An edition of Emory Scott Land papers

Emory Scott Land papers

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An edition of Emory Scott Land papers

Emory Scott Land papers

Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, photos (many inscribed), scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's forty-eight years of government service particularly as chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair (1932-1937), chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1938-1946), and chief administrator of the U.S. War Shipping Administration (1942-1946). Includes material relating to shipbuilding (1932-1946), the need of ships during World War II, trade-unions, use of the U.S. Army to control labor disorders, the strikes of 1941-1942, Land's position as vice president and treasurer of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Inc., his role as advisor for Charles A. Lindbergh (his cousin) on his tours (1927-1928), and Land's testimony in the Lindbergh kidnapping case (1938).

Correspondents include William Edward Boeing, Richard Evelyn Byrd, James F. Byrnes, Homer L. Ferguson, James Forrestal, Julius Augustus Furer, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Edgar E. Kaiser, Joseph P. Kennedy, William A. Moffett, William Veazie Pratt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., William Sowden Sims, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Henry Lewis Stimson, D. W. Taylor and Fred M. Vinson.

Language
English
Pages
8500

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Edition Notes

Open to research.

Gift, Vice Admiral Land, 1956-1958.

Naval officer and public official.

Finding aid published by the Library of Congress, 1958. Finding aid to additions available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.

The Physical Object

Pagination
8,500 31 2 13
Number of pages
8500

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24810994M
LCCN
79029314

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