Guide to the Ralph Owen Brewster Papers, 1909-1962, undated
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Ralph Owen Brewster Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Ralph Owen Brewster was born in Dexter, Maine, in 1888. He was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1909 (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa Society). He worked briefly (1909-1910) as the principal of Castine High School, then went on to earn an L.L.B. from Harvard University in 1913. From 1914 to 1925 he was a partner in the Portland, Maine, law firm of Chapman and Brewster. He entered politics and won election to the lower house of the Maine legislature in 1916. In 1917 he resigned from the House and entered the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of Captain by 1918. After the signing of the armistice Brewster returned to Maine, was reelected to the Maine House of Representatives, and in 1922 was elected to the state Senate. He was elected governor in 1924 and reelected in 1926, but was defeated in the primary for a third term. He was twice defeated for the Republican nomination as candidate for the U.S. Senate and subsequently moved from Portland to Dexter in order to run for the Congressional seat from the Third District. He lost the election in 1932, but won in 1934, serving three terms in the House of Representatives. He worked on legislation to provide old-age pensions; he also opposed President Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1940 he won a U.S. Senate seat, serving from 1941-1952. Brewster sat on several Senate committees, notably the Special Senate Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (the Truman Committee), and the Joint Committee to Investigate the Pearl Harbor Attack. He lost his Senate seat in the 1952 primary and retired, maintaining an active interest in many conservative organizations. Brewster married the former Dorothy Foss in 1913, and they had two sons. Ralph Owen Brewster died of cancer in 1961.
Records are largely office files concerning contemporary issues, events and local and national political and legislative initiatives; and general office correspondence spanning the years 1923-1961. Other categories of material include published and unpublished reports and records of legislative initiatives; nomination papers and campaign files from numerous primary and election campaigns; newspaper clippings from all phases of his career; and recordings of some speeches. Included also is a collection of photographs: most are official, and concern his Senatorial career.
While governor of Maine, Brewster promoted Maine's industry, products and resources; and was chairman of the United States Governors' Conference from 1925-1927. Brewster corresponded with many well-known state and national figures of the time, including Harry Truman, Percival Baxter, Robert A. Taft, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., James M. Mead; and was contemporary with Margaret Chase Smith, Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy. He served on several important congressional committees. Many of his activities involved investigation of the U.S. armed forces as a part of the Truman Committee, and on his own committee. Other significant issues that held Brewster's interest were interstate commerce, foreign oil reserves, Pearl Harbor, Republican Party issues, the Maine potato industry, the Port of Portland, and old-age pensions. In 1943 Brewster and Senators Russell of Georgia, Chandler of Kentucky, Lodge of Massachusetts, and Mead of New York travelled to the war areas to gather information on numerous wartime subjects including: international transportation, foreign landing facilities, distribution of supplies, state of machinery received from the U.S., and the function of the Office of War.
See the Brewster Family Collection for more material on Ralph Owen Brewster and the Brewster Family.
Contains letters and some office files from Brewster's Portland law practice, Chapman and Brewster, from which he initiated his political career. He became a member of the Maine legislature in 1916 and 1918, and of the Maine Senate in 1922. Some files in this group concern legislative initiatives regarding old-age pensions. Other files are personal. Records date from 1916-24. The bulk of these files were removed by earlier retainers of the collection. Contains a group of personal letters from 1909-1910.
Arranged alphabetically.
Contains a group of personal letters from friends, many from Bowdoin College, and relatives. Subjects include religion, personal relationships and some political thought. Contains the only concentration of personal material in the collection.
Arranged alphabetically by last name of author.
[Letters - Miscellaneous]
Notes - Church Services
B - W
This series contains an incomplete set of files from this phase (1916-24) of Brewster's career. It contains correspondence and some office files from Brewster's Portland law practice, Chapman and Brewster. Some files, from Brewster's service in the Maine State Legislature, regard legislative initiatives on old-age pensions. Other files are personal.
Arranged alphabetically.
Addresses
Miscellaneous Speeches [Addresses]
[Speeches] [Addresses]
Address Lists
The American Party (Moses King, Jr., Organizer)
Convention Information
Brewster Clubs of Portland
Citizen's Medial Refernce Bureau
[Correspondence] Copies of Letters,February- June 1924
[Correspondence] Letters - January 1924
[Correspondence, March, 1923]
[Correspondence] Mr. Sanderson's Letters
[State Highway Commission]
Klu Klux Klan
Re: Law Enforcement (File: Q3 Confidential): includes Klu Klux Klan material
Legislation 1920-1921 038 Legislative Matters
Representatives 1918-19 Ref. to Maine Legislature
Rep. to Legislature 1916-1917
Legislative Matters 1922-23
Legislative Campaign 1922 State Senate Matters
Representative to Legislature 1921
Maine Press Clipping Bureau - Clippings
Re: Maine and the Future
State of Maine Publicity Bureau
Memorandum 1924
Congratulations on Nominations
Official Votes 1922
Parochial Schools
Party Platform and Personal Platform
Whirlwind Campaign Data
Political Campaign
National Campaign
Letters Re Withdrawal [Primary]
Miscellaneous 1924 [Primary]
W.W. Morse 1924 [Primary]
from Mr. Brewster's Bags 1924 [Primary]
Irregularities - Data (1924 Gov. Files) [Primary]
Re: Investigation [Primary]
Direct Primary
Public Schools and Constitution
Public Schools
Publicity
Railroad Tax Question
Receipts
Re: Religious Education and the Public Schools (Addresses)
Religious Education in Schools
St. Lawrence Project
Non-Sectarian Academis - Rockland Address
State Aid for for Sectarian Schools
State House Employees
Taxation in State of Maine
Transportation
General pamphlets from boxes 1-2
This group of files constitutes the bulk of the material created during Brewster's gubernatorial career (1924-29). The governor's office kept files under several different headings: general files for daily office use, political appointment files, publicity files, and campaign and primary files. These were continually updated and interfiled during the five years that Brewster spent campaigning for and serving as governor. He collected and used various types of reference materials: statistics, reports, listings, background reading material, newspaper clippings and other resources.
This material represents Brewster's efforts to support and increase the economic prosperity of Maine. The Interstate Commerce Commission and Maine State Highway Commission cooperated to achieve major trade and industry developments during this time. The Maine State Prison system, fish and game agencies, and the state shipping industry also benefitted from Governor Brewster's efforts. In addition, he was an active participant and organizer in the yearly governor's conferences, which spotlighted both Governor Brewster and the state.
Occasional references to the Ku Klux Klan are present in early correspondence. Although there was no direct evidence, common sentiment existed that Brewster was a member. An early letter from Percival Baxter, the previous governor, acknowledges this sentiment and urges Brewster to distance himself from the organization.
This group of general office files constitutes the bulk of the information used day-to-day during the governor's administration; the same group was updated and interfiled during the four years spanning two terms (1924-28). Major themes of the administration include work of the Maine State Highway Commission (including dedication of the Piscataqua Memorial Bridge), Interstate Commerce Commission, work with the Maine State Prison (about which he requested a hearing in 1928 to investigate suspected improprieties), fish and game agencies, Maine shipping industry, and Brewster's participation in national Governor's conferences.
One well publicized event of the administration was the return of Confederate Civil War flags to the southern states from which they were captured.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
An original list of files exists at the beginning of the general files series.
[original 1928 list of general files in governor's office]
Accountacy
Addresses - [1925-26]
Addresses - 1927-1928
Addresses - Statements - Bulletins
Advertisements
Agriculture
Airport - Bangor
Air Service
American Legion
Animal Industry
Anonymous Communications
Appointments - Congratulations & Remarks in General
1927 Appointments - Congratulations & remarks, for and Against
Appointments by Congressional Delegation
Appointments - Declinations - 1928
Appointments with Governor Brewster
Appointments Posted and Confirmed 1925
Appointments Posted and Confirmed 1926
Appointments Posted and Confirmed - 1927
Speaking Appointments (1925)
Speaking Appointments (1926)
Speaking Appointments 1927
Speaking Appointments 1928 (Jan.-June,inc.)
Speaking Appointments 1928 (July - Dec.,inc.)
Speaking Appointments (current month)
Apointments, Speaking (Declinations) 1927
Appointments, Speaking - Future
Speaking Appointments (possible)
Appointments, Speaking - Present Month
19-Apr
Arbitration
Assessors
Organizations and Associations
Attorney General
Auditor - 1927
Auditor
Autographs (Requests for)
Automobile
Automobile - permit to use as .10c a mile
Automobiles
Aviation
Aviation Aviator's Tables - Mare Point Around the World Flights)
Ballot Box
Bank
Banking
Bates Debating Tour (Around the World)
Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum
Baxter, Percival B.
Baxter's Speech on Finances
Beet Sugar and Corn Sugar
Belleau Wood Memorial Association
Bill-board Legislation
Blaine House
Blaine House guest book, 1925 Jan 8 - 1928 Dec 31
James G. Blaine
Blind - institutions for, etc.
Bowdoin College
Brewster, Ralph O.- Miscellaneous Correspondence
Governor Brewster - Misc. 1928
Brewster, Ralph O. - National Campaign 1930
Brewster - Personal Items OB#9
Brewster, Ralph O. - Political Figure OB#9
Brewster, Ralph O. - Republican State Campagin - Fall of 1930
Brewster speeches, articles, statements, announcements, etc. 1924-1926-1928
Brewster Clubs OB#9
Bucksport Bridge
Budget Committee
Canadian Labor (1929)
Certified Copy 1927 Primary
Clean up Week
Clubs
Coal (1925) 1/3
Campaign for Election - 1926 (Replies to letters of [congratulation] sent to members of 1927 legislature
Carter, Senator Charles B. 1924
Congratulations - Election - 1926
Congratulations of Election - 1924
1924-1925 [Congratulations - Contains letter from Governor Baxter
Gov. Files 1924 [Congratulations on election]
Congratulations - Inauguration
Congratulations - Nomination 1926
Connecticut River - Federal Intervention
Contingent Fund
Council
Contracts, etc. - delivered by ex. Gov. Baxter May 19, 1925
1924 Gov. Files - Out of State Correspondence
Correspondence since election (July 1924)
Correspondence since election (June 1924)
Danforth, Major George C.
Defence Day
Dexter P. Cooper Veto
Direct Primary
Eastern S.S. Lines, New York Reception
Education
Education (Including University of Maine)
Election Returns (Misc. 1926
Entertainment
Exposition - acceptances and regrets
Exposition - Springfield (1926)
Exposition - Springvale I
Exposition - Springvale II
Farm Laud Loan Commission
Finance - Current Expense
Finance - Reserves and Cash
Finances
Finances - state indebtedness
Fish, F. Maurice (paycheck)
Fish & Game
Fish & Game Laws in Pennsylvania
Fish and Game Wardens - Protests
Fisher (Franklin)
Flags, returned to the South
Forestry
Form Letters
Forts - Matters of Historical Interest - Reservations
Former Governors & Present Governors 1927-28
Fraser Paper Limited
Fruits
Gardiner, Wm. Tudor
Gasoline (monitor articles)
Gazetter
Gold Star Mothers' Pilgrimage
Government Lands
Governors' Conference (1925)
Governors' Conference - Acceptances
[Governors' Conference] - Completed-Miscellaneous
Governors' Conference - Entertainment in Maine- Invitations- Badges, etc. 1925
[Governors' Conference] Program
Governors' Conference - Regrets & Doubtful 1925
Governors [Final Plans of] (1925)
Governors' Conference - 1926
Governors' Conference [1926-27]
Governors' Conference (Gov. Brewster's Address)
Governor's Conference (From July 1st) 1926
Governors' Conference 1926 - Attendance
Governors' Conference 1926 (matters to discuss)
Governors' Conference 1926 - Referendum Vote
Governor's Conference - Acceptances 1927
Gov. Conf. Address by R.O.B
Gov. Conf. Agricultural Relief
Governor's Conference (1927) Arranging Program
Governor's Conference-Circular Letters 1927
Gov. Conf. Food Control
Guest Lists [Governor's Conference]
Gov. Conf-Lindbergh
Governor's Conference's-(1927) Regrets
Gov. Conf. Requests for Reports of Proceedings
Governor's Conference (1927) Travelling Arrangements
Gov. Conf.-1928
Governor's Files 1926-1928 OB#9
Grange
Maine Granite
Great Northern Paper Co.
