Found 3 collections related to Streit%2C Clarence K. %28Clarence Kirshman%29%2C 1896-1986

The Campaign for World Government, founded by Rosika Schwimmer and Lola Maverick Lloyd in December 1937, was among the first organizations to advocate a democratic federal world government. The Campaign was divided between two offices in separate cities, with the international campaign headquartered in New York City and the national campaign in Chicago. This collection consists of the records of the New York office, but documents both the Campaign's international and national efforts. Records of the Chicago office are described separately. less

The records of the Student Federalists contain and are arranged into four series: correspondence; files on conventions and other meetings held or attended by the organization; speeches, articles, and other writings by 1944-1945 president Thomas Hughes; and other general information about the members and activities of the Student Federalists. Materials date primarily during the years of the organization's existence (1942-1951), with a few documents of reminiscences falling at later dates. less

Ralph Thompson (1904-1979) was an American author, teacher and editor. He was a book critic at the New York Times and a contributing editor at Time Magazine, wrote reference works and translations, and was editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club from 1951 until 1975. Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed matter relating to Thompson's work. Bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Thompson mainly from authors and readers of his reviews while he was a book columnist at the New York Times. Also, original manuscripts by Thompson and others, pamphlets on literary works, and photographs of a mountain-climbing expedition to Mount Everest. less