians, and related subjects, correspondence with Ira A. Hirschmann about music reviews, especially his criticism of the NYT's coverage of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wilhelm Furtwaengler's role in Nazi Germany and postwar visit to the U. S. (1936, 1945), a letter charging the NYT with bias against Furtwaengler, citing his obituary, Harold Schonberg's memorandum to AHS, and AHS's reply to the letter (1961), a letter praising Howard Taubman as the NYT's music editor (1942), letters about the replacement for Olin Downes as music critic, letters and memoranda about the choice of Taubman as music critic (1955-1956), memoranda by Taubman and Elliot Sanger replying to AHS's question about the survival of live music in the U. S. (1954), and correspondence between AHS and AOS about a plan to install Muzak in several departments (1960).
The records in these folders concern criticism by The Nation of reports and/or editorials in the NYT and responses by the NYT. Among the issues are an editorial about criticism of Catholics in a NYT book review (1950), a Senate investigation of Alcoa (1941), an advertisement attacking Wendell Willkie (1940), reports on refugees in French camps, on pro-Fascist demonstrations in New York (1939), reports from Mexico and France (1938), memoranda and letters about a Samuel Silverman, who reportedly impersonated a NYT reporter and was suspected of channeling material to Freda Kirchwey on her acquisition of The Nation (1937), reports on the AFL-CIO split, correspondence with Leo Rosten about a series of charges by The Nation of omissions or distortions by the NYT, reports from China (1936), and reports on the banking and stock market crisis (1933).
Correspondence about plans for memorial in Paris; AHS was asked to serve on a committee for the project but declined.-- Correspondence with J. Ofusa and members of his family, and with bureau members and others about the Ofusas, especially their visit to the U.S. in 1958; photos (1957-1967).-- A.M. Rosenthal's letter to AHS on his arrival in Tokyo; AHS's reply (1961).-- AHS's note welcoming W. Jorden to the staff (1952).-- Correspondence about Hugh Byas, Times's special correspondent in Tokyo (1928-1933).Correspondence about plans for memorial in Paris; AHS was asked to serve on a committee for the project but declined.
Includes letters, memoranda, and other documents about the NYT's policy of covering the news of race relations and of identifying Negroes in news stories, especially news of crime, efforts of diverse organizations to improve race relations and AHS's role in these, the issue of capitalizing the word Negro, the employment of Negroes by the NYT, correspondence about the request by the Congress for Racial Equality that Claude Sitton testify on behalf of a civil rights demonstrator (1964), AHS's memorandum on his actions to desegregate the news in the Chattanooga Times (1957), AHS's letter (1952) and memorandum (1951) defining the NYT's policy on identifying persons in the news by race, letters and memoranda about identifying suspects in crime stories by race, especially Meyer Berger's memorandum on mugging, not published (1943), and AHS's report to Dwight D. Eisenhower on a race problem involving U. S. troops in Britain (1942).
Includes readers' mail about the NYT's testimony at a Senate committee hearing that during the 1948 trucking strike it made extra payments to Neo Gravure to assure the delivery of the Magazine and Book Review, AHS's replies and related memoranda (1959).
Includes AHS's statement for a promotional publication planned by the West Side Association of Commerce and related correspondence (1960), correspondence about plans to celebrate New York City's 300th anniversary in 1953 and a possible link with Columbia University's bicentennial (1952-1953), and Bernard Gimbel's letter praising Meyer Berger's articles about the city (1948).
These folders contain correspondence, memoranda, clippings, and other documents about the NYT's relations with its principal competitor, comparisons about news and editorial coverage, typography and design, circulation and promotion, and advertising volume and rates. They also include some personal correspondence between AHS and the Herald Tribune's owners and executives, and about their reciprocal support of each other's charities, the NYT's for the Fresh Air Fund, and the Herald Tribune's for the Hundred Neediest Cases. Included is correspondence about the merger with the World-Telegram & Sun and the Journal-American (1966), the Herald Tribune's agreement with route dealers (1962), Robert M. White's resignation as the president and editor of the Herald Tribune, charts of John H. Whitney's companies and investments, NYT's department heads' reports comparing the NYT's and the Herald Tribune's news coverage (1959-1960), letters, and clippings about Ogden Reid's resignation and White's appointment as president and editor of the Herald Tribune, E. C. Daniel's report comparing the use of photographs by the two papers, Turner Catledge's confidential report to OED on Whitney's plans for management of the Herald Tribune, papers about Whitney's financing plans (1958), memoranda and clippings about the Marie Torre case, involving the confidentiality of news sources, papers concerning Whitney's purchase of the Herald Tribune (1957), reports on the Herald Tribune's magazine sections and comparison to the NYT Magazine (1955-1956), letters and memoranda about the Herald Tribune's financial difficulties and rumors that the NYT was interested in acquiring it (1951-1954), a report on the Reid Foundation (1951), management changes at the Herald Tribune, its European edition and its arrangement with the European Recovery Administration for foreign aid funds (1948-1949), an analysis of Ogden Mills Reid's estate (1949), and memoranda on the Herald Tribune's alleged practice of lifting news from the NYT with examples (1927).
Includes memoranda about its establishment, funding, administration, policy on grants, and rejection of some grant applications, reports, and meeting notices and minutes.
Includes memoranda by AHS offering suggestions, praise, and criticism, memoranda and reports about typography, use of color, advertising volume and rates, ratio of advertising to editorial matter, and increase in the magazines's size, AHS's memorandum about referring to the magazine by name, not just as another section (1937), and correspondence with Arthur Krock about paying staff members for contributions to the Magazine (1935).
Includes memoranda and letters about the syndication of NYT news stories, editorials, and columns abroad and in the United States, the exclusion of articles by columnists and critics, addition of new clients, contracts and price of the service, lists of clients (1937, 1950, 1953, 1960), use by Southern clients of articles on the civil rights issue (1960), and the Minneapolis Star and St. Paul Pioneer Press contract dispute (1947-1948).
Includes correspondence about filming by the Library of Congress and the State Department for distribution to United States embassies during World War II, progress of filming by Kodak for the NYT, and grants to the Association of College and Research Libraries for purchases of film.
Includes memoranda and correspondence about the sale of the World to Scripps-Howard, Arthur Krock's memoranda about office politics at the World while he was on its staff, and about several World employees seeking jobs at the NYT, memorandum on salaries paid top World employees, correspondence about the World Almanac and the World's library, copy of ASO's memorandum on his 1930 conference with World executives on possible sale of the morning World, AHS's note on the terms of the sale, and his letter about the sale.
These papers deal with the volume of news published by the NYT, especially as contrasted with the volume of advertising. Included are letters replying to readers' complaints about excessive advertising (1933, 1943, 1960), memoranda by AHS, Edwin L. James, and others about how to reduce news and advertising to cope with reduction in the newsprint supply (1942-1944), memoranda to and from James and others about the advertising department's attempts to usurp additional space for late ads (1944) and about the growing volume of news (1945, 1949-1950), IOS's note to AOS crediting AHS for the policy of increasing the news volume at the expense of advertising during World War II (1964).
