Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan, revealed Saturday and described at the President's press conference as "the greatest human interest story in the last six years," calls for the turning over to the Federal Government of the Roosevelt Hyde Park estate and the construction of a building to house the President's papers for the use of posterity's scholars...
...other members of the Harvard Faculty, besides Morison, have been chosen to serve on the committee dealing with the plan. They are Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, and Archibald M. MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Journalism Collection. The committee in all consists of 18 historians, writors, and friends of the President...
...giving out his "greatest human interest story in the last six years" (or at least since last Monday's announcement that James Roosevelt will assist Samuel Goldwyn in the movies), the President called on Harvard's Morison to give his opinion of the plan...
...President mentioned that Harvard University and other historical societies would "probably be glad to have the whole collection intact" but declared that he had definitely resolved on his Hyde Park plan...
Widener officials last night were not perturbed that they were coming out on the short end of the stick by the President's plan. Robert H. Haynes, Director of Circulation, told the CRIMSON that he had always expected the whole collection of Roosevelt papers to go to the Library of Congress...