Oral History Interviews with
Oscar R. Ewing
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Attorney, Hughes, Hubbard & Ewing, New York, New York, and predecessor firms, 1919-1947; Assistant Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1940-42; Vice Chairman, 1942-47; Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, 1942 and again in 1947; Acting Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1946; Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, 1947-53; and organizer and member of an unofficial political policy group during the Truman administration, 1947-52.
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[Notices and Restrictions | List of Subjects Discussed]
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See also: Oscar R. Ewing Papers
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List of Subjects Discussed
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Acheson, Dean, 134, 355
Africa, 134
Aging, Conference on, 230-231
Agriculture, Department of, 199
Akron, Ohio, 122
Alaska, 246
Albany County, New York, 346, 353
Albany, New York, 351
Alcoa (Aluminum Company of America), 86-90, 115, 142, 239-240
Alexander, Paul, 24
Allen, George E., 164-165
Allenby, Edmund Henry, 276, 277
Altmeyer, Arthur, 174, 176, 187, 208, 209, 220-221
Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), 86-90, 115, 142, 239-240
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America , 194
American Broadcasting Corporation, 343
American Civil Liberties League, 32
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL CIO), 191
American Legion, 74
American Medical Association (AMA), 173, 181, 184, 189, 192 , 197, 213, 217, 223, 251
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- attempts to raise money, 177-178
National Health Insurance, opposition to, 213-214, 223
Whitaker and Baxter, as public relations representatives; for, 225
- American Patients Association, 193, 194
Anderson, Albert, 35-37
"Annals of North Carolina", 4
Anslinger, Harry, 61, 63, 66, 71, 72-73
Arkansas, 214
Arvey Jacob M., 226, 267, 330
Asheville, North Carolina, 93
Austin, Warren, 274, 275, 295
Austria, 154
B
Baldwin, Roger, 32
Balfour Declaration, 275
Bangkok Conference, 68-73
Bangkok, Thailand, 68-69
Barkee, David Rankin, 244
Barkley, Alben, 168, 317, 319-320
Barnes, Vera, 101
Baruch, Bernard, 324
- Truman, Harry S., relationship with, 313-315
Bath County, Kentucky, 3, 5, 6
Batt, William, Jr., 271-272, 273
Bell, David, 163, 306
Benson, Ezra Taft, 99
Benton, Elmer, 98
Berlin, Germany, 154
Bernadotte plan, 282, 283, 285, 286
Best, Robert, 152-153
Beta Theta Pi, 8
Biddle, Francis, 87, 93, 116, 149-150, 151, 152, 345
Biffle, Leslie, 168, 319-320
Biloxi, Mississippi, 340-341
Biltmore Hotel (NYC), 68, 84, 85, 91, 285-286, 287
Birkhead, Kenny, 272
Bismark, Otto Eduard Leopold Von, 175
Black Hills in South Dakota, 42
Blue Cross, 214
Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 215
Blue Sky Law, (North Carolina), 93
Bolsheviks, 38
Bombay, India, 356
Boone, Daniel, 4
Boone, Squire, 4
Boston, Massachusetts, 157, 158, 209
Boyle, Bill (William), 165-166
Brannan, Charles, 127, 132, 269
Bray, William J., 312
Brewster, Owen, 22
Brightman, Sam, 312
British Health Service, 222-223, 248, 338
Bronx, New York, 346
Brooks Brothers, 12
Brookville, Indiana, 6
Brown Shirts, 93
Bruce, Herbert, 123, 124
Bryan, William Jennings, 17
Budget, Bureau of, 232, 233
Bunche, Ralph, 282, 290
Bundy, Harvey, 70, 72
Bundy, McGeorge, 70
Bundy, William, 70
Bureau of the Budget, 232, 233
Bureau of Employment Security, 258