The papers in these folders concern the organization and management of the News Department, the size of its staff and assignments of editors, reporters, and stringers, the use and quality of photographs, headlines, various features, and similar matters. They also contain a representative sample of AHS's blue notes (mostly critical), pink notes (mostly laudatory), and suggestions for news stories. Included are a memorandum to the staff and related papers about Turner Catledge's appointment as executive editor, in charge of the News and Sunday Department, and other management changes (1964), Catledge's note to AHS asking that crticisms of any news product be sent to him rather than to the editor or reporter concerned (1959), memoranda on a dispute over rewriting and reporter's rights to a story (1958), memoranda on the introduction of the Man in the News column (1956-1957), AHS's memorandum on Edwin L. James's appointment as managing editor, noting that Frederick T. Birchall had been offered the post on condition that he become a United States citizen and that he had declined (1955), a report on reporters' specializations (1952), memoranda on the start of the Winners and Sinners column (1951), letters and memoranda on management changes following James' death, with Catledge appointed managing editor (1951) and on appointed preceding changes involving Robert E. Garst, Catledge, Theodore M. Bernstein, David H. Joseph, Raymond H. McCaw, and Emanuel Freedman (1948-1951), correspondence with CLS over the title Foreign News Editor, given to Freedman (1948), memoranda on apprenticeship of reporters, promotion policy, and efforts to increase productivity (1947-1948), memoranda about apparent leaks of the Publisher's suggestions for news stories to other publications (1947), and AHS's memorandum to ASO and letter to Birchall on the department's reorganization, with James as managing editor (1932).
Includes letters and memoranda about a proposal for New York State legislation to protect the confidentiality of sources.
Includes letters, memoranda, and clippings about the Guild's demand for a closed shop and the opposition of the newspaper organizations, the Guild's political resolutions and pro-Communist tendencies, internal disputes and elections, suspicions about the garbling of NYT articles on the Guild convention, and invitations to take part in diverse functions sponsored or co-sponsored by the Guild.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, and other documents about the newspaper industry generally, the profession of journalism, including the training and qualifications of journalists, the effects of chain ownership of newspapers, and of the competitionof newspapers with television and radio. Included are AHS's article on the functions, responsibilities, and rights of the press for the World Assembly of Youth magazine and related correspondence (1965-1966), Edward L. Bernay's poll of the world's ten best newspapers and related correspondence (1959-1961), the Promotion Department's paper on journalism schools of the future, prepared at AHS's request for a speech to be given by William Mapel and related correspondence (1956), AHS's poll of Turner Catledge, Lester Markel, and Charles Merz of the ten best United States newspapers excluding the NYT (1955), two articles by AHS, for the Phillips Exeter Academy Review, on careers in journalism and related correspondence (1936, 1949), AHS's statement for the Boston Herald's 100th anniversary issue, forecasting what newspapers will be like in 2046 (1946), correspondence about Jews' ownership of newspapers (1939), AHS's letter about why newspapers should not seek exemption from the Wages and Hours Law, and AHS's article on the role and value of classified advertising (1938).
These folders contain memoranda, letters, reports, and other documents about the NYT's supply, consumption, inventory, and purchases of newsprint, industry conditions in general, newsprint contracts and prices, investments in mills, problems of shipping and quality, waste, wartime shortages and controls, the NYT's support of efforts to assure an equitable supply for smaller newspapers, and research and conservation efforts. Included are memoranda about efforts to reduce consumption (1950-1951), letters and memoranda about the shortage in Britain (1948-1951), correspondence about Canada's sales tax (1949), AHS's letter to a Senate committee accepting a rationing plan but warning of a possible threat to freedom of the press (1943), and a copy of the American Newspaper Publishers Association's brief opposing import duty on newsprint (1908).
Includes correspondence and memoranda about the NYT's contracts with the Alliance, the Alliance's lease of office space in the NYT building, and news stories and feature articles obtained and distributed by the Alliance and offered to and published in the NYT, correspondence about the Joseph Alsop-Robert Kintner column (1937-1941), the Alliance's proposal to syndicate the NYT's foreign news (1939-1940), and efforts by the Alliance and the NYT to obtain the rights to several wartime stories and postwar memoirs (1943-1947).
Includes memoranda and letters about the make-up of obituaries, the number published, comparison with Herald Tribune, and rules for publishing obituaries.
Includes an advance obituary of AHS (1952), memoranda about revisions (1948-1956), notes by AHS asking to see his advance obituary, which was refused, and his suggestions for certain items to be included (1959-1965), type-script of the editorial at AHS's death, a reprint of James Reston's eulogy, drafts and final text of the letter of tribute resolution by the NYT board of directors, and memoranda about books containing all the condolence letters (1968-1969).
Includes correspondence with publishers about proposals for a biography of ASO and suggested authors (1935-1939), AHS's memoranda about a possible biography (1957), and Doris Faber's request for permission to write a biography for secondary school children (1961).
These folders contain the correspondence, memoranda and other papers dealing with the selection of United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers to write the biography of ASO, subject to approval by AHS and IOS, his effort to write it while at various posts in Europe and South America, the gathering of material through interviews with relatives, business associates, and friends in New York, Chattanooga, and elsewhere, recollections by IOS and others, critiques of the work and efforts to revise it, and the abandonment of this work in 1943. In addition there is correspondence about the return of Bowers' notes and background material (1943-1944), the consideration of John Chamberlain to take up the task (1943), correspondence with Bowers about the publication of Gerald Johnson's biography of ASO and Time Magazine's reports on this (1946), and correspondence and notes about certain papers belonging to the NYT and related to the biography that were thought to be in Bowers' possession (1970).
The papers in these three folders deal with Gerald W. Johnson's biography of ASO, "An Honorable Titan." The first folder contains AHS's correspondence with Johnson and others during the preparation and following publication of the work and memoranda about the distribution of copies. The second and third folders contain correspondence with recipients of copies of the book.
These two folders contain papers about the observance of the 100th anniversary of ASO's birth (March 12, 1958). The first folder contains correspondence about planning the observance, the lead editorial in the NYT and Robert McLean's article in the Times Magazine, with related memoranda and letters, and a NYT article about the cocktail party given by the 30-Year Club in honor of the occasion. The second folder contains letters about McLean's article, clippings from other newspapers, and transcripts of broadcasts about the centenary.
Includes correspondence about naming a liberty ship for ASO, its launching, the presentation of a photograph of ASO and a collection of books for the ship's library by the NYT, visits by NYT executives to the ship, and photographs of the launching.
Includes a copy of EWO's will, surrogate's certificates, a list of legatees, their letters of acknowledgement, estate appraisal, letters and memoranda by Godfrey Nelson and other attorneys on taxes and related financial matters, correspondence and legal papers concerning the legacy to Donald Molony (1949), and Nelson's draft memorandum about closing the estate (1954).
Includes a script for the television program, a segment of which was devoted to the NYT and telecast from the Newsroom, a transcript of AHS's interview by Alistair Cooke, the program's host, correspondence about preparations, clippings and letters about the program, and photographs taken in the Newsroom during the telecast and of AHS with Cooke.
