Henry Justin Allen Papers
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Henry Justin Allen Papers 1896-1942 (bulk 1919-1942)
Allen, Henry Justin, 1868-1950
Biographical History for: Henry Justin Allen Papers 1896-1942 (bulk 1919-1942)
Biographical Note Date Event 1868, Sept. 11 Born, Pittsfield, Pa. 1890 Graduated, Baker University, Baldwin, Kans. 1893 Married Elsie J. Nuzman 1894 Became editor of Manhattan Nationalist, Manhattan, Kans. 1907-1928 Owner of Wichita Beacon; continued as chairman of the board of Beacon Publishing Co. until his death 1912 Delegate, Republican National Convention Delegate, Progressive National Convention 1914 Unsuccessful candidate for governor of Kansas on Progressive ticket 1916 Delegate, Progressive National Convention 1917-1918 Served with American Red Cross in France 1918 Headed YMCA activities in 35th Division in France during World War I 1919-1923 Governor of Kansas 1923-1924 Special commissioner with Near East Relief 1928 Director of publicity, Republican National Committee 1929-1930 United States senator from Kansas 1932 Assistant to Charles Dawes in Reconstruction Finance Corp. Director of publicity, Republican National Committee 1935 Became editor of Topeka State Journal 1950, Jan. 17 Died, Wichita, Kans.
Scope and Content Note The papers of Henry Justin Allen (1868-1950) span the years 1896-1942, with the bulk concentrated in the period 1919-1942. The collection is organized in three series: Pre-Gubernatorial File, Gubernatorial File, and Post-Gubernatorial File. Letters concerning family affairs, including occasional letters to his wife, are scattered throughout the collection. Material relating to his business activities is located in both the Gubernatorial and Post-Gubernatorial Files. Allen served four years as governor of Kansas, 1919-1923, and the achievements and controversies that marked these years are documented in the Gubernatorial File. Arranged in seventeen subseries, this series is composed primarily of correspondence and touches upon virtually all aspects of Allen's tenure as governor. The material concerning the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations and a subseries on labor relations is particularly complete, while the relatively small Presidential File is a good source of information for Republican Party politics in the months preceding the National Republican Convention in 1920. Other topics include the Ku Klux Klan, the Industrial Workers of the World, the National Nonpartisan League and Allen's debate over labor relations with Samuel Gompers. The extensive General Correspondence subseries relates to all aspects of Allen's tenure, and letters sent and received from prominent persons form the basis of the Special Correspondence. Prominent correspondents in the latter group include Will H. Hays, Harold L. Ickes, Alfred M. Landon, Arthur H. Vandenberg, William Allen White, and Leonard Wood. The Post-Gubernatorial File chronicles Allen's public career after leaving the governorship, including his brief tenure as United States senator, 1929-1930, and is divided into thirteen subseries. The material in the Special Correspondence and General Correspondence subseries relates to all aspects of his career during this period, as does the material in the Publications and Speech Material files. The less-publicized facets of Allen's career, including his activities on behalf of Near East Relief, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, and Save the Children (U.S.), are also amply documented.
series
Pre-Gubernatorial File, 1896-1918
subseries
General Correspondence, 1896-1918
Letters received and copies of letter sent with attached and related material.
Speeches and Articles, 1897-1918
Holograph, typed, and printed copies of speeches and articles.
file
1904-1918, undated
Gubernatorial File, 1918-1923
Special Correspondence, 1918-1923
Letters received and copies of letters sent with attached and related matter.
Beveridge, Albert
Coolidge, Calvin
Harding, Warren G.
Hays, Will H.
Hoover, Herbert
Ickes, Harold L.
Johnson, Hiram
Landon, Alfred
McCormick, Medill
Pinchot, Gifford
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Taft, William H.
Vandenberg, Arthur H.
White, William Allen
Wood, Leonard
General Correspondence, 1919-1923
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations, 1919-1923
Correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, bills, clippings, and printed matter.
Correspondence
Speeches, articles, reports, and bills
Clippings
Printed matter
Labor Relations, 1919-1922
Correspondence, clippings, and printed matter.