Burgoyne, John, 4
Burroughs, Danny, 123
Byrnes, James F., 103, 111-112
C
Caldwell, John C., 61, 62, 65, 66
- Bangkok Conference, efforts to stop his influence at, 68-73
California Medical Association, 179
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 11, 13
Camden, South Carolina, 4
Canada, 43
Canandaigua, New York, 370
Cancer Institute, 202
Capehart, Homer, 352
Carlton Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 142, 143
Carter, J. Franklin, 311
Castle, William, 71, 72
Cecil County, Maryland, 1, 2
Celanese Corporation, 365
.Chandler, Douglas, 148, 167, 345
- background of, 154
prosecuted for treason, 148-162
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 368-369, 370
Chapman, Oscar, 164, 270-271, 316
Charleston, South Carolina, 4
Chester County, Pennsylvania, 3
Chicago, Illinois, 110, 122, 266
Child and Maternal Welfare Section of the Federal Security Agency, 341
"Children's Act of 1949", 232
Children's Bureau, 243-244
China, 67
Choate Club, 12
Cincinnati, Ohio, 5, 6
Civil Rights, 274, 309, 321
Civil Rights Commission, 132, 321
Civil Rights Plank, in the Democratic convention platform of 1948, 303-304
Clapper, Ray(mond), 76
Clark, Ramsey, 116
Clark, Tom, 116, 147-148, 151, 164
Clifford, Clark, 119, 127, 140, 141, 143-144, 305, 306, 310, 313, 316, 351
- Ewing, Oscar, attends meetings at the apartment of, 129, 131, 132
Israel, problems involved with, 283, 285-295
Cohen, Wilbur, 187, 220, 337, 354
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 42
Committee for the Nation's Health, 175, 217
Confederate Army, 18
Congress, 269, 326
- Eightieth, recall of, 313
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 191
Congressional election of 1946, 119, 120
Congressional Record, 23
Connelly, Matthew, 119, 129-130, 330, 331, 332, 339, 348
Connorton, John, 216-217
Comptroller General of the United States, 356
Cornell University, 46
Corning, Erastus, 351, 353
Cotton, Joseph P., 61
Cowpens, South Carolina, 5
Coy, Wayne, 74, 80, 90
Cravath and Henderson, 34
Cruikshank, Nelson, 191, 221, 222
Current Biography, 256
Custer, George, 42, 43
D
Daniels, Jonathan, 311
Daughters of the American Revolution, 214
Davidson, C. Girard, 127
Davies, Joseph E., 350
Davis, Arthur V., 88, 91
Davis, Michael, 219
Dead Sea, 281
Decatur County, Indiana, 3, 5, 6, 13-14
Deleveyne, Malcolm, 59, 62
Delhi, India, 355
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, 99, 102
Democratic National Committee, 91, 92, 95, 97-98, 115, 117, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 128, 145, 165, 167, 266,
- 271-273, 312, 314, 316, 329, 362
- Ewing, Oscar, assistant chairperson, of:
- Appointed, 81-82, 95, 98
resigns from, 90, 91, 97-98
work as, 26, 84, 90, 128
headquarters of , 84-85
Democratic National Convention, 1904, 18
Democratic National Convention, 1944, 102
- Mississippi delegation, 105
South Carolina delegation, 104
Truman, Harry S.; Attempts to nominate him for Vice President, 105-107
Vice President, contenders for the nomination at, 104, 105-107, 108-113
Democratic National Convention, 1948, 302-304
Democratic Convention, 1952, 352-353
Democratic Political Strategy Board, 268, 271
Dennis, Helen E., 29
Dennis, Jim, (James), 12
Dental Institute, 202
Depew, Chauncey, 55
Des Moines, Iowa, 234
Detroit, Michigan, 122, 124
Dewey, Thomas E., 77, 273, 274, 326, 328, 347
Dexter, Iowa, 268
Dingell, John, 196
Disalle, Mike, 23
Dixiecrats, 327
"Dr. Fishbein’s Diary", 221, 222
Douglas, David, 5
Douglas, William O., 103, 110, 317, 318-319
Dubinsky, David, 212
Duke UniversityHospital, 200
Durham County, North Carolina, 367
