Search Results: Government from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[TRUMAN DEFEATS DEWEY; POLITICAL MEMORABILIA] TWO 1948 LETTERS from a Champlain College student Chris (male) to a Wheaton College woman Ruth with references to the Truman upset of Dewey in the 1948 presidential election, the first letter is written on the day of the election; (1) Nov. 2, 1948, "It seems rather odd to see you so enthused about Dewey. I am listening to the election returns now. Truman is ahead with 154 out of a needed 206 electoral vote. Dewey will win of course, not that I approve, but I am faced with no alternative…"; Nov.4, 1948 (from postmark), "The election certainly was a surprise for everyone. Truman really deserved it though because if anyone ever fought tooth and nail for anything, he did. It was uphill all the way…"; folded with envelopes /// CONDITION: well-preserved; negligible wear.

[1958 ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFIC UNITED NATIONS REPORT INTERPOL] ILLICIT TRAFFIC — MEMORANDUM BY THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION FOR 1958, Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Fourteenth Session, Item 4 of the provisional agenda, United Nations document E/CN. 7/369 [published for general distribution] 18 March 1959, English [original in French], 68 pages, staple bound by 2 staples at left edges of pages, mostly charts and tables with details of arrests according to type of narcotic, country where arrest occurred, specific location (e. g., aboard British ship 'Ben Lomond", at trafficker's home [Thailand], and individuals arrested (e. g., Israeli, Turkish seaman, Pakistani), RARE, one copy only recorded with WorldCat/OCLC (7/6/22) at International Labour Office, Geneva, none found for sale (7/6/22); CONDITION: pages lightly age-toned and somewhat brittle at edges, loss of upper right corner of front page/title page, 1-1/2" slanted cut at upper part of right edges pages 1-6, light creasing at upper… Read More

[1935 HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, CRIMINAL LAW COURSE TAUGHT BY FRANCIS BOWES SAYRE, LAW STUDENT CLASS NOTES] HARVARD LAW SCHOOL HANDWRITTEN/MANUSCRIPT COURSE NOTES for a course on Criminal Law in 1935 taught by Francis Bowes Sayre (first professor to teach labor law in a law school), cover half red leather and black pebbled leather with gilded "Law Notes" and "4-L COOP" (for Harvard Cooperative Society bookstore) on spine, 287 handwritten/manuscript pages with blue lines and one horizontal red line (full notebook) plus many tipped-in sheets of notes and additional 23 pages laid in, copious text variously in black and red inks with parts underlined in red, content variously case summaries, analysis, legal principles, proof, evidence, motivation, etc. /// NOTES: FRANCIS BOWES SAYRE, 1885-1972, graduated from Harvard in 1912, received law degree from Harvard in 1918, Harvard law faculty member 1918-1933…first person to teach a course on labor law in any law school, and also taught courses on international,… Read More

ORIGINAL DOCUMENT OF COMMENDATION FROM THE 3rd/THIRD EVACUATION HOSPITAL FOR THE SEVERELY WOUNDED by the South-Western Regional Zemstvo Committee, 4th gymnasium [district] Vasilkovskaya (Kyiv), 8-1/2" x 14" with 3 horizontal and one vertical fold as found (fragile at folds), printed text and handwriting making up nearly all of the document in Ukraine or Russia Cyrillic, at bottom left stamp of circular Russian Red Cross seal in (faded) red with cross in the middle surrounded by text in Cyrillic and to the right of this also in (faded) red stamp in Cyrillic "senior doctor" hand-signed by a doctor to the right, printed text in upper left corner identifies the document (translating into English using Google translate), handwriting in Cyrillic by unidentified individual indecipherable without knowledge of Cyrillic, but seller has been told by someone who knows the language that the document is a commendation to an individual (presumably a nurse) who worked at the hospital during WWI, the 1915 date of the… Read More

[WWII TREASON CASE; JAPANESE-AMERICAN CITIZEN KAWAKITA; JAMES WILLARD HURST] HARVARD LAW REVIEW ON TREASON IN THE UNITED STATES [handwritten title on label on front cover of heavy manila binder for Harvard Law Review article disbound pages or offprints], bound in pages from three issues of Harvard Law Review with the issue's cover– (1) Volume 58, Number 2 [numbers in red ink], December 1944, Treason in the United States –1. Treason Down to the Constitution (a) Prior to the Revolution, etc. (to be continued), by Willard Hurst, pages 220-272, footnotes, (2) Volume 58, Number 3 [numbers in red], February 1945, Treason in the United States – II. The Constitution (a) General Policy: a Restrictive Definition, etc., (to be continued) by Willard Hurst, pages 395-444, footnotes, (3) Volume 58, Number 6 [numbers in red], Treason in the United States – Under the Constitution (a) General Policy, etc., by Willard Hurst, 1945, pages 806-853, footnotes…bound in following the issues are 4 letters in… Read More

[ANNOTATED BOOK MANUSCRIPT "THE VOLUNTARY STATE"] THE VOLUNTARY STATE by Mildred McLearn, about 240 original ribbon typed pages bound into a spring binder, 3 parts as follows: (i) original ribbon, 92 pages double-spaced, much edited in pencil typed manuscript of a stage of "The Voluntary State" book-in-progress; (ii) original ribbon, 50 pages single-spaced, a few pages covered with pencil annotations of general notes, no textual editing of a stage of "The Voluntary State" book-in-progress; (iii) essay "Voluntary Taxation – The Answer to Communism Presenting a New Political Concept," by Mildred Adams McLearn, copyrighted 1954, original ribbon, double-spaced 60 pages double-spaced, no annotations, published in the June 1958 issue of "National Review" /// AUTHOR NOTE: Mildred Adams McLearn: Mildred Adams McLearn (d. 2015 at age 102) was a long-time noted resident of Bronxville, New York, who played an active and influential part in the state Republican Party; as a student at New York University, she… Read More