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General Correspondence
Subject File
Box 155
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National Press Club
6% Kirke St.,
Personal+
Mashington
Chevy Chase, Md.,
Tels Wisconsin 2981
Nov. 13, 1940
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington,
D.C.
Dear Mr. Presidents
In accordance with the gracious note of November 8th written at your suggestion
by your secretary, General Rivin M. Watson, I an again addressing you on the matters
referred to in my recent wires to you and Mrs. Roosevelt and my letter to you. I
return to the problems so soon again because I honestly believe a forthright facing
of them immediately by the Administration is intimately involved in the future of
the progressive labor movement of our country and the possible effective leadership
thereof by Phil Murrey.
It is By hope that Henry Wallace has by now told you of our conversation of
yesterday. He, I felt after talking with him and Jim LeOron, understood fully
the immediacy and purpose behind my requests to him, and through him to you.
With the Ford contract, the International Shoe contract and many others staring
them in the face, what do you think Phil, R.J. Thomas of the Auto Workers, and
the others who went down the line for you can do to answer the derisive taunts
of John Lewis and his commmist-inspired supporters referred to in the late
city edition of the N.Y. Times by Louis Stark on the front Desoperterday?
I have also had two considerable talks with Isador Lubin who makes astonishing
and pussling admissions to me - mimisssions such as that Sydney Hillman and he
have seen scarcely any of the contracts before they were signed, that they didn't
know anything about the Ford contract until after it was announced and that, even
now - days after they assured Leo Goodman, Research Director of the United Shoe
Workers, that the International Shoe contract had been amended to include provisions
calling for strict adherence to your labor directive - they cannot get & copy
of the contract for the United Shoe Workers. What, in heaven's name, can be
the function of labor representation on the Defense Commission if it 1sn't to
carry out your labor directives. Lube admits to me that he thinks the time has
come for Sydney and Him to conduct an open campaign against sabotage in the Army
and Havy on these problems. It is certainly no answer to say that Justice Felix
Frankfurter says precisely the same thing happened during the last war.
b The OIO executive board meets in Atlantic City (Chelsea Hotel) on Friday.
Phil ought to have some tangible reassurances on the Ford contract and allied
problems before that date if he is to do the job we all know he can do and
want before him you to respond? do for our country. Do you want him publicly to ask for these things
Tours respectfully,
Gardnor Jackson Gardner Jackson.
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
May 12, 1942
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Attention: General Edwin M. Watson
Dear Mr. President:
Under Secretary of the Navy James Forestal may have told you
of his telephone conversation with no regarding the attached
clipping. I sent him a typewritten copy of the clipping last
week and he responded with a call.
I told him that Tom Cullen, Chairman of the Democratic County
Committee of Orange County, New York, had given me the clipping
and had made inquiries of me concerning it. In the course of
our conversation he asked me whether anyone connected with the
ministration was in particular charge of the situation in
the 26th District of New York.
I raised the same question with Mr. Forestal who said that he
did not know of anyone acting in such capacity and thought
that it would be well to have someone given that responsibi-
lity.
In addition to frequent inquiries from Tom Cullen, I have
received repeated inquiries from Jim Causey who has been
instrumental in organizing a nonpartisan committee in the
District. This Committee is circulating various materials
at present.
In an effort to ascertain whether any definite plans had been
formulated on this matter or whether any are likely to be
formulated soon, I talked with Dave Niles; this note to you
is the result of that talk with Dave who suggested that you
would certainly be interested in seeing the clipping herewith.
Yours sincerely,
Gardner Jackson
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MEMORANDUM FOR
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to come in on Friday morning
for fifteen minutes. Will you
give the attached to me when
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
October 2, 1942
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
The Honorable
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Dear Mr. President:
Yesterday an intimate business friend of mine told me of &
long conversation he had the preceding day with Leroy Lincoln,
president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In
addition to using blackguarding language about you, according
to my friend, Mr. Lincoln disclosed plans he and most of the
insurance industry and various segments of other industry
have completed regarding Tom Dewey, as candidate for Governor
of New York and as subsequent candidate for the Presidency.
These plans involve the war effort intimately.
Mr. Lincoln told my friend that they had discussions with Tom
Dewey and had agreed to abandon all other prospective presi-
dential candidates, including Senator Taft and Governor John
Bricker of Ohio. My friend led Mr. Lincoln out by saying to
him, in effect, "Aren't you taking an awful risk with this
fellow Dewey? After all, he made his reputation as a reformer
district attorney and you don't want to depend upon a reformer,
do you!" To which Mr. Lincoln replied, according to my friend,
"Oh, don't worry about that. We've taken care of that. He's
no reformer. We're satisfied about that. Why, as a matter of
fact, we have got everything all set including the next insurance
commissioner of New York already, and as for labor, we have an
understanding with him that he'll crack down on labor to beat
hell when he gets in and we've really got Roosevelt on the run
now."
My friend said there was quite an extensive conversation about
this labor thing, a good deal of it centering on the Union of
Insurance Agente which the CIO Office and Professional Workers
have tried to build up.
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The most disturbing feature of the conversation to my friend was
Mr. Lincoln's attitude towards the war effort and to the progress
of the war in Russia and elsewhere in the world. My friend got
the explicit impression that Mr. Lincoln and those with whom he
has been conferring are working for a negotiated peace and will
do all they can to have such & peace accepted at the earliest
possible moment.
My friend said that Mr. Lincoln seemed to know all about the
workings of the lobby against the parity bill conducted by Ed
Babcock and all about Eric Johnston's participation therein.
He described to my friend how the Chamber of Commerce has been
reorganized under Eric Johnston and the insurance division of
the Chamber has been increased in importance and size and placed
under the chairmanship of James Madden, First Vice President
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. According to my
friend that division collects between $150,000 and $200,000 a
year f om the insurance industry, most of which from now on
out, my friend gathered from Mr. Lincoln, will be used to further
the efforts of Mr. Lincoln and his associates.