Grocers
Gubernatorial campaign 1928
Hamlin, Hannibal
Hamlin, Hannibal-Requests for Address
Hardwood
Hardwood Conf-June 11
Health, Dept. of
II Highway 1927
III Highway (1928)
Highway 1929
Highway, The Arnold Trail (Eustis-Woburn Road)
Highway-Bangor
Highway-Belfast-Belmont Corner
Highway-Bids
Highway-Bond Issues
Highway-Bridge Construction
Highway-Statement for Budget Committee on Estimated Construction
Cleared Highway for Winter [Highway]
Highway Commission, State 1/3
Highway Commission, State 2/3
Highway Commission, State 3/3
Highway Commission, State-Investigations
Highway-Construction and Expenditure in Recent Years
Highway-Estimated Income for 1927, 1928, and 1929
Highway-Federal Aid
Highway-Ferries
Highway-Gardiner-Lewiston
Highway-Gasoline Revenues; Past, Present and Future
Hancock-Sullivan Bridge [Highway]
Jackman-Moosehead [Highway]
Kennebunk Post Road [Highway]
Highway-Legislative Appropriations
Highway-Miami-Bar Harbor Boulevard
Highway-Mila-Dover Foxcroft
Highway-Naples-Poland Spring Road
Highway-Pay-As-You-Go Program
Highway-Proposed Highway Program for 1927 and Estimate of Money Needed
Highway-Skowhegan Bridge
Highway-State Aid
0207 Re: State Highway Matters
[[State] Highway Commission]
Highway 3-Town Act and 5-Times Act
Hospital, Augusta State-Veto
State [Hospitals]
Hotel in Portland
Humane Agents (Correspondence)
Immigration
Inaugural
Inaugural Address
Inaugural Address (Complete)
Inaugural Address-Congratulations and General Remarks
Inaugural Address-Requests for
Inaugural-Conclusion
Inaugural-Invitations, Acceptances and Regrets
Inaugural (Education)
Inaugural (Federal)
Inaugural (Florida)
Inaugural (Forestry)
Inaugural (Highways)
Inaugural (Highways)
Inaugural (Kennebec)
Inaugural (Military)
Inaugural (Direct Primary)
Inaugural (Prison)
Inaugural (Railroad Taxes)
Inaugural (Sea and Shore Fisheries Com.)
Inaugural-Tax Reduction
Inaugural (Taxes)
Inaugural (University of Maine)
Indian School
Indians
Indians-Special
Industrial Accident Commision
Industries
Information Re: Legislative Matters
[Personal] Information
Institutions-Private
Insurance
International Matters
Interstate Commerce Commission
Investigation of Illegal Voting Lists
Justice of the Peace
Justice of the Peace (Nov. 1925-Sept. 1926) 1/2
Justice of the Peace (Nov. 1925-Sept. 1926) 2/2
Justice of the Peace (Sept. 1926- )
Justice of the Peace (1927)
Justice of the Peace (Jan. 1928- )
Justice of the Peace (Complaints)
Justice of the Peace and Trial Justice
Kelp
Kenduskeag Bridge
Kennebec Bridge
Kennebec Bridge [Photos]
Kennebec Bridge-Dedication
[Memorial Sculpture Dispute-Kittery]
Kittery Bridge
Kittery Bridge (contracts)
Klan, Ku Klux
La Bar Case
Labor, Commission of
Law Enforcement
Law, for Mrs. Brewster to read
"Law and Order"
Laws-Obsolete (and otherwise)
Laws, Private and Special
Public Laws
American Legion
Legislative-General and Miscellaneous Matters
Legislation (Re: Matters not brought before the Legislature)
Legislature - Special Session
Library
Lincoln, Abraham
Liquor Bill
Address Lists
MacMillan - Lt. Cmdr. Donald B. - 1927
MacMillan (Neuager & Wiscasset)
MacMillan's Return
Maine Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Maine Citizens - Reports of Departments on "foreigners" in their employ
Maine Labor
Maple Syrup [American Legion]
Marketing
Massachusetts (1924-25)
Medical Matters
Menus
McLean, Ernest L.
Military
Military Matters
Military Property - Inventory
Military - Soldier Settlement Act
Milk Rates
Moosehead Disaster
Moose River Log Driving (Kennebec)
Music and Entertainers
Miscellaneous
Misc. 1928
misc. 1928
Misc. 1924-1925-1928
Misc. 1924-1925 (original Gov. Baxter letter in this file)
Name Lists
Name Lists - Continued
Smith, Alfred G. [National]
National Guard
National Politics
Naval Matters
Near East
New England Flood
Newspapers
New York 1926, 1927-1928
Nicaragua
Nordica's Birthplace
Notary Public (Jan., 1928-Sept.,1928)
Notary Public (Oct. 1928-)
Notary Public (1927)
Observance
Oil
Old Age and Teachers -Pensions (Mother's Aid) (See also Charities and Corrections)
Old Iron Sides
Board of Osteopathy
Pardons
Passamaquoddy Bay
Peace Society, American [1927-28]
Personal Receipts - 1928
Petersburg, Virginia
Phi Beta Kappa
Photographs, 1927-1928
Platform
Police, Highway
Police, Highway - special
Poor Farms
Portland
(Port of) Portland
Portland Investigation
(Port of) Portland - Legislation
Portland #3 (May 1925)
Portland "Thaxter, Chapman and Brewster"
(State Pier - Port of) Portsmouth
Potato Tariff
Press Association, Maine
Press and Photographers
Addresses of Governor on Primary
Primary Election Returns for Governor -1924 & 1926- and for Senator -1928 & 1930
Printing
Prison
Prison Fund (for discharged employees)
Prison Funds - Osborne Correspondence
[Prison Hearing]
Prison - Hichborn Correspondence - re: Prisoners' Wages Bill
Prison Labor
Prison Labor on Highways
Prison, Maine State - Shirt Industry
Prison - Maine State (Re: Shortage of Guards)
Prison, Maine State (and others)
Prison - Parole
Products - American
II Prohibition
Prohibition - Special
Prohibition - Fairfield Address
Prosperity - Addresses
Prosperity - Correspondence with Governors
Prosperity - Form Letters
Prosperity - Williamstown Conference
Public Lands - (U.S. Government)
Public Utilities
Pulpwood
Railroads
Report of the Adjutant General, June 30, 1925
Shipping - Bath Iron Works
Shipping Board, U.S.
Shipping - Jones Bill
Shipping - Merchant Marine
Shipping - Merchant Marine - Correspondence
Shipping - Merchant Marine Material
Shipping - Requests for Merchant Marine Address
Shipping - Steinmetz, Spencer G.
Shipping - White Bill
Shipping - New Trans-Atlantic Line from Portland
Soldiers Settlement Board (1925)
Special Primary for Judge 6 Probate
Squa Pan Lake Dam Project
State Rights
Suffrage
Summer White House
Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds
Supplies - 1928
Survey - Geological
State of Maine [Statements] and Speeches
Taxation
Inheritance Tax
A claim to recover taxes from the U.S.
Tax Payer's League
Tax contract - Neal A. Donahue
Telegraph
Telephone Bills (toll calls)
Thayer, Arthur L.
Three-Quarter Century Club
Town Forests - James W. Sewall, Old Town
Transportation
State Treasurer
Tributes
Undertakers (Reports)
Uniform State Laws
[Untitled] [Post-primary, 1928-29]
Veterans (Bureau)
Vetoes - Remarks or (Correspondence)
Vocational Education
Voting
Washington (1926)
Washington, George
Water Power (1926)
Correspondence, Water Power
Water Power Message - Opinion of Blaine S. Viles
Westbrook Seminary
Whaley - Eaton Service
Whaley - Eaton - Student Letters
Wild Lands
Winter Carnival
World Court
Y.M.C.A. Building Fund
Y.M.C.A. - Special
Yachting, Regatta
Zoning
These files (1924-29) document the appointment process: notices of appointment, resumes and letters of application, letters of recommendation, and letters of agreement and disagreement with appointees.
Arranged alphabetically by position or by personal name.
Board of Bar Examiners - 1924-25-27-28
Board of Charity and Corrections 1925-26-28
(Superintendent of) Buildings - 1925
Chiropractic 1925-27-28
Clerk of Courts - Penobscot County 1926
Clerk of Courts (Washington County)
Commissioner of Education
Complaints on Appointments 1927
Coroners 1926-1927
County Attorneys 1926
County Attorney - Washington
County Commissioners 1925
Detective
(State) Detective - Sayers
Disclosure Commissioner
Fire Warden 1928
Fish and Game Commissioner 1926-1927-1928
Fish and Game Wardens
Highway Commission - Peabody 1925
Highway Commission - Misc.
Misc. 1924-1925-1926-1927-1928 [Humane]
Misc. 1925-1926-1927 [H]
Indian Agent - Gove 1925
(Mr. Hurd) - Indian Agents
Misc. 1925-1926-1927 [I]
Marin Jewell - 1925
Judge, Augusta Municipal Court - Cony, Robert H. 1928
Bangor Municipal Laws - 1926 [Judge]
Judge, Bar Harbor Municipal Court
Judge, Belfast Municipal Court 1927
Butler [Judge]
Judge - Calais Municipal Court
Citations of Law - Re: Irregularities in Voting [Judge]
Eastport Municipal Court - Judge Whaler
Emery [Judge]
Judge Goodrow - Sanford Court - 1925
Judge - Kennebunk Municipal Court
Letters of recommendation to Maine Supreme Court 1925 [Judge]
Judge, Lewiston Municipal Court - Faler, Alton H. 1928
Judge Miller 1925
Old Orchard Trial Justice - 1925 [Judge]
Pattingall- favorable [Judge]
Pattengall - unfavorable [Judge]
Ambrose Pendleton (Trial Justice) 1925 [Judge]
Pittsfield Municipal Courts 1926
Judge - Portland Municipal Court 1926-1927
Judges-Recommendations etc.
Judge Sanborn
Judge Smith (Bank Commissioner) 1925
Judge - South Portland - 1927
Supreme favor - Recommendations (misc.) [Judge]
Trial Justice - 1924-1925-1926-1927-1928 [Judge]
Judge - Westbrook Municipal Court - 1928
Judge- West Washington Municipal Court
Judge - Waterville - 1928
Judge - Yorkshire Municipal Court - 1928
Kennebec Bridge - toll tender - 1927
Labor, Commissioner of
Laws, commission for revision of
[Medical]
[Medical Examiner, Board of Registration of Medicine]
[Medical Examiner]
Misc. - 1924-25-26-27-28
Misc. 1927
1926-1929 [Misc.]
[Miscellaneous]
[Nurses]
[Osteopathy]
[Office/Clerical Positions]
(Board of) Pharmacy
[Police Commissioner]
Prison-Consolidated Commission
(State) Prison Positions
Probation of Officers
(Deputy) Probation Officer - Androscoggin County
Probation Officer - Androscoggin County
Probation Officer - Franklin County
Probation Officer - Kennebec County
Probation Oficer - Spafford
Printer, State
Public Utilities Commission
["P" Miscellaneous]
Recorder, Municipal Courts
Register of Deeds - Cumberland County
Register of Deeds
(Bangor Board of) Registration
Registration, Board of
(Board of) Registration - Old Town
Registration of Voters, Board of - Portland
Reporter of Decisions
Revision of Laws
Sea & Shore Fisheries Commission
Sheriff - Kennebec County
Sheriff - Sagadahoc County
Sherif of Aroostook - Investigation
["S" Miscellaneous]
Taxidermist
[Topographic Engineer]
(County) Treasurer
Treasurer of Kennebec County
Treasurer - Knox County - Bray, Irving L.
(County) Treasurer Knox
Trustee - University of Maine
Trustees - Insane Hospital
U.S. Government Officials
Veterinary
Washington Co. Organization
These files (1924-29) contain promotional material from and correspondence with organizations, industries, publicity firms, and selected contacts within the state of Maine. Records of special events, statistics and many pamphlets and samples of advertising brochures of the era are also included.
Arranged alphabetically by name or subject.
Addresses-1926(Apr) to 1928
Agriculture
Advertising Firms
Apples
Applications for Positions and Offers of Services
Automobile Census
"The Awakening of Maine"
Bills
Books
Braun, Robert
Business and Professional Women's Club
California Pilgrimage
Summer Camps, Farms, etc.
