Martin Dies, Chairman, House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities, wrote to Frances Perkins, then Labor Secretary, requesting the file on the Harry Bridges case.
In his letter to Mirra Ginsburg sent from Peredelkino and dated September 12, 1965, Kornei Chukovskii writes: “My dear friend, I know your name quite well. I have read in your translations Taibele and her Demon, Big and Little, The Fast Gimpel and…
Letter from Harry Miller Lydenberg, then director of the New York Public Library, to the Secretary of State asking the Secretary to add Simon Lissim and his wife to the list of intellectuals with special visas to enter the United States during World…
George Rosenberger wrote to then Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to express his opinion that Emma Goldman should not be allowed into the United States.