Allen-Samuel Gompers Debate, 1920-1921
Correspondence, printed matter, and reference material.
Correspondence, 1920-1921
Debate copies
Reference material
International Workers of the World and National Nonpartisan League, 1919-1922
Correspondence and printed matter.
Correspondence, 1919-1922
Ku Klux Klan, 1922-1923
Presidential File, 1920
Correspondence, speeches, and printed matter.
Correspondence, 1920
Speeches, printed matter
Constitutional Amendments, 1919-1923
Correspondence, 1919-1923
Legislative File, 1920-1921
Correspondence.
Thirty-fifth Division Controversy, 1918-1919
Receptions for Returning Kansas Troops, 1919
Congratulations on Reelection, 1919-1920
Congratulatory correspondence.
Applications, 1919-1921
Applications for position.
State accountant, 1919-1920
Judge, District Court, Jan. 1920
Board of Review, 1920-1921
State bank commissioner, 1920-1921
Sheriff, Pawnee County, 1921
State printer, 1921
Speeches and Articles, 1919-1923
Speeches and articles.
Invitations, 1919-1923
Invitations.
Jan.-May 1919
June-Aug. 1919
Sept.-Nov. 1919
Dec. 1919-Mar. 1920
Apr.-May 1920
June-Nov. 1920
Dec. 1920-Mar. 1921
Apr.-July 1921
Aug.-Nov. 1921
Dec. 1921- Mar. 1922
Apr.-Aug. 1922
Sept. 1922-Jan. 1923
Miscellany
Reports, clippings, bills and receipts, printed matter, and other items.
Reports, clippings, and bills
Receipts, statements
Miscellaneous items
Post-Gubernatorial File, circa 1923-1942
Special Correspondence
Letters received and copies of letters sent with attached and related material.
Akerson, George
Alden, C. E.
Allen, Henry J.
American Legion
American Legion, Kansas Department
Amrine, M. F.
Archer, Laird W.
Ayres, W. A.
Bailey, Roy F.
Baker, Benson
Black, Richard E.
Bowers, L. B.
Bragg, Thomas
Bristow, Joseph L.
Brown, Edwin
Butcher, Thomas W.
Butler, A. T.
Caldwell, Robert J.
Capper, Arthur
Carruth, Arthur J.
Carter, Mrs. Jonathan B.
Castle, William R., Jr.
Chadbourne, William M.
Chandler, C. J.
Chandler, C.
Clark, George A.
Claus, Charlie
Cowie, Dan
Crane, A. E.
Davidson, J. E.
Davies, Gomer T.
Denton, Albert H.
Downie, Ernest R.
Edmonds, Leslie
Endres, Benjamin F.
Evans, Earle W.
Fields, John
Fisher, Jesse Clyde
Foulston, Robert F.
Gannett, Frank E.
Goddard, Wendell
Goodrich, James P.
Gray, Malcomb
Green, Hugh
Griffith, Bruce
Goyer, U. S.
Hamilton, Clad
Hamilton, John D. M.
Hamilton, Peter
Harvey, Alice
Haskell, Harry J.
Hegler, Ben F.
Hegler, Burns
High, Stanley
Hinkel, Allen W.
Hinshaw, David
Hoch, Homer
Hope, Clifford R.
Hopkins, E. N.
Hopkins, Richard J.
Isely, C. C.
Jardine, William M.
Jarrell, Arch W.
Jones, Richard Lloyd
Judd, Clarence
Kiplinger, W. M.
Kirkwood, John
Knox, Frank
Kreiselman, Lilien
Lambertson, W. P.
Landon, Alfred M.
Lee, Frederic
Levand, Louis
Levand, Max
Long, Chester I.
Long, Sylvester A.
McDermott, George T.
McGugin, Harold A.
McIntosh, A. J.
McIvor, Donald H.
MacVeagh, Charlton
MacVicar, John G.
Mercer, J. H.
Miller, A. L.
Miller, A. Q.
Mitchell, Charles L.