At the same time my friend transmitted to me in confidence a copy
of a letter signed by Joe Pew of the Sun Oil Company along with
certain accompanying material, photostatic copies of which I have
attached to this letter. Joe, according to my friend, is linked
up to this general Lincoln picture.
The Hitler speech, implying fairly explicitly that the Nazis will
hold what they have got and let the Allies do what they can about
it, seems to strike a responsive note in the Lincoln mind and be
the opening gun of the great drive to call the war off and do
business one with another.
I pass this information on to you because it comes to me from a
source which I have found over the last ten years to be almost
infallible both in substance and in interpretation. The source
has the highest regard for your objectives, though feeling that
you have never throughout your Administration been tough enough
with the monopoly, finance and business interests typified by
Lincoln, Pew, and the views they represent. This source shares
the fears of some of the responsible labor leaders that the
operations shown you during your trip may in a number of instances
have been dress rehearsals concealing the actual conditions in
this or that plant and the actual state of mind of the corporation
heads responsible for this or that plant.
I trust you are as well as we all want you to be and as well as
a number of my newspaper friends telephoned me last night you
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seemed to be during your press conference.
Yours sincerely,
Gardner Jackson
Special Assistant
to the Under Secretary
P.S. My immersion in the parity fight has brought to me information
and opinions from key figures on the Hill and elsewhere which seem
to me 80 important that you ought to know at least some of them.
Consequently, I am endeavoring to try to get & small slice of your
valuable time to recount to you what I think the meaning is and
what I think it calls for from this point on.
MASS
radio
"SUSTAINING" PROGRAMS ON NATIONAL NETWORKS
"This Nation et Wor" - the new coast-to-coost Blue Network program
which brings employer, employee, housewife, minister, and people in of wells
of life to the microphone to talk straight from the shoulder to the public about
their efforts for victory. A worthy successor to the Mutual Network shows which
each week for more than e whole year featured Fulton Lewis, 1. os "Your
Defense Reporter," and the 1941 hit radio show, "Defense for America," both
APPEALS
tremendous factors in building public appreciation of Industry's mirocles on the
production battle line.
* Services to Commentators - "Briefs for Broadcesters," - increasingly
popular service featuring one-minute fillers especially designed for women com-
mentators, spotlighting the unique and interesting phoses of Industry's participo-
tion in the vor effort. Also regular news releases to all commentators.
* Redio Forems - participation of industrialists in such progroms - the
University of Chicago Round Table, Town Hell of the Air, etc.
Spet Network Addresses - by industrial leaders.
groups. These include:
COOPERATION WITH
COOPERATION WITH
COOPERATION WITH
RELIGIOUS LEADERS
WOMEN'S GROUPS
AGRICULTURAL GROUPS
Representatives of Industry meet with the clergy, talking
The tremendous influence of women's organizations, an
over their viewpoints, helping the churchmen obtain an
increasingly crucial factor in national affairs, is intensi-
understanding of the true function of our enterprise sys-
fied by the rapidly growing participation of women in
tem, its force for material and social welfare, its relation
all phases of war work. The NIIC program of confer-
to religious freedom, and at the same time gaining a
ences between women leaders and businessmen, study
better understanding of the clergy's problems. The 29
courses, plays, radio programs, and other cooperative ac-
Conferences between businessmen and farm leaders, clari-
regional conferences in 1942 will fan out into hundreds
tivity carries a fuller understanding of the enterprise
fying problems and points of view and defining methods
of local conferences built on this vital concept.
system into the daily lives of America's organized women
of cloier cooperation with one- of America's most influ-
leaders.
ential minorities.
SUN OIL COMPANY
HOWARD
PHILADELPHIA
N PEW.JA
PRESIDENT
August 19, 1942
Some time ago I wrote urging that you lend your support to the National Industrial
Information Committee. Mr. Bennett Chapple, Assistant to President of the American
Rolling Mills, told me he also intended to bring the matter again to your attention,
but whether he has had the opportunity to do this or not I hope you will give consid-
eration to my request for liberal financial assistance.
War measures inevitably emphasize Federal controls, building up executive and
bureaucratic powers. It will require intelligent understanding on the part of the
public to combat this trend after the war is over. The Committee's work is vitally
important to this end BO that when hostilities have consed, a sympathetic public
will help us return to the nation one of the essential freedoms for which we are
fighting and producing - the freedom of initiative. These matters are of first
concern to you and your business.
I do not know how familiar you are with the Committee's activities in the past,
but a glance through the enclosed folder will give you a good idea of the extent
of our work at the moment. You will agree, I am sure that these activities,
which are only a few of the vast and comprehensive public information program,
give authority and direction to management's leadership in the affairs of the
nation. May I add that public relations experts are constantly analyzing the
N.I.I.C. program, not taking for granted any part of it, but asking for reasons
back of every feature, the response obtained, and its value to businessmen of
the country. I can honestly say that their reports have convinced me that the
program is better than ever this year, and is doing an essential job on behalf
of the enterprise system.
Business leaders throughout the country recognize the necessity of preserving
free enterprise as a fundamental part of the American way of life. I believe
you share this conviction. Therefore, it is my sincere hope that you will want
to participate with the group of business and industrial leaders who have taken
the initiative in organizing an understanding of and respect for the motives of
industry and management. A subscription from your company would help guarantee
the continuance of what in my opinion is the most effective program of public
relations of its kind ever attempted. Naturally the amount you subscribe is for
your judgment, but even if present conditions permit your sending only & nominal
sum, this support on your part will indicate your personal approval of the activ-
ities sponsored by our Committee.
Sincerely yours,
Chairman
National Industrial Information Committee
Your Program for Public Understanding in a Nation at War
THE RELATIONSHIP between American competitive enterprise and the people is ex-
ceedingly important today, when all Americans are teamed up to win a war. The
people must understand the magnitude of industry's task and its patriotism. They
must know that freedom of enterprise is not only one of the basic principles that
America is fighting to preserve, but that the great industrial machine, built by
private enterprise, is our most powerful weapon for winning the war.