Chamber of Commerce (State and Local) See also A.L.T. Cummings)
Chamber of Commerce Trips
Coe (Harrie) Jan 1926
Complaints
Miscellaneous Conventions
Corperations
Cummings, A.L.T.
Curtis, Cyrus H.K.
Dog Team Mail
Druggists
Dunham, Nellie
Economic Conference
Roy H. Flynt Service
Florida
Folders and Booklets
Foreign Countries
Funds (raising of)
Gannett, Guy P. and Mrs.
Maj.-Gen. Mark L. Hersey
Hotels
"How Maine May Grow"
Joint Budget Campaign
Katahdin
Lucerne-in-Maine
Legislative Action (83d Legislature)
Magazine Articles
Maine Products-Fall Campaign
Maine Music and Musicians
Maine Beautiful-including ME Products Week March 1925
Maine Beautiful
Me. Development Assn.
Maine Development Commission
McCann, H.K. Co.
Minor-L.C.
Miscellaneous 1926
Misc. 1927-28
Motorboat Industry
Motorcade
Mountainy Pond Development
Moving-Picture Films
New England Council-1928
New England-Virginia Conference
Newspaper Campaign 1926 (H.R. McCann)
Other States (misc.)
Parks and Reservations
Penzance in Maine
Pledge Week
Potatoes
Printing
Radio Talk, Chicago
Real Estate
Regatta
Requests for Directories
Ricker, Hiram
Rockingham Development
Romeike Bureau
Schools
Songs, Poems, etc. Pictures-Maps
Sorrento Contest
Spear's Proposed Amendment
"Sprucewold"
Stamps (Requests for)
State of Maine Associates
Statistics (see also Walter Brockman)
Col. Stearns
"Stories"
Suggestions and Plans
Summer Resorts (both "out of state" and "local")
Temperature in Maine
Tourist Agencies
Tunk Pond Project
J.B. Wohlfarth
"Welcome to Maine" Poster
Western Trip to the East
Contains one box of pamphlets dated from 1924 to 1928 used as reference material by the Governor's office. They relate to local and state organizations, and industries and their products.
Pamphlets - from Box 4-7,9,11,12,14,15, and unboxed
Pamphlets - unboxed.
These files pertain to Brewster's election and primary campaigns from 1924 until 1928. They contain correspondence from 1924-1929, lists and working files arranged in two ways: first a group of chronological subject files, then a large group of correspondence arranged by name of town in which correspondent lived. Correspondents were campaign contacts, workers and organizers in most Maine towns, as well as contacts in other states, whose utility was no doubt vital during Brewster's campaigns for national office starting in the early 1930's. The attention to detail and personal contact is a mark of his administration's superior organizational skills.
Arranged chronologically.
(1924 Gov. files Re:) Ballots and Enrollments
(1924 Gov. files Re:) Irregularities in voting
[re. Ku Klux Klan, 1924 and 1928]
(Miscellaneous) Lists 1924
Lists, Clippings [Primary dispute, 1924]
(Voting) Lists, Ward 4 Portland [1924 Primary]
Notices of Inspection - Re: Irregularities in voting (1924 Gov. files)
Primary Dispute Ward 4 [1924]
[Primary Nomination Papers 1924]
Uncompleted work of Helen D'Albra Wentworth [1924 Primary]
(1924 Gov. files - Letters Re:) Shortage of ballots
Photos - Disputed Petition 1925
Primary Petitions Dispute 1925, 30
Campaign - Addresses [1926]
Campaign - Election [1926]
Campaign for Election 1926 (Replies to letters of appreciation sent to Chairman and Vice Chairman of Rep. Committees)
Campaign Election - Congratulations [1926]
Campaign - Election [1926]
Campaign - National [1926]
Governor [Campaign] 1926
Primary Campaign (Letters in reply to form letter) [1926]
[Primary Nomination Papers 1926]
[Election] Primary Papers II [1926]
[Election] Primary Papers I [1926]
Requests for Buttons, Banners, Stickers, etc. 1926
(Investigation, 1927) Primary 1927
Primary 1927
Primary Literature 1927
Androscoggin [1928]
Aroostook 1928
Campaign Literature 1928
Cumberland 1928
Follow-up File (Political 1928)
Franklin 1928
Hancock 1928
(Mrs. French's) Lists 1928 (3)
Lists of Petitions sent out (political) 1928
Misc. 1928
Petitions returned, names crossed off list, memo and correspondence 1928
[Primary Nom. Papers 1928]
[Senatorial Primary Campaign - Form letters and names 1928]
[Senatorial Primary Campaign - Form letters with names 1928]
[Towns and Anonymous] A's 1924
A's 1923-29
Auburn/Augusta 1924-26
Auburn/Augusta 1924-30
Bangor 1924-30
Bangor (Penob. Co.)
Bar Harbor
Baring (Wash. Co.)
Bar Mills
Bath (Sag. Co.)
Beals
Beddington
Belfast
Belgrade
Benton
Berry Mills
Berwick (York Co.)
Bethel
Biddeford
Bingham (Som. Co.)
Blaine
Blanchard
Blue Hill (Han. Co.)
Bolsters Mills
Boothbay
Boothbay Harbor
Bowdoinham (Sag. Co.)
Bradford Center
Bradley
Brewer (Penob. Co.)
Brunswick 1929-30
C's and D's 1924-30
Correspondence-Camden, ME and California
Correspondence-Charleston, ME & China, ME
Centerville
Correspondence - Clinton 1924-25
Dexter 1924-28
Eagle Lake (Aroos. Co.)
Easton (Aroos. Co.
Eastport
Eddington
Edgecomb
Eliot
Ellsworth
Enfield
Etna (Penob. Co.)
Eustis
Exeter
Fairfield
Falmouth
Farmingdale
Farmington
Fayette
Florida
Florida File
Fort Fairfield
Fort Kent
Frankfort
Franklin
Freedom (Waldo Co.)
Freeport
Fryeburg
Gardiner
Garland
Georgetown
Georgia
Glenburn
Glen Cove
Gorham
Grand Isle (Aroos. Co.)
Grand Lake Stream
Gray
Green
Greenfield
Greenwood
Guilford
Hallowell
Hampden Highlands, Maine
Hancock
Hanover
Harmony
Harpswell
Harrington
Harrison
Hartland
Haynesville
Head Tide (Lin. Co.)
Hebron
Herman
Hersey (Aroos. Co.)
High Pine
Hinckley
Hiram
Hodgdon
Holden
Hollis Center
Hope
Houlton (Aroos. Co.)
Howland
Hudson
Intervale
Island Falls
N. Islesboro
Islesford
Jackman
Jackson
Jay
Jefferson
Jemtland-New Sweden
Jonesboro
Jonesport
Keegan (Aroos. Co.)
Kennebunk
Kennebunkport
Kents Hill
Kezar Falls
Kingfield
Kingman
Kittery
Lagrange
Lakeview
Lamoine
Lebanon
Lee
Leeds
Levant
Lewiston
Liberty
Limerick
Limestone
Limington
Lincoln
Lincolnville
Lisbon Falls
Litchfield
Littleton
Livermore Falls
Lockes Mills
Lovell
Lowell
Lubec
Ludlow
Machias
Macwahoc (Aroos. Co.)
Madawaska
Madison
Manchester (Ken. Co.)
Manset
Mansfield
Maplegrove (Aroos. Co.)
Mapleton
Marlboro
Mars Hill
Martinsville
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mattawamkeag
McKinley (Han. Co.)
Mechanic Falls
Meddybemps (Wash. Co.)
Medford (Pisc. Co.)
Medway
Mexico
Mercer
Merrill (Aroos. Co.)
Milford
Millbridge
Millinocket
Milltown
Milo
Minot
Monhegan
Monmouth
Monroe
Monson
Monticello (Aroos. Co.)
Montville (Waldo Co.)
Moose River (Som. Co.)
Morrill
Mt. Chase
Mt. Vernon
Naples
Needhan Heights
Newburgh
Newcastle
Newfield
New Gloucester
New Harbor
New Jersey [Signed correspondence with Thomas Edison]
New Limerick
Newport
New Sharon
New Sweden
New Vineyard
Nobleboro
Norridgewock
North Conway
Northeast Harbor
North Haven
Northport
Oakfield
Oakland
Ocean Park
Olamon
Ogunquit
Old Orchard
Old Town
Onawa
Orland
Orono
Orrington
Orr's Island
Osborn Plt.
Otis
Otisfield
Oxford
Oxbow
Palermo
Palmyra
Parkman
Paris
Parsonfield
Passadumkeag
Patten
Peaks Island
Pembroke
Pennsylvania
Penobscot
Perham Maine
Perry
Peru
Phillips
Phippsburg
Pine Point
Pittsfield
Plymouth
Poland
Popham Beach
Portage
Porter
Portland
Pownal
Prentiss
Presque Isle
Princeton
Prospect
Randolph
Rangeley
Raymond
Readfield
Redding
Richmond
Richville
Ridlonville
Ripley
Robinston
Robinsons (Aroos. Co.)
Rockland
Rockport
Rockwood
Rome
Round Pond
Rumford
Sabattus
Saco
Salisbury Cove
Sandy Point
Sanford
Sangerville
Sargentville
Scarborough
Seal Harbor
Searsmont
Searsport
Sebago
Sebec
Sebeois
Sedgwick
Sheepscot
Sherman Mills
Shirley
Sidney
Silver Ridge
Silvers Mills
Skowhegan
Smyrna Mills (Aroos. Co.)
Solon
Somesville
South Gouldsboro
South Portland
Southwest Harbor
Sprague's Mills
Springfield
Springvale
St. Albans
Standish
Stark
St. David (Aroos. Co.)
St. Francis (Aroos. Co.)
Steep Falls
Stetson
Steuben
Stillwater
Stockholm
Stockton Springs
Stonington
Stowe
Stratton
Strong
Sullivan
Sumner
Sunset
Surry
Swans Island
Swanville
Temple
Tenants Harbor
Thomaston
Thorndike
Topsfield
Topsham
Tremont
Trescott
Trevett
Troy
Turner
Union
Unity
Upton
VanBuren
Vanceboro
Vassalboro
Veasie
Vinalhaven
Waite
Waldoboro
Wales
Warren
Washburn
Washington, Maine
Waterboro
Waterford
Waterville
Wayne
Welchville
Weld
Wellington
Wells
Wesley
Westbrook
Westfield
West Mills
Weston
Westport
Whitefield
Whitneyville
Williamsburg
Willimantic
Wilton
Windham
Winn
Winslow
Wiscasset
Winter Harbor
Winterport
Winthrop
Woodfords
Woodland
Woolwich
Wytopitlock
Yarmouth
York
Contains boxes of correspondence (1924-28) not in folders. Some is identifiable as campaign correspondence. Possibly, Brewster's office intended to discard them.
No container list available.
Correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, reports, voter lists, speeches, and other records relating to Brewster's life when he was out of office and living in Dexter, Maine, between 1929 and 1934. Some of the material relates to his legal practice, to temperance issues, and to his special interests in water power, fisheries and agriculture. Most concern his campaigns for Congress, especially the 1932 contested senatorial election against John G. Utterback. Undated material is filed at the beginning of the series.
Containing letters, campaign records, clippings, and case records, these files concern political issues, especially the 1932 senatorial race against John G. Utterback, which was settled in Utterback's favor in 1933. There are also references to life in Dexter and to Brewster's law practice. Several files concern issues carried over from his gubernatorial term, including temperance, water power and fisheries, and therefore contain items from as early as 1926.
Arranged chronologically, then alphabetically.
Can[adian] Liq[uor] Control [1926-32]
Committee on Water Power Investigation [1927-29]
O [1927-28]
Brewster, Ralph O. - Newspaper and Magazine Articles, Etc. [1929]
Contingent Fund [1929]
Eaton, Harvey D., Esq. [1929]
Eminent Domain [1929]
Fish and Game [1929-30]
Gould, Arthur R. [1929]
Governors Conference 1929-30
Aug. 13, 1929 Gov. Files
1929 Gov. Files (Prosperity)
Grange [1929]
Water Power Message to Legislature and Other Statements and Addresses 1927 [i.e. 1929
1930-31
Brewster, Ralph O. - Office Matters [1930]
Dexter Development Association [1930]
Dexter High School Reunion - 1930
Dexter Regatta [1930]
Live Letters (Special Answer) [1930]
House, Estate of Abbie E. Rollins [1931] 1932
Bills 1932
College Men in Public Life 1932
Fox Farm 1932
Letters of Congratulations Outside New Third Maine Congresional District 1932
ROB - Political 1932
Primary Bills 1932
Primary Nomination Petitions - Complete [1932]
Recount File 1932
Washington County 1932
These unarranged letters, speeches, receipts and other records complement the subject files, centering on Brewster's political interests, but also briefly covering his law practice and personal finances. This miscellaneous material includes a few items that date from 1923, during his gubernatorial term, to 1939, when he served in the House, which is related to other material in the series.