E
Early, Stephen, 117, 118, 121-122
Education, Office of , 245
- library of, attempts to move the, 233-234
Edelman, John, 192
Edwards, India, 334-335
Elder, Bowman, 75
Egypt, 281, 339
Eightieth Congress, 269, 313, 326
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 81, 358
- Truman, Harry S., relationship, 300-301
Elliott, Martha, 244
Elsey, George M., 163, 305
Employment Security, Bureau of, 258
Epstein, William, 290
"Equal Chance for Health", 211
Equitable Building (NYC), 64
Ewing, Andrew Jackson, 373
Ewing, George M, 1, 370
Ewing, James, 10
Ewing, Jane McClellan, 2, 3
Ewing, Joshua, 1-2
Ewing, Lydia Morgan, 3, 4, 5
Ewing, Nathaniel, 2
Ewing, Patrick, 2, 3, 5
Ewing, Putnam, 2, 3
Ewing, William, 1
Ewing, Oscar, 182, 239, 240
- Aluminum Company of America, does the legal work for, 86-90, 91
Army, joins, 29-30, 32-33
background of, 1-7
Bangkok Conference, stops the influence of John C. Caldwell at, 63-73
Bryan, William Jennings, gives speech for, 17
Caldwell, John C., stops his influence at the Bangkok Conference, 68-73
Chandler, Douglas, prosecuted for treason, 148-162
Democratic County Committee in Decatur County, elected secretary of, 18-19
Democratic National Committee, as Vice Chairman of:
Dennis, Helen E., marries, 29
- family background of, 1-7
Federal Security Administrator, 23, 25, 27, 118, 145-146, 147-148, 167, 168, 172
fluoridation of water, a discussion of the opposition to, 237-243
Flynn, Ed, failure to support for Governor of New York , 345-348
Harvard Law School, attends, 10-15, 20, 22, 27
Hillman, Sidney, awarded the meritorious public service award named in honor of, 360
Hughes, Charles Evans, Sr., relationship with, 51-54
Hughes, Schurman and Dwight, cases handled as a lawyer for:
- a discussion of , 35-45
Kruger, Ivan case, 37-41
Sioux Indians vs. the U. S. Government , 41-45
Indiana Bar, admitted to, 13
Indiana University, attends, 8-9, 10, 11, 20-21
Israel:
- a discussion of the problems involved in the recognition of, 274-300
visits, 338-339
Kruger, Ivan, handles law case for, 37-41
Law School, attends Harvard, 10-15, 20, 22, 27
McNutt, Paul, supports as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, 74-77, 78-79
Meetings held at the apartment of, 131, 135-137, 139-140, 142-143, 163-164
Minnesota,negotiating political divisions in, 98-103
Murray, Philip, receives award in honor of, 360
naming of, (nickname "Jack"), 372-373
narcotics conference in Geneva, Switzerland, efforts to achieve international controls at, 57-66
national health insurance, a discussion of, 173-198
National Urban League, speech to, 309
New York:
Pelley, William Dudley, prosecution for Sedition, 93-98
philosophy, as a student of, 9-10
Pittsburg, moved to, 29
Presidential campaign, 1944, activities during, 114
Presidential campaign, 1948, serves on committee to nominate individuals for the office of Vice President,
Presidential campaign, 1952, suggested for nomination in, 349-352
probation officer of the Juvenile Court, does voluntary work for in Indianapolis, 30-32
prosecuting attorney, asked to be, 14, 19
research triangle, discusses the origins of, 364-369
St. Louis, Missouri, moves to, 29
Studebaker, John W. made charges against, 236-237
Taft, Robert, relationship with , 22-26, 27
Thayer, Ezra Ripley, relationship, 13, 14-16
trips abroad, 337-338, 354-356
Truman, Harry S.:
- cabinet meetings of, attends, 356-368
convinced of the re election of , 333-334
efforts to stop opposition to, by Democrats during the 1948 Presidential election, 266-268
letter to, 358-360
University of Iowa Law School, teaches at, 27