These folders contain AHS's letters, memoranda, and notes setting forth his conviction that, since he believed Jews to be solely a religious community, any movement to establish a Jewish state was both logically wrong and politically unwise. This put him into protracted conflicts with many Jewish organizations and leaders and caused numerous attacks on the NYT itself, because of its editorial policies as well as its coverage of events in and surrounding Palestine. Much of the material here consists of readers' mail and clippings. Included are AHS's letter to Otto Kerner declining a state of Israel Founders Award (1961), AHS's letter to Carol Sulzberger explaining his views (1959), notes on AHS's meetings with British officials, correspondence about threats to cancel advertising and/or subscriptions because of the NYT's editorial positions, letters, memoranda, and clippings about Herbert L. Matthews's article reporting British charges that Jews migrating from the U. S. S. R. to Palestine include Communists (1948), correspondence with Louis Finkelstein and others about Finkelstein's views on Zionism, letters and clippings about AHS's statement, in an interview with the New Orleans Item, about Jewish terrorists and British military action against them (1947), correspondence with Judah Magnes about his moderate policy on Palestine and efforts to raise funds for his movement (1942-1946), papers concerning Cyrus Sulzberger's views on Zionism, letters, memoranda, and other documents about allegedly biased reporting by Alexander C. Sedgwick on the trial of Zionist arms runners, correspondence with Abba Hillel Silver and others about charges by Silver and other Zionist leaders that the NYT's news reports and editorials harm the Jewish cause (1943-1944), letters and clippings about AHS's speech at the Madison Avenue Temple in Baltimore, opposing a Jewish state in Palestine and proposals for a Jewish army (1942), memorandum by AHS detailing his views on Palestine, evidently written during his visit there and apparently sent to several persons with replies from Magnes, with Magnes's analysis of the Arab-Jewish conflict and proposal for compromise, and Edna Ferber and Tamar de Sola Pool (1937), and an earlier, briefer paper by AHS detailing his views with a note by IOS (1930, 1934).
Includes memorandum about setting up a repository file for off-the-record documents of historical interest (1955), a letter suggesting AHS write his memoirs, to be published by Lippincott (1962), memoranda about rebinding AHS's volumes on his trips to the Far East in 1944 and 1952 (1965), correspondence and memoranda about AHS's interview for Columbia University's oral history project, a proposal that he give his papers to Columbia University or the Library of Congress and the decision to retain them at the NYT, a transcript of the oral history interview session with AHS and IOS, Lester Markel's comment on the transcript, and AHS's revision of notes on the interview (drafts and final version) (1965-1966), a letter requesting AHS's papers for the Library of Congress (1972), and Chester Lewis' note about integrating the contents of this file into the appropriate subject files (1974).
Includes memoranda and cables about the dispersal of the staff in 1940 and the resumption of operation in 1944, a roster of bureau staff, in connection with a staff party given during AHS's and IOS's visit in 1955, letters and memoranda about re-establishing the Bureau under Harold Callender during World War II, his conflicts with CLS over the respective roles of the Bureau chief and the Chief European Correspondent, and his disputes with Lester Markel about Sunday Edition assignments (1943, 1947-1957).
These folders contain AHS's correspondence with individual employees about to retire and with retired employees, memoranda about individual retirement applications, and letters and memoranda about the several pension plans considered and instituted during this period. Related material concerning individuals is in their folders. Included are letters and memoranda about AHS's and JOA's decision not to join the pension plan in 1954 (1966), memoranda about the 1954 plan (1953-1954), an announcement of the Equitable plan and reactions to it (1947), AHS's letter about the 1921 (Ochs) plan (1940), copy of the 1937 plan (1937), and a letter to the staff about the funding of the 1921 plan (1926).
These folders contain photographs of AHS, alone and with others, and of other people, in a few instances with related notes and correspondence. This is not a comprehensive collection, many other pictures are filed in the appropriate subject folders, and others are in the books and albums of the Book File. Included are portraits of AHS (1920s-1964), portraits of AHS in uniform, (1917-1918), childhood portraits, correspondence and photographs of portraits of AHS (1944, 1958-1962), photographs of AHS's self-portrait in various stages (1941), portraits and snapshots of AHS and IOS (1921-1961), family portrait at AHS's and IOS's wedding (1917), portraits of AHS with his grandchildren (1944, 1952-1953), portrait of AHS with his mother and his brothers, Leo and David, the three men in uniform (1917 or 1918), and photographs of AHS with other people, inlcuding John Foster Dulles (1956), Syngman Rhee (1954), Grayson Kirk (1952), Chiang Kaishek (1952), Carlton R. Safford (1951), the Duke of Windsor and others (1946), and Clark Gable and Myrna Loy (probably 1930's).
These folders contain photographs of notable persons and NYT staff members. Folders 290.8 and 290.3 contain lists of the people pictured.
Includes memoranda about measures to prevent pilferage, assaults, and other crimes.
Includes memoranda and reports on the use of polyethylene wrappers for Sunday issues.
Includes poems by diverse authors, found among AHS's papers without explanation of their significance.
Includes correspondence about a request for permission to publish a book of selected poems from the NYT, memoranda about the fee paid for poems (1932), and memoranda about the quality of the published poems and proposals to discontinue them (1948-1961).
These folders contain poems written by AHS for family occasions, to friends and acquaintances, to associates at the NYT, and about events in the news and in his personal life. In many instances original drafts and revisions are included, as are notes and correspondence pertaining to the poems. In a few instances, poems by others that prompted AHS to write a poem in response are also included.
Includes poems to or about AHS's children and grandchildren.
Includes poems about AHS's and other family members' dogs.
Includes poems to or about friends and acquaintances.
Includes poems about AHS's illnesses and medical treatment.
Includes poems to or about IOS, many for birthdays, wedding anniversaries, or accompanying gifts.
These poems range from humorous verses about trivia, to poems about AHS's travels abroad, to meditative and philosophical poems.
Includes poems to NYT associates or about the paper, including several poems written to his secretaries, The Harem, the poem published in the NYT for which he won honorable mention in the Publisher's Awards, with related correspondence and a poem complaining about having to pay the tax on his prize, and memoranda about Milton Bracker's proposal for a bulletin board for the display of poems written by employees, with the introductory poem by AHS.
Includes poems to or about AHS's brothers and other relatives.
Includes poems to or about AHS's parents and parents-in-law.
Includes poems about political issues and current affairs.
Includes poems about WQXR and Music.
Includes letters and other papers concerning the activities of the club, which was composed of close friends of AHS.
This folder contains diverse letters and memoranda in which AHS discusses general political trends in the United States, ranging from the effects of the Great Depression, through the Franklin D. Roosevelt years and the World War II era, to his growing conservatism in the late 1950s. Included is a letter stating his rule of not becoming publicly involved in political activities (1957).
Includes correspondence with G. E. R. Gedye about establishing the bureau and abandoning it after the German invasion.
Includes letters, memoranda, and other documents about the national conventions, including television coverage and AHS's attendance, and about broadcasts of the election results.
Includes letters and memoranda about the formation of Press Association, Inc. as a subsidiary of the Associated Press to supply news bulletins to radio stations. Also included are notices and minutes of board and stockholders' meetings and semi-annual financial reports.
These folders contain correspondence, memoranda, and other documents pertaining to Press Wireless, the communications company owned by the NYT, other newspapers and the major wire services. They deal with its operations, services, rates, Federal Communications Commission regulations, management, organization, labor relations, and finances. Includes letters and memoranda about the western stockholders' proposals to liquidate the company and sell its Long Island Properties at a profit, the NYT's opposition to this and counterproposals, including a plan to acquire the western stockholders' shares and expand operations (1955-1956), letters and memoranda about the company's reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act and financial difficulties both preceding and following it (1947-1953), memoranda about the United States Army's refusal to let Press Wireless operate in Korea during the Korean War (1950), memoranda about a strike by the American Communications Association and copy of arbitration award (1946), memoranda about the use of Press Wireless facilities during World War II (1944-1945), letters and memoranda about the feud between Joseph Pierson, president of Press Wireless, and Fred Meinholtz, Press Wireless' secretary (1941), memoranda about picture transmission (1938, 1940), memoranda about the unionization of staff at the Long Island installations (1940), memoranda about strikes at the San Francisco and Honolulu facilities (1938-1939), and memoranda about competition from United Press (1938).