Unarranged.
Records boxed in rough chronological order.
[No Date]
[1923-29]
[1924-30]
[1927-28]
[1927-30]
[1927-33]
[1928-34]
[1929]
[1929-33]
[1929-34]
[1929-30]
[1930-34]
Pamphlets, serials, and newsletters of political interest to Brewster, from 1928 to 1934. They include articles on political issues, Maine Republican rosters and campaign text books, several pamphlets on the 1932 disputed election against John G. Utterback, and a few tourism brochures.
Arranged chronologically.
Pamphlets, 1928-34
Records include subject files, reports, speeches, letters and other records of political events and legislative business, 1935-40; many of the files from this period were transferred to his U. S. Senate office in 1941 (series M200.5). These files relate mostly to the committees on which he served; they cover industries such as agriculture and fisheries, issues such as public utilities and old age pensions, and pre-World War II subjects such as naval affairs and anti-Japanese propaganda. Also included are records of the campaigns of 1936, 1938 and 1940. Undated material from any series is filed at the beginning of that series.
Brewster served on the House committees on the District of Columbia, Invalid Pensions, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Insular Affairs, Naval Affairs, and Agriculture.
Subject files consisting of letters, speeches, pamphlets, clippings and campaign records (including a few items relating to the 1934 campaign) kept by Brewster during his term in the House of Representatives. Information on the campaigns of 1936, 1938, and 1940 is accompanied by files on old age pensions and social security, agriculture and fisheries, the Passamaquoddy power project and public utilities issues, and pending legislation.
Arranged chronologically, then alphabetically.
1st District O.A.A. Lists [No Date]
Correspondence O.A.A. - P.O. Situation
Extra O.A.A. Lists
Secretary of State - State House, Augusta
Woodfords Club [No Date]
Last Dexter Political Papers [1934]
Political Lists [1934]
Potatoes [1934-36]
Swedish Match 1934
Miss Shirley Morrison, 252 House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 1935
Passamaquoddy 1935-36
Political Lists 1935
Potatoes [1935-36]
Public Utility Holding Co. Vote Investigation [1935]
Quebec Extension R.R. [1935]
Speeches 1935
Potatoes [1936]
1937
Political - Outside District 1937
Political - Outside State 1937
State of Maine [1937]
Aviation [1938]
Dist. Comm. [1938]
Legislation [1938-40]
Petitions - Aroostock County [1938]
Petitions - Hancock County [1938]
Petitions - Penobscot County [1938]
Petitions - Piscataquis County [1938]
Petitions - Washington County [1938]
Political [1938-39]
Crosby, Clarence H. [1939]
Freeport [1939]
Political [1939]
Political - Senate [1939]
Quoddy [1939]
Westbrook [1939]
Agricultural 1940
L.O. Barrows Political Special [1940]
1940 Campaign Returns
Brewster, Ralph O. 1940 Correspondence [1932-40]
Crosby, Clarence H. [1940]
Dexter 1940
General Seafoods Fisheries 1940
Past Office Matters [1940]
Political 1940
Political Contributions [1940]
Political Lists [1940]
Political - Official [1940]
Political - Outside State [1940]
Political - Outside 3rd District [1940]
Political - Waldo County [1940]
Political - Washington [County - 1940]
Political - York County [1940]
Primary Return of Expenditures [1940]
Requests - Aroostock [1940]
Requests - Cumberland [1940]
Requests - Hancock [1940]
Requests - Penobscot [1940]
Requests - Piscataquis County [1940]
Requests - Washington County [1940]
Requests - York County [1940]
Requests - Outside State [1940]
Salvage Timber [1940]
Social Security [1940]
T.R. Letter to Pres. Taft [1940]
Telegrams [1940]
Townsend Plan [1940]
Washburn Water Carnival [1940]
Remnants from a group of files, most of which were discarded. Contains letters, reports, pamphlets, speeches and other mixed records from Brewster's House of Representatives tenure. The records cover old age pensions, agricultural and fisheries issues, national defense and naval affairs, and the elections of 1936, 1938 and 1940. This miscellaneous material includes a few items from 1925-1933 that are related to other records in the series.
Unarranged.
Material is boxed in rough chronological order.
No Date, 1925, 1929, 1933-37
1938-40
Contains congressional reports and bills, pamphlets, and journals of political interest to Brewster, 1934-40. They include information on public utilities and rural power, old age pensions, anti-Democratic Party topics, and, in anticipation of World War II, on Japanese agression and Jewish issues.
Arranged chronologically.
Pamphlets, 1934-40
Records include subject and personal files, correspondence with veterans and others, political and campaign information, reports, speeches, newspaper and magazine articles, copies of Senate reports and hearings, photographs, and other records of events. The preponderance of files reflect the later part of Brewster's service, 1945-52, indicating that his office updated files regularly. Some earlier files do exist (1941-43), including many records concerning the 1943 investigating trip made by members of the Senate Committee to Investigate the Armed Forces. Other subject files relate mostly to important committee work. The most notable events of the time involved World War II and its economic, political, and social effects. Worldwide petroleum deposits were carefully studied, with special consideration given to foreign relations with countries where the deposits were located. Brewster's participation in the Truman Committee and its investigation of the armed services was perhaps his biggest contribution. Brewster maintained a strong relationship with President Harry Truman, despite their different political views.
After the war, Brewster initiated an investigation of wartime contracts awarded to the Hughes Aircraft Company. His investigation of Howard Hughes' activities did not result in legal action.
Restructuring of the political landscape was under way: the Republican Party recovered from its losses during the depression, and redefined itself as the watchdog against Socialism and Communism. Brewster supported the candidacy of Richard Nixon and made several speeches on his behalf; he later came under investigation for a camouflaged donation of $5,000 to Nixon's senate campaign in 1950. Brewster was allied with Senator Joseph McCarthy, who later (in 1954) nominated Brewster as the counsel to the Senate Government Operations Committee (more information in The Post-Senate Years series).
This series also contains a strong representation of work on important initiatives for the State of Maine: the Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project (subject of a personal letter from President Harry Truman); oversight of the development of the potato industry, and of the Port of Portland as a major international port.
Brewster served on the following committees between 1941 and 1952 (date of first year of service shown):
Claims (1941) Commerce (1941) Library (1941) Naval Affairs (1941) Public Buildings and Grounds (1941) Special Committee to Investigate Contracts Under the National Defense Program (1941) Territories and Insular Affairs (1943) Finance (1944) Special Committee to Investigate Petroleum Resources (1944) Interstate and Foreign Commerce (1947) (Chairman) Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (1947) Foreign Relations (1952)
Contains Senate office subject files spanning the whole of Brewster's Senate career, from 1941-52. Files concern contemporary legislative issues and investigations, people, and committee operations: the Brewster Committee, the Mead Committee, the Truman Committee, and the Committee to Investigate the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many War Office and other government photographs relating to these activities (notably the Truman Committee and the Pearl Harbor investigation) can be found in the series: Photographs, 1916-60. Some speeches are filed in this series, under the heading 'speeches'.
Arranged alphabetically by heading, then by subheading, then chronologically.
Brewster's office grouped some files under a coded or named heading (e.g. "M102" indicated Maine-related files). Where these codes or larger headings are found, material is titled with the code or heading (e.g. "Government papers") and filed in the alphabetical placement of that heading. Therefore, M102-headed files can be found at the beginning of the M section. Files regarding a subject like the Port of Portland will be found in the M102 section under the P's. These groups are then alphabetized by the subheadings, then filed chronologically under subheadings.
A301 Dow Field 1950-52
A301 Limestone
A301 Limestone Air Base 1951-52
A301 Limestone Pipeline
Acheson re: Russia
Air
Air Policy Board Clippings
[Aircraft Miscellaneous]
Alaska Material
American Federation of Labor
Annapolis 1948 Exams and 1949 Entrance
Annapolis 1952
Annapolis and West Point 1947 Exams - 1948 Entrance
Appointments 1947
Arnold, Loring
Aroostook Trip 1948
Augusta - Agendas
Aviation
[Aviation] AAF Investigation Crash XF-11 44-70155
[Aviation] Brewster - Aviation in Europe
[Aviation] Suggested Final Report of the Congressional Aviation Policy Board
Babson Institute of Business and Politics 10/13/50
Bangor Rotary Club 10/10/50
Bowdoin Personal File
1947 Brewster
Brewster 1947 - Army-Navy Liquidation Com.
Brewster Committee
Brewster Committee 1946
Brewster Committee Annapolis
Brewster Committee Armed Services
Brewster Committee - Bilbo
Brewster Committee - Checks Drawn
Brewster Committee - Tom Clark, Attorney General
Brewster Committee - Clippings
Brewster Committee - Congratulations
Brewster Committee - C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co.
Brewster Committee - Employment
Brewster Committee - Executive Sessions
Brewster Committee - Expenses
Brewster Committee - Files
Brewster Committee - Final Report
Brewster Committee - Financial Statements
Brewster Committee - FUR
Brewster Committee - German Occupation
Brewster Committee - Hobbs
Brewster Committee - Industrial Mobilization
Brewster Committee - Inter-American Highway
Brewster Committee - Justice Department
Brewster Committee - George Meader
Brewster Committee - Memos
Brewster Committee - Miscellaneous
Brewster Committee - Notices
Brewster Committee - Offices
Brewster Committee - Oil
Brewster Committee - Oil Hearings Nov. 1947
Brewster Committee - Oil Saudi Arabia 1947
Brewster Committee - Personnel
Brewster Committee - Plasteel Products Co. 1947
Brewster Committee - Proxies for Investigation 1947
Brewster Committee - Public Hearings
Brewster Committee - Releases
Brewster Committee - Reports
Brewster Committee - Requests
Brewster Committee - Resignations
Brewster Committee - Haven Sawyer
Brewster Committee - Securities and Exchange Comm.
Brewster Committee Statements
Brewster Committee - 1947 - Transportation
Brewster Committee - Treasury
Brewster Committee - Treasury Department
Brewster Committee War Department
Brewster Committee - Westbrook (Pegler)
Brewster Committee * Wheeler
Brewster Committee * Witnesses
1947 Brewster - Memos
1947 Brewster - Memos from Bercovici
Brewster Miscellaneous, 1951
[Brewster Old] Passports
[Brewster Old] Senator's Record of Shots
1947 Brewster [Special Senate Committee]
C202 Lester Markel
Candidates for Primary Elections
[Chile]
China
China 1945
Collier's Article "1944"
Collier's Magazine (1943)
Comments Folder 1/2
Comments Folder 2/2
Communism 1946
Communist Menace
[Communists] State Dept. Investigation re: Communists Sen. McCarthy's charges
[Communists: State Department Investigation, S109]
81st Congress
Congressional Aviation Policy Board -1948
Contested Election Cases: Senate 1926 -Present
[Demobilization]
Editorials Re: Meyers 1948
1950 Elections
Empire Ordinance Corporation (no date)
Trip to England - 1948
Senator Brewster - Tourism in European Discovery Program 1950
European Trip 1949 Folders on Travel,etc.
Export/Import Bank
[Federal Communications Commission Study 1947]
Foreign Petroleum Committee Minutes - Feb. 26, 1943 to Dec. 30, 1943 Folder
Foreign Transactions of the U.S.
G101 - Public Printer
[Government Papers] Byrnes Letter
[Government Papers] General History Company Discussion with U.S. Govt.