Whitcomb, Dowden, and Stout, clerks for, 28
Ewing, Mrs. Oscar (Helen), 52, 68, 91, 118, 135, 199-200, 201, 338, 369, 370
Executive Order 9980, 321-323
Executive Order 9981, 321-323
F
Farley, James, 82, 83
Falk, Isadore, 183, 220
Farmer's issues in the 1948 election, 269-270
Federal Aid to Education, 243
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 96, 151
Federal Fair Employment Committee, 321-323
Federa1 Food and Drug Administration, 199, 233
Federal Security Administrator, 23, 25, 27, 118, 132, 145-146, 147-148, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 192, 194, 229,
Federal Security Agency, 128, 129, 142, 147, 167, 168, 177, 183, 196, 198, 229, 232, 234, 244, 246, 250, 280,
Finance Committee of the Senate, 361
First International Opium Conference at The Hague, 1911, 67
Fishbein, Morris, 185, 189, 191, 221, 222-223
Florida, 120, 339
Fluoridation of water, opposition to, 237-243
Flynn, Ed, 82, 83-84, 92, 98, 121-122, 145, 331
- Ewing, Oscar, fails to support for Governor of New York, 345-348
Food and Drug Administration, 199, 233
Forand, Aimee, 193, 195, 196, 224
Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris, (Oct. 1948), 283
Forrestal, James, 133, 134, 135, 357
The Forrestal Diaries, 357
France, 58
Freedman's Hospital, 251
Freeman, Orville, 100
G
Gallinger Hospital, Negro doctors at, 250-257
Gallup poll, 334
Garrison, Lloyd, 340
Gates, Horatio, 4
Geneva, Switzerland, 244
- Narcotics Control Conference held in, 57-66, 67, 71
George VI, 248
George Washington University Medical School, 252
Georgetown University Medical School, 252, 253-254
Georgia, 350
Germany, 46, 55, 58, 156, 158, 160, 175
Goebbels, Josef, 155, 160
Gorman, 180-181, 182-183, 230
Graham, Wallace, 208, 210
Grand Central Station, 124
Great Britain 48, 69, 71, 72, 86, 87, 276, 278-279, 297
Great Sioux Reservation, 42
Green, Constance, 256-257
Greene, Nathaniel, 5
Greensburg, Indiana, 1, 5, 7, 10, 13, 18, 19, 33, 34, 262
Gross, H. R., 354, 356
H
The Hague, 67
Hague, Frank, 114, 266, 267, 268
Hannegan, Robert E., 103, 104, 105, 107, 120, 145, 148, 164, 167
- Democratic National Convention, 1944, involvement at, 108-111
Harlem, New York, 122, 123, 127, 137
Harper, Fowler, 74-75
Harriman, Averell, 350
Harvard, 10-15, 20, 22, 27, 69, 70, 371
Harvard Law Review, 22, 69, 70
Hassett, William, 210
Health Conference, 179
Health, Education arid Security, Department of, proposed, 173
Health, Education, and Welfare Department, 209
Health Information Foundation, 186
Health Institute, 202
Hearst newspaper chain, 71, 72, 86
Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 217, 218-219, 220-221, 264
Henderson, Loy, 296
Hercules Corporation, 365, 367
Hill Burton Hospital Construction Act, 197-198, 216
Hilleboe, Herman E., 242
Hillman, Sidney, 110, 111, 212, 240
Hitler, 93, 94, 155, 175
Hoeber, Johannes, 272
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 192, 358
Hoover, Herbert, 62, 71, 72
Hopkins, Harry, 80, 88, 89, 90
House Appropriations Committee, 214
House Banking Committee, 83
House Ways and Means Committee, 361
Howard University, efforts to train more Negro doctors, 250-257
Hughes, Charles Evans, Sr., 34, 35-37, 44, 46, 87, 171
- Ewing, Oscar, relationship, 51-54
Hughes, Charles Evans, Jr., 22, 26
Hughes, Hubbard and Ewing, 26, 87, 118, 239
Hughes, Rounds, Schurman and Dwight, 52
Hughes, Shurman; and Dwight, 34-35, 46
Humphrey, Hubert, 100, 269-270, 303, 304
I
Ickes, Harold, 87, 235
Immigration, Commissioner of, 146
Inchon, Korea, 342
Independence, Missouri, 361
India, 278