Includes a journalism student's questions about the menace of propaganda and newspapers' responsibilities in relation to it and AHS's reply, which was not sent at ASO's direction (1924) and correspondence with and about the Institute for Propaganda Analysis and its criticisms of the NYT and newspapers generally (1937-1941).
Includes AHS's explanation of the role of a publisher, in response to inquiries, AHS's article in Times Talk, on OED's succeeding him as Publisher, outlining qualities desired in a publisher (1961).
Includes letters, memoranda, and clippings about nominations of the NYT and staff members, awards to the NYT, nomination and award procedures and criteria, the American Society of News Editors' role and Arthur Krock's service on the Advisory Board, letters congratulating the NYT on awards, nominations of non-NYT articles by AHS, and AHS's letters congratulating NYT winners and their replies.
This folder is closed until 2034 per donor agreement.
Includes notes and letters on diverse puzzles published in the NYT and on puzzles invented or collected by AHS or Charles Merz, Editor & Publisher article noting Sunday crossword puzzle created by AHS and Charles Merz (1942), memorandum and letters about the first and last Double Crostics by Elizabeth S. Kingsley (1943, 1952), memoranda about syndicating crossword puzzles and using them to promote the NYTimes (1953-1955), and a memorandum about jigsaw puzzle using a NYT front page (1967).
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Includes correspondence about the suggested treatment of cancer and other diseases by ingesting or injecting radium.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, reports, and clippings about the radio industry, especially its news, editorial broadcasts, the issue of newspapers and news services supplying material for these, and the NYT's reports about the industry. Included are correspondence about offers of stations for acquisition by the NYT (1940, 1943, 1956), memoranda about the start of a daily column about radio by Jack Gould (1947), correspondence about the issue of government licensing (1946), survey of New York area stations (1939), a transcript of a broadcast by NBC, "The New York Times Goes to Press" (1937).
Includes Turner Catledge's memorandum on the policy of reviewing stage shows.
Includes letters and memoranda about the coverage of real estate news, layout, illustrations, and changes in the Sunday section, about an award by the National Association of Real Estate Boards to the NYT for the best real estate page (1945), and about identifying architects in news stories and picture captions (1937, 1942).
AHS was very active in the Red Cross. He was elected an Incorporator (1937), a member of the Central Committee and of the board of the New York Chapter (1942), and a member of the board of governors (1951). He headed the Blood Donor Committee of the New York Chapter and was a member of the Future Planning Committee. These folders contain documents relating to all his activities except the blood donor campaign (the documents relating to that are under Blood Banks). They concern Red Cross operations within the United States and abroad, especially during World War II, fund-raising and publicity, and AHS's and the NYT's roles in both, changes in the administration and policies of the Red Cross, recruiting and training of volunteers, certificates honoring AHS and the NYT for their contributions, and criticism of Red Cross policies and activities. Included are letters about AHS's Red Cross tours in England, 1942, and the USSR, 1943, and in Pacific areas, 1944-1945 (1961, 1971, 1973), AHS's memorandum about his opposition to Basil O'Connor's reappointment as national chairman and AHS's failure to win re-election to the Central Committee (1957), letters and memoranda about the lag in NYT employees' contributions (1957), AHS's resignation from the board of the New York Chapter and OED's election in his stead (1947), correspondence and clippings about the Central Committee's dissension over O'Connor's reappointment and AHS's failure to be re-elected to the Committee (1945-1946), letters and other documents about Red Cross fund-raising agreement with committees of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) (1945), letters, reports, memoranda, and other documents about AHS's Red Cross survey trips, with Turner Catledge to the Pacific in 1944 and with James Reston to England, Russia, and Mediterranean-Near East areas in 1943, correspondence with persons he met during those trips is included though it may not deal with Red Cross matters, photographs (1943-1945), letters, memoranda, and reports by Catledge and others about Red Cross efforts to get supplies to prisoners of war in Japanese-held areas, letters about Catledge's series of articles on Red Cross operations, letters about AHS's speech to the North Atlantic Region conference of the Red Cross (1943-1944), letters, cables, reports and other documents about AHS's trip to Britain to check on Red Cross operations there, correspondence with military and political leaders, reports, photographs (1942), correspondence about a United States bill to restrict use of the red cross symbol to the Red Cross (1942, 1944), and a report of a committee on Red Cross services to the armed forces (1941-1942).
These folders contain correspondence about the work of the New York State Reforestation Commission, of which AHS was a member, reports of the Commission and interested organizations, bills of the State Legislature, publicity releases and pamphlets, and minutes of meetings.
Includes letters about aid to refugees from Nazi Germany, memoranda about Camille Cianfarra's report on refugees in Mexico, memoranda about NYT employment of, or attempts to aid, refugees from Hungary and other East European countries.
Includes letters, memoranda, and notes expressing AHS's personal beliefs and attitude towards organized religion.
Includes memoranda about NYT coverage of religious news, correspondence with Robert W. Searle about this and possible candidates for the post of religious news editor, and Edwin L. James' reply to a charge of pro-Catholic bias in coverage.
These folders contain memoranda and letters about requests for permission to reprint, in whole or in part, material published in the NYTimes, permission was usually granted unless the NYT had only limited rights to the material or the purpose of the reprint was either propaganda or commercial exploitation.
Includes memoranda about restaurant operations, staff, food served, changes in decor, prices, and related matters. This file covers the service restaurant, the cafeteria, and the Publisher's and executives' private dining rooms.
Includes letters and memoranda about several restaurants and the NYT's restaurant reviews.
Includes letters and memoranda about the NYT's subscription to Reuters service (1934), arrangements to use Reuters' wire for transmission of NYT copy from London (1945, 1948), Reuters' use of space in the NYT building and the NYT' s London Bureau use of space in Reuters' London headquarters (1947, 1950), AHS's interview with Reuters (1947), Reuters' use of NYT material (1945), and visits by AHS to London and visits by Reuters executives to The Times.
Includes AHS's memorandum to ASO suggesting a weekly review on Sunday's editorial page (1930), memoranda, distributors' comments, and readers' letters on the first Sunday Review section (1935), and memoranda about the section's size, layout, typography, specific articles, photographs, and other illustrations.
AHS was a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1939 to 1957 and served on the audit and nominating committees. These folders contain documents pertaining to meetings, projects funded by the Foundation, suggestions for activities and policies, nominations to the board of trustees, and investigations by two Congressional committees. Projects sponsored by the Foundation often prompted AHS's suggestions for editorials and news coverage in the NYT. Finally, these papers document the close personal relationship of AHS with other trustees and executives of the Foundation, notably, John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Dean Rusk, and John S. Dickey. Included are letters about OED's election as a trustee (1960), Rusk's response to AHS's question about passing Foundation reports to NYT personnel (1958), letters about AHS's retirement as a trustee (1957), AHS's personal and confidential letter on four newspaper publishers being considered for election as trustees (1956), letters and other documents dealing with the Reece Committee report on foundations, including AHS's offer to resign from the Foundation because of the report's references to alleged influence by the Foundation on newspapers whose executives were trustees (1954), letters, excerpts from testimony, and other documents dealing with the Cox Committee Investigation (1952), letters about the Kinsey Report (1948-1949), and letters about AHS's nomination to the executive committee and to the board of trustees (1939, 1942).