[Government Papers] Interview Jesse Jones
[Government Papers] Krieg Papers
[Government Papers] PAW files (B)
[Government Papers] Renegotiation
[Government Papers] State Dept. Papers
[Government Papers] Copy of White House set of papers
[Government Papers] White House (Exhibits)
[Government Papers] Moffet Letter White House 4/16/41
[Government Papers] White House Papers
1952 Greater Portland Development Commission
Simone Guillen
[Hearing Briefs] Badenschatz Hearing Brief
[Hearing Briefs] Carter
[Hearing Briefs] Duce Hearing Brief
[Hearing Briefs] Exchange Rate (Royalty on)
[Hearing Briefs] Loans and Lend Lease
[Hearing Briefs] Memo for Hearing
[Hearing Briefs] Moffet Files
[Hearing Briefs] RFC Files on British Loan
[Hearing Briefs] Rogers
Heitman - Chas E. Heitman for senator
[Housing, Maine 1952]
[Hughes]
(Telephone Conversations) Hughes Case - 1947, Property of Mr. Flanagan - Room 101
I5 Interparliamentary Union
[I5] [Interparliamentary Union - 1947]
Indonesia [1949]
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee Travel 1947
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Jewish Situation
Keyserling, Leon Data used in T.V. debate 6/10/50
Korea
Korea 1957
Labor [The Brewster "National Labor Code" Bill - 1943 in the Railroad Trainman Magazine]
Migratory Labor in American Agriculture
Loyalty Files Release
[M102] Beryl File
[M102] Lobster
[M102] Obsolete Lobster File
[M102] Manganese Maine 1942
[M102] Manganese, 1952
[M102] Manganese - Deposits in Maine
[M102] Manganese Letters
[M102] Port of Portland
[M102] Port of Portland "1942"
[M102] Port of Portland 1943
[M102] Port of Portland 1944
[M102] Port of Portland 1945
[M102] Port of Portland (1952)
[M102] Portsmouth Navy Yard
ME - Conn. River Report
Maine Politics - 1944
Major Legislation [First Session - 82nd]
Manganese
Marketing Memos
Mead Committee
Mead Committee 1945
Mead Committee * Air
Mead Committee * Annual Report
Mead Committee - Carbon Black
Mead Committee Housing
Mead Committee * Lumber
Mead Committee * Minerals
Mead Committee * Miscellaneous
Mead Committee - Miscellaneous Memoranda
Mead Committee - Notices
Mead Committee - Report * Pan American Highway
Mead Committee - Report on 1945 Trip Overseas
Mead Committee * Reports
Mead Committee - Shipyards & Shipbuilding
Mead Committee - Surplus
Mead Committee * Trip
Memorandum - Brief history of Carl Byoir
[Memorandum: Byoir]
Memorandum [copy of letter from Brewster to Attorney General, statement to Press, Attorney General's letter to Brewster]
Memorandum [Excerpts from confidential memorandum - Justice Burton's files]
Memorandum: Excerpts from "Treason's Peace" Regarding Hugh Fulton
Memorandum [letter from Hugh A. Fulton to Hon. Mon C. Wallgren (copy)]
Memorandum - Hugh Fulton letter to Senator Brewster on April 7, 1947
Memorandum - Hearings on Wire Tappings - 1941
Memorandum [letters to George Meader from Brewster]
Memorandum [Hughes Aircraft Investigation]
Memorandum [To Senator Brewster from Mr. Meader]
Memorandum [Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company and Other food chain units]
Memorandum [reference to complaint of Sen. Ferguson]
Memorandum: Elliot Roosevelt's State of Exoneration
Memorandum: Telegrams from the Files of Justice Burton
Memorandum [weather conditions east of the Mississippi Feb. 8-11, 1947]
[Merchant of Yonkers]
Middle East
Minerals 1942
Miscellaneous
[Misc. - Duke]
Misc. Papers no date
Mobilization
Natl. Campaign Correspondence (Committee Report) National Defende Program - 1944
National Economy
1943 William S. Cole National Housing
Navy
[Navy] N55X-LL-10985
[Navy] Letters
[Navy] Naval Boiler Lab Rejection
[Navy] Recapitulation (Navy Prices)
[Navy] 500-cycle Landing System (Policy)
[Navy] Misc. 1945-46
Oil
Oil #3
[Oil] Annual Reports
[Oil] (Possible Exhibits Arabian - American) Oil Co.
[Oil] Arabian American Oil Co. California Arabian Standard Oil Co. Income Tax Returns
[Oil] Aramco Cables
[Oil] ARAMCO Correspondence
[Oil] Background Reference
[Oil] Map
Oil Meader Participation
[Oil] Moffett, James A. Testimony March 28, 1947
[Oil] Moffett Sent - Newspaper Clips - Etc. Arabian-American Oil Company
[Oil] The Red Line Agreement
[Oil] Max W. Thornburg
[Oil] Thornburg Cable of Jan. 31, '48 in Reply to Committee Cable of Jan. 27, '48
Oil Committee
[Oil File] Andrew F. Carter - Income Tax Returns
Congressional Library Reference Papers (Oil File)
General Correspondence (Oil File)
Interoffice Memorandum (Oil File)
Miscellaneous General (Oil File)
Navy (Oil File) - Costs, Quality
Papers Rec'd from Mr. Ickes 1947 [Oil File]
Publicity (Press Releases, etc.) (Oil File)
Reports (Oil File)
Resolutions (Oil File)
Roosevelt's Papers - Misc. (Oil File)
Roosevelt's Papers - Power of Congress to Obtain Documents (Oil File)
Subpoenas (Oil File)
Testimony Correspondence (Oil File)
Texas Company - Income Tax Returns (Oil File)
[Oil Hearings] Army Correspondence
[Oil Hearings] Army Correspondence
[Oil Hearings] Maine
[Oil Hearings] Executive Omahney Committee Hearings Testimony Exerpts
[Oil Hearings] Omahney Final Report
[Oil Hearings] RFC Papers
Palestine 1948
P4 Passamaquoddy Power Project January and February, 1951
P4 Passamaquoddy Power Project March and April, 1951
[P4] Passamaquoddy Power Project May and June, 1951
P4 Passamaquoddy Power Project July and August, 1951
P4 Passamaquoddy Power Project September, 1951, on
P4 Passamaquoddy Power Project January on, 1952
[P4] Passamaquoddy
[P4] Quoddy #1-3
[P4] Quoddy - "1930" Quoddy Correspondence January
[P4] Quoddy - "1930" Quoddy Correspondence March, April, May, June
[P4] Quoddy - "1930" Fleming Correspondence
[P4] Quoddy - "1930" Misc. Quoddy Project Correspondence
[P4] Quoddy 1947
[P4] Quoddy - 1948 - Pending - Printed data
[P4] Clippings - Quoddy Project - 1948
[P4] Quoddy 1949 - Pending
[P4] Quoddy - Pending - 1950-51
[P4] Quoddy - Power Shortage in Canada
"P4" [Quoddy] - Truman
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Brief of Army Top Secret Testimony
Pearl Harbor Investigation
Pearl Harbor Investigation
Pearl Harbor Letter
Pearl Harbor Minority Report Requests
Pearson, Drew
[Pearson] Photostatic Copies of Letters (1941-42) [1/3]
[Pearson] Photostatic Copies of Letters (1941-42)
Peat Moss
Personal Bills
Petroleum Board (Minutes) 1943-1944-45
Philippine Trip - July 1946
Plattsburg Barracks, New York - 1941
Political 1945
Current Political Campaign 1944
(Current) Political Campaign #2-3 Political "1944"
Politics 1943
Potato Commodity Bill 1945
[Potato]
Potatoes "1942"
Potatoes: Bulletins "1942"
Potatoes - "1943," 1944, [1945]
[Potatoes] Senator's Potato File [1945]
Potatoes [1947] #1, #2
32 Funds - Potatoes
Potatoes: [Truman letter re. potatoes / alcohol, 1951]
Q - 82nd Congress
Q - 1949, 1950
Reciprocal Trade
Registration of Young Voters
Republican National Finance Committee
Research and Development Board National Military Establishment
St. Lawrence Waterway
Security Council
5 Senators Report on the War - 1943 Oct
1947 - Senators Committee
Seward Report & Analysis (Truman) - 1942
Smith, Margaret Chase, 1948, 1949
Social Security Material 1948
[South America Trip, personal correspondence - family; aeronautics board] [1946]
South Portland Shipyard Report 1942, Interview Report, Comm. & ROB's.
Spain
Stassen Speeches
State Department Releases
State Reports on Political Situations 1950
Steel Facts
Talbert, Edward
Talbert, Edward D.: Columns
L.H. Thompson Printer
Tin-Hawkes for Brewster - 1945
Townsend Plan: Robert Fenlason
[1943 Trip]
Truman
Truman * Air
Truman * Air Bases
Truman - Cartels
Truman * Lend Lease
Truman * Lumber
Truman * Memoranda from Sawyer
Truman * Miscellaneous
Truman - Monroe, John
Truman - Petroleum
Truman - Releases
Truman * Shipyards & Shipbuilding
Truman - White Paper
Truman Committee
Truman Committee
Truman Committee - 1941, 1942
T[ruman] C[ommittee] - Annual Report
Truman Committee B.B.C.
Truman Committee Marshall Diggs, Esq.
Truman Committee - Housing
Truman Committee - Jenkins Brothers
Truman Committee - India File
Truman Committee * Minerals [samples included]
Truman Committee National Fireworks
T[ruman] C[ommittee] - Newsprint
Truman Comm. Notices
Truman Committee Pending
Truman Committee - State Dept.
Truman Committee - Telegrams
Truman Committee - Transportation - 1943
Truman Committee: Trucks
Truman Meeting Canol Project
Truman Trip Committee 1943
United States Exports of Domestic and Foreign Merchandise - October 1950
Vatican
Veterans Administration Veterans Affairs "1942"
Veterans Affairs "1943" - Benefits
Veterans' Benefits & Public Acts
Veterans Benefits 1944, 1945
Veterans Resolutions Adopted at 1950 National Conventions
Viewlex
Voting Record for Jan. 3/41 to Jan. 2/42 Voting Record (Senator's)
War Contracts
War Production - 1941, 1942
War Production Board 1941-42, 1947
[1947] Housing Foundation of America War Profiteering General
West Coast Investigation Aviation
West Point 1947
West Point 1948 Exams
West Point 1948 exams & 1949 entrance '48 files
West Point Entrance 1948
Will The British Outsmart Us Again The Northwest Republican January 1945
Wireless Bulletins - 1951
Young Republican Clubs
[Unfoldered, unarranged contents]
Contains files of post-war correspondence with veterans. This group of files represents the early postwar era, from 1946-48. They are mostly requests for Senator Brewster's help in military, medical, pension, and life insurance matters; they involve communication with different branches of the armed services.
Arranged alphabetically.
Closed for 75 years from date of creation.
A - Z
Files represent continued claims several years after the end of World War II, 1949-52. May contain some from the conflict in Korea. Includes correspondence on specific claims with notation of armed forces code for each case. Claims were often made for disability benefits caused by injuries, illness or "nervous disorders".
Arranged alphabetically by last name.
Closed for 75 years from date of creation.
Abbott, Charles L.
Adams, Quincy
Atkin, Harry D.
Austin, Leroy G.
Beal, Vinton L.
Beals, Mr. Wesley
Bernard, LeBaron
Boston, Gail V.F.
Bowling, Jesse S., Jr.
Brawn, Erroll W.
Briggs, Howard T.
Brown, Sgt. Edward A.
Brown, J.L.
Buck, Robert Patrick
Burton, Robert
Bussell, Clyde F.
Buzzini, Walter James, Sr.
Chapman, Philip E.
Clark, John T.
Cobb, John H.
Coffin, Elmer L.
Comer, John E.
Day, Mrs. Olive B.
Devereaux, Charles W.
Dews, Reginald L.
Doherty, Francis D.
Dunlap, Malcolm B.
Dyer, Donald E.
Eaton, Carleton
Egan, Kenneth W.
Ellis, Richmond (Deceased)
Emanuelson, Millard E.
Estey, Richard S.
Farnham, Clyde R.
Field, Merle P.
Fielding, George A.
Files, William W.
Fisher, James G.
Frost, Lewis E.
Gamage, Merrill A.
Garland, Mrs. Mary
Girard, Antonio J.
Goodridge, Joshua H.
Gould, Guy H.
Gustin, George H.
Harding, Lida L.
Harriman, Leroy D.
Haskell, David
Hawes, Arnold R.
Hasty, Mrs. Annie H.
Hayden, John
Head, Lawrence C.
Higgins, Avery
Higgins, Matthew J.
Holy, Charles
Hoyt, Lt.(j.g.) Dana H. and Walter G. Hoyt
Hoyt, John S.
Hoyt, Walter G.
