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  <titleInfo>
    <title>John L. Balderston papers, 1915-1950</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Balderston, John L. (John Lloyd)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1889-1954</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>400</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, manuscripts of speeches and radio scripts, clippings of Balderston's newspaper articles, and photograph of Balderston.  Relates to his career as journalist and playwright, primarily concerning his work as war correspondent during World War I, and to his work during World War II as observer for the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and as organizer and director of the William Allen White Committee News Service, Washington (D.C.).  Correspondents include Ulric Bell, Jennie Lee, Friniwyd Tennyson Harwood, Walter Lippmann, George Moore, Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith, Logan Pearsall Smith, Julian L. Street, Clarence K. Streit, and Raymond Gram Swing.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Journalist and playwright of Beverly Hills, Calif.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bell, Ulric</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1960</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Jennie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harwood, Friniwyd Tennyson</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lippmann, Walter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1974</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moore, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1933</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Russell, Alys Whitall Pearsall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1951</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, Logan Pearsall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1946</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Street, Julian</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Streit, Clarence K. (Clarence Kirshman)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1896-1986</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Swing, Raymond</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, William Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>William Allen White Committee News Service.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Journalists</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Journalists</topic>
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    <occupation>Dramatists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Journalists</occupation>
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