Room 2940 was an informal dinner group of prominent persons seeking to disseminate pro-British propaganda and foster United States aid to Britain in the early days of World War II. The NYT ignored its releases and refused to associate itself with the group. This folder contains some releases, related memoranda by Edwin L. James and others, and a detailed report on the group.
Includes correspondence about attempts to have the principal prosecution witness, Virginia Price, alter her testimony (1939) and summary and legal documents about the allegedly illegal removal of two New York Lawyers from Tennessee to Alabama (1934).
Correspondence about financial arrangements with Scribner's and the American Council of Learned Societies; sales and royalties reports; correspondence about Times' decision to waive royalties for successive 5-year periods; requests for reprint permissions and related correspondence about copyright implications.
Includes correspondence with the United States Post Office and others about anonymous letters attacking ASO, AHS, and the NYT sent to family members and others.
Includes a metal signature plate.
Includes Wright Patman's letter to the Federal Trade Commission questioning if the NYT slogan "All the New That's Fit to Print" constitutes false and misleading advertising, AHS's reply, and related correspondence (1960), a reader's letter on changes in the style of printing for "All the News That's Fit to Print" with AHS's reply (1957), an exchange with Edwin L. James about the ear containing the slogan (1951), and a letter and memoranda about suggestions for one-line slogans to save food for foreign relief (1946).
Includes memoranda about the reaction to the report that smoking may cause cancer (1957), a prior report by the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (1956), and a meeting at the NYT with Committee members (1954).
Includes letters and memoranda about the publication of wedding and engagement annoucements and other society news, including poilicies of selection, the use of photographs, style and typography, comparisons with the Herald-Tribune.
Includes letters, memoranda, legal documents, and related papers about real estate ceded by the company to the Ochs Estate and its disposition by the estate.
Contains a flyer of AHS's father's campaign for Manhattan Borough President.
Includes memoranda and letters describing the contents of a display case at the NYT, including an Ethiopian sword, a Burmese knife, a boomerang, and a model of Douglas C-54.
Contains a flyer of AHS's father's campaign for Manhattan Borough President.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, clippings, and other documents about the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent political and economic conditions, NYT news coverage of events, and editorials about meetings with Spanish officials. Included are correspodence about the difficulties of NYT's reporter Sam Pope Brewer, involving both the Spanish Government and United States Ambassador Stanton Griffis (1950-1951), letters by readers and articles in other publications charging the NYT with bias in reporting the civil war, especially the reports by Herbert Matthews and William Carney, who covered the opposing sides, Fletcher Pratt's article in the American Mercury, and George L. Steer's report for the NYT on bombing of Guernica (1937).
Includes memoranda, reports, schedules, and letters about a special all-advertising and editorial section, including editorial quality, financial results, illustrations, and make-up and memoranda assigning major responsibility for them to the Sunday Department (1953-1954).
Includes memoranda about a device to aid public speakers.
These folders comprise the records of AHS's and the NYT's relations with this company, in which it owns a minority interest. AHS served on the Board of Directors from 1928 to 1961. The records concern principally the plant and equipment of the company, its woodland recources, the supply, quality, and price of newsprint and other paper products, changes in management of the company, its finances, and AHS's personal relations with its executives and those of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, which owns the majority interest. Included are letters and memoranda regarding AHS's retirement from the Board of Directors (1960-1961), AOS's nomination to the Board (1955), the supply of newsprint to the NYT (1953), reorganization proposals (1950-1952), anti-trust investigation (1947), Frank J. Sensenbrenner's resignation as president and director, testimonial resolution by the NYT's Board of Directors (1942), appraisals of the company and shares owned by the Ochs Estate (1935-1937), agreements with Kimberly-Clark, with related correspondence and financial reports (1925-1926), and a consultant's report on Spruce Falls (1925).
Contains testimonial from the Srpuce Falls board members to AHS on his retirement from the board.
Includes memoranda about the size of the staff, hiring of employees, training and promotion, Christmas gifts and office parties, gambling and loan-sharking, attire, coffee breaks, safety, recreational activities, AHS's notes to long-term employees on their anniversaries, wedding gifts to employees, communication with employees on maternity leave, a five-day week, severance pay, Meyer Berger's letter about the staff's affection for AHS (1958), AHS's memorandum on questioning prospective employees about Communist party membership (1955), AHS's note about contacts with staff in the elevator (1954), and AHS's letter barring anyone associated with a government or propaganda agency from being hired as a correspondent on the NYT (1944).
Includes AHS's letters of condolence to employees or their families.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, and other documents about assignments, compensation, home leave, benefits, aid to correspondents' families, Christmas packages, supplies of food and medicines, and financial arrangements due to hazardous assignments, currency fluctuations, and economic conditions and taxes in the areas served. All such material pertains to the foreign staff as a whole or groups of correspondents. Included are AHS's memoranda stressing the value of having the top executives meet with correspondents on home leave (1960-1962), correspondence among AHS, Edwin L. James, Turner Catledge, and CLS on a major redeployment of correspondents, including the sometimes conflicting authorities of the managing editor and the chief foreign correspondent (1949-1953), CLS's memoranda on staffing and assignments in Europe and the Middle East, procedures involving visitors from other departments and writers and columnists, especially James Reston (1945-1946), Frederick T. Birchall's memorandum on European operations if war breaks out (1939), and a list of correspondents as of December 1935.
Includes correspondence with or about individual correspondents and stringers who do not have separate folders in the biographical section.
Includes memoranda and correspondence about the draft and deferments, application for commissions and military schools, releases for military duty, additional compensation, life insurance, support for families of employees who entered military service, relocation of former employees after discharge from the military, status of replacements, related policy matters, and correspondence with several individuals who entered the military service.
Includes AHS's letter affirming a non-discrimination policy and a statement on the employment of women.
These folders contain correspondence with or about individual employees, former employees, or candidates for employment. Among the subjects covered are anniversaries, family events, illness, promotions, dismissals, resignations, complaints, etc. The material is arranged alphabetically by the individual's name.
Includes memoranda, correspondence, and policy statements on the problems of staff members taking part in broadcasts or writing for other publications and of their specifying their NYT affiliation in such activities.
In 1955 the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security held hearings on charges of Communist infiltration into the news media. Seven NYT employees were called to testify and a few others were named by witnesses but not called. One, Melvin Barnet, invoked the Fith Amendment, and because he had not told the NYT of his intention to do so and because of his previous conduct, management lost confidence in him and he was dismissed.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, clippings and other documents about the investigation as a whole and the Barnet case, including policy statements and drafts, correspondence with the Guild about Barnet's dismissal, its effort to submit the dispute to arbitration, and the NYT's suit to bar arbitration, AHS's exchange with the American Civil Liberties Union about the case, and the NYT's editorial of Jan. 5, 1956, "The Voice of a Free Press", denouncing the investigation.
This folder contains memoranda and clippings about Charles Grutzner's testimony about his Communist party membership in the late 1930s and his dispatch about the first Sabre jet combat mission in Korea, and reader's mail about his retention by the NYT.