Hoyt, Walter G. and Dana H.
Hussey, Glenn R.
Jensen, Mrs. Inez
Jewett, Wesley
Kent, Mrs. Lela Tracy
Kilbourne, Elmore W.
King, Arthur Leroy
Ladner, Roy A., Jr.
Landry, S/Sgt. Albert
Lawrence, John H.
Leddy, Joseph H.
Leidy, Ella A.
Lounsbury, Warren Frost
Manchester, Arthur L.
Massure, Mrs. Hilda
McCabe, Charles Francis
McDermott, Stanley B.
McGinnis, Lawrence T.
McKechnie, Howard H.
Mead, Charles S.
Meuret, Jack E.
Meyer, Edward A.
Miller, True G.
Morton, Lawrence N.
Moscone, William
Murphy, Henry P.
Pinette, Oscar
Pottle, George W.
Reynolds, Robert R.
Rich, Alvah D.
Ritchie, Mrs. Cora E.
Roberts, Omar W.
Robinson, Mrs. Cora
Rogers, Ralph E.
Rothrock, John B.
Russell, Robert H.
St. Laurent, Stephen G.
Spaulding, Way
Staats, Mrs. Ella P.
Staples, Winfield S., Sr.
Stewart, Mary E.
Stoughton, Ralph A.
Sukeforth, Earl H.
Theriault, Daniel E.
Thompson, Sumner L.
Towle, Richard B., CWO, U.S.A.
Tracy, Ronald
Treworgy, Harry T.
Tripp, Albert M., Jr.
Trueblood, Mrs. Marion D.
Varney, Herbert E.
Wass, Colby L.
Watson, Corporal Thomas W.
Weir, Mrs. Nancy M.
Wentworth, Burns O.
White, Fay Tidd
Wilcox, Lindsay H.
Willard, Enoch E.
Williams, Edward (Ex-Sgt.)
Correspondence relating to the development of postwar foreign affairs, relations and policies, 1951-52. Includes material on the Senate Joint Committee Regarding the Dismissal of General MacArthur. This material had a bearing on the U.S. relationship with Korea and China. Brewster was commended by many for the perspicacious investigation of the affair and comprehensive report. Files bear the code "F9".
Arranged alphabetically by name of country or subheading.
F9 Armenia
F9 Brazil
F9 China
F9 Czechoslovakia
F9 Egypt
F9 France
F9 Germany
F9 Greece
F9 India
F9 Iran
F9 Israel
F9 Japanese Peace Treaty
F9 Jessup
F9 Jessup, Philip C. Statement of Ambassador Jessup [1951?]
F9 Korea
F9 Istanbul
F9 Latvia
F9 Lebanon
F9 Hearings - MacArthur
F9 Hearings on MacArthur
Opportunities in State
F9 Philippines
F9 Russia
F9 Saudi Arabia
F9 Slavic Region
F9 Slovakia
F9 Spain
Turkey
F9 Venezeula
F9 Venezeula
F9 Yugoslavia
Pamphlets
Contains correspondence on specific matters of political consequence, outside of the daily business of the U.S. Senate, during the later years of Brewster's career, 1948-52. Discussions of political agendas, initiatives, laws, and the general state of the Republican Party. Correspondence with various Republican committees.
Arranged alphabetically.
Political 1950
Political - A,B Miscellaneous
Political - Brewster, C.F. 1948
Political - Brewster, Owen 1948
Political - C [1942]
Political - C Miscellaneous
Political: 1950 Campaigns
Political: Clippings 1948 Bangor Commercial
Political: 1948 Clippings Bangor News
Political: 1948 Clippings Misc. Papers
Political: 1948 Clippings Portland Papers
Clippings: Political 1951
Political: Clubs, National Fed. Women 1948
Political: Committee, Maine State Republican 1948
Political: Committee, Republican National 1948
Political Correspondence: 1951
Political: Current 1951-52
Political: D [1942]
Political: D Miscellaneous
Political: E - F [1942]
Political: E Miscellaneous
Eisenhower 1948 - 1951 - 1952
Political: Election Laws 1948
Political: F Miscellaneous
Political: Form Letters, M.G. Otto, 1948
Political: G [1942]
Political: G Miscellaneous
Political GOP: 1950 Finance Committee [Maine]
Political: H [1942]
Political: H Miscellaneous
Political: Hallanan, Walter S.
Political: Hatfield, C.K. Financial 1948
Political: I - J [1942]
Political: I Miscellaneous
Political: J,K Miscellaneous
Political: L [1942]
Political: L, Mc Miscellaneous
Political: M [1942]
Political: M Miscellaneous
Political: Miscellaneous [1948], [1949]
Political: N - O
Political: N, 0 Miscellaneous
Political: OB 1951, 1951-2
Political: Otto, M.G. Correspondence 1948
Political: P
Political: P Miscellaneous
Political: Govenor Payne 1948
[Political: Photos of Newspaper
Articles 1950]
Political: Publicity Channels 1948
Political: Q, Q - R
Political: Q, R Miscellaneous
Political Reports - Drafts [Undated]
Political Reports to OB: Future
Political - Republicans [1952], 1951
Political, Republican 1952
Political: Rosters 1948
Political: S
Political: S Miscellaneous
Political: Shipments 1948
[Political] Souvenir Pictures of Lincoln Day Dinner at Dearborn, Michigan
Political Statistics
Political - T - V Miscellaneous
Political: Vote, Primary Official 1948
Political: Vote, September Penobscot County 1948
Political: Voters, New 1948
Political: W
Political: W Miscellaneous
Political: Ward Names, Bangor 1948 2/2
Political: X, Y, Z Miscellaneous
Contains records kept separately by Brewster's office, but only from 1951-52. Taft was a close political ally and the careers of the two were connected on many major issues. Taft and Brewster survived uninjured the crash of a small plane on the frozen Kennebec River in Maine on their way to an appearance in 1950.
Arranged alphabetically.
Taft Political - G Miscellaneous [Guy Gannett Letter?]
Taft Political - N, P, Q, R, S, W, X, Y, X Miscellaneous
Taft, Portland Press Herald Balloting [1951]
Taft, Robert A
Taft, R.A.: Inez Wing
Taft, Robert Senator: Rockland Visit 1951
* From the constitution of the Bangor-Brewer Young Republican Club, charter adopted in 1936.
Records and correspondence concerning activities of the various branches of the Young Republicans Clubs of Maine from 1951-52. They held meetings, sponsored activities, and were warmly supported by Brewster and his son Charles. Their charter purpose was "to promote and further the interests of the Republican Party; and to assist the younger members of the Republican Party to obtain recognition in party councils"*.
Arranged alphabetically.
Bangor-Brewer Constitution and Membership [1947-48]
Bangor-Brewer Young Republican Station [Undated]
Bangor-Brewer Young Republicans: Current [1949]
Campaign Materials
Young Republicans: 1951
Young Republicans: 1951-52 [College]
Young Republicans: College Magazine [1948]
Young Republicans: Current, 1946-47, 1949, 1950
Young Republicans: Lincoln Day Banquet 1948
Young Republicans: Luncheon Tickets, March 27, 1952
Young Republicans: Maine Council: Constitution and By-Laws [1950]
Young Republicans: March and Portland Conventions 1948
Young Republicans: Nichols, David [1951]
Young Republicans: Penobscot County Committee [1948]
Young Republicans: New Republican Registration, Sept. 1948 Campaign
Young Republicans: Political, 1948
Young Republicans: Republican Candidates June Primary 1948
Young Republicans: Republican Headquarters [1948]
Young Republicans: Republican Party: News Clippings 1949-50
Young Republicans: Senator Taft Visit, 1948
Young Republicans: State Convention 1952
Young Republicans: State Council [1946]
Young Republicans: Third District Conference Oct. 1949
Young Republicans: Third District Conference Oct. 1949 Conference Speech
Young Republicans: Third District Conference Oct. 1949 Contacts and Lists
Young Republicans: Third District Minutes [1949]
Young Republicans: Third District Conference Oct. 1949 Miscellaneous
Young Republicans: Third District Conference Oct. 1949 Program
Young Republicans: Voter's Manual [1948]
Young Republicans: Philip Wilke: Banquet and Meeting Nov. 1949
Young Republicans: Wilke Correspondence
Young Republicans: Wilke, Current [1949]
Young Republicans: Wilke, Miscellaneous [1949]
Young Republicans: Wilke, Publicity [1949]
Contains office files relating to various aspects of the campaign process covering the period from 1946-52. Documents such as primary nomination papers, sample ballots, voting lists, reports, form letters for mass mailings and correspondence with campaign aides. Some political discussion included.
Arranged alphabetically.
Advertisements Primary 1952: OB
Advertisements Primary 1952: Republican Candidates
Brewster, Owen: Newspaper Ads 1952
Agenda - Primary 1952: Owen Brewster
Arnold Lorin: 1951-52
Ballot Applications
Bangor Filter Center
Bills: Political 1952
Brass Rail: Social
Brewster, Chas F.
Brewster Senator
Brewster, Owen: Brewster for Senator Clubs
Brewster, Owen: 1952 Biography
Brewster, Owen: Campaign Expenditures
Brewster, Owen: 1952 Primary
Burr Printing Company 1952
Campaign Election
Campaign Stationery
Campaign Statistics: 1952
Carroll, Gladys Hasty: 1952
Chairmen, County, Primary 1952
Convention, Delegates, Masterman Lists
Convention, Delegates, Wing Lists
Convention, Maine State Republican
Convention, Newspaper Clippings, 1952
Convention, Northern Sign Co.
Correspondence, Androscoggin, Aroostock, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Sommerset, Waldo, Washington, York Counties
Correspondence from Bangor Workers
Dirigo Letter
First District
Second District
Completed Third [District]
Dyer, Ralph A: Candidacy 1952
Eisenhower, 1952
Election Returns June 1950 Primary and June 1953 Primary
Election, Third District Primary 1951
Election: Oct. 22, 1951 Third District
Election Laws: 1952 Data
Employees Primary 1952
Fellows, Frank
Ft. Fairfield Review
Inter-Office: Mary Freese
Inter-Office: Jones
Inter-Office: S.V. Morrison
Inter-Office: Portland
Invitations, Primary: 1952
Legislation: Correspondence
Letters, Handwritten, Primary: OB 1952
Letters, Primary Form 1952
Lindsay, John: Bangor Commercial
List Change Modification
Lists: Androscoggin County-York County
Low, Seth: Services
McGraw, D.V.: Current
Newsletter, Washington: 1952
Bangor News Editorials: 1952
Newspaper Clippings: Bangor News 1951
Newspaper Clippings: Bangor News January-June 1952
Newspaper Clippings: Eastport Sentinel
Newspaper Clippings: Ft. Fairfield Review
Newspaper Clippings: Miscellaneous
Newspaper Clippings: Miscellaneous Papers
Newspaper Clippings: Portland Press Herald 1952
Newspaper Clippings: Rockland Gazette
Newspaper Clippings:
Organization, Bangor Workers
Organization, Brewer Workers
Payne, Frederick: 1952
Drew Pearson Form Letter Apr. 15, 1952
Petitions: 1952
1940 Petition Circulators
Petition Correspondence: Androscoggin-York [Counties]
Petition Reports 1952
Petition Reports: March 15, 1952
Petition Reports: April 7, 1952
Petition Reports: April 29, 1952
Pike, Sumner
Platform: GOP Maine 1952
Political, 1951: Drafts, CFB to OB Reports
Political: Miscellaneous
Political: Spotlight Copies 1951
Political: Spotlight Copies 1952
Political: Ward Names, Bangor 1948 1/2
[Primary Nomination Papers] Androscoggin
Progress Reports: 1952
Radio Broadcast Questions June 15, 1952
Rallies, Aroostock: 1952
Rally Augusta June 8, 1952 Organizational
Rally Organizational, Bangor April 27,
1952
Rally, Organizational, Lewiston May 1952
Rally, Portland April 20, 1952
Republican Finances: 1951-52
Republican State Committee: 1951-52
Shipment: Bangor-Brewer, Primary 1952 Dear Fellow Republican
Shipment: Business and Professional May 31, 1952
Shipment: Delegates March 1952
Shipment: Letter June 24, 1952
Shipment: Misc. Primary 1952
Shipment: February 29, 1952 Petition Mailing
Shipment: Petition Signers June 5, 1952
Shipments: Primary 1952
Speeches, Primary: 1952 OB
Files contain correspondence with Brewster on issues relating specifically to him, or about matters which he personally wished to resolve from 1948-50. Also includes drafts of his political agendas from this period, and early versions of some speeches. No material in this series is of the most personal nature.
