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    <title>Robert G. Spivack papers, 1931-1970 (bulk 1936-1970)</title>
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    <namePart>Spivack, Robert G.</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, articles, book projects, columns, newsletters, newspapers, material relating to speaking engagements, topical files, records of organizations, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Spivack's career as a newspaper reporter with the New York Post, syndicated columnist, and newletter publisher.  Includes Spivack's articles published in the New York Post; his newspaper columns, "Town's Backrooms" and "Watch on the Potomac"; and his newsletters, Private Wire and Spivack Report.  Subjects include national politics including the Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson presidential administrations, New York State politics, and New York City politics, especially the connections between organized crime and politics.  Includes materials pertaining to Spivack's work as editor of the University of Cincinnati newspaper, Cincinnati Bearcat; the Reporters' News Syndicate, his program designed to train minorities in journalism; and his participation in student groups such as Student Defenders of Democracy, International Student Service, and Fight For Freedom as well as other organizations advocating for war refugees, against American isolationism, and seeking the intervention of the United States in World War II prior to the Pearl Harbor attack.  Individuals represented include Owen Brewster, Frank Costello, Thomas E. Dewey, Jonah J. Goldstein, Irvin McNeil Ives, Joseph McCarthy, Newbold Morris, William O'Dwyer, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Herbert Agar, Wilbur E. Bade, Ulric Bell, George T. Bye, Elliott E. Cohen, Louis G. Cowan, Fern Marja Eckman, Lloyd D. Hagan, Joseph P. Lash, Reuben A. Lazarus, Newbold Morris, Herbert Nagourney, Shaemas O'Sheel, Oliver Pilat, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur J. Rosenthal, Paul Sann, Dorothy Schiff, John Herman Henry Sengstacke, Eric Sevareid, Abraham M. Sirkin, Martin Sommers, Mark Starr, Rex Stout, and James A. Wechsler.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Journalist.  Full name: Robert Gerald Spivack.  Born, 1915.  Died, 1970.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Agar, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1980</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bade, Wilbur E. (Wilbur Emil)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1954</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bell, Ulric</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1960</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Brewster, Owen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1961</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bye, George T</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cohen, Elliot E</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1959</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Costello, Frank</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1973</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cowan, Louis G</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-1976</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1971</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eckman, Fern Marja</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1969</namePart>
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      <namePart>Goldstein, Jonah J</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1967</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hagan, Lloyd D</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ives, Irving McNeil</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1896-1962</namePart>
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      <namePart>Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-1973</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lash, Joseph P</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-1987</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lazarus, Reuben A. (Reuben Avis)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1895-1971</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McCarthy, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-1957</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Newbold</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Newbold</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Nagourney, Herbert</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>O'Dwyer, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1964</namePart>
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      <namePart>O'Sheel, Shaemas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1954</namePart>
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      <namePart>Pilat, Oliver</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1987</namePart>
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      <namePart>Roosevelt, Eleanor</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1962</namePart>
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      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rosenthal, Arthur J. (Arthur Jesse)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1919-2013</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sann, Paul</namePart>
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      <namePart>Schiff, Dorothy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1989</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sengstacke, John Herman Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1912-1997</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sevareid, Eric</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1912-1992</namePart>
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      <namePart>Starr, Mark</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Stout, Rex</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1975</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wechsler, James A. (James Arthur)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1915-1983</namePart>
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      <namePart>Fight for Freedom (Organization)</namePart>
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      <title>Cincinnati bearcat</title>
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      <title>New York post</title>
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      <title>Private wire</title>
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    <topic>Isolationism</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Students</topic>
    <topic>Political activity</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Refugees</topic>
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    <geographic>New York (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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