Reminiscences of James Thomas Williams, Jr., 1953

Biographical Note

Editor, Journalist

Scope and Contents

Background; education; reporter in Washington for Columbia, South Carolina STATE, Associated Press, and Boston EVENING TRANSCRIPT, 1902-08; Theodore Roosevelt and his Cabinet; 1908 election; Arizona cure; Frank Blighton libel case; Arizona statehood; Republican conventions of 1912 and 1920; campaigns of 1912, 1916, 1920, 1936; Boyd-Adair; Leonard Wood; Boston police strike; Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Philippines, Nicaragua; Mexico; Herbert Hoover and the Crash; William R. Hearst organization; Franklin D. Roosevelt; J. Reuben Clark; Josephus Daniels; World War II; George C. Marshall, Harry S. Truman; Sacco-Vanzetti Case

Subjects

• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Editors--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• Link, Wendell, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Presidents--United States--Election.
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.
• Williams, James Thomas, 1881-1969--Interviews.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972