Arranged alphabetically by subheading.
Brewster, Owen: Agenda - Current
Brewster, Owen: Agendas - Past
Owen Brewster: Agendas 1950
OB: Archambaud
Brewster, Owen: Current 1949
Senator Brewster: Current: 1950
The Owen Brewsters: Clippings
Brewster, Owen: Frances Dustin
Mrs. Owen Brewster: European Letters
Brewster, Owen: Legislative Correspondence
Brewster, Owen: Miscellaneous
Brewster, Owen: O'Brien, Michael
Brewster, Owen: Personal
Brewster, Owen: Photographer
Brewster, Owen: Political
Brewster, Owen: Requests
Brewster, Owen: Speeches
Correspondence of a personal nature, or special requests to Brewster, from 1951-52, which were current as he ended his Senate career. Some clippings included.
Arranged alphabetically by subheading.
Personal - A Miscellaneous to O
O - W
Contains copies of speeches and broadcasts on local, state and national topics, ranging from 1941-52. Files have been arranged by subject of speech, or by title of speech, then by location given or organization. Brewster frequently spoke on the following topics: the potato industry, communism, world peace, the Middle East, the economy, taxation, social security, and current affairs.
Arranged alphabetically then chronologically.
[Abraham Lincoln and the World Today] Lincoln Day Speeches
Address by Senator at University of Maine, Nov. 1, 1948
Senator Brewster - "Agricultural Progress" Nelle C. Penky - Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine
Editorial for Northwestern University Journal "Air Law and Commerce" by SenatorBrewster
"America" Republican Rally Bulletin 2-15-52
America and World Affairs Stonington 8-27-50
"America Looks Abroad" Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce 5-20-46
"America Marches On" 5-4-47 American Legion Round-Up
"America Marches On" Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 10-18-47
America Past, Present, and Future 11-3-50
[America] "Selling America" - Boston 10-16-47 N.E. Export Club
Speech At Wings Club, Biltomore Hotel, N.Y.C. Wed. Noon Apr. 14, 1948 "American Air Power"
Address - Senator American Automobile Association, San Antonio Nov. 16, 1948
American Automobile Association Article on Travel
[American] "Are Americans Better Off?" Republican Rally at West Bath, Sat. Aug. 16, 1952
Radio Broadcast by Senator Bangor and Portland Nov. 1, 1948 [American Foreign Policy]
Speech - Senator American Foreign Policy
American Forum of the Air Oct. 9, 1946
American Forum of the Air [1949]
"American Foundations" before Conference of New England Grange August 19, 1947 at Storrs, Conn.
American Policy on Palestine
Speech - Senator "American Policy on Palestine" American Jewish Congress, October 28, 1948
American Protection 3/30/49
American Security
[American Security] Speech before the Mizrachi Org. of Chicago, Lasalle Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Sunday, May 9, 1948
[American Security] First Sheet Rewritten of Speech Apr. 4 "American Security" for Indianapolis, but Senator Did Not Take
[American Security] Speech Cincinnati, OH April 9, 1948 "American Security"
[American Security] Speech by Senator before Jewish War Vets. Madison Square Parl, NYC Sunday, Apr. 4, 1948 "American Security"
Americans Unlimited ["Are Britain and America Headed for a Trade War After Victory"] Forum on the Air 4/5/45 Atlanta, Georgia
Armed Services for Europe [New England Grange Lectures" U. of Mass. 8-15-51]
"As Goes Maine" Maine Lobster Festival at Rockland Sat. Aug. 2, 1952
"Atom Bomb" Andros. Women's Rep. Club, Auburn, ME., 12-5-50
Atomic Bomb Speech
Baltic States Freedom Rally Speech - Cargenie Hall, N.Y.C. June 16, 1951
"Boston" Advertising Club of Boston May 27, 1947
Brewster Campaign Speeches: Keeping Promises - Bowdoinham, ME 5-29-52, Speech for Delegation - Skowhegan, ME 5-23-52
Brewster Speeches and Broadcasts
Broadcast - Senator Brewster, Miss Pauline Frederick
Buffalo, New York 2-22-49
Buildings vs. Teachers - Dedication Ceremony at Surry School Aug. 10, 1952
Business and Politics - Colby College 10-7-50
Campaign Issues - Republican Rally at Caribou Aug. 11, 1952
Campaign Speeches 1946
[Campaign Speeches] Senator's 1946
National Campaign Speeches
"Can the Republican Congress and a Democratic President Cooperate" It Seems to Us Forum 11-18-46
Communism, Threat of - Montclair Lodge, NJ 2-27-51
["Concerning Revolutions"] Society of Mayflower Descendents - Plymouth, Mass. Sept. 10, 1946
"Confusion, Corruption, and Communism" Albany, NY Oct. 23, 1946 Telegrams
[Congress] The 81st Congress
"Current Events" Causeway Club of Southwest Harbor Sat. Aug. 9, 1952
D.A.R. Rumford, ME 11-9-50
Dedications - Lowell Co., Saco, ME 2-22-52
Detroit, Mich. 2-4-48 (Lincoln Day Dinner) "1949" and "Taxes"
[Detroit, Mich.] Parts of Speech - Sen. Brewster "Detroit, Mich." April 9, 1948
Dexter 150th Anniversary
Disc - Conversation
(Cleveland,Ohio - Feb. 21, 1949) D.K.E.
Eastern Republican Regional Conference - Atlantic City 6-24-50
Economic Education or Economic Disaster Delivered at Luncheon Session Institute of Economic Education May 13, 1952
Economics of the Post-War Period
["Educating Germany"] Silver Spring, MD Bond Rally
[Eisenhower] Speech by Senator 1952
"Eisenhower and Nixon" Penobscot County
Republican Rally at Pen. Valley Country Club Bangor, ME Aug. 13, 1952
Eisenhower Question, Bangor-Brewer Service Club, Bangor, ME 11-7-51
[Election] Issue of the Week 1946; Election 10-23-46 Transcription by Lucas and Brewster
Executive Club - Auburn, ME 3-29-50
[Explain] Speech Broadcast 6-23-45; "Explain Position on Tariff Bill"
"Faith in God" Lincoln, ME, Rotary Ladies Night 4-11-51
Farm Programs Maine State Grange, Bangor, ME 12-6-50
The Farmers Future in America; "Federal Finances" 11-14-50 Kiwanis Club, Portland, ME
First Radio Parish Anniversary Speech (Over the Air 4-15-51)
"Food and War" 12-5-50 Maine State Grange - Lewiston
Food Production Maine State Grange, Lewiston, 12-5-50
Foreign Aid - Brunswick Rotary Club, 5-29-50
[Foreign Policy] (America Grows Up), Brewster Speech Foreign Policy
[Foreign Policy] American Foreign Policy, 11-27-49
[Foreign Policy] Broadcast 4-21-45
[Foreign Policy] Speech - Harvard Law School Forum, Cambridge, Mass., Friday eve. 4-23-48 "Bipartisan Foreign Policy"
Foreign Policy Speeches
Senators Political Speeches, Wallace White, Jr. "Foreign Relations" American Foreign Policy
"Foreign Trade" American Tariff League Waldorf Astoria, New York, Oct. 17, 1946
(For God and Country) Patriotism Lincoln Rotary Club Ladies Night, Lincoln, ME 4-11-51
Forty-Five Million Prospects 11-29-49
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Philadelphia, March 17, 1947
1928 Governors Conferences Speeches
Graduation Speeches, Maine Maritime, Castine, 6-9-51
Honesty in Government Parkersburg, N. VA, 2-11-52
Hoover, Former President 75th Birthday
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, 10-5-50
Indiana Republican Editorial Association, 3-25-50
Indianapolis, Indiana Tues. June 3, 1947
Indonesian Situation
Introduction Speech by Senator at San Antonio, Nov. 1948
"Is Tax Reduction Possible"
Israel "Israel Today and Tomorrow"
"The Issues" State Convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars of Rockland, Sat., June 14, 1952
Italian Handicrafts
Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, 8-21-49
Jerusalem 12-4-49
Jewish National Fund Wheeling, W.Va., 6-15-49
"Jewish National Fund" 12-4-50 JNF Council, San Francisco, also Los Angeles
Jewish War Veterans Sun. May 18th NY
"Joe Martin Day" at Lincoln Park, Fall River, Mass., Aug. 20, 1947
[Kansas City] Senator Brewster - Kansas City, Missouri, March 30, 1948
["Korea"] Speech by Senator
Legion Convention Speech 10/2/46 San Francisco
The Lesson of Three Wars, Lafayette, Indiana, 11/2/50
The Lesson of Three Wars 11/3/50 Albany, NY
John L. Lewis 11/7/49
Lincoln Day Dinner Speeches 1947
[Sacramento, Calif.] 2/11/49 Lincoln Day Dinner
Lincoln Day Speeches
Maine
1950 Maine Campaign Speeches
Maine Fishermen Entitled to Protection speech
Maine in Congress 11/3/50
1946 Maine Speech
Maine Speeches [1947]
Maine Speeches - 1948
Maine Speeches - Portion of Speech of Senator Brewster at Young Republican Dinner at Monroe, Maine, on Monday evening, March 24, 1952
Maine Speeches - Portion of Speech of Senator Brewster before World Peace Rally at City Hall, Augusta, Maine, on Friday evening, March 21, 1952
Maine State Grange Speech Bangor, Maine, Dec. 3, 1947
Speech Used in Manhattan Center
Marblehead, Mass. Speech
[Marshall Plan] "Are You for the Marshall Plan" statement by Senator, January 4, 1948
[Marshall Plan] Broadcast Jan. 18, 1948, WTOP "People's Platform" on Marshall Plan
"The Marshall Plan" Society of New England dinner, 1-22-48
Speech by Senator Brewster "Masonic Club"
Material for Tax Broadcast
Middle East Lions Club, Portland, ME, 11-20-51
Middle East Policy March 23, 1947
Middle East Policy re: Garden of Eden
Monroe Doctrine
National Security 2/19/49
New England Council Silver Anniversary - N.E. Council dinner, 4-30-51
[Nixon] Speech Broadcast W. Guy - Fall of 1952 Topic: Dick Nixon
No Wonder our Veterans are Mad
The North Atlantic Pact
Speeches - Observations on Yugoslavia
Speech - George Washington University...4-27-48 "The Political Issues in the 1948 Election"
[Palestine] American Policy on Palestine at Brooklyn, NY 5-8-47
[Palestine] "American Policy on Palestine" speech by Senator
[Palestine] Broadcast May 11, 1946 "The Future of Palestine"
Speech at George Washington University, "Palestine"
"Palestine" - in Congressional Record, Monday, Dec. 1, 1947 (Re-Partition)
[Palestine] New York University re: Palestine Middle East, June 6, 1947
[Palestine] Senator Brewster Broadcast, Arthur Gaety, March 18, 1948, Subject: "Palestine and Oil"
[Palestine] Speech - St. Louis, MO, May 16, 1948 in United Hebrew Temple, "Recognition of Palestine"
[Palestine] Statement on Palestine, a broadcast, 2-10-48 "America Forum of the Air"
Palestine, Today and Tomorrow, Albany, NY, 9-22-46
Parts of Speeches by Senator Brewster
Peace - Peace
Pensions 11-28-49
Senator Brewster - Peoria, Ill. March 22, 1948
Philadelphia June 14, 1947 Flag Day exercises
Politics Has a Part in International Oil
Portion Speech by Senator Brewster, Nov. 8, 1948
Portion Speech by Senator Nov. 8, 1948
Portion Speech by Senator, Paterson Chamber of Commerce, Paterson, NJ Nov. 30, 1948
Portion Speech - Senator Damariscotta, July 13, 1948
Portion Speech Senator - Lewiston, Auburn Kiwanis Club, July 14, 1948
Portion Speech - Penobscot County Women's Rep. Club, Nov. 22, 1948
Portrait of Dick Nixon "A Young Man in a Hurry" by Senator Owen Brewster
"Potatoes" St. John Rep. Club, Madawaska, ME, Feb., 1982
Potatoes 11-18-49
Potatoes in the National Economy, August 13, 1949
"Potatoes, Parity, and Protection," Potatoes in the national economy
The Truth About Potatoes, Why Protect the American Farmer
Preparedness, Bar Harbor, ME 7-4-49, "The Price of Gasoline"
Profit Sharing to Save Free Enterprise
Prospects for a Non-Partisan Foreign Trade Policy, 11-19-46
Questions on Middle East 1946 Speeches
"Quoddy" Eastport - Monday, June 9, 1952
Quoddy 100th Anniversary, Calais, Maine, 7-1-51
Racketeering U.S. Senate 3/23/50
Reciprocal Trade and Travel
"Reducing Prices" - before Paper Association of New York City, April 23, 1947
Report on the Middle East, Broadcast, 5-3-47, NBC
(Pontiac, Illinois) Republican Campaign Committee, 10-4-50
Speech - Before League Republican Women, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 20, 1948, "The Republican Program"
Republican Prospects in 1950, February 3, 1949
Republican Prospects 3-31-50
Political News and Standards [Republican Prospects]
Republican State Committee - Augusta, 12-7-49
Resesslear, Indiana, October 22, 1946, "The Road to Peace," Oct. 30, 1947
Re: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Russia and America" on Washington Story
Sales Tax Speech - 1945 Speeches
Brewster Speech "Salvation Army"
Social Security
Sons of the Union Veterans, Bangor, 5-30-50
Soviet Air Power, American Legion, March 20, 1947
Speeches
Speeches - 1941-44
Speeches - 1944, misc.