Management must be alert to the public's call for leadership open-minded and
ready to answer any questions that may be in the minds of the people.
Through the National Industrial Information Committee, both these aims are
being achieved in 1942. Using every medium of public information, the N.I.I.C.
each day is carrying the story of industry's war-winning efforts to 130,000,000 Ameri-
cans - in a way that will answer their questions, and build free private enterprise
firmly into their ideals for the post-war world. Likewise, management is being kept
informed of the course and temper of public opinion so that each company's own
public relations and other policies will be effectively geared to the actual problems
we face in this critical time.
Here are some of the principal media used by the N.I.I.C. during the past nine
years - tested and proved in effectiveness:
1] RADIO - Fulton Lewis, jr., "PRODUCTION FOR
6] SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES - Over
VICTORY," broadcast weekly on the Mutual net-
2,000,000 new booklets are requested by schools
work, currently reporting to the people on the
each year and are used by two out of every
progress of war production. Also spot news
three high school students in the country.
releases and frequent informal talks by busi-
Films, bulletin board posters, commencement
new men.
and assembly speakers round out the N.I.C.C.'s
2] MOTION PICTURES - "AMERICAN ANNI-
comprehensive program of cooperation with
the nation's educational Institutions. The
VERARY" - N.I.I.C.'s 1942 movie, scheduled to
National Education Association and other
reach more than 8,000,000 persons in over
4.000 leading theatres. Last year's picture "Dr.
similar organizations in cooperation with she
N.I.I.C. conduct a series of direct conferences
FENSE FOR AMERICA." after establishing a new
between educators and business men to capi-
high in audiences for this type of film, will be
shown in 1942 to non-theatrical groups, Includ-
taline on educators' growing recognition of the
ing schools, camps, clubs, etc. with estimated
necessity to emphasire principles as well as the
showings of 1,000 monthly.
facts about the American way.
3] POSTERS AND DISPLAYS - 500,000
7] CHURCH COOPERATION2 regional
conferences between clergymen and business
plant, school and railroad station bulletin
men designed to stimulate hundreds of local
board posters, also travelling department store
conferences in 1942, bringing to clergymen un-
window displays in the best known stores of
derstanding of the necessity to continue free-
the country.
dom of enterprise in order to preserve other
4] CAR CARDS-Over 28,000 carried In street
freedoms, including that of religion.
can and buses reaching over 12,000,000 per-
8] WOMEN'S GROUPS-Joint Home-Indus-
sons in their daily travel.
try conferences, radio programs, newspaper
5] NEWSPAPERS - Regular request services
feature columns and study courses, used last
to 8,000 weeklies and every major daily paper
year by 598 women's groups, carrying the
in the country news, health, women's fea-
story of free enterprise to one of America's
tures, cartoons, spot news releases and special
most important and Influential groups - its
material for editors. Also "personally con-
women leaders.
ducted" inspection trips to war production
9] SPEAKERS - Industrial executives of the
plants by top-ranking news correspondents,
Speakers Committee in 1941 addressed
dramatically aiding the portrayal of industry's
a daily average of 2.000 persons, dramatizing
contribution to war production.
the story of America's enterprise system.
CHECKING PERFORMANCE-Constant surveying of public opinion by the Opinion
Research Corporation - almost daily contact with experts on the N.A.M. Public
Relations Advisory Group - and guidance from the Public Relations Committee
and Board of Directors of the N.A.M. are your insurance that the National Indus-
trial Information Committee hits its target.
National Industrial Information Committee
NINE YEARS OF BUILDING FAITH IN AMERICAN BUSINESS
SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS
Date
1942
To J. HOWARD PEW, Chairman
NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION COMMITTEE
14 WEST 49TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y.
WE AGREE that the winning of the war and the preservation of freedom require
that the American people have a complete understanding of the job industry is
doing to win the battle of production, of the basic characteristics of the private
competitive enterprise system, and of the sincere motives of American management.
To the achievement of that purpose we pledge our support to the Public Informa-
tion Program of the National Industrial Information Committee.
Please enter our subscription for &
Check attached.
Please send bill on
1942
NAME OF COMPANY
ADDRESS
CITY
STATE
SIGNATURE
TITLE
Over 4,000 companies, large and small, in every field of business support the N.I.I.C.
program with subscriptions ranging from $25 to more than $25,000 annually.
The Committee offers the following abbreviated schedule of average subscriptions
to assist you in determining your support of this program:
COMPANIES HAVING A CAPITALIZATION OF:
$100,000
$ 25
$1,000,000
$225
200,000
50
2,000,000
375
300,000
75
3,000,000
500
400,000
100
4,000,000
650
500,000
125
5,000,000
800
$6,000,000 and over
$1,000 to more than $25,000
(This subscription will be devoted entirely to the purposes outlined above. None will be used
to support the regular Association activities of the N.A.M.)
Principal public relations channels used are shown on the reverse side
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WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF
WASHINGTON
8 September 1943
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MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL WATSON:
You will remember the case of
Congressman Jackson, of Washington, whom
the President wished inducted as an enlisted
man, Jackson requested that he not be in-
ducted until early September.
This is to let you know that Jack-
son is now in the Army and that he left Fort
Lewis, Washington, on September 6, to report
at Fort McClellan, Alabama.
this
McCarthy
6-17-43
Phoned Col. McCarthy --
Congr. Henry M. Jackson of Washington came in to see
the President about a retirement from the House. He is & very
able young fellow and the President does not want him to retire
from the House. But Jackson is anxious to get some service in
the Army.
The President was wondering if, afterCongress convened,
he could go in and get some summer training until next September
and then decide what could be done.
The President wanted you to handle this matter and report
to me the results. In the meanwhile will you contact Congr.
Jackson and let him or his secretary know when you can see him.
Re will come to your office and you can find out what he wants
and what can be done. The President seems to be sympathetically
interested in his case.
