Cornell University Office of the Provost records
Scope and content
Correspondence and other items pertaining to university opposition to a bill to place a limitation upon estate deductions for charitable purposes (proposed to Congress ca.1942) and to President F.D. Roosevelt's proposal that personal incomes be limited to $25,000 after taxes. Included are correspondence with Mary Donlon; Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; Edward B. Eastman; Daniel Alden Reed; Gustav J. Requardt; Thomas B. Gilchrist; and Norman Vincent Peale, in his capacity as an officer of the Committee of Constitutional Government; and with colleges, universities, and associated groups, churches, hospitals, and charities; and related memoranda. Also, a copy of "A Fireball in the Night," by James Truslow Adams.
Dates
- 1942-1943.
Creator
- Cornell University. Provost (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
H. W. Peters was Provost at Cornell University, 1942-1943.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949.
- Donlon, Mary H., 1893-1977.
- Eastman, E. R. (Edward Roe), 1885-1970.
- Gilchrist, Thomas Bryon.
- Inheritance and transfer tax -- United States.
- Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.
- Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-1993.
- Peters, Heber Wallace, 1892-1971.
- Reed, Daniel A. (Daniel Alden), 1875-1959.
- Requardt, Gustav J. (Gustav Jaeger), 1886-1978.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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