Indian Affairs, Commissioner of, 42
Indian Claims Commission, 45-46
Indiana, 95-101
Indiana University, 8-9, 10, 11, 20-21
Indianapolis, Indiana, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 74, 93, 94, 96, 149
Indianapolis News, 260, 261
Indianapolis Star, 260, 261
Interior Department, 44, 199, 234, 235
Internal Revenue, Bureau of, 241
International Business Machines, 365, 366
International Opium Conference, of.1911, 67
International Refugee Organization, 264
Iowa, 354
Israel, 328, 338
- recognition of the problems involved in, 274-300
Istanbul, Turkey, 358
Italy, 58, 134-135
J
Jackson, Andrew, 17
Jackson, Clarence, 74
Jackson, Samuel, 112
Japan, 58, 64, 65
Jenner, William, 261, 262
Jersey City, New Jersey, 117
Jewett, Charles, 28
Jewish Agency for Palestine, 280, 299
Jewish vote in the 1948 Presidential election, 328
Johnson, Louis, 323-324
Johnson, Lyndon, 116, 361, 364, 372
Johnson, Mordecai, 251, 257
Jordan, 277
Justice, Department of, 94, 96, 155, 214
K
Kaiser, Henry, 103
Keene, New Hampshire, 369
Kefauver, Estes, 350
Kelm, Elmer, 99, 100
Kem, Jim, 22
Kempner, Walker, 200-203
Kennedy, John F., 363
Kerr, Robert, 196, 197, 350, 351
Keyserling, Leon, 127
Kheel, Theodore, 346
Kingsley, J. Donald, 119, 127-129, 130, 180, 245, 264, 336
Kingsley letter, 127-128
Kingston, New York, 238, 240, 242
Kirchwey, Freda, 283, 288, 292
Klots, Allen, 69-70, 72
Korean War, 341-344
Krock, Arthur, 140
Kruger, Ivar, 37-41, 47, 51
Kruger and Toll, 38
L
Labor, Department of, 209, 258
Ladies Home Journal, 11
La Guardia, Fiorello, 124-125, 126
Landon, Alf, 77
Lasker, Albert, 227, 276, 293
Lasker, Mary, 227, 228-229, 230
Laski, Harold J., 240
Lawrence, Dave, 113
Lawrence, William (Bill), 343
League of Nations, 59, 275, 279
Lebanon, 277
Lenroot, Katherine, 244
Lewis, John L., 35, 36
Lindbergh, Charles, 97
Little Big Horn River, 43
Lloyd, David, 163, 305
London, England, 71
London Health Conference 1948, 248
Londonderry, Ireland, 1
Los Angeles, California, 181
Lovett, Robert A., 288, 291
Lowenthal, Max, 276, 297
Lynch, Walter, 346, 347
M
Mac Arthur, Douglas and the Korean War, 342-344
McCarthy, Joseph, 236
McClellan, George B., 2, 3
McClellan) Jane, 2
McCormick, John, 138
McDonald., James G., 338
McGrath, J. Howard, 245-246, 266, 267, 271, 315, 316, 329
McHale, Frank, 74, 75
McIntire, Ross, 117, 118
McNutt, Paul, 21, 82, 146, 246-247, 371
- Federal Security Administrator, as, 79-80
Philippines:
- Ambassador to, Appointed, 81
High Commissioner of, Appointed, 80
President, as a candidate for the Democratic nomination, 74-77, 78-79
Madison Square Garden, 117, 285, 287
Magnuson Committee, 230
Magnuson, Paul, 227, 229, 230
Maine, 333-334
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis, 57
Manchuria, 342
Marseilles, France, 71
Marshall, George, 280, 295, 296
- Israel, involvement in the recognition of, 283-299
Martin, Joe, 78
Meany, George, 213
Medical Society of Muncie, Indiana, 248
Medicare, 193, 194, 196, 224, 361
Meir, Golda, 338
Memorandum of November 19, 1947, 140-142
Merck and Company, Inc, 57
Michelson, Charlie, 85-86, 122
Miller, A. L., 239, 240
Miller, Watson, 146-147, 149
Minnesota, political division in, 98-101, 102-103
Mississippi, 340
- Democratic National Convention, the Delegation to, 105
Missouri, 92, 169
Morgan, Daniel, 4-5
Morgan, David, 3
Morgan, Edward, 3
Morgan, Lydia, 3, 45
Morgan, Sarah, 4
Morristown, New Jersey, 12, 29
Morse, David, 127
Muncie, Indiana, 248
Murphy, Charles, 140, 306
Murray, Philip, 196, 213, 360
N
Narcotics Control Convention held in Geneva, Switzerland, 57-66, 67, 71
The Nation, 283