These folders contain memoranda and letters about eleven other Times employees involved in the investigation.
These folders contain readers' mail about the investigation as a whole and the Barnet case.
Includes correspondence with the Secretary of State, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretaries about meetings, personnel changes, and NYT articles and editorials about the State Department and its policies.
Includes memoranda on various matters of style, inlcuding the use of periods in abbreviations, use of titles, use of numerals, verb forms of certain nouns, use of Christ instead of Jesus, and similar topics.
Includes memoranda about the distribution of Style Books, issues of charging outsiders for copies, and AHS's memorandum about forming a committee on the new edition.
Includes letters and memoranda about deliveries and other subscriber problems, with replies by AHS and the Circulation Department, correspondence about free subscriptions to individuals, hospitals, and other institutions, memoranda about a proposal to give free subscriptions of the Sunday edition to listeners of radio station KPFK, and the Cooper Union's letter claiming that its library is the oldest continuing subscriber, having started in 1861.
Includes correspondence about diverse suggestions made by readers and other outsiders, including marketing ideas, suggestions for special publications, offers of consulting services for cost reduction or profit improvement, and similar topics. Suggestions from similar sources pertaining to specific aspects of the NYT's operations are filed in the appropriate subject folders.
These folders contain material about AHS's immediate family as a whole. Includes a family tree, a list of the grandchildren with their birthdates, correspondence addressed to several of the children dealing with gifts to them and their children, other family matters, a photograph of the family as of November 3, 1948, AHS's memorandum to Edwin L. James ordering that no unwarranted mention be made of family members in news articles (July, 1933), an undated, unsigned memorandum (presumably by AHS) on the education of the children, letters and stories by AHS for the children when they were young, many of these contain illustrations, presumably by AHS, anecdotes about the children and grandchildren, which AHS began to collect in 1960, and correspondence with the children about the collection.
Contains the International Heir Edition, a special issue of the NYT, showing AHS, IOS, their children and their spouses, and four of their grandchildren.
This folder is closed until 2019 per donor agreement.
These folders are closed until 2034 per donor agreement.
This foundation was established by AHS and IOS in 1956 as a means by which they could make charitable contributions. Its capital came from gifts of NYT stock made by them to the Foundation. The first folder contains a copy of the articles of incorporation and related documents dealing with the Foundation's establishment, correspondence with Edward S. Greenbaum and the Sulzberger children about its purpose, capitalization and officers, AHS's letter to IOS and their children notifying them of the provision in his will for a special bequest to the Foundation for gifts to several universities, and Greenbaum's confidential memorandum on the proposal to use the Foundation as a voting trust to maintain unified control of the NYT. The second folder contains the Foundations's annual reports, income tax returns, and related documents. The third and fourth folders contain correspondence and notes about individual grants by AHS, IOS, and their children, requests for grants, miscellaneous notes, receipts, and other documents.
These folders are closed until 2034 per donor agreement.
On August 7, 1935, IOS established a trust fund, with AHS as sole trustee, to provide for the education of their children. These folders contain the document creating the trust, correspondence with the Internal Revenue Bureau and legal counsel about the Bureau's claim that the income from the Trust was taxable to IOS, memoranda and other documents about investments and distributions to the children, and papers dealing with the dissolution of the Trust and the final distribution of its funds.
Includes memoranda and letters about the contents, price, arrangement, distribution, and size of the Sunday editions, the Sunday Department's relations with the News Department, the effects of the newsprint shortage, AHS's suggestion about the articles and pictures, comparisons with the Herald Tribune, memoranda about the rearrangement of sections (1930-1931), and memoranda about the Sunday Department's roving European correspondent (1949-1951).
Includes material about the expansion of the NYT's coverage of the Court, the rumor that AHS urged Franklin D. Roosevelt not to appoint Felix Frankfurter to the Court for fear this might provoke anti-Semitism (1938-1941), AHS's notes explaining his plea to Roosevelt (1961-1962), and about Arthur Krock's article on Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of Justices (1937).
Includes memoranda about major surveys and series of articles published in the NYT and reports on costs and syndication revenues.
Includes memoranda and letters about the law barring the publication of drawings and other details about sweepstakes, and proposals that the NYT join in either legal action to overturn the law or action to amend it.
Includes correspondence about an educational film and use of a reprint of a NYT book review in promoting it.
Includes correspondence about a report that the Daily Worker gets its cables service free of charge and memoranda about AHS's order that TASS not be called a news agency.
As part of its educational activities program, the NYT offered an annual course on various aspects of the newspaper and its role on society for New York City school teachers, under the auspices of the city's Board of Education. The course covered the gathering and editing of the news, editorial policies, the functions of the editorial page, the role of advertisers and advertising, the business of publishing a newspaper, censorship and freedom of the press, and the function of a newspaper in informing and educating the public. Executives from various departments gave lectures and AHS spoke at several sessions, either giving a formal address or responding to questions submitted in advance. The first two folders contain speeches given by AHS, programs for the courses, lists of questions and answers, with drafts and background notes pertaining to specific questions, and related notes and memoranda. The third and fourth folders contain a reprint of AHS's speech at the 1945 session of "The Newspaper - Its Making and Its Meaning", which was produced by Editor & Publisher in booklet form and then distributed by the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, correspondence about the speech, Edwin L. James' speech, with related memoranda, programs for 1945-1948, and memoranda about the programs.
Includes AHS's draft memorandum, not sent, replying to a charge in The Nation that the NYT did not cover the investigation adequately.
Includes memoranda about new telephone services, costs, and instruments at the NYT, notes from AHS to the Telephone Room staff and their notes to him, report on information calls handled in 1944, correspondence about a project to offer news bulletins by telephone (1948), AHS's letter to ASO telling of his first telephone conversation with Edwin L. James from Berlin (1928).
Includes letters and memoranda about Jack Gould's and others' reviews of programs and articles about the television industry, about sponsorship of news programs, about the NYT's support of and participation in educational and other programs, and Frederick E. Meinholtz's memorandum to AHS on technical problems.
Includes memoranda and notes about purchasing sets for AHS's offices and residences, service contracts, and repairs, correspondence about RCA's offer to install a set in the NYT's editorial offices to enable staff to keep abreast of the development of television.
This project tested the possibility of producing the NYT by offset printing from typewritten copy and was prompted by the Chicago printers strike and the threat of a strike by the International Typographical Union (ITU) against New York City newspapers. Included are documents relating to the negotiations with the ITU, the formation of a TEP Committee chaired by Turner Catledge, the work of that committee and its staff, the deliberations of the New York City Publishers Association about the project, a copy of the foreword of the TEP Committee's final report to AHS, and of the agreement with the ITU are included.
Includes memoranda and letters concerning mostly the news coverage and editorial policies of the NYT and the Chattanooga Times in regard to the controversies surrounding the Tennesee Valley Authority. These involved government operation of the project vs. private enterprise, the efficacy of the project, TVA as an issue in elections, and the dispute over Lewis Strauss' nomination as Secretary of Commerce involving his alleged role in the Dixon-Yates contract.
Includes correspondence about AHS's attempts to obtain terrapin for the Alexander Hamilton Dinner at Columbia University.
Includes memoranda and correspondence about uses of the theater, memoranda about building alterations, blueprints, and financial reports.
