Lawrence E. Spivak papers, 1917-1994 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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BOX 28-38	American Mercury, Inc., File, 1923-1957
BOX 28-38		Author index cards, articles, corporation papers, editorial and general correspondence, financial records, legal file, and subject file.
		Arranged alphabetically by type of material or topic and therein chronologically.
BOX 28		Author index cards, 1924-1950
BOX 28			Also available on microfilm, shelf no. 14,181 (negative).
			A-I
BOX 29			J-S
BOX 30			T-Z
BOX 31		Corporation file
			Incorporation papers
				American Mercury, Inc., 1923
				Jonathan Press, 1942
			Minutes
				Board of Directors, 1945-1954
					(2 folders)
				Stockholders, 1923-1944
					(3 folders)
			Name change, 1950
BOX 32			Sale of corporate stock
				Actual
					American Mercury, Inc., 1950
					Mercury Publications and affiliates, 1954-1957
				Proposed, 1941-1948
					(5 folders)
		Correspondence
			Editorial, 1927-1954, undated
				(5 folders)
BOX 33			General, 1936-1955, undated
BOX 33				(2 folders)
		Financial records
			Advertising accounts and income, 1924-1947
			Book sales, 1934-1954
			Correspondence, 1935-1954
			Employees' trust fund, 1945-1954
			Investments, 1943-1953
			"Meet the Press" payments, 1946
			Payroll, 1939-1953
			Publishing costs, 1929-1947
			Statements and account examinations
				American Mercury, Inc., 1924-1950
					(2 folders)
BOX 34				Casebook Publications, 1951-1953
				Fantasy House, 1951-1953
				Jonathan Press, 1943-1953
					(2 folders)
				Mercury Publications, 1950-1953
					(2 folders)
				Miscellany, 1933-1953, undated
			Subscription and newsstand income, 1929-1946
			Worksheets, 1933-1952
		Legal file
			Cases
				American Civil Liberties Union v. American Mercury, Inc., 1936-1941, undated
					(5 folders)
BOX 35				American Mercury, Inc. v. Jones, 1938-1941
				Association of American Cemetery Superintendents v. American Mercury, Inc., 1937-1939
				Copyright of the Jan. 1939 issue of the American Mercury, 1939
				Falk v. Spivak, 1939-1948
					(3 folders)
				Hartmann v. American Mercury, Inc., 1945
				In re American Mercury, Inc., 1945-1947
				Ken magazine, 1938
				Office Workers' Union v. American Mercury, Inc., 1935 See also Container 37, Employee strike
				Pribichevich v. American Mercury, Inc., 1946-1947, undated
BOX 36				Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. v. American Mercury, Inc., 1937-1939
				Wendel v. American Mercury, Inc., 1937-1939
			Contracts, 1933-1954, undated
				(2 folders)
			Correspondence, 1936-1954, undated
				(3 folders)
			Literary rights releases, 1937-1941
BOX 37		Subject file
			American Mercury Digest, circa 1951
			Articles
				Killed, 1934, 1940-1945, undated
				Miscellaneous, 1939, 1948, undated
			Author's form, undated
			Baruch, Barnard, report by Tex McCrary, undated
			Charts, 1947, undated
			Circulation
				Audits and publisher's statements, 1924-1950
				Statistics, 1924-1946
			Communist activities in the United States, 1946-1951, undated
			"Correction, Please!" 1947
			"Discussion of Harper's Magazine, American Mercury and Other Magazines in the Field," 1938
			Employee strike, 1935
			"Hatrack" editorial comments volume, 1926
BOX 38			Huie, William B., 1938, 1942
			In Fact, 1942-1947
			Life prospectus, circa 1941
			Lists and notes, 1924-1953, undated
			Mencken, H. L., 1924-1936, undated
			Newspaper clippings, 1933-1945, 1951-1953, undated
			Palmer, Paul, 1928-1946, undated
			Paperback books venture, 1929, 1937-1942, 1951-1953, undated
			Production notes, 1935
			Progressive, 1947
			Promotions and sales, 1928-1932, undated
			Readers Library, 1939-1944, undated
				(2 folders)
			Russell, Bertrand, 1950-1951, undated
			Subscribers' survey, 1935, undated
			Subscription renewals, 1932-1946
BOX 39-302	"Meet the Press" File, 1945-1994
BOX 39-86		Audience Mail, 1945-1979
BOX 39-86			Correspondence from viewers.
			Arranged by categories established by Spivak: program responses, criticism of newspeople, general comments, “irrational” correspondence, Spivak retirement, and time-change comments organized alphabetically by type of material or chronologically.
BOX 39			Program responses
				Miscellaneous, 1951-1952, 1958-1964
				Radio
					1945, Nov. 23, Reuther, Walter
					1946, Aug. 9, Bilbo, Theodore G.
					1948
						Jan. 23, Taylor, Glen H.
						Feb. 27, Taft, Martha
						Sept. 17, Hoffman, Paul
					1949, July 15, Douglas, Paul H.
				Television
					1949, July 6, Flanders, Ralph E.
					1950, Feb. 11, Waring, Elizabeth Avery Hoffman
					1954
						Jan. 31, Bricker, John W.
						Mar. 14, Cohn, Roy M.
						Nov. 28, Watkins, Arthur V.
						Dec. 5, Dixon, Edgar H., and Yates, Eugene A.
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