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Title: Herbert Solow papers
Date (inclusive): 1924-1976
Collection Number: 77101
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
13 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(6.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, depositions, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to the communist
movement in the United States, the Non-Partisan Defense League, the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon
Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, Soviet espionage in the United States, Whittaker Chambers and the Alger Hiss case, Zionism,
the Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, 1945-1946, and post-World War II international business enterprises. Includes
some papers of Sylvia Salmi Solow, 1964-1976
Creator:
Solow, Herbert, 1903-1964
Creator:
Solow, Sylvia Salmi
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1977.
[Identification of item], Herbert Solow papers [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1903, November 20 | Born, New York City |
| 1924 | Bachelor of Arts (Phi Beta Kappa), Columbia College |
| 1925 | Bachelor of Letters, Columbia University, School of Journalism |
| 1927-1929 | Assistant editor, Menorah Journal |
| 1929-1932 | Assistant editor, the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences |
| 1940-1943 | Assistant to the President, New School of Social Research |
| 1943-1945 | Contributing editor to Time magazine |
| 1945- | Editor of Fortune magazine |
| 1961- | Member, board of directors of Fortune |
| 1964, November 26 | Died |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Communism -- United States
International business enterprises
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
Espionage, Russian -- United States
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
War crime trials
Labor movement -- United States
Zionism
Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
Hiss, Alger
Chambers, Whittaker
Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, New York, 1937
Non-Partisan Labor Defense