SECRET
WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF
WASHINGTON
June 24, 1943
MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL WATSON:
I have had a meeting with Congressman Jackson of Washington,
who wishes if possible to enter the Army as an enlisted man, undergo
basic training, be assigned to a combat unit overseas, see action,
and return to Congress in February.
The President's memorandum of June 17, 1942, to the Secre-
tary of War and the Secretary of the Navy directed that all members
of the House and Senate who were then on active duty be placed on
inactive status, and that future requests from members be considered
only on the basis of active duty for the duration of the war. I have
heard informally that this memorandum was issued at the request of
the Speaker of the House.
I recommend against giving Congressman Jackson active duty
for the following reasons:
1. Between 15 and 20 members of the House and Senate
have been turned down by the Secretary of War for service in
any capacity, commissioned or enlisted. Among these are the
following Democrats: Brooks of Louisiana, Richards of South
Carolina, Nichols of Oklahoma (on three occasions), Sparkman
DOD DIR. 5200.9 (9/27/58)
of Alabama, Starnes of Alabama, Beckworth of Texas, Chandler
of Kentucky, and Scrugham of Nevada. The Secretary of the Navy
Date- 3-16-59
has turned down many more.
DECLASSIFIED
2. Numerous members of both Houses still hold Reserve
commissions but are not permitted active duty, even during
recess periods.
3. The general practice of having Congressmen on duty
for limited periods of time has proved unsatisfactory because,
upon returning to Congress, they have shown a tendency to speak
without restraint on the floor, often misusing classified infor-
mation and employing their observations to embarrass the War
Department and the Administration. While this would not occur,
I am sure, in the case of Congressman Jackson, it probably
would in others.
I feel certain that you and I could explain the situation to
Congressman Jackson to his satisfaction, and I recommend that, unless
the President desires otherwise, we arrange to have a talk with him for
this purpose.
PSF
filens-
JOHNSON & WOOD
MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
CHALMERS WOOD
MEMBERS NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE
MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
AYMAR JOHNSON
VICTOR 8. BYRON
30 BROAD STREET
H. DUNCAN WOOD
MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
AMBROBE D. HENRY
NEW YORK
PEROY A. BYRON,JR.
HERBERT c. STRACK
MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
TELEPHONE HANOVER 2-1444
EDWARD B. BYRON
June 16,1936
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. President:
Although, I em sorry to say that my views do
not coincide with some of the things the present administration
are doing and although I do not altogether admire all of your
advisors, I know your heart 18 in the right place and that you
have tried your best in many ways to better the situation since
you took office when the country was in such a terrible state,
and I congratulate you on the many constructive and splendid
things you have done.
I want you, however, to thoroughly understand
that although I can not conscientiously work for you during the
next few months, you naturally will have my vote.
Marian and I are going down to Philadelphia
at the time of your nomination end we are also taking a party
of our friends on our boat to the Harvard-Yale boat race, at
which time I hope we will have the pleasure of seeing you.
Yours as ever,
AJ:0
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A
ARMSEA HALL
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
28th July - 36
Dear Franklin,
I note by the newspaper you are
cruising up the coast in Harry Tweed's
schooner which, by the way, is 8. very com-
fortable boat. I have been on her several
times. I hope you are having & good rest
from the different ceres and worries that
confront you as President.
Knowing the strain of all you
have to do and having just had & knock-down
blow myself, I wonder if, as an old friend,
I may give you a little word of warning.
Although I am not in political affairs, I
an pretty active and always up early doing
one thing or another - whether commutting
to New York from Islip, taking care of my
business affairs or Marian's and the rest
of my family. In other words I have not
been accustomed to giving myself a rest.
The middle of May I moved the
family up here and after getting everything
going, went back to New York, coming up only
week-ends. All this activity resulted in an
accumulation of tiredness as I did not really
relax. Foolishly I did not go to a doctor
and get overhauled. An a result, last Monday
I had a nice little heart attack called
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coronary thrombosis. They tell me I will be
88 well as ever afterwards if I take things
easily. At present I am flat on my back and
will have to remain in bed a good eight weeks.
I am sending this letter, first
to give you a little personal advice as I
hope you will never have to go through the
same thing. Secondly, if you ever want to
get away from the world in general and just
relax in bed for a week or more without any-
one knowing it, all you have to do is to come
up here to us at Newport any time after
September first, when the crowds have gone.
We are going to remain here this year until
after election. Our place is situated on
the Bay near the point, and you could have
the best rest of your life, if you should
want one.
Marian, I an glad to say, got
her health back this Spring in Boston,
through Loring Swain, my old classmate whom
you may remember being on the crew. He's &
wonderful fellow.
I hope you don't mind my sending
you these few lines. We often forget that
after the age of fifty we cannot go as hard
as formerly! Although I know you are getting
8. change of scenery on the yechting trip,I
also know it is B. pretty strenuous job on a
boat of that type as I have done so much of
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it myself.
With best regards to you and
Eleanor,
Yours Aywar. as ever,
ROAD
pus mil
ARMSEA HALL
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
28th July I 36
Dear Franklin,
I can't stop Aymar's writing you,
although I know you are too busy to read
letters! However, his recent experience has
made him enxious about you in the superhuman
job you are shouldering.
Forgive this very informal little
note. Amid these strenuous days, when such
colossal demands are being made on you both,
I want you and Eleanor to know that some of
your friends appreciate all that you are
giving so unsparingly of yourselves for us
all, and that you have our affection and
loyalty.
We hope you have got some rest
recently and pray for your strength in the
days to come.
These are extraordinary times and
I understand some big world event is pro-
phesied for September 16th!
Please do not bother to answer
these notes, but let us know if we can ever
be of help in any way.
With my love to you both, and
890ml 75king -
Your affectionate cousin,
Maria
PSF hele Drawn 2-14
PERSONAL
February 27, 1936.
Dear Aymar:-
Many thanks for that nice note of
yours. How interesting and delightful it would
be if the Montacol 011 Company should, after
fifteen years, really strike oil. By that time
you and I will certainly need the money!
My best to you and Marian.
AS ever,
Aymar Johnson, Esq.,
30 Broad Street,
New York, N. Y.
