{"value"=>"<p> The Executive Committee series includes correspondence, agenda, minutes, and notes of the Executive Committee. This committee was responsible for determining which scholars received aid from the Emergency Committee. Its members included the founders of the Emergency Committee as well as Edward R. Murrow, Betty Drury, Laurens Hickok Seelye, Harlow Shapley, and other representatives of educational, philanthropic, and refugee organizations.</p> <p> Correspondence with Marie White, assistant to Fred M. Stein, is also included in this series.</p>"}