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Box 11

 Container

Contains 36 Results:

[P.F.] Collier and Son Corporation, 1956-1957

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with William T. Couch, Editor-in-Chief regarding the preparation of articles by Konvitz on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties for the 1957 Collier's Encyclopedia Year Book

Dates: 1956-1957

Columbia University - Center for Research - American Liberties [A. Westin], 1972-1976

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Professor Alan F. Westin, Editor of The Civil Liberties Review, regarding periodical and personal matters; and letters with reference to the Center for Research and Education in American Liberties. Columbia University and Teachers College (1965 and 1968)

Dates: 1972-1976

COM-CZ, 1956-1966

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents 1956-1957, 1960-1966. Correspondence with Doctor Harold Weisberg, Chairman of the B'nai B'rith Commission on Adult Jewish Education. Professor Konvitz agrees to serve on the Commission's Advisory Board (May 23, 1966). Correspondence with John Conyers, Junior, United States House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary regarding the nomination of J.P. Coleman to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (July 26, 1965). Correspondence with Samuel Caplan, Editor of Congress Weekly, on Konvitz's...
Dates: 1956-1966

Commission on European Jewish cultural Reconstruction, 1947

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the June 4, 1947 annual meeting of the Commission of which Konvitz was a member

Dates: 1947

Commission on Formal Jewish Studies, 1972-1974

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents In letters to the editors of Judaism and Commentary, Doctor Konvitz explains that he accepted the chairmanship of a Commission on Formal University Jewish Studies Programs that was appointed by Doctor Nahum Goldmann, Chairman of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. The Memorial Foundation appointed the Commission because it had decided to contribute a substantial amount of money each year to help establish and develop Jewish Studies Programs in colleges and universities. Konvitz...
Dates: 1972-1974

Commission on Government Security (Washington, District of Columbia), 1955

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Copies of letters that Konvitz sent to Simon E. Sobeloff, Solicitor General of the Department of Justice, and to Dean Irving M. Ives regarding Konvitz's possible appointment to the Commission on Government Security (August 15, 1955)

Dates: 1955

Committee on Supreme Court Decisions, 1964

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Konvitz agrees to serve on the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Supreme Court Decisions (February 26, 1964).

Dates: 1964

Committee to Maintain Separation of Church and State, 1948-1949

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding Konvitz's speaking engagement for the committee

Dates: 1948-1949

Common Ground, 1946-1987

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents 1946-1951 [1987]. Correspondence with M. Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground, published by the Common Council for American Unity. Doctor Konvitz wrote a column titled "The Pursuit of Liberty" for several issues in which he discussed important civil liberties cases and placed the development in civil liberties in the context of American jurisprudence (December 20, 1948). Correspondence with Read Lewis, Executive Director of the Common Council. Konvitz provides detailed comments on a...
Dates: 1946-1987

Communications Workers of America, 1956-1957

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Sylvia B. Gottleib, Research Department Director regarding the establishment of a grant or fellowship at Cornell for the support of graduate research on the telephone industries in the United States and Canada

Dates: 1956-1957