JOHNSON & WOOD
MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
CHALMERS WOOD
MEMBERS NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE
ATMAR JOHNSON
MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
VICTOR s. BYRON
30 BROAD STREET
H. DUNCAN WOOD
MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
AMBROBE D. HENRY
NEW YORK
PEROY A. BYRON. JR.
HERBERT STRACK
MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
TELEPHONE HANOVER 2-1444
EDWARD B. BYRON
February 25, 1936.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. President:
Some years ago, if you remember, you purchased
through my advice some Montacol 011 Co. stock. A few days ago
I wrote to Mr. Baker who is connected with that Company, and
asked him if the stock was still worth anything, for, if you
remember, that they made several test holes but did not strike
oil, and unfortunately ran out of money, He kept writing me,
however, that he still was absolutely confident that oil would
be found on their property at a deeper depth. I got the follow-
ing letter from him yesterday. It will speak for itself.
"The Montacol Co. is still very much alive and we
are hopeful that within the next couple of years there will be
sufficient demand for additional oil reserves to warrant the
drilling of a deep test well on the Baxter Basin fold. The
leases are in good standing. Several gas wells have been drilled
under the deal we made with the Wyoming California Petroleum Corp.
However, we can not expect any income from these wells until the
cost has been refunded from gas sales. The gas sales are limited
and therefore we can not hope for any appreciable returns to the
Montacol Co. unless oil is discovered.
Finding oil in California is becoming extremely
difficult, and it appears likely that California refineries will
find it necessary to draw on other states for their crude supply
within the next couple of years. As soon as this condition comes
about, there will be a very marked increase in wild-catting in the
Rocky Mountain area, as this district and the West Texas fields
are the most likely source of supply for California refineries.
It looks to me as though the possibilities are as promising as at
the time we made our investment back in 1920 - 1923."
I thought the above would interest you, and I still
feel that with a little more patience he is right, and that eventually
we will strike oil in this section, for I have been out there and seen
it literally seeping out of the earth within sixty miles to the north.
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I note by the papers that you went up to
Cambridge for the Fly dinner. I am sorry to say that this
year I was unable to go there for our club dinner.
Hoping this finds you as well as ever and that
all the mountainous problems which you have daily are not too
much for you, I am
Yours as ayman ever,
AJ:GC
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PSF Carres
AYMAR JOHNSON
SONFIDENTIAL
625 PARK AVENUE
3d April 1 37 "J"
My dear Mr. President,
I received your letter of April 1st which was
marked confidential and which I can assure you has been
considered absolutely confidential by me. I have done
a great deal of thinking about the matter to which you
refer and, therefore, have not sent an answer until to-
day.
In the first place, as far as your not having
attended a meeting since 1928 is concerned, I do not
think that that is very important owing to the fact
that you have been Governor and since then President.
Although I admire your honest feeling in the matter,
the mere fact of having your name on the Board of
Trustees whether you are able to attend the meetings
or not, is a great help in inspiring people with inter-
est in the Church, which has been sadly lacking.
As to the second reason why you think you should
resign, I have always had a feeling that every bishop and
preacher should refrain from mentioning politics or ex-
pressing personal opinions in rendering a sermon from the
pulpit. I feel the pulpit is a place from which the
Gospel alone should be preached.
But I can absolutely assure you that since the
day I have been acting as secretary - and I rarely miss
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AYMAR JOHNSON
en PARK AVENUE
a meeting - I have never heard a thought of any kind
expressed in either the anteroom where we assemble or
at the meetings themselves, by any of the Board, to the
effect that someone else would be preferred in your
place.
There is going to be a very large and impressive
gathering at the Cathedral when they finally decide to
open the Nave. Actually I cannot tell you when this will
take place although there is a possibility of it occurr-
ing this spring and, of course, I feel that your presence
would add to its cause.
For almost two thousand years, leaders of the
times have been misunderstood by the religious authori-
ties of their day. But surely the larger issue is the
fact that in this day of much dangerous division, end in
order to further the spiritual and moral swekening you
have yourself stressed the need for, the Christian Church,
more than ever before, and regardless of party, prejudice,
or personal feelings, needs to present a united front. I
cannot help but feel that any step such as this, would be
publicly detrimental, first to the Cathedral and its com-
pletion, but above all to the endeavour at Christian 00-
operation, in which you yourself have given us so fine EL
lead.
You have asked for e thoroughly confidential
reply to your letter and I em giving it to the best of
my ability, hoping you will consider mine as such as I
have taken yours to be.
P.S. Iam stilling business
Yours
as
ever,
but the
office three times a week
(2)
CONFIDENTIAL
April 1, 1937.
My dear Aymar:-
Many thanks for the clipping.
Take care of yourself and have a complete
rest in Bermuda. I do hope to see you both
when you get back.
May I ask you confidentially
about a matter which has been on my mind for
sometime? I have been a Trustee of the
Cathedral for about a quarter of a century -
in faot, I think my length of service has
been exceeded by only one or two others on
the Board. As you know, I have not been to
a mesting since 1928, before I went to
Albany. From the point of view of useful-
ness, therefore, I have no right to continue
to serve.
There is, however, another
reason which strengthens the thought that I
should resign. It is hardly right for no
to remain as a Trustee when I feel 80 little
sympathy with many of the words and actions
of the Bishop. Frankly, many of these words
and actions are, from my point of view, un-
christian.
Write me confidentially your
thought on the matter. I am inclined to
think that many members of the Board would,
perhaps correctly, prefer someone else in
my place.
As ever yours,
Aymar Johnson, Esq.,
30 Broad Street,
New York City,
New York.
als THE WHITE HOURS
JOHNSON & WOOD
receive 26 1937
MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
CHALHERS WOOD
HENDERS NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE
MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
ATMAR JOHNSON
VICTOR a. BYRON
30 BROAD STREET
H. DUNCAN wood
HEHBER NEW TORA STOCK EXCHANGE
AMBROBE D. HENRY
NEW YORK
PERCY A. BYRON.JR.