National City Bank, 39
National Health Assembly, 188-190, 197, 198, 227
report of, 210-212
National Health Insurance, 211, 229, 232, 233, 345-346, 350, 352, 363
- American Medical Association, opposition to, 223
backers and opponents, 212-213
discussion of, 173-198
Germany, in, 175-180
pilot plan for, 220-221
sixty-five and over plan, 215, 216, 220-221, 225, 226
National Institute of Health, 200
National Military Establishment, 357
National Physicians Committee, 184-186, 224-225
National Press Club, 339
National Public Health Nursing Week, 210
National Urban League, 308-309
Nations Health, Committee for, 175, 217
Negev, Israel, 280, 281, 290
Negro doctors, shortages of, 250-258
Negro vote, 304
Newburgh, New York, 238, 240, 242
New Jersey, 266
New York, 12, 33, 34, 64, 75, 84, 85, 87, 115, 117, 119, 120, 122, 124, 134, 135, 142, 241, 248, 285, 289,
New York City Municipal Hospitals, 216-217
New York Institute of Clinical Oral Pathology, 242
New York Quinine and Chemical Company, 57
New York Times, 309, 343
Niles, David, 124-125, 276, 297
Noblesville, Indiana, 93, 96
Non-political trip of June 1948, 268-269
North Carolina, 93, 363, 365, 366-367
North Carolina State University at Raleigh, 365
Norris-La Guardia Committee, 124
Nouveau Circ Club, 47
Noyes, David, 165, 311-312
O
O'Brien, Lawrence F., 364
O' Connell, Dan, 346, 351
Ohio River, 6
Oklahoma, 180, 197, 350
Opium Control Board, 60, 62
Orange County, North Carolina, 367
Oxford, Ohio, 8
P
Pakistan, 278
Palestine, problems involved in the recognition of the State of Israel, 274-300
Palmer House, Chicago, IL, 111
Paris, France, 47, 156, 282, 288
Parker, Alton B., 18
Parran, Thomas, 198, 199, 200-203, 204, 205, 209, 210, 231
Pauley, Edwin W., 104, 106, 107, 323-324, 348
- Truman, relationship, 106
Pearson, Drew, 240
Pelley, William Dudley, 149, 150, 162, 345
- prosecuted for sedition, 93-98
Pennsylvania Lines West, 29
Pennsylvania Station, 120
Pershing, John J., 55-56
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3, 122
Philippines, 80, 246
Phillips, Cabell, 17, 140, 300
Pink, Louis, 215, 220
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 29, 88, 113, 122, 154, 204
Poletti, Charley, 135
Policy Strategy Board, 273, 274, 305
Porter, Cole, 371, 372
Portugal, 69
Postmaster General of the United States, 115, 145
Potofsky, Jacob, 194
Potomac River, 156, 157
Powder River, 43
Presidential campaign, 1944, 114
Presidential campaign, 1948:
- Democratic National Committee, 271-273
Jewish vote, 328
press and, 325-326
Truman, Harry S.:
- campaigner, as a, 304-305
Chapman, Oscar, as advance man for, 270-271
Democratic opposition, efforts to stop, 266-268
non-political trip of, June 1948, 268-269
Vice President, committee formed to nominate individuals for the office of, 316-319
voting, the impact of special interest groups, 320-321
Presidential Reorganization Plan Number 2 of 1949, 258
President's Commission on the Health needs of the Nation, Creation of, 227-230
President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, 322-323
Press, 325-326
Prudential Insurance Company, 28
Public Health Agency, 177
Public Health Service, 198, 199, 200-202, 206, 228, 231, 238, 364, 365
Pulliam, Eugene, newspaper chain of, 260, 261, 262
R
Radio Berlin, 154, 155, 160
Radio East, 155
Radio North America, 155
Radio Southeast, 155
Raleigh, North Carolina, 367
Randall Hall, 11
Rayburn, Sam, 138
Redding, Jack, 330
Reed, Daniel A., 248, 249
Rehovoth, Israel, 338
Requa, Mark, 71, 72
Research division of the Democratic National Committee, 271-273
Research Triangle, 364-369
