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Correspondence with Frank Y. McLaughlin of the Public Works Administration (PWA) and later the State Emergency Relief Administration. Includes discussion of his work with the PWA's New Deal programs (e.g., October 4, 1933) as well as political affairs in Mexico, where McLaughlin had been a civil engineer (e.g., October 7 and 29, 1936).

Scope and Contents Correspondence with economist Constantine E. McGuire, including letters discussing an Yturbide/Iturbide manuscript that he wished to obtain for the Georgetown University library:"I hope you will not forget to give some thought to the Yturbide manuscript. Mrs. Louise de Yturbide still lives at 2115 P Street NW and I should be glad any time I am here to bring her to the University to talk over the whole proposition. The deposit of the manuscript in the University library might be...

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Correspondence with John J. O'Rourke, one of Parsons' former instructors at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, including mention of the political and religious situation in Mexico as well as Martin Quigley and the Legion of Decency (December 19, 1935).

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Michael O'Shaughnessy of South American Oil Reports and the Catholic League for Social Justice in the Archdiocese of New York, including discussion of the Panama Canal Zone and the effect of "American commerical penetration" on religious life in Latin America (January 29, 1929). Also contains a circular promoting the aforementioned League (1932); key principles voters expected presidential candidates to address (July 29 and August 1, 1932); and a copy of his speech on the...

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Correspondence with Michael O'Shaughnessy of South American Oil Reports and the Catholic League for Social Justice, mostly pertaining to the activities of the latter. Of note is a typescript by O'Shaughnessy titled "What Is Social Justice" as well as comments in respone to the piece by Parsons (February 27).

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Correspondence with Michael O'Shaughnessy of South American Oil Reports and the Catholic League for Social Justice, including letters related to the political and religious situation in Mexico (December 1935) and an issue of "The Social Justice Bulletin" (February 1943). Also includes comments on "Man or Money?" and on the "League for Social Justice"; a "Report of Progress in the Crusade for Social Justice"; and a speech given by O'Shaughnessy on Lincoln Day (no date).

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Correspondence with Frances Perkins, US Secretary of Labor under Roosevelt, including discussion of and newsclippings related to the Harry Bridges (an Australian-born labor leader and president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union) deportation case.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with publisher Martin Quigley predominantly concerning the nascent Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code. In one letter Parsons discusses a luncheon where, headed by Will Hays, there was a "reading of the Code and the Reasons, and also the private document detailing the method of enforcement ... the almost general opinion was that the Code is fine, too good to be true, but for that very reason impossible of enforcement. The two questions were voiced...

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Correspondence with publisher Martin Quigley predominantly concerning the nascent Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code. Includes mention of a "breakdown of diplomatic relations" with Will Hays (August 19, 1932); "apprehensions about the continued residence" of Joseph Breen (September 26, 1932); and the film "The Sign of the Cross" (January-March 1933). Also discussion of securing a copy of the film "Cradle Song" to play for seminarians at Woodstock (December 1933).

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Correspondence with publisher Martin Quigley, including copies of correspondence between Quigley, F. George Dinneen, SJ, and Archbishop of Cincinnati John T. McNicholas regarding the Episcopal Committee on Motion Pictures and Joseph Breen's work with the Motion Picture Production Code/Hays Code (March 14, 17, 20; May 13; August 27; November 24; December 24).

Scope and Contents Correspondence with publisher Martin Quigley, including a copy of a letter from Quigley to Rev. James M. Gillis, editor of The Catholic World, concerning his article "Hollywood Turns Crybaby" (January 11, 1935). In the letter, Quigley writes that the article is "unfair, unjust and dishonest" and "consists of a savage criticism of the alleged attitude of the motion picture industry toward the recently launched campaign of the Legion of...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with publisher Martin Quigley, including copies of letters between Patrick F. Scanlan and Bishop Aloysius J. Willinger regarding the film "The Two Monks"(July 8) and between Quigley and John Langan of Corona Pictures, Inc., on the "desirability of instructive and inspirational pictures of the right kind for youth" (enclosed with letter of August 8). Further includes stenographer's minutes referring to the court action in connection with the film ...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with publisher Martin Quigley, including a copy of a letter from Quigley to Archbishop of Cincinnati John T. McNicholas in which he concludes he must disassociate himself from active participation in the Legion of Decency as he "can see nothing ahead but disappointment and embarrassment, meanwhile facing an increasing opposition and resentment" (April 13). In the same letter Quigley remarks further that "the prospect is discouraging, knowing that [he] cannot influence those...

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Correspondence with publisher Martin Quigley, including a letter from Joseph Breen critiquing a version of events communicated by Daniel Lord, SJ, on the origin and development of the Hays Code that was "startingly at variance with the facts" (June 19). Breen offers his own recollections in the matter beginning in the summer of 1929. Also some correspondence surrounding Quigley's book Decency in Motion Pictures.