HERBERT O.STRACK
MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
TELEPHONE HANOVER 2-1444
EDWARD a. BYRON
March 25,1937.
< & ML
Hon. Franklin D.Roosevelt, President,
White House,
Washington,
D.O.
Dear Mr.President:
With everything that is going on these
days, I thought it might amuse you to see an article written
March 18 to the editor of a very large European paper. This
article was written by Bradish Johnson, Jr. who worked for a
long time for the N.R.A. and then went abroad to write for
papers, etc.
Marian and I are leaving for Bermuda about
April 19 and remaining there until about the middle of June.
From there TO are going to open up the house at Newport for
the summer. If you should come up that way to see the boat
races, do drop in and have a eup of tea with us. Our place is
10
the second house on the right as you come in the harbor. It
is a large old fashioned house with columns and a green copper
Anrzie
roof. You will probably are Marian semiphoring to you as she
does it very well.
Hoping this finds you in the best of health, I em
Yours as aywan ever,
Alie
P.P. The have As been in Marian's family
about from yours,
in
Anti-Roosevelt Nonsense
Paris, March 13.
To the Editor, European Edition
All or this absolute tripe and non-
E
sense with which all these disgruntled
a
so-called patriots have been "packing"
t
the Mailbag makes me sick and tired
B
They are all hopping mad because they
-
can't get everything their own way in
the United States. Thank the Lord
they can't because st is just the type
e
of person who is raising all the bullaba-
is
loo these days against the finest Presi-
dent we have ever had that got us
di
into the mess in which we found our-
y
selves in 1929.
Ab! 19291 That magical date! Those
wonderful figures! It seems to me that
I remember the days when Herbert
Hoover was President. Those last days
n.
of his tenure of office when every
1
time be opened his mouth the stock
market dropped & half & dozen points.
(
1
At that time the boys were erying out
I
for someone, for anyone to be elected
in place of "dear old Herbert."
€
I
And then what happened? Roosevelt
(
was elected, just as you, or you, or you,
who are all gnashing your teeth now,
.
would have been elected if you had
been running instead of-Roosevelt, He
snapped people out of the dumps into
which they fell during those marvelbus
n
times under the leadership of Herbert.
When Roosevels saved the banks by
action instead of just sitting, they
I
praised him. When be did a lot of
1
other things, they praised him. When
be did still more, the nation ze-elected
.
-
is
him by the most overwhelming major-
5
sty ever known in the history of the
United States,
Now what? Because he finds that
a
conditions since he spoke before have
.
changed, and be wants to do things
to take care of these conditions, there
is & terrific how] from the discontented
wolves, who are in & minuscule minor-
ity.
(
Thank the Lord for & President who
is not afraid to change his mind when
changing his mind is going to be the
best thing for the country.
A MODERN PATRIOT.
140
SECAYKAN
SONINSET
SOCATEAN alm LEDGES
SOMETHAND
SOMERSET
PSF Carris.
BERMUDA
Bewdley
Gen: "I"
Pembroke
lot Feb. '38
Dear Mr. President,
Bradish has just written me
a long letter telling me about the way
Ambassador Bullitt acted at the time
of his son, Bradish G. Johnson's funeral
in Paris about e week ago, end I
thoroughly agree with him that his
actions were absolutely undignified
and discourteous.
Yours anover
THE GIDEON PUTNAM
THE
"J"
BARATOGA CURATIVE BATHS
SARATOOA SPA
Sir 26
Size
AND MINERAL WATERS
UNDER STATE SUPERVISION
Saratoga Springs
PRIVATE OFFICE
EDWARD c. SWEENY. PRESIDENT
NEW YORK
GIDEON PUTNAM NOTE:
03A13388
40 ROBERT I. SCOVILLE, MANAGER
AM
SE
38
Sept. 23, 1938.
THE MALL or SPRINGS
d-v
Dear Mr. President:
As my stay here has nearly terminated
as I am leaving next Wednesday which will have been three
\
weeks, I thought I would write you a line to tell you some-
thing about this place and the good that it has done me,
for I know what interest you have taken in it - in fact, as
I understand it, it was through your efforts while governor
that the springs here were made possible.
I feel one hundred percent better than
when I arrived. I was much too over-weight, weighing 188,
and I am now 180, although I intend to take off at least five
more pounds after leaving here by continuing the diet that I
have been on.
The bath house is magnificent in every way,
and run beautifully. I do not put the full credit to the
waters alone, although I feel that they have a great deal to
do with the cure. You are allowed to stay in the baths ten
minutes, with the water bubbling all the time, and it literally
turns your skin red which shows the re-action that must be
taking place.
The diet is a very sane, sensible one
with much variety, cutting out sweets, heavy sauces, starch,
sugar, thick soups and desserts, but you never feel hungry from
the way they have worked it out. You also take just 80 much
light exercise in the morning and afternoon.
I have Dr. Comstock, who is a very sane,
sensible man, as well as being a delightful person, who says
he has had the pleasure of meeting you.
This hotel, The Gideon Putnam, is expensive,
but beautifully run. Also the Roosevelt Baths are the most
expensive; but, as you know, the Washington Baths and the Lincoln
Baths are less expensive, and there are many cheap rooming houses
and hotels in town where the people with less means can come and
enjoy the waters.
THE GIDEON PUTNAM
BARATOGA CURATIVE BATHS
AND MINERAL WATERS
SARATOGA SPA
UNDER STATE SUPERVISION
Saratoga Springs
PRIVATE OFFICE
EDWARD c. SWEENY, PRESIDENT
NEW YORK
GIDEON PUTNAM HOTEL
ROBERT 1. SCOVILLE, MANAGER
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THE HALL or SPRINGS
I have met many people in the hotel who
have been to Baden Baden, Nauheim and other European cures,
and they say that this is, if anything, far better than those
abroad; 80 you 800 the good you have done for thousands of
people.