Motter, Harvey H.
Mulvane, David W.
Noyes, Frank B.
Peterson, Elmer T.
Pettijohn, L. J.
Phelps, Charles H.
Ratner, Payne
Reed, Clyde
Richart, Willard
Roberts, Roy
Scandrett, Richard B.
Scott, Charles F.
Shinn, E. W.
Simpson, Anita
Simpson, Lacey M.
Smith, Fred Dumont
Smith, Lucille
Sparks, Charles I.
Spender, J. Alfred
Sponable, Frank W.
Stauffer, Oscar
Strong, James G.
Thorpe, Merle
Trigg, Fred C.
United Spanish War Veterans
Van Auken, H. M.
Vickrey, Charles V.
Wagner, Charles L.
Waldo, Richard H.
Walter, Stephen M.
Weeks, Bryan T.
West, Will G.
White, William L.
Wichita Chamber of Commerce, Wichita, Kans.
Willette, Ray T.
Williams, Whiting
Winrod, Gerald B.
Woodring, Harry H.
General Correspondence, 1926-1942
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U-Z
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Miscellaneous
United States Government
Correspondence, reports, bills, applications for position and appointments, clippings, printed matter, financial matter, and miscellaneous material.
Agricultural Credit Corporation
Agricultural, Department of
Appointments
Cheyenne bottoms
Drought relief
Grain grading
Loans to farmers
Regulatory work
Secretary of agriculture
Board of Tax Appeals
Civil Service Commission
Commerce, Department of
Census, Kansas
National Commission on Unemployment
Secretary of commerce
Customs Bureau
Federal Farm Board
Appointments, members, Frizzell and Umberger
Attack of Chamber of Commerce
Chairman, Stone, J.C.
Complaints against board
Favorable comment
Grain corporations
Grain marketing suggestions
Grain storage
Kansas cooperative situation
Kansas wheat pool
Livestock
Loans
Loans to farmers, procedure
Marketing contracts
Publicity suggestions
Reed, Clyde-Alexander M. Legge debate
Releases
Unfavorable comment
Wheat situation, 1931-1932
Federal Farm Loan Board
Federal Land Bank
Federal Power Commission
Federal Radio Commission
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Board, Wichita Branch Bank
Federal Trade Commission
Government Printing Office
Home Loan Bank
Interior, Department of
Boulder Dam projects
Indian affairs
General
Illiteracy Committee
National park matters
Tax on doctors
Interstate Commerce Commission
Justice, Department of
Supreme Court
United States Marshall
Lindbergh, Charles, case
Prohibition
Labor, Department of
Secretary of labor
Navy, Department of
Releases from Navy
Shearer investigation
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Introductions
Post Office, Department of
Airmail routes
Postmasters
Buildings
Clerical assistance
Promotion
Reinstatement
Rural routes
Transfers
Wichita Post Office
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Allen, Henry J., releases and statements
Advisory Board
Secretarial
Branch banking
Congratulatory letters
State, Department
Foreign service, favorable comment
Secretary of state
Tariff Commission
Treasury, Department of
Public Health Service
Receiver
Customs, duty on tractors
Federal Reserve Bank
Internal Revenue
Kansas City Joint Stock Land Bank
Port of entry
Russian lumber importation
Russian manganese
United States Employees Compensation Commission
United States Shipping Board
Veterans Administration
Compensation
Compensation, Spanish-American War back pay
Hospital
Kansas
Wichita, Kans.
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Special acts
War, Department of
Flying cadets
Philippine Islands
West Point, N.Y., United States Naval Academy
Fort Riley Air Corps removal
Near East Relief Warehouse
Reserve Officer' Training Corps Medical Unit
Secretary of war, Hurley, Patrick J.
Veterans Hospital, Kansas
Campaign File, 1930-1936
Correspondence, reports, invitations, petitions, photographs, press releases, clippings, notes, public relations material, and miscellaneous items.
Senate, 1930
Advertising
Analysis of primary vote
Brinkley, John R.