Includes memoranda and correspondence about special events at Times Square.
Includes correspondence about the formation of the club by current and former NYT employees who are Master Masons, about its meetings, scholarship awards, and financial contributions by the NYT.
Includes AHS's memoranda about individual issues and specific articles, his suggestions for articles, his own contributions, notes congratulating Ruth Adler on awards by the International Council of Industrial Editors on her book The Working Press and on the Silurians award for the book, replies to AHS's comments by Adler and Ivan Veit, memoranda about articles detailing extraordinary feats of news gathering and newsroom production, and the News Department's attitude towards these.
The material described below covers AHS's principal business and vacation travels, but by no means all his trips. Those not covered here include trips to Chattanooga, Spruce Falls, and other business-related sites, trips to attend meetings, deliver speeches, accept honorary degrees and awards, and routine trips to visit NYT bureaus and affiliates abroad. These are covered under the folders for the respective subject, institutions, organizations, and bureaus. Also included here are updates on business at the NYT by AOS and AHS's secretaries.
Includes correspondence and notes about AHS's and IOS's trips to England.
Includes correspondence and notes about AHS's and IOS's trip to Albano, Italy, London, and Brussels in 1958 and their trip to Albano, Paris, London, and Milan in 1959, memoranda and other documents about AHS's health and medical treatment at Albano, and background data on the Albano baths.
Includes letters, cables, notes, and schedules about AHS's trips to England in 1954, 1956, and 1957 and about his trip with IOS to France and England in 1955.
Incldues letters, cables, schedules, and other documents about AHS's trips to England, Germany, Austria, and France.
Includes letters, cables, schedules, and other documents about AHS's trip to England and France with IOS.
Includes letters, cables, schedules, and other documents about AHS's trips to England and Germany in 1949 and 1950.
Includes letters, notes, scrapbook, schedules, and other documents about AHS's trip with AOS to France, England, and Germany.
In 1946, AHS visited the Allied occupied areas of Germany, Austria, and Italy as a member of a group of United States newspaper executives. Most of the papers concerning this visit are filed under Germany, only correspondence about personal matters is filed here.
In 1945, AHS visited England and France. The papers concerning this visit include correspondence about personal matters, letters, and cables about the arrangements and itinerary, and correspondence about his unsuccessful effort to visit the U. S. S. R.
Includes letters, cables, notes, schedules, clippings, and other documents about AHS's trip to England, Czechoslovakia, and France in 1938 and his trip to England in 1939.
Includes correspondence about trip to Italy with IOS.
Includes letters, cables, clippings, and other documents about AHS's and IOS's trip to Russia, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, and France.
Includes letters, cables, and other documents about two trips to England and Scandinavia, dealing largely with newsprint contracts.
Contains photographs from AHS's trip, with a group of American newspaper executives, to the Allied-occupied zones of Germany, Austria, and Italy.
Contains photographs from AHS's trip, with a group of American newspaper executives, to the Allied-occupied zones of Germany, Austria, and Italy.
These folders contain correspondence, schedules, clippings, and other documents about AHS's trip to Korea, Japan, and Taiwan in 1952.
Contains AHS's 1962 memoir of his trip in 1916 or 1917, with his brother Leo, on a purchasing mission to Japan, China, and Manchuria .
Contains photographs and clippings about the visit to Formosa, presented by Hollington Tong.
This volume covers preparations for the trip and the tour of Korea.
This volume covers the visits to Japan, Okinawa, and Formosa.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, invitations, notes, schedules, and clippings of AHS's trip with IOS and Mr. and Mrs. George Woods, papers dealing with AHS's stopovers in London, Paris, and Geneva, and meetings with governnment leaders in India and Pakistan and with newspaper and advertising executives.
Contains letters, photographs, and clippings.
These folders contain correspondence and other documents about six trips to Vermejo Club, New Mexico (1930), Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, Mesa Verde, and the national parks in Utah, this trip spurred AHS's interest in conservation and the national parks, and prompted him to suggest a NYT correspondent who would specialize in conservation and related matters (1936), the Midwest and Far West to assess the country's attitude on the international situation and United States foreign policies, to San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, Arizona (1938),the Midwest, California, and Texas, mainly to visit military bases and defense plants, with brief vacation stop in Arizona (1942), and to Southern California (1948).
These folders contain the records of a round-the-world trip, largely for pleasure, undertaken in the fall of 1957 but aborted when AHS suffered a stroke while in Rangoon. The first two folders contains correspondence about general plans for the trip, itineraries, and letters about first stops in Chicago, San Francisco, and Hawaii, the third folder contains correspondence regarding visits to Japan and Taiwan, the fourth folder contains correspondence about their visit to the Philippines, itinerary, AHS's speech to the Press Club in Manila, correspondence about visits to Singapore, Bangkok, and Rangoon, and the fifth folder contains correspondence about plans for the return trip home, which were cancelled after AHS's stroke.
Includes memoranda and correspondence regarding proposed changes in type faces and sizes.
These folders contain correspondence, memoranda, and other documents about the meetings, activities, and policies of the Union, AHS's role on its Executive Board and other committees, his role as the Union's delegate to the Synagogue Council of America, and his resignation in 1943 over the Union's decision to join the American Jewish Conference. Much of the content concerns his conflict with Union officers over the Zionist movement and Union activities in fields other than religion.
Includes memoranda, letters, and cables about news coverage of the organizing conference in San Francisco, including editions of the NYT and other newspapers delivered by air or printed locally (1945), Edwin L. James' letter to Arthur Krock asserting that coverage of the United Nations (U. N.) in New York will be handled by the local staff and James Reston, as diplomatic correspondent, and not by teams from the Washington Bureau, Turner Catledge's memoranda on coverage of the U. N., correspondence about a dinner at the NYTimes for U. N. Security Council delegates and other top officials, Catledge's report on his conversation with James F. Byrnes about behind-the-scenes manipulations at Security Council meetings, Ivan Veit's report on newspapers read by U. N. delegates (1946), correspondence about plans for special edition to be flown to Paris for the U. N. Assembly session, also distributed in France and elsewhere in Europe, financial reports, photographs of the production and distribution of the newspaper, promotional material, and letters praising the edition (1948), letters, memoranda, and notes about NYT's support of the U. N., NYT coverage of U. N. sessions, speeches, and principal issues confronting the U. N., letters and memoranda about meetings with top U. N. officials, including luncheons at the NYT, some personal correspondence with Dag Hammarskjold, including the famous NYT's photograph of him at 1956 Security Council session, and correspondence about the 1956 crises in Hungary and the Middle East (1956-1958).
This Committee was chaired by Robert Moses and developed plans for a permanent home for the U. N. in Flushing Meadows, the site of the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. AHS was a member of the Committee. The correspondence and reports in this folder deal with the activities, meetings, and finances of the Committee, and include correspondence about the NYT's financial contribution and the Magazine article on the site.
Includes letters and memoranda about meetings with governnment officials, tours for Soviet journalists, the problem of getting and reporting the news of the USSR, the attitude of the Soviet press and public toward the NYT and United States newspapers generally, events in the USSR, Turner Catledge's report on his visit to USSR (1957), James Reston's reports on his confidential conversations with United States Ambassador to the USSR, Charles E. Bohlen (1955-1956), a transcript of a Moscow Radio broadcast about the NYT, alleging control by Wall Street interests (1952), Harrison E. Salisbury's report on United States correspondents in Moscow and related memoranda (1952), Salisbury's letter to Catledge responding to charges that his dispatches are ill-informed or serve Soviet propaganda, letters and memoranda about these charges, and Will Lissner's analysis of the dispatches in light of these charges (1949-1951).
