Box 19

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Correspondence with and materials related to the National Conference of Christians and Jews, formerly known as the National Conference of Jews and Christians, including a typescript copy of a new constitution for the organization (July 12, 1935) and a proposal for a league against discrimination in employment (July 1, 1936).

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Correspondence with and materials related to the National Conference of Christians and Jews, formerly known as the National Conference of Jews and Christians, including materials for an executive meeting of the national committee (May 13, 1940) and a report of a conference on church and state (April 26, 1948).

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Newsletters, press releases, reports, and policy statements from the National Committee on Atomic Information (Washington, DC).

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Correspondence and circulars related to the Conference on Civil Liberties held at the Washington Hotel, Washington, DC (April 14, 1948). Parsons served as a sponsor of the conference.

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Correspondence with Mutual's Radio Chapel, a radio program originating from station WOR in New York, regarding a September 1943 sermon by Parsons.

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Correspondence with the National Catholic Alumni Federation (NCAF), predominantly chairman Edward S. Dore and president Redmond F. Kernan, Jr. Includes a draft report of regional NCAF conferences held on social justice and the encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno (enclosed with letter of November 29).

Scope and Contents Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Alumni Federation (NCAF), including a draft agenda for a social justice program based on discussions at regional NCAF conferences held in November 1932 (enclosed with letter of January 4) as well as a memorandum on a program of social justice based on Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno for the 1933 national convention (enclosed with letter of May 8). Further contains a...

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Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Alumni Federation (NCAF), including a resolution on the National Recovery Act and social justice (enclosed with letter of June 11) and suggestions for the theme of the 1935 national convention (enclosed with letter of November 16).

Scope and Contents Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Alumni Federation (NCAF), including a draft theme and purpose for the 1935 national convention (enclosed with letter of January 14); minutes from a meeting of the NCAF executive committee (April 27); and a copy of a proposed leaflet to be published by the organization titled "The Laity and the Loss of the Liturgy" (enclosed with letter of August 6). Further contains a memorandum to the executive committee on the question of affiliating...

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Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Alumni Federation (NCAF), including a report from the New York Chapter (January 14, 1937) and a memorandum on the theme of the 1937 annual convention (enclosed with letter of August 10, 1937).

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Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Alumni Federation (NCAF), including a memorandum on the 1939 annual convention (enclosed with letter of July 18).

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Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Alumni Federation (NCAF), including draft programs for the 1939 annual convention.

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Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Alumni Federation (NCAF), including discussion of founding a Washington, DC, chapter (1940).

Scope and Contents Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC), including a letter from Parsons to Archbishop John T. McNicholas passing on "some facts about the personnel, policies, and public relations of the NCWC in the past that [he] has found from experience to be obstacles to its complete acceptance by the Catholic public" (December 11, 1936). Also contains letters from Msgr. John A. Ryan and Rev. Raymond A. McGowan, leaders of the NCWC's Department of Social...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with and regarding the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC), including a report on a two-day interracial conference on social and economic matters. The chief topics of discussion were "methods of protecting the Negro's right to work, methods of assisting them to secure adequate housing, methods of protecting their right to organize, methods of protecting their wages, hours, and working conditions, opportunities in the fields of the newly expanding service industries and...

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Correspondence with and materials related to the National Academy of Economics and Political Science, formerly known as the Academy of World Economics, including reports and board minutes.

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Correspondence related to the National Catholic Social Action Congresses of 1938 and 1939, at which Parsons spoke. Also includes a copy of Bishop Robert E. Lucy's address "A World Economic Conference," given June 12, 1939.