Campaign issues
Chairman (by county)
Allen
Anderson
Atchison
Barber
Barton
Bourbon
Brown
Butler
Chase
Chautauqua
Cherokee
Cheyenne
Clark
Clay
Cloud
Coffey
Comanche
Cowley
Crawford
Decator
Dickinson
Doniphan
Douglas
Edwards
Elk
Ellis
Ellsworth
Finney
Ford
Franklin
Geary
Gove
Graham
Grant
Gray
Greeley
Greenwood
Hamilton
Harper
Harvey
Haskell
Hodgeman
Jackson
Jefferson
Jewell
Johnson
Kearny
Kingman
Kiowa
Labette
Lane
Leavenworth
Lincoln
Linn
Logan
Lyon
Marion
Marshall
McPherson
Meade
Miami
Mitchell
Montgomery
Morris
Morton
Nemaha
Neosho
Ness
Norton
Osage
Osborne
Ottawa
Pawnee
Phillips
Pottawatomie
Pratt
Rawlins
Reno
Republic
Rice
Riley
Rooks
Rush
Russell
Saline
Scott
Sedgwick
Seward
Sheridan
Sherman
Smith
Stafford
Stanton
Stevens
Sumner
Thomas
Trego
Wabaunsee
Wallace
Washington
Wichita
Wilson
Woodson
Wyandotte
Confidential
Snyder, Ralph
Sproul, W.A.
Contributions
Special correspondence
Financial statements
Grain trade opposition
Invitations and engagements
Sedgwick County
Shawnee County
Wyandotte County
Legal requirements
Lists of workers, Sedgwick County
Mailing lists
Mailing lists, Cherokee County
Newspaper subscriptions
Nomination petition
Personnel
Platforms
Polls
Publication matters, campaign releases
Publications, requests for
Publicity
Mechanical service
Photographs
Radio stations
Releases, Kansas State Republican Committee
Republican National Committee
Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee
Speakers, suggestions
Bailey, C. H.
Beezley, George F.
Brinkerhoff, Fred
Clymer, Rolla
Congressional district chairmen
Duff, Hugh
Friend, C. E.
Getty, James F.
Hamilton, John
LeRoy, L. D.
McGill, George
MacIvor, Donald H.
Reed, Clyde M.
Trigg, Fred
Underwood, Ernest
Surveys
Vice-chairmen
State Committee
National Campaign, 1932
Campaign speech notes
Democrats, clippings
Hoover, Herbert, candidacy
Hoover, President Herbert,-prohibition
Invitations
Newspaper prospects, National Daily
Newspapers
Chicago Evening Post
Denver Daily Record Stockman
Newspapers for sale, Louisville Herald Post
Organization of Southern Drys
Prohibition publicity
American Businessmen's Prohibition Foundation
Publishers convention
Speakers
National convention
Republican platform
Ritchie debate
Abbot, Willis J.
Richey, Lawrence
National Campaign, 1936
Campaign expenses, Allen, Henry J.
Democratic Convention
Election results
Ewing, A.J.
Landon, Alfred M., speech material
Landon Fund
Literary Digest poll
Notification meeting
Republican convention
Springfield meeting
Kansas File
Correspondence, reports, appointment material, clippings, printed matter, financial matter, and miscellaneous items.
Assistant business manager
Banking Department
Barber Board
Board of Administration
Board of Health
Board of Regents
Board of Review
Building and Loan Department
Censorship Board
Chiropractic Board
Fire marshal
Game warden
Gasoline Tax Department
Girls Reform School, Beloit
Grain, chief inspector
Grain inspection
Highway Commission
Highway Department
Hotel Commission
Hutchinson Reformatory
Industrial farm
Industrial Reformatory
Guard
Steward
Judgeship
Justice
License inspector
Medical examiner, aviators
Oil Department
Oil inspector
Orphans home, Atchison
Orphans home, state agent
Penitentiary
Pharmacy Board
Referee in bankruptcy
School Book Commission
School for deaf, Olathe
Soldiers Home, Board of Managers
State hospital
State orphans home, steward
Tax Commission
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Vocational School
Western University, Quindaro
Appointment requests
Baker University, Baldwin
Bank tax situation
Banking matters
Building contracts
Citizens military training camps
Coal mine strike
Commonwealth Club
Congressional campaign, state and local, 1934
County appointments
Enrollment of servicemen
Federal highways
Freight rates
Historical celebrations
Historical society
Industrial court
Jurors
Kansas Dry Club
Kansas road system map
Kansas University, Lawrence
Lake project
Legislation
Intangible tax
Oil
Legislature, 1939
Murals Commission
Accounts and collections
Curry, John Steuart
Dickerson, Mrs. William J.