This folder contains Harry Schwartz's reports on trends in the USSR, based on his analysis of Soviet publications and intended to suggest articles to the News Department (1948-1951).
Includes letters and memoranda about the wartime restrictions on manpower and the use of raw materials in the newspaper industry. AHS served on the advisory committee for the industry.
Includes correspondence and memoranda about staff additions and replacements, salaries, assignments, and other administrative matters, the Bureau's space and furnishings, and bureau's relations with government officials.
Includes letters, memoranda, clippings, and other documents about plans for and the start of the Western Edition, its staff, production method, circulation, reactions of readers and competitors, its demise in 1964, and Andrew Fisher's summary of the project which was prepared in 1965 as background for AHS's oral history interview at Columbia University.
These folders contain memoranda, letters, clippings, photographs, and other documents about the NYT's photographic service, its facsimile transmission of photographs, subscription contracts and rates, equipment and installation, the quality of the photographs, competition with the Associated Press, staffing and finances, contracts with the Army Signal Corps for transmission equipment, the sale of the company to the Associated Press, Bruce Rae's report on closing down the remaining commercial photographic operations in Europe, and a 1965 review of the company's history, prepared as background material for AHS's oral history interview at Columbia University.
Includes the Company Secretary's record copy of ASO's will annotated to show disposition of each bequest, memoranda on bequests of cash and NYT's stock, AHS's letter transmitting bequests to staff at Abenia, and correspondence about probate in Tennessee.
Includes correspondence with Edward S. Greenbaum about additions and changes.
These folders include material on the Woodrow Wilson Centennial Celebration Commission, the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission, and the project to publish the papers of Woodrow Wilson. AHS was a director of the Foundation from 1954 to 1957, was on the executive committee of the Centennial Celebration Commission, was appointed by John F. Kennedy to the Memorial Commission, and was interested in and contributed to the publication project. The records in these folders comprise correspondence and reports about meetings, projects relating to Wilson's birth centennial and birthplace, plans for a memorial, publication of the papers, fund-raising, NYT articles about Wilson, and the activities of these organizations.
Includes letters and memoranda about the NYT's arrangements to broadcast hourly news bulletins over WMCA, problems with announcers, timing, and omission of broadcasts, adjacent sponsored programs and commercials, and termination of the arrangement.
Includes memoranda about the coverage of women's news, allocation of a separate page, staffing, page layout and design, illustrations, the replacement of Elizabeth Clark French as editor by Elizabeth Penrose Howkins (1954), the controversy between Howkins and Lester Markel (1959), and Charlotte Curtis' appointment as editor (1965).
Includes correspondence about the controversial NYT's September 16, 1918 editorial favoring separate peace talks with Austria.
These folders contain letters, memoranda, clippings, and other documents about news coverage of the war and related events, the war effort, peace proposals, and the NYT's editorial positions and AHS's personal views. Includes correspondence about the American Memorial Chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral, London (1952-1961), memoranda about the time of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and Clark Field, the Philippines (1950), letters, memoranda, and clippings about Edward Kennedy's premature release of the news of Germany's surrender (1945-1947), AHS's reply to a question about the war's effects on newspapers (1945), correspondence about AHS's view that the Lend-Lease declaration committed the United States to war (1945, 1956), AHS's letter to Ruth Sulzberger about war aims and peace plans (1945), AHS's memorandum on need for the United States to support Britain's and the Soviet Union's security aims, correspondence about AHS's view about Lend-Lease (1944), letter from the War Department requesting interviews with correspondents returning from overseas, James Reston's suggestions for staffing up for the expected invasion, AHS's memorandum outlining a peace plan based on the initial restoration of the 1931 borders and related correspondence (1943), the War Department's request for NYT's maps, photographs, and the use of Cyrus Sulzberger's unpublished report on the military situation in Russia, AHS's report to Dwight D. Eisenhower on American troops in England, correspondence about German activities in Latin America, memoranda about an effort at the NYT to coordinate fund-raising for various wartime causes (1942), Arthur Krock's and Charles Hurd's memorandum about conversations with Cordell Hull and George Marshall on negotiations with Japan, memorandum about correspondents detained in Axis nations (1941), correspondence about German activities in Latin America (1939-1941), letters to AHS about conditions in occupied France (1940), AHS's memorandum outlining his views about American involvement in the war (1939), and AHS's notes on confidential conversations with William Christian Bullitt, Jr., on May 17, 1938 and May 10, 1939.
These folders contain memoranda, reports, letters, and other documents about all aspects of WQXR's operations, starting with the earliest investigations of the radio station by the NYT in 1935 and ending with the retirement of Elliott Sanger in 1967 and of Norman McGee in 1968. They concern chiefly the station's music programming (especially the performance of Mozart and of modern music, both of which AHS detested), the news broadcasts and use of NYT staff and material, the policy on advertising and its juxtaposition with news broadcasts, the quality of announcements and commercials, the Program Guide, the station's function in advertising and promoting the NYT, its finances, its equipment and technical operation, and the Rural Radio Network (later called the QXR Network), comprising stations carrying WQXR's programs. Includes preparations to separate programs of WQXR-AM and WQXR-FM (1966), AHS's retirement as chairman of the board, his replacement by Sanger, and Ivan Veit's appointment as president, Sanger's memorandum recalling the NYT's acquisition of WQXR (1964), special broadcasts during the International Typographical Union strike, and controversy with AOS, John Oakes, and Sanger over retaining expanded news and editorial broadcasts after the strike (1962-1963), Sanger's assignment to the International Edition in Paris (1961), new transmitting facility in Maspeth, new by-laws (1952-1954), interference from other stations, controversy with Douglas A. McKinnon (1948-1949), Jack Gould's reports on programs and policies, Nicholas Roosevelt's memorandum on key personnel (1945-1947), political advertising, correspondence about the NYT's acquisition of WQXR (1944), correspondence and reports about the station and its principal owner and president, John V. L. Hogan, and correspondence about the NYT's sponsorship of a program on the station (1935-1938).
Incldues memoranda and letters about the radio and television program produced by the NYT, meetings with alumni of the program, a competitive program offered by the Herald Tribune, and awards for the program and its moderator, Dorothy Gordon.
AHS was deeply involved, with James Wright Brown, in efforts to create a memorial to John Peter Zenger. These folders contain letters, memoranda, pamphlets, and other documents about the campaign to have the Memorial at St. Paul's Church in Eastchester, N. Y. and to have the church declared a national shrine, the plans for the Zenger Memorial there, fund-raising efforts, the decision to establish the Memorial in the Federal Hall Memorial, the exhibits there, the annual Bill of Rights ceremonies at St. Paul's Church, the neglect of the church and grounds and efforts to raise funds for its maintenance and restoration, and the personnel, activities and eventual disbanding of the Zenger Memorial Fund Committee. Included are the various documents giving the history of Zenger's trial and of St. Paul's Church, the rededication of the church in 1942, at which AHS spoke, the arrangements with the National Park Service for the Federal Hall Memorial (1944), the dedication ceremonies there, at which AHS spoke (1953) and correspondence about the exhibits there (1953).