Word: archiviste
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...City Hall. There, in a reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr Presidentschaftskandidat said." He grew impassioned, spluttered...
...Gist of Archivist Goapka's findings: the Willkie family did not emigrate 90 years ago in search of freedom, after Germany's abortive Revolution of 1848, but ten years later, because a Jew named Gerson did them out of the coppersmithy...
Kennedy Smith was elected President, William R. Taylor, Vice-President; Willard Waterous, Secretary; Richard H. Russell, Treasurer; and Charles E. Reed, Jr., Archivist...
...Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest Lindley, and his literary handy man, Samuel I. Rosenman; Frank C. Walker, former director of the National Emergency Council ; and the Archivist of the United States, Robert Digges Wimberly Connor; Presidential Friend Felix Frankfurter...
...intact collection of records ever available to historians as it has been the custom of Presidents to take their papers with them," Morison told the newsmen (who were eagerly awaiting the human interest). He added that "the Roosevelt papers will pass under the control of the committee, the archivist of the United States, and the Librarian of Congress, and would be available to historians and scholars immediately...