The Library of Congress >  Researchers >  Search Finding Aids  >  Clare Boothe Luce papers, 1862-1997
Access restrictions apply.
ContainerContents
Speech File, 1932-1987 (continued)
Office File, 1941-1987 (continued)
1940-1947 (continued)
(10 folders)
BOX 654 1948-1950, 1984, undated
(7 folders)
Lists
Speaking invitations declined, 1940-1943, 1957-1965
(2 folders)
Speeches given, 1940-1944, 1953-1961, 1969-1984
Programs, 1940-1950, undated
Questions asked by audiences, circa 1945
BOX 655 Requests
Correspondence
1940-1943
(5 folders)
BOX 656 1943
(10 folders)
BOX 657 1943-1944
(9 folders)
BOX 658 1944-1945
(6 folders)
BOX 659 1946
(10 folders)
BOX 660 (10 folders)
BOX 661 1947
(7 folders)
BOX 662 (8 folders)
BOX 663 1951-1959, 1974-1987
(8 folders)
BOX 664 Indexes
Speaking engagements, 1943-1949
A-H
BOX 665 I-P
BOX 666 Q-Z
BOX 667 States, miscellany
BOX 668-698 Texts, 1932-1987
Drafts, final texts, and an occasional printed version of speeches and remarks written by Luce or by her consultants or assistants. Some include editorial remarks by Henry Robinson Luce and others.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 668 circa 1932
"Notes for the Address to the Young Men and Women"
"Second Address to the Young Men"
1937, Apr. 24, Women's University Club
1938, Apr. 27, Professional Women's Club, Stamford, Conn.
circa 1938, Pen Club
1940
Sept. 8, "Let's Face the Facts," CBC radio, Canada
Sept. 11, "Hour for the Union Now," WMCA radio, New York, N.Y.
Oct. 15
"An Answer to Dorothy Thompson," Willkie Rally, New York, N.Y.
Willkie campaign, Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Oct. 19, War Veterans for Willkie Rally, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y.
Oct. 21
"National Unity," Council Against Intolerance in America, New York, N.Y.
United Hospital Fund drive, New York, N.Y.
Oct. 22, "(Un)preparedness of the Individual: The Housewife Prepares," Herald Tribune Forum, New York, N.Y.
Oct. 24
Willkie campaign, South Shore Willkie Rally, Rockville Center, Long Island, N.Y.
Kathleen Norris show, CBS radio, New York, N.Y.
Oct. 25, Kathleen Norris show, CBS radio, New York, N.Y.
Oct. 26, Willkie campaign, WMCA radio, Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Oct. 29
"Reverse English," Willkie Rally, New York, N.Y.
Willkie campaign, De Witt Clinton High School rally, Bronx, N.Y.
Oct. 30, "Reverse English," Willkie Rally, Plainfield, N.J.
Nov. 1, Willkie campaign, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Nov. 2, "The Vote Shifts to Willkie," Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y.
Nov. 3, Willkie campaign, Author's and Writer's League, New York, N.Y.
Nov. 4, Willkie campaign, National Women's Republican
Club, New York, N.Y.
Nov. 8, Emergency Rescue Committee, New York, N.Y.
Nov. 15, Minneapolis Junior League, Minneapolis, Minn.
Dec. 6, "What Next for America?" Daily Princetonian Association dinner, Princeton, N.J.
Dec. 10, Dutch Treat Club
Dec. 17, British War Relief, Hotel St. Regis, [New York, N.Y.]
BOX 669 Undated
Statement for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
Unidentified
1941
Jan. 22, "Federal Union: the Way to Freedom," Federal Union dinner, New York, N.Y.
Feb. 12, Lincoln Day dinner, National Republican Club, New York, N.Y.
Feb. 15, Active Citizen's League, CBS radio, New York, N.Y.
Feb. 27, British-American Ambulance Corps, shortwave broadcast to England
Mar. 9, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Mar. 24, British War Relief Ball, WCSC radio, Charleston, S.C.
Mar. 25, "Is Civilization in Danger?" New York Economics Club dinner, New York, N.Y.
Apr. 2, "Shall We Face the Facts?" Y.W.C.A. luncheon, New York, N.Y.
Apr. 18, Norwegian radio, New York, N.Y.
Apr. 25, Chinese Relief Fund dinner, Hollywood, Calif.
June 18, United China Relief Committee, NBC radio, New York, N.Y.
July 23, "Gentlemen of the 13th!" address to soldiers
Nov. 16, "Philippines: Asset or Liability?" University of Chicago Roundtable, NBC radio, New York, N.Y.
Dec. 8, "Wings Over Manila," CBS radio, New York, N.Y.
Dec. 10, Overseas Press Club luncheon (not delivered)
Dec. 17, United China Relief, for ABC radio
circa Dec.
China
Miscellaneous notes
World War II
Undated, "American Policy Toward China," by Raymond Leslie Buell
1942
Jan. 9, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Jan. 12, Red Cross Information Center, WQXR radio, New York, N.Y.
Jan. 13-15, "America Reorients Itself," New York, N.Y.
BOX 670 Jan. 29, "Women and War Work," American Red Cross, WOR radio, New York, N.Y.
Feb. 21, "Victory for China Program," shortwave broadcast to China
May 15, "March of Time," WJZ radio, New York, N.Y.
June 2, United China Relief, CBS radio, New York, N.Y.
June 13, May-ling Soong Chiang, Wellesley College, Mass.
June 22, "How Near Is the Far East?" Advertising Federation of America
June 23, Women's Republican Club of Greenwich, Greenwich, Conn., outline
July 7, China rally, outline
circa Aug., decision not to run for Congress
Sept. 2, "Women in War," notes
Sept. 10, keynote speech, Connecticut State Republican Convention, Hartford, Conn.
(2 folders)
Sept. 14, acceptance speech, Republican candidate, Congressional election campaign, fourth district, Bridgeport, Conn.
Sept. 23, "America Speaks to Poland," WRUL radio, New York, N.Y.
Sept. 24, "The Role of American Women in Wartime," Bridgeport Women's Committee, American Institute of Banking, Bridgeport, Conn.
Sept. 25, "Women Under Fire," outline
Sept. 28, Bridgeport Republican Club, Bridgeport, Conn.
Oct. 2, election campaign, Women's National Republican Club, New York, N.Y.
BOX 671 Oct. 6, election campaign, Greenwich Republican rally, Greenwich, Conn.
Oct. 9, United China Relief, Philadelphia, Pa.
Oct. 10, election campaign, WSRR radio, Stamford, Conn.
Oct. 14, election campaign, Fairfield Community Chest, Fairfield, Conn.
Oct. 18[?], election campaign, [Danbury?], Conn.
Oct. 19, election campaign, WSRR and WICC radio, Stamford and Bridgeport, Conn.
Next Page »

Contents List