Harold E. Stassen "General MacArthur and President Truman"
State Department Investigation
Statement Issued After June 16, 1952; Letter of Thanks
Taft, Hartley
Tax Reduction
(Lincoln Day Banquet 2/11/48 Portsmouth, Ohio) "Taxes"
Taxes, Rotary Club, Skowhegan, Maine 9-4-51
"The Tercentenary of York" Delivered at York July 26, 1952
Thanksgiving 11/23/49
Togetherness Walter W. Cenevazzo
Town Meeting 11/1/49
Town Meeting of the Air New York Sept. 20, 1945
Senator Brewster - "Town Meeting of the Air" at Town Hall, New York Tuesday Evening, March 9, 1948
Town Meeting of the Air Maxwell Field, Birminghan, Ala. 10/17/50
Transportation 3/24/49
Foreign Travel [Travel and the 80th Congress]
Treasury Juggling Belfast, Maine 7/4/49
Trip Report Cairo, Egypt on Floor of Senate April 18, 1947
Philadelphia, PA June 5, 1947 Underwear Institute
Presidential Nominations [Union Now]
State of the Union [Union Now]
[United Nations] "Challenge of the United Nations" Springfield, Mass. Dec. 9, 1947
Speech - The United Nations Milford 8/24/50
[Untitled]
(Broadcast - Sunday, Mar. 7, 1948 Columbia Broadcasting System - People's Platform_ - "U.S. Policy and Russia" 12:30 - 1:00 P.M.
Speeches - War in the Orient, Charleston, W. Va. 8/12/50
Peace [War or Peace]
Profit-Sharing Industries [A Way of Life for Americans in Industry] P.S.I. Council, Detroit, Michigan 11-13-51
"What About Labor" Labor Speech
"What is Ahead in Aviation" Advertising Club of Washington April 29, 1947 More Copies in Cupboard
"What is Happening in China" The Reviewing Stand 6/12/49
What Price Inflation
(CBS Broadcast ("Open Hearing")) "What Should Our Policy be Toward Agentinas"
Why Your Taxes Are High
Why I Am a Republican Delivered at Milo Aug. 6, 1952 "Republican Rally"
Why I Am a Republican Milo, Maine Republican Rallt Aug. 6, 1952
"Why Ike?" Article for Portland Press Herald
Rumford Speech [Why Rumfound?] Rotary Club, Rumford, ME, 3/17/52
Town Meeting of the Air 8/30/46 "Will America Progress More Under Republican or Democratic Leadership"
"William Ladd the Apostle of Peace" Sesquicentennial Celebration of Town of Minot - Sat. July 19, 1952
Women in Politics, Maine Cosmetologist Association, Augusta, Maine 11/3/51
Youth and the Future [Youth Marches On] Bates College Chapel, Lewiston, Maine, 1-21-52
[Zionist Speech] Saudi Arabia Speech "Esau and Jacob" Zionist Speech
Zionist Speeches and Releases
Unpublished stenographic transcripts of congressional hearings, 1941-1952; also, unpublished government and private reports created for hearings or investigations.
Arranged chronologically, then alphabetically.
1943 Description of Naval Activities and U.S. Naval Advance Bases To Be Visited By Congressional Committee (2 Copies)
1944 Report of Army Pearl Harbor Board
1945 Narrative Statement of Evidence at Navy Pearl Harbor Investigations Vols. 1 and 2
1945 Statement of G.L. Rowsey Before the Special U.S. Senate Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources
1945 A Study Relating to Disposition of Government-Owned Refinery and Related Facilities By A Committee Appointed by Officers of American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Mid-Coninent Oil and Gas Association, American Gas Association For Presentation to the Special Senate Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources
6/28/45 Vol. 7 The United States Senate Report of Proceedings Hearings Held Before Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources
Sept. 1945 Report to the Honorable James Forrestal Secretary of Navy on Unification of the War and Navy Departments and Post-War Organization for National Security Vols. 1-3
Nov. 15-17, 1945 Special Committee to Investigate Petroleum Resources and Subcommittee on Surplus Property Disposal of the Committee on Military Affairs. Postwar Disposal of Pipe Line, Refineries, and Tankers Vols. 1-3
1/31/46 Vol. 1 - Committee on Naval Affairs Nomination of Edwin W. Pawley for Appointment as Under Secretary of the Navy
2/15/46 Vol. 1 - Committee on Commerce
3/21/46 Vols. 3-4 - Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources S. Res. 36
3/28/46 Vol. 6 - Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources S. Res. 36
June 1946 Executive A International Civil Aviation
[1946] Statement Relating to the Post-War Disposal of Government Owned Oil Transportation Facilities: Pipe Lines, Barges, Tug Boats, Two Boats and Tank Trucks Prepared by Committee on Post-war Disposal of Pipe Lines, Refineries and Tankers W. Alton Jones, Chairman for Presentation to Soecial Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources United States Senate Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Chairman
May 1947 Investigation of the National Defense Program Petroleum Arrangements with Saudi Arabia
3/28/47 - 1/30/45 Vols. 1-12 Petroleum Arrangements with Saudi Arabia Stenographic Transcript of Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program United States Senate
[1947] Senator Owen Brewster Documentation for Geneva Multilateral Conference
[9/1947] Operating Costs/ Naval Air Transport Service Command/ United States Fleet / U.S. Navy
[10/1947] Report of the United States Air Force to the Congressional Aviation Policy Board
[1948] Congressional Aviation Policy Board/Subcommittee on Transportation/ Civil Aviation
1948 Department of Commerce/Civil Aeronautics Administration/Federal Expenditures for Airports and Landing Areas
2/18/49 Vol. 4 - Subcommittee on Trade Politics
1/9/48 - 1/20/48 European Recovery Program (4 vols.)
2/6/48 Hearings/ Subcommittee on Transportation/ Congressional Aviation Policy Board
3/22/49 Vol. 1 - Nomination of Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr., to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce
4/12/49 - 5/2/49 Vols. 1-12 - Investigation of the Financial Stability and Operational Efficiency of the Airliner Industry
May 1949 Survey of the Domestic Airline System of the United States covering Breakeven Points, Standby and Variable Costs, and Profit Potentials
May 1949 Statement of Raymond A. Norden, President, Seaboard & Western Airlines, Inc. before the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
5/3/49 - 1/31/50 Vols. 13-45 - Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Investigation of the Financial Stability and Operational Efficiency of the Airliner Industry
1/31/50 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Investigation of the Financial Stability and Operational Efficiency of the Airline Industry - Executive Session
3/15/51 Vol. 1 - Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Legislative Program on Civil Aeronautics Board
8/6/51 Senate Executive Session - Mutual Security Act of 1951
1951-1952 Report of the Federal Communications Commission
7/02/52 Report of Proceedings / Subcommittee / Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce / Shipments of Rubber into the Port of Portland, Me.
Contains official Government Printing Office publications of Congressional bills, hearings and reports, 1941-52, which relate to Senate committee (list of committees) activities or proposed legislation.
Arranged chronologically.
1941-48
1948-51
1952
Bills introduced by Senator Brewster 1949-51
Pamphlets, posters, and general background information kept for reference by Brewster's Senate office, 1941-1952.
Arranged alphabetically by material type, then chronologically.
Pamphlets, 1941-1952
Posters, 1951, n.d.
Brewster maintained an active participation in many committees and programs after his primary defeat for the Senate seat in 1952. Records in this group, which reflect a return of focus to problems and growth issues in the State of Maine, still indicate a keen interest in national affairs and Republican Party politics. Brewster maintained close contact with his Washington colleagues and sought to serve in non-elective capacities. In 1953 he was appointed to serve on the International Joint Commission on the U.S. and Canada. He was nominated to serve as legal counsel to the Senate Government Operations Committee by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954, but his nomination was unanimously opposed by Democrats serving on the committee, among whom was Senator John F. Kennedy. Brewster later brought a libel lawsuit against the Herald Traveler Corp., alleging that an article published by the Boston Herald Traveler in 1954, labelling Brewster as a "wiretapper", damaged his reputation and caused the committee to scuttle the nomination. Senator Kennedy testified at the court hearing of the case that he was not influenced by the article.
Contains correspondence, clippings, reports, speeches, notes, and other records from 1949 through 1962, relating to the issues that interested Brewster after he left the Senate. His continued interest in national affairs is reflected in files concerning: transportation industries such as railroads and aviation, Republican politics (especially the election of 1960), communism (including McCarthy and the House investigation, the admission of China to the United Nations and labor unions), economics and the federal economy, and national defense. A renewed concentration on Maine can be seen in files on the state's government, economic development, and politics. There are also major files on Americans for Constitutional Action, Bowdoin College, the town of Dexter, the "Negro Vote", federal committees and commissions on which he had hoped to serve, and relating to major figures such as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith and Douglas MacArthur.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Acheson, Dean
Agriculture, U.S. Dept. of [Book Manuscript]
Airforce
Albion, Robert G.
American Affairs Institute
American-Asian Educational Exchange, Inc.
American Bar Assoc.
American Economic Foundation
Americans for Constitutional Action
Americans for Constitutional Action [1/2]
Americans for Constitutional Action [2/2]
Americans for Constitutional Action
American foundation for World Trade Studies
American Legion
American Medical Assoc.
Army
Aviation - Report on Domestic and International
Bonton, George W. (D.M.D.) (U.S. Navy Deferment
Barron, James S.
Beaverbrook Foundation
Bell, Stratton M.
Biographical
Bowdoin [1/2]
Bowdoin [2/2]
Bowdoin
Bowles, George L.
Boy Scouts
Bradley, Mrs. Lewis H.
Brennan, Thomas M.
Brewster, Owen - letters rec'd. after June, 1952 Primary
Brewster Speech - 1953 Houston, Texas
Chambers of Commerce, State
Bricker, John (Bricker Amendment)
Bridges, Sen. Styles
Braden, Frank
Brooks, Percy W.
Broyhill, J.E.
Burton, Harold H.
Butler, Sen. John Marshall
Caille, Ward
Caldwell, Millard F.
Capitol Disbursing Office
Capital Hill Associates
Chapman, Philip F., Jr.
China, Communist
Christian Science
Citizen's Council Forum
Citizens Foreign Aid Committee
Civil Aeronautics Board
Civil War Centennial Commission
Clukey, Richard (Dexter)
Coffin, Frank M. (Maine)
Cole, Alice
Committee of One Million
Committee Trip to Europe - Fall of 1949
Communism
Contraband Shipping - Brewster Investigation of - 1950
Cosmos Club
Crosby, Carl K.(pacific Coast Steamship Co.)
Curran, Thomas N.
Dan Smoot Report 1958-1959
Desk Memoranda 1/3
Desk Memoranda 2/3
Desk Memoranda 3/3
Dexter
Diggs, Marshall, R.
Dirksen, Sen. Everett M.
Dolan, Col. C.H.
Dorn, Hon. W.J. Bryan
Douglass, Dana C