The recent hurricane and tidal wave which
swept Long Island and the New England coast has been a terrible
catastrophe, and I hate to think of the thousands of homeless
people and the lives that have been lost in this recent event.
It looks to me from what I hear over the radio
today as though there is going to be a European war as it seems
impossible to satisfy Hitler. If it should take place you
may possibly find Marion and myself in Washington this winter,
as I feel we will become more war minded if that occasion occurs,
and if we do I have already been asked to work in the Intelligence
Department of the Navy in which I am enrolled as a lieutenant
commander in the Reserves, unless I could find some other way
to help our country.
If war should not take place Marion and
I are going to Islip from here, and will probably remain there
for a month and a half, and then go to Bermuda for the winter.
I am delighted that Jim is coming on 80 nicely,
and I hope that he takes a long rest for his recent operation
has naturally been a great shock to his system.
Hoping this finds you in the best of health,
in which Marion joins me, I am
Yours as ever,
P.S. & was sarsy X hear ayman of Freddy De Rhams
death Clue by are am old
friends an gaing.
yen PSF "J" Carris "
JOSEPH JOHNSON
2214 PEACHTREE ROAD
filersonal,
ATLANTA
aug. 21 1940
my Dear Miss Letland:
lay the inclosed before
will Mon thristy
the President. I do not
expect answer. with
Kind requrds,
Yours truly
Joseph H. Le Johnson Hand
mis marganite
white House
Washington
Original toury copy -
JOSEPH JOHNSON
2214 PEACHTREE ROAD
ATLANTA
aug. 21, 1940
Dran m. President:
may g suggest that
Roy Howard, Nilopon's favority
Flmerican, be watched Care-
fully. /7+ all Oritical
incomments he turns up in
Japan. I know him well
must 15 Japanner - his
and in his daily
office Incor; and his
indoor dress. Think
Roy is abit of a rat,
but g don't thric he
is a traitor. Is just that
he may have The Japanese
point fins. g certining
hope Inow of our proplem
the East make of hin a
confident g viniture our
does not know how daep
Secret diflomatic service
his fingers are m the Japa-
MASL p.m. Roy Can pass over
there for a tap, as my one
Piava who Stes Roy may be-
Roy said in his latter to
you "I spark mither Spanish
nov Portugre." Does the
gream Chines Dutch,
Siaming ? Jarmise? Borneo-ese?
2
J thinu many surprises
would Come of a complete
Check up of Roy's relations
with the high-ups Tapan
Is he working for us us?
should we not fund ont?
Yours truey
Joseph Johnson
P.S- On with Flmurica,
m. President! will take care
of woeky welliz,
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deh
G. B. Parker, editor-in-chief of
his
the Scripps-Howard newspapers,
this
today desued the following state-
Hch
ment in connection with Presi-
the
dent Roosevelt's assertion that
the
Roy Howard Mehairman of the
old
newspaper abein; turned
ket
down an offer to help on the
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to
Mr. Howard is in the Far East
for the Scripps-Howard newspa
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sins
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Bast Indies and the Philippines,
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and he plans to (nwrite for our
papers his impressions of the of
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do
what seems to the to behin ade-
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quate statement on matter re-
rest
ferred to in Hydi Park Pred-
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dential conferegbe Whesday. a
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letter to Preside Rooseve Wifed
ones
last June 5 Howard at:
While I. fully appreciate the
difficulty of any man appraising
accuratel; bis-own It
und
is loss Reult for the to judge
his
his Incompetency.
now
Thas been 00 years since I
first
any time M South America,
told
than Drief Found-trip by
on During those years 1 have
a
pet contacts with the politics and
edy,
the personalities of the continent
ular
Statesmen and journalists with
sec-
whom I formerly had contact
Ide
have passed from the picture. As
lone
I Tpeak neither Spanish nor Per
juite
tugese, use establahment of new
olng
contacts would be a slow process.
likes
Nothing Personal.
would be jerroneous to be
lieve that Army personal affairs
play (any -part in my decision.
No (personal considerations ever
have or ever will linterfere with
my rendering to you, or anyone
in your position) any public serv-
les for which I am qualified. I
am sure you must know that.
So long. as American democ-
racy continues I' believe that our
press will have. . function that is
at the same time an obligation.
12 believe that without attaching
too much importance to my posi-
tion in American journalism there
is a modicum of reason for my
belief that in such times as these
I may be in a better position to
render some) service through a
medium with which I have had
40 years' experience, than through
one with which I am wholly un-
familiar."
Wish
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 6, 1943
MEMORANDUM FOR
THE PRESIDENT
About three weeks ago,
Justice Frank Murphy told me, at
the Mayflower Hotel, that several
years ago he came into your office
following a conference you had had
with me and that you told him
that you had just told me that
on the following Monday you were
going to appoint me Secretary of
War. Justice Murphy continued
that trying to be helpful and
finding Drew Pearson at his office
when he returned there, he gave
Drew Pearson this story.
Murder will always out, 80
at long last I know how this story
got out for I have checked with Drew
Pearson, having Justice Murphy's
statement, and Pearson confirms
this origin of the story.
I want to reaffirm what I
once said to the President and that
18 that I did not release this in-
formation and until Justice Murphy's
statement, did not know from whence
it came.
LOUIS A. JOHNSON
PSF you " corres
THE WHITE HOUSE
3
WASHINGTON
January 24, 1945.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
Lyndon Johnson came down to see me
yesterday to tell me that the day before
the Federal Judge in the District of
Austin, Texas, had died. He further tells
me there 1s one thing Alvin Wirtz has
always wanted and that is to be a Federal
Judge.
Lyndon said he had done such & wonder-
ful Job with that Convention mess in Texas
that he really felt Alvin Wirtz was deserving
of this spot. However, he feels that
Senator Connally will have a candidate or
several whome he will recommend and on his
list may or may not be the name of Alvin
Wirtz.
Lyndon tells me that all your friends
in Texas are for Mr. Wirtz, such as Jimmy
Allred, etc. and will go on record recommend-
ing him. I have a feeling that Bob Hannegan
will be for it as, of course, he was of
great help to our cause in Texas.
