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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...

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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

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[1960- ] 1961- 1964. Routine correspondence with various officers of the conference regarding Konvitz's evaluation of applicants for scholarships

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Correspondence with Doctor Judah J. Shapiro, Department of Cultural and Educational Reconstruction and other officers regarding Konvitz's evaluation of applicants for the scholarships. Also correspondence with Shapiro regarding religious issues and Cornell faculty appointments and Shapiro's response to Konvitz's comments about Shapiro's view of Judaism (September 12, 1956).

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1946-1947, 1949, 1953. Correspondence on the Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences in which Konvitz was involved as Secretary-Treasurer (1945 ad 1946) and as a member of the Executive Committee (1944-1945 and 1946-1947).

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Correspondence with Thomas M. Cooley II, a Washington, District of Columbia attorney regarding a memorandum by Cooley in the Kaminer case. Konvitz comments on Cooley's memorandum. Also detailed correspondence between Konvitz and Cooley regarding the latter's review of Doctor Konvitz's book, The Alien and the Asiatic in American Law, in the November 1947 Columbia Law Review.

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Correspondence with Johnson E. Fairchild, Head of the Division of Social Philosophy at Cooper Union, regarding Konvitz's talk on "The Multidimensionality of History" for the Cooper Union Forum Sunday Series of 1948-1949

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1946-1948, 1952-1953, 1957-1961. Correspondence with Doctor Hayse Cooperman regarding personal matters.