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Writings File, 1922-1968 (continued)
A Nose for News [PFS], short story
1933-1935, articles [PFS] on current events
1935, articles [PFS] on the Theatre Guild and on Broadway, part of the "Revolting Playwrights" movement
1930s, book reviews [CGS], drafts
1938-1939, articles, short stories [CGS] on Washington, D.C.
1938-1939, Even the Least of These [CGS], short story
BOX 50 1940, articles [PFS] on current events
1941-1942, articles [PFS] on current events
1945-1946, article [PFS] on General Motors strike and 1931---
1946, article [PFS], Porkchoppers and Democracy, multiple versions and correspondence
1946, book project [PFS], “After Truman, What?,” a book proposal
1940s Writings [PFS], miscellaneous
1950s Writings [PFS], miscellaneous
1964-1968, articles [PFS] on mankind's future
Undated, fragments [PFS]
BOX 51 Book projects [PFS]
[1922] “More Stripes Than Stars,” autobiographical novel
Typescript, pages 1-366
(2 folders)
Corrected typescript, pages 1-281 only
BOX 52 1943, “Who Are John L. Lewis?”
Rough drafts
Early typescript
Working carbons
BOX 53 Clean typescript
Corrected typescript; emendations
Research material
BOX 54 Working references
Correspondence
References to United Mine Workers
Research material
Miscellany (research material, near-print, typescript, etc.)
BOX 55 1962, project on fish, fisheries, and the Third World
BOX 56 Manuscript and published items
1920s, article [PFS] on farm cooperative bill
[1932], short story [PFS], The Big Noise
1934, play [PFS], The Town That Turned Back
1936, article [PFS] on baseball
1941, short story [PFS and CGS] “The Washington Story,” with drafts and correspondence
1941-1942, article [PFS] for Life magazine on “Main Street and the Freedom of the Seas"
1945-1947, articles [PFS] for Labor Press Associates' Washington Report
[1952], draft speech [PFS] for James B. Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers
1925-1941, published articles [PFS and CGS], tearsheets, clippings, etc.
1932-1939, published articles [PFS and CGS] in magazines and pamphlets
BOX 57-58 Personal Files, 1963
Material assembled for a testimonial dinner given to Paul Sifton in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1963. Includes a bound volume of presented letters; a larger group of letters not included in the volume; photographs taken at the dinner; notes, remarks, and miscellany. One container has photocopies of letters presented to Sifton.
BOX 57 Testimonial dinner to PFS
Bound volume of presented letters
Letters not included in bound volume
Photographs
Remarks, notes, miscellany
BOX 58 Photocopies of letters sent to PFS
(3 folders)
BOX 59-65 Printed Matter, 1919-1971
Clippings, near-print itesm, pamphlets, and issue-oriented material that reflect Paul Sifton's newspaperman's instinct for the preservation of his sources. Notable groups include post-World War II issues (price decontrol, inflation, atomic energy, full employment, and civil rights); material on the United Automobile Workers; and scrapbooks on John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. The latter complement a book project (1943) in the Writings File.
BOX 59 Clippings
1919-1950s
(5 folders)
BOX 60 1960s
1940s-1960s, clippings on the UAW-CIO
(3 folders)
BOX 61 Pamphlets
1920s-1930s
(2 folders)
1937 Steel Labor; The Progressive
1960s
BOX 62 Various subjects
1940s-1950s, un-American activities and anti-communism issues
1940s-1950s, farm labor issues
1945-1946, atomic and postwar issues
1945-1946, price decontrols and inflation
1940s-1950s, natural resources
1950s, civil rights issues and Rule 22 fight in Congress
1960-1961, Citizens' Research Foundation, reports
BOX 63 Foreign policy issues, includes United Nations press releases on Dominican and Congo situations, 1961-1962
(2 folders)
UAW-CIO
1944-1945
(2 folders)
1945-1946, anti-UAW-CIO propaganda
1946-1947
(2 folders)
BOX 64 1948-1957
(6 folders)
1958, including Kohler strike testimony
1959
BOX 65 1961, includes textile workers' strikes
1962-1971
(3 folders)
Undated
(2 folders)
Photocopied clippings in scrapbooks regarding John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers Union, 1935, 1938-1939 See Oversize
BOX 66-73 Miscellany, 1920s-1980
Material reflects Paul Sifton's post-retirement interests; also includes obituary, funeral, and condolence files, photographs, press cards, address files, Sifton family items, Sifton genealogy (Canadian), and other items.
Arranged by topic or type of material.
BOX 66 Post-retirement interests [PGS]
Plans for Ragged Island, Maine
Homes and houses
Inventions (new and proposed): "Bubble curtain" and "Electronic Bumblebee"
Health aids, especially emphysema
Electric wheel
BOX 67 Hydrofoils, pontoons, and amphibious boats
Electric cars
(3 folders)
Batteries
Windchargers
BOX 68 Vehicles, alternative
(2 folders)
Boats
(3 folders)
BOX 69 Engines, marine and other
(3 folders)
Fish, fisheries, and the Third World
(3 folders)
BOX 70 Pollution, man, and the environment
(3 folders)
Fragments, notes
(3 folders)
BOX 71 Condolences; other materials
1972, obituaries [PFS], New York and Washington, D.C., funeral service, other materials
1972, condolences [PFS]
(2 folders)
1980, obituaries [CGS], Washington, D.C., New York, and Mexico
1980, condolences [CGS]
(2 folders)
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