This is for your information in case
something should get by from Sen. Connally
pressing for someone else. I just wanted
you to be reminded about Alvin Wirtz and
know that he is anxious for this appointment.
G.G.T.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Haroh 3, 1941
MEMORANDUM FOR WAYNE JOHNSON
Ever so many thanks for yours
of February twentieth.
I do think things are beginning
to oliok pretty well but I an some-
what appalled by the faot that at
least nine out of ten men being
brought here by the Production people
are not only Republicans but are
mostly violent anti-Administration
Republicans.
Can you dig out for me the
names of twenty or thirty Democratic
businessmen who have had successful
experience?
F. D. R./tmb
& Homax
THE MHILE Honse
Me writes.
1-4'
JOHNSON & SHORES
PSF
I EAST 575 STREET
"I"
WAYNE JOHNSON
NEW YORK February 20, 1941.
Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
Just a note to tell you that I think that
your London selections are great. Winant should have wide
popularity and do a splendid job. We all know that Averill
will.
I often think of the awful problem you have
on personnel, and please do not think that I don't under-
stand some of your grave problems in making these selections.
With all the demand for capable men on this side, it makes
it all the harder to find the ones you want for foreign
representation.
From all my business and other connections I
find a feeling through the Country that industry is beginn-
ing to do a first-class job, although there are still a
few who are asking themselves "What is going to happen after
the war?" I told them they won't have to worry if Hitler
wins.
If anything arises at any time where I can be
of any* help, just have someone give me a ring.
Ever Wayne. sincerely,
Y
JOHNSON & SHORES
1 EAST 572 STREET
WAYNE JOHNSON
NEW YORK February 20, 1941.
Mr. Marvin McIntyre,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mac:
Will you please hand this to the President for
me.
Sincerely,
bayne
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[1937]]
Wear President and mis. Robertt
file
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maurice and I want you
to know how very much we
telegram. We were thilled beyond
appreciate your lovely gift and
expression to be remembered in
such a gland fushion on our
wedding day and shall chrish
them as our prized possessions.
Sincerely, Worthy Jones Brady
PSF Carris " THE
WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
free
December 2, 1941.
MEMORANDUM FOR
MAC
Will you answer him and
say I was very grateful to him
for his letter and that it is
a coincidence that two days
before I had taken up the
procedure he suggested and may
still use it?
F. D. R.
versonal & Confidential.
your Cones -41
1615 Secture St. h. mg
washington S.C.
nor. 29, 41
Dear President Rooserelt:-
I take the liberty of
passing this suggestion on to you, knowing your
desire to reach a peaceful settlement in the
Posific.
I have reason to be consumed that
if you, Inc. President, could see your may clear
to send a personal cable direct to the Emperson
of Japan suggrating that these two nations
find a peaseful settlement, it would be effective.
The Emproers mand is final in Japan- -
the army X the hory and the nation would bour
to it with out question. you there, In. President,
mould appeal to the our source that would
assure a settlement I see no reason may it
should not be a just settlement, for the
Emperor's exercise of his power should create
an alims pluse in which a just peace may be
"2"
a
possible
Ifryon desire to speak to me personally
about this I will be at your bidding. There are
some Things comested mith the above which d
am not at liberty to write even though this
mond comes to you im opened. I need not tell
you that this letter, and every thing connected ith
it, mill be hept in strictest confidence
although I have eng agements d can cancel them
and come to traching,ton on Widnesday if you desire Z
I mill be at c/o Sr. Lee Tuttle, In aim St. methodist
speak to me about the above. Until Wednesday
Church, Thomasmille, &.C. I have for there
tonight.
I could even come to Warm Springs as
plane, if necessary, though it would upset
my schulule.
the situ ation is so urgent that this in my
you will forgive this urgent note, but
excuse.
your Respectfully
hh. E Stanlers Jones
3.Stan Janes.
PSF Gen Carres.
2
Jessie Janes
October 14, 1937.
Memo to President
From Jessie Jones--telephoned from Houston
In re-Joe Kennedy wanting R.F.C. to lend money to
The American lines.
SEE--Maritime Commission folder-Drawer 2--1937
PSF
Gen Carris
your
July 22, 1936
Wrate
My dear Miss Joseph:
Your letter of July twenty-first has
been received and I shall give the check you en-
closed to the President as soon as he returns to
the city.
With best wishes, I an
Very sincerely yours,
STEPHEN EARLY
Assistant Secretary
to the President
Mts Nannine Joseph,
200 West 54th Street,
New York, N. Y.
IDW
Asse
CABLE ADDRESS: NANJOBEF
nammingpaph
200 WEST 54TH STREET
NEW YORK. N. Y.
July 21st, 1936
Dear Mr. Early:
Even tho the newer book, ON OUR WAY, has been out so long,
John Day still seem to sell occasional copies of LOOKING
FORWARD, and I have just had a royalty statement and check
for $72.75, and also $25.00 from England for & brief
extract that one of the papers used over there, the
combination making a total of $97.75, commission on which
1a $9.77, leaving $87.98, of which half as you know always
goes to Earle Looker on LOOKING FORWARD, for his work on
$45.99. the manuscript, and BO enclosed is check for the remaining
I think that sales on this will go on for a long time,
just small amounts, but they do add up, don't they?
By the way, & friend of mine, who has just returned from
an automobile trip from coast-to-coast, and who took no
main highways, only country roads, who's a farmer himself
and therefore can talk to farmers, comes back more con-
vinced that ever that the President will be re-elected
by an overwhelming majority. Naturally this was good news
to me, and I thought, tho I'm sure you know it anyway,
you'd like to hear it.
Sincerely yours,
NJ:SA
Mr. Stephen Early
Memingraph
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTAL LOSS OR DAMAGE TO MANUSCRIPTS WHILE IN OUR CHARGE
PSF
Gen Carris.
"J"
All correspondence for 1936-1937
From Nanine Joseph and Earle. Looker in
downstairs file.