Stuart Chase papers, 1907-1978 (bulk 1931-1955).
- 5,000 items. 29 containers. 14 linear feet.
- Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1924-1955; Series 2: Subject File, 1912-1954; Series 3: Printed Matter, 1927-1955; Series 4: Addition I, 1909-1978; and Series 5: Addition II, 1923-1978.
Open to research.
Correspondence, writings, reports, notes, book reviews, contracts, subject files, printed matter, and other papers pertaining primarily to Chase's contributions to economics and social policy. Documents Chase's work as a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "brain trust" and of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission during its' investigation of Chicago meatpackers in 1919. Subjects include the organization of a consumers' research foundation in 1928, U.S. Temporary National Economic Committee in 1939, Great Island Conference organized to promote peace following World War II, Reader's Digest, Standard Oil Company, Twentieth Century Fund, and Chase's relationship with Sinclair Lewis. Includes drafts of Chase's book, Power of Words (1954). Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Ernest Angell, Roger N. Baldwin, William Benton, Hugo LaFayette Black, Chester Bowles, Hadley Cantril, Malcolm Cowley, Jonathan Daniels, Theodore Dreiser, Marriner S. Eccles, Albert Einstein, Clifton Fadiman, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gunther, William D. Hassett, Leon Henderson, Harold L. Ickes, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Helen Keller, Philip Fox La Follette, David Eli Lilienthal, John P. Marquand, Lewis Mumford, Milo Perkins, Nathan M. Pusey, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elmo Roper, Upton Sinclair, Harlan Fiske Stone, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, and Charles Woodruff Yost.
Economist and author.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008009
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Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 --Correspondence. Angell, Ernest, 1889-1973 --Correspondence. Baldwin, Roger N. 1884-1981 --Correspondence. Benton, William, 1900-1973 --Correspondence. Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971 --Correspondence. Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 --Correspondence. Cantril, Hadley, 1906-1969 --Correspondence. Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 --Correspondence. Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981 --Correspondence. Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 --Correspondence. Eccles, Marriner S. 1890-1977 --Correspondence. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 --Correspondence. Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999 --Correspondence. Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006 --Correspondence. Gunther, John, 1901-1970 --Correspondence. Hassett, William D., 1880-1965 --Correspondence. Henderson, Leon, 1895-1986 --Correspondence. Ickes, Harold L. 1874-1952 --Correspondence. Jackson, Robert Houghwout, 1892-1954 --Correspondence. Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 --Correspondence. La Follette, Philip Fox, 1897-1965 --Correspondence. Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-1981 --Correspondence. Marquand, John P. 1893-1960 --Correspondence. Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 --Correspondence. Perkins, Milo, 1900- --Correspondence. Pusey, Nathan M. 1907-2001 --Correspondence. Rockefeller, Nelson A. 1908-1979 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 --Correspondence. Roper, Elmo, 1900-1971 --Correspondence. Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 --Correspondence. Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946 --Correspondence. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 --Correspondence. Wallace, Henry A. 1888-1965 --Correspondence. Yost, Charles Woodruff--Correspondence.
United States. Federal Trade Commission. United States. Temporary National Economic Committee. Great Island Conference. Standard Oil Company. Twentieth Century Fund.
Reader's digest.
Consumers--Research. Economics. Meat industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago. Packing-houses--Illinois--Chicago. Peace. Social policy. World War, 1939-1945--Peace.
United States--Economic policy--1933-1945. United States--Politics and government--1933-1945. United States--Social policy.