Your land and mine radio talks

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{"value"=>"Your land and mine radio talks"}

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{"value"=>"1949-1950", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1949/1950"}

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date_inclusive_start

1949

date_inclusive_end

1950

origination

{"value"=>"Taylor, Henry J. (Henry Junior), 1902-1984", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Henry J. Taylor was an economist, journalist, columnist, author, and ambassador. Born in Chicago in 1902, later a resident of Virginia, Henry J. Taylor began his career as a journalist and columnist. His articles describing his world travels during the two decades between the First and Second World Wars were collected in his first book, TIME RUNS OUT (1942). Mr. Taylor's other books included MEN IN MOTION (1943), MEN AND POWER (1946), AN AMERICAN SPEAKS HIS MIND (1957), a novel, THE BIG MAN (1964), and another collection of essays, MEN AND MOMENTS (1966). Mr. Taylor was U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1957-60, during Pres. Eisenhower's second term. Henry J. Taylor died in 1984.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"value"=>"<p>Consists of thirty radio talks by Henry J. Taylor, from his weekly program YOUR LAND AND MINE, from the period May 9, 1949 to March 20, 1950. The scripts are numbered #333 to 377, but lack nos. 334, 340-4, 348-9, 351-2, 364, 374-6. The program was sponsored by General Motors, and that organization is frequently mentioned in talks on economic themes, such as taxation. Other prominent topics include Communist subversion of the U.S. government, the concurrent Alger Hiss case, and international affairs, especially concerning the Soviet Union, China, and Europe.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"date"=>"09/01/2000", "materials"=>"scripts", "source"=>"Resnick", "method"=>"Purchase", "extent"=>".21 o", "value"=>"scripts: Purchase, Resnick, 09/01/2000"}

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1949

prefercite

{"value"=>"Your land and mine radio talks, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Henry J. Taylor was an economist, journalist, columnist, author, and ambassador. Born in Chicago in 1902, later a resident of Virginia, Henry J. Taylor began his career as a journalist and columnist. His articles describing his world travels during the two decades between the First and Second World Wars were collected in his first book, TIME RUNS OUT (1942). Mr. Taylor's other books included MEN IN MOTION (1943), MEN AND POWER (1946), AN AMERICAN SPEAKS HIS MIND (1957), a novel, THE BIG MAN (1964), and another collection of essays, MEN AND MOMENTS (1966). Mr. Taylor was U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1957-60, during Pres. Eisenhower's second term. Henry J. Taylor died in 1984. Consists of thirty radio talks by Henry J. Taylor, from his weekly program YOUR LAND AND MINE, from the period May 9, 1949 to March 20, 1950. The scripts are numbered #333 to 377, but lack nos. 334, 340-4, 348-9, 351-2, 364, 374-6. The program was sponsored by General Motors, and that organization is frequently mentioned in talks on economic themes, such as taxation. Other prominent topics include Communist subversion of the U.S. government, the concurrent Alger Hiss case, and international affairs, especially concerning the Soviet Union, China, and Europe.", "generated"=>true}

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.21 linear feet. (1 box)

date_start

1949

date_end

1950

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