Box 10

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Correspondence from Parsons' tenure as editor of America, primarily including responses from readers and requests for assistance. Also contains a form letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt discussing newly passed Social Security legislation.

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Correspondence from Parsons' tenure as editor of America, primarily including responses from readers and requests for assistance. Also includes letters of congratulations for the publication's silver jubilee, including one from future Pope Leo XII, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (March 15).

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Correspondence from Parsons' tenure as editor of America, primarily including responses from readers and requests for assistance. Includes a draft appeal to "the Hitler Government and the American Jewish Congress" to cease their respective boycotts issued by the National Civic Federation forwarded to Parsons (March 30, 1933).

Scope and Contents Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editor Francix X. Talbot, SJ, and associate editors John LaFarge, SJ, and Paul L. Blakely, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers. Also contains responses to a piece by Rev. Edward F. Brophy in America, which Parsons calls a "vicious attack" on him personally and on his "orthodoxy by...

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Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editor John LaFarge, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers. Further contains letters on support for the Domican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary in Rome (July-September 1944) and the position of Forrest C. Donnell (D-Mo.) on federal aid to Catholic schools (1945).

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Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editor John LaFarge, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers.

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Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editors John LaFarge, SJ, and Robert C. Hartnett, SJ, literary editor Harold C. Gardiner, SJ, and associate editor Edward Duff, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers.

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Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editor Robert C. Hartnett, SJ, and associate editor Edward Duff, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers. Includes a series of correspondence on Parsons' review of Anson Phelps Stokes' Church and State in the United States pertaining to federal subsidies and Catholic schools.

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Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editor Robert C. Hartnett, SJ, literary editor Harold C. Gardiner, SJ, and associate editor Edward Duff, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers.

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Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editor Robert C. Hartnett, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editor Francix X. Talbot, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers. Also contains a request from John LaFarge, SJ for Parsons to attend an anti-lynching bill hearing (March 2). Parsons declines, citing Georgetown University's negative reaction to his proposal to have Marian Anderson perform at the school after the DAR refused to let her use...

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Correspondence with and regarding America, including letters from editor Francix X. Talbot, SJ, often concerning articles and reviews for the publication as well as responses from readers. Also contains materials related to Paul Parsons' indebtedness to America Press, who held the second mortgage on his house (August 19, 1938).

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Correspondence from Parsons' tenure as editor of America, primarily including responses from readers and requests for assistance. Includes a letter from Jesuit Superior General Wlodimir Ledóchowski to Parsons clairfying that his transfer from the publication should not be considered a punishment for the articles and opinions he published (June 15). Also contains letters from Francix X. Talbot, SJ, after he succeeded Parsons as editor on May 9.