Harris, John P.
Political situation
Practice of law
Prison matters
Railroad valuation
State campaign, 1932
Allen statements
Campaign contributions
Platforms, other candidates
Brinkley, J. R.
Carlson, Frank
Ward, Cal A.
State candidates
State campaign, treasurer, 1934
State campaign, 1936
Governor
State campaign, Clyde Reed, 1941
State Hospital parole
Taxation
Wichita Real Estate Board
Legislation File
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous legislative material.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Anti-trust law
Cape May, N.J.
Chain stores and chain banking
China famine relief
Communism
Copies of acts of Congress
Federal Farm Bank law
Home Loan Bank bill
Illiteracy
Liberty Loan bonds
National Recovery Act
Packers consent decree
Philippine independence
Post Office legislation
Radio Act of 1927, amendment
Reapportionment
Rivers and Harbors bill
Road building
Russian lumber
Tariff
French iron trade
Milling in bond
Oil, Henry J. Allen's notes
Tariff Act, 1930
Vestal copyright law
Wagner labor law
Wheat trade with Holland
World Court
World War adjusted compensation
Near East Relief
Correspondence, press releases, and miscellaneous material.
News service
Personal miscellaneous
St. Lawrence Seaway Project
Correspondence, reports, printed matter, scrapbook, and miscellaneous material.
Craig, Charles P.
Detroit, Mich., meeting, 1936
Information file
Laubengayer, R. J., and Roy F. Bailey
Interior Department
Memoranda
Morcaux, A. O
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Projects Subcommittee
Publications
Scrapbook
Special file
State, Department of
Treaty correspondence
Treaty material
Save the Children (U.S.)
Correspondence, reports, press releases, radio scripts, printed matter, and miscellaneous material.
California
Colorado
London, England
Letters
Papers
Mace, John W.
Oklahoma
Releases, radio scripts, clippings
Solicitation lists, letters and donors
Texas
Travel matters
Voris, John R.
Publications File
Correspondence, articles, clippings, press releases, and printed matter.
Articles
Articles, unemployment insurance
Articles for publication
Church
International Labor News Service
Jayhawk
Schools
Westmoreland, Kans.
Associated Press
Stories
Book reviews
Congressional Record
Consolidated Press
English articles, 1934
English and Italian articles
Evening Eagle
German articles
Italy
Jewish Tribune, selective immigration
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Methodist article, Christian Advocate
Biographical
Cuts of Henry J. Allen
News
Personal
Requests for publication
New York Times
Press releases
Putnam's
Special publications
Topeka State Journal
Editorials
United Press International
Wichita Beacon
Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, articles, prohibition, 1929
Speech Material
Speech material.
Allen, Henry A., speeches
Constitution, U.S.
Democratic Party
Farm tenancy
Finance
Foreign trade
Government, miscellaneous
Government reorganization
London treaty
Pension legislation
Republican Party
Social Security
Speakers bureaus
Speaking file
War debts
Wichita, Kans., water matter
Invitations to events.
Appointments and invitations
Chamber of Commerce, 1935
Clubs
Debates
Editorial
Engagements and invitations
Fraternal
Invitations to speakers
Miscellaneous organizations
Personal appointments
Political invitations
Radio
Religious
Social invitations
Speaking engagements
Washington Bicentennial
Women's organizations
Correspondence, reports, speeches and writings, clippings, printed matter, and miscellaneous material.