Resolutions Committee of Democratic National Convention, 1948, 302, 303-304
Rhode Island, 266
Richards, A. L., 44
Richmond, Virginia, 309
Ridgway, Matthew, 344
Riverdale Country School, 363
Riverdale, New York, 363
Robins, R.B., 197, 214, 215
Rockefellar, Nelson, 196
Rochester, New York, 346
Rome, Italy, 96, 338
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 117, 174-175, 176, 235, 266, 357
Roosevelt, Franklin, 73, 74, 79, 81, 82, 88, 89, 93, 99, 102, 119, 120, 121-122, 124, 127, 137, 145, 187, 199,
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- death of, 171-172
Democratic National Convention, the contenders for the Vice Presidential nomination, 109-112
health of, 116-118
National Health Insurance, and, 173-175
Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr., 266
Roosevelt, James, 176, 266
Roosevelt, Kermit, 56
Roosevelt, Quentin, 56
Roosevelt, Theodore, 55-56
Root, Elihu, 55, 56
Rosenman, Samuel, 297, 310, 313, 362
Ross, Irwin, 140
Ross, Jeanette, 7
Royall, Kenneth, 133-134, 300, 301
Rusk, Dean, 296
Russell, Richard, 350
S
Saint Louis, Missouri, 18, 29, 30, 32, 57
Saint Petersburg, Russia, 38, 39
San Diego, California, 109, 237
San Francisco, California1, 179, 369
Saratoga, New York, 4
Saturday Evening Post, 11
Saudi Arabia, 277
Savarin Lunch Counter, 64
Sawyer, Charles, 166
Scarsdale, New York, 290
Scheele, Leonard, 198, 203-204, 264-265
- Public Health Service under the direction of, 208
Schurman, George W., 46
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 46
The Secret City, Civil Rights in the Nation's Capitol, 256
Senate Finance Committee, 23, 25, 361
Senior Citizen's Council of America, 192, 195, 224, 372
Shainmark, E. L., 263-264
Sharrett, Moshe S., 338
Sheffield, James, 55
Sherman, Carl, 291
Shultz, Lillie, 283, 285, 286, 288, 290-291, 292
Sicily, 134
Silver Shirts, 93, 97
Sioux Indians, case against the U.S. Government, 41-45
Sitting Bull, 43
Sixty-five and over plan (National Health Insurance), 215, 216, 220-221, 225, 226
Smith, Alexander, 221
Snyder, John, 164, 166, 310
Social Security, 173-174, 196
Social Security Act of 1950, 249-250
Social Security Administration, 174, 199, 208, 209, 259
Socialized Medicine, origin of the term, 181-182
Southeast Asia, 355
Stark, Lloyd, 92, 105, 107
State Department, 61, 71, 276, 279, 288, 296, 355
Steelman, John R., 139, 148, 149, 328
Stevens, Harold, 22
Stevens Hotel, 105
Stevenson, Adlai, 2, 137, 349, 351, 353, 362
Stimson, Henry L., 69, 70, 72
Stirling Castle, Scotland, 1
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 170-171
Strategy Policy Board, 273, 274, 305
Studebaker, John W., 233, 244, 245
- attempts to fire, 234-236
Ewing, Oscar, makes charges against, 236-237
Suez Canal, 71
Sullivan, Gael, 329
Sullivan, John, 133
Supreme Court of the United States, 116, 318
Sweden, 281
Swedish Health Service, 338
Switzerland, 338
Symington, Stuart, 133
Syria, 277
T
Taft-Hartley Act, 138-139, 143, 320
Taft, Robert, 77
- Ewing, Oscar, relationship with , 22-26, 27
Taft, William H., 28, 67
Tarleton, Banastre, 5
Tennessee, 350
Texas, 164
Thayer, Ezra Ripley, 13, 14-16
- loan fund set up in honor of, 16
Thayer, Mrs. Ezra Ripley, 15-16
Thurmond, Strom, 327
Thurston, John, 336
Tibbitts, Clark, 230, 231
Tokyo, Japan, 355
"Town Meeting of the Air", 221, 223
Trans-Jordan, 281
Treasury Department, 199
Truman, Harry S., 22, 81, 91-92, 115, 131-132, 137, 138, 142, 144, 146, 147, 179, 182, 186, 187, 192-193,
- 203, 232, 235, 243, 248, 265, 302, 325, 326, 330, 339, 349, 358, 361-362
-
- advisors to, 164-168
Baruch, Bernard, relationship, 313-315
cabinet meetings of, 356-357
Chapman, Oscar, as advance man for, 270-271
civil rights, and, 132-133, 303-304
Democratic Convention, 1944, Vice Presidential nomination:
Eightieth Congress, recall of, 313
Eisenhower, Dwight D., relationship with, 300-301
Ewing, Oscar:
- letter from, 358-360
Presidential election, 1948:
- convinced of the re-election of, 333-334
efforts to stop opposition to, from Democrats, 266-268
Federal Security Administration, desire to make it a Government department, 172-173
health care of the nation, concerns for, 225-226, 227, 228, 229
initial public reaction to, 119-120
Israel, problems involved in the recognition of , 276-299
Jewish vote, and, 329-330
Korean War, and, 341, 342-344
Pauley, Edwin W., relationship, 106
political friends of, 169-170
President, first becomes at the death of Franklin Roosevelt, 172
Presidential election campaign, 1948:
- campaigner, as a, 304-305
Chapman, Oscar, as advance man for, 270-271
Non-political trip of June 1948, 268-269
Presidential election 1952, decision not to run, 353-354
speechwriting for, 305-308, 309
Vinson, Frederick M., appointed to the Supreme Court, 171
Truman, Mrs. Harry S. (Bess), 362
Truman Committee, 91, 105
The Truman Presidency, 300
Tunnell, James M., 105-106
Turkey, 275
Twenty-second Amendment, 80-81
U
Unemployment Insurance, Office of, 209
Union League Club, 55
Union of Soviet Social Republics, 240
Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice, 257
United Mine Workers, 35, 36
United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, 22
United States Employment Service, 258
United States Government, law case against the Sioux Indians, 41-45
Universal Military Training, 357
University Club (NYC), 75-76
University of Iowa, Law School, 27
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 365
University of Pittsburgh, 205
United Nations, 276, 278, 279, 280, 281, 295, 300
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 135
V
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 2
Vaughan, Harry, 170
Vinson, Frederick M., 164, 171, 316
Vice President, 1944, contenders for the nomination, 108-113
Vice President, 1948, committee formed to select the Democratic nominee, 317-319
W
Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill, 186-188
Wake County, North Carolina, 367
Walker, Frank, 99
Wallace, Henry, 79, 103, 106, 327, 329
- Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1944, considered for the nomination, 109-112
War Production Board, 240
Wardman Park Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 282-285
Warren, Earl, 178, 181
Washington, D.C., 61, 62, 63, 90, 91, 118, 120, 142, 143, 151, 156, 157, 158, 165, 250, 252, 256, 261, 288,
Washington Square (New York City), 117
Ways and Means Committee of the House, 361
Weizmann, Chaim, 295, 338-339
Welfare records, inspection of, 258-261, 262-263
West Galilee, 280
Western College, 7
Westmoreland Field (Boston, Massachusetts), 157
Whitcomb, Dowden, and Stout, 28, 34
White House, 282, 285, 352
White and Case, 34
Whitaker and Baxter, 179, 181, 213, 214, 224
Whitaker, Clem, 179, 181
William the Conqueror, 277
Willkie, Wendell, 21, 74, 76-78
Wilson, I.W., 88
Wilson, Woodrow, 35, 55, 275
World Health Organization, 244
World War I , 275, 277
World War II, 278
World's Fair at St. Louis, 18
Wright, Fielding, 340-341
Wright, Dr. Hamilton, 67
Wright, Mrs. Hamilton, 67, 68-69
Wyle, Carl, 28
Wyle, Jewett, and Ewing, 28
Y
Yale, 20
Yale Law School, 28
Yalta, 117, 118
Yalu River, 342
Young, Sanborn, 61-62, 71
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