- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.26 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"MssCol 17807", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"17807", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1946-1975", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1946/1975"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1946
- date_inclusive_end
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1975
- keydate
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1946
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"New York Times Company records. Amory H. Bradford papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Amory Bradford was a vice president and general manager of <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span> during the 1950s and early 1960s. The bulk of the papers consist of his office diaries,1959-1963, and files concerning his lawsuit against the <span class=\"title\">Times</span> following his resignation in 1963."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>New York Times Company records. Armory H. Bradford papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"New York Times Company", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Amory Howe Bradford (1912-1998) was was a vice president and general manager of The <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span> during the 1950s and early 1960s. He joined the <span class=\"title\">Times</span> in 1947 as a special assistant to the publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and over the next 16 years became an important member of management. Bradford allied himself with Orvil E. Dryfoos, who became publisher in 1961, and was expected by some to be his successor. As chairman of the New York City Publishers Association, Bradford became it's chief negotiator during the 1962-1963 the printers' union strike.</p> <p>Two months after the strike, Dryfoos died, and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger was named president and publisher of the <span class=\"title\">Times</span>. Bradford resigned; issuing a statement saying he was \"not in agreement with the proposed plan of reorganization\".</p> <p>When he became an executive of Scripps-Howard Newspapers in 1964, the <span class=\"title\">Times</span> found him in violation of its Incentive Compensation Plan and withheld stock awarded to him because he had joined a competitor. Bradford brought a lawsuit against the Times, but was unsuccessful.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>As with other collections from the New York Times Company Records, the Bradford papers are divided into two series: People and Subjects. While the papers contain various biographical and personal materials, including some correspondence, clippings, memos, and photographs, the bulk of the papers consist of his office diaries, 1959-1963, and files concerning his lawsuit against the <span class=\"title\">Times</span>. The office diaries provide a detailed accounts of his meetings and other daily activities. However, there are no diaries for for the period of the newspaper strike December 8, 1962- April 1, 1963.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The New York Times Company records. Amory H. Bradford papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/17807#c16376'>I. People</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/17807#c16383'>II. Subjects</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The New York Times Company records. Amory H. Bradford papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>I. People</li> <li>II. Subjects</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>New York Times Company, 2007</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Leslie Reyman.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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1.26 linear feet (3 boxes)
- date_start
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1946
- date_end
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1975