Agriculture
Allen, Henry J., accident
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Apartments
Applications
Appointment to Senate
Appointments, miscellaneous
Planned selling
Publicity, oil
Senator Allen's office
Students
Unemployment
White House
Autographs
Beer
Birthday letters
Birthday parties
Books received
Books received and sent
Civilian Conservation Corps camps
Candidates, 1938
Central National Bank, Topeka, Kans.
Chicago World Fair, Chicago, Ill.
Child labor
Citizens Reconstruction Organization
Citizenship
Civil Service
Clark, George Rogers, celebration
Combine
Comments on Allen's speeches
Community Chest
Comstock merger
Confidential file, voting record
Congratulatory letters, Apr. 1929
D-R
Congratulatory letters, Aug. 1930
Constitution
Baker University, Baldwin, Kans.
Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kans.
Boy Scouts of America
College of Emporia, Emporia, Kans.
Federal Council of Churches
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Hekim, Keghovhi
Highland College, Highland, Kana.
Isely, Merrill N.
Kansas City Council of Clubs, Kansas City, Kans.
Kansas Council of Religious Education
Kansas Diamond Jubilee
Kansas League of Women Voters
Kansas Society for Crippled Children
Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, Kans.
National Illiteracy Committee
National Kindergarten Association
Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kans.
Salvation Army
Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans.
Sprague Foundation
Unemployed Trading Post
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.
Wesley Hospital Building Fund, Wichita, Kans.
Wesley Methodist Church, Wichita, Kans.
Wichita Community Chest, Wichita, Kans.
Wichita Home for the Aged, Wichita, Kans.
Wichita University, Flo Brown Memorial Laboratory
YMCA, Wichita, Kans.
YMC. College
YMCA
Council of Personnel Administration
Courtesy cards
Debenture
Dehner case
Depression
Engagements closed
Engagements suspended
England, correspondence
English Speaking Union
Europe
Gas tax exemption
German situation
Gifts received
Gold Star mothers
Golden wedding letters
Harvard Advertising Awards, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Housing
Illiteracy Crusade
Immigration
Introductions to president
Kansas Chamber of Commerce Survey Fund
Katz Advertising Agency
Kimberley-Clark Co.
Kiwanis
Ku Klux Klan
Labor
Law suits
League of Nations
Letters of introduction
Letters of recommendation
Letters of sympathy
Letters prior to appointment
Lindley Memorial, Lawrence, Kans.
Lobbying
Mexico
McHenry, Myra
Memberships
Minnesota editors
Money matters
National Conference of Christians and Jews
National military homes
Nebraska-Kansas
New York World's Fair, New York, N.Y.
Newspaper inquiries
Newspaper matters
Newspaper prospects
Nobel Peace Prize
Norris (Mrs. George) Fund
Old age pensions
Pamphlets
Pan-American Conference
American Foundation
Chauffeur
Christmas lists
Committee memberships
American Hellenic Committee
American League of Good Will
Bok Memorial Committee
Citizens Committee of 1000
Colonial Society of America
Educational Publicity, World Peace
Methodist Brotherhood Men's Work Committee
National Advisory Committee on Illiteracy
National Lincoln League
Pioneer Women's Memorial Association
Puerto Rico Child Health Committee
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
U.S. Civil Legion
World Peace Commission
Floating University, New York, N.Y.
General correspondence
Golden Rule Foundation
Mrs. Allen's correspondence
University Travel Association
Political
Prosperity suggestions
Pulitzer jury
Railroads
Real estate
Miscellaneous, A-Z, 1928
Information
Roosevelt Memorial Association
Russia, correspondence
Russia and Germany
School
Secretarial applications
Short selling
Sunday movies
Tariff, oil
Taxes
Technocracy
Thermic syphons
Time
Unemployment insurance
Correspondence, Allen articles from Europe
Unemployment relief
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Vail Jewelry Co.
Virgin Islands
War prohibition
Washington (George) Bicentennial
Water shortages
Waterways
Western Union
Wheat
Wheat consumption publicity
Jeslin, Theodore
Newton, Walter H.
Wichita University, Wichita, Kans.