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1936
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1970
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{"value"=>"Bowers, Claude G."}
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{"value"=>"<p>These folders contain the correspondence, memoranda and other papers dealing with the selection of United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers to write the biography of ASO, subject to approval by AHS and IOS, his effort to write it while at various posts in Europe and South America, the gathering of material through interviews with relatives, business associates, and friends in New York, Chattanooga, and elsewhere, recollections by IOS and others, critiques of the work and efforts to revise it, and the abandonment of this work in 1943. In addition there is correspondence about the return of Bowers' notes and background material (1943-1944), the consideration of John Chamberlain to take up the task (1943), correspondence with Bowers about the publication of Gerald Johnson's biography of ASO and Time Magazine's reports on this (1946), and correspondence and notes about certain papers belonging to the NYT and related to the biography that were thought to be in Bowers' possession (1970).</p>"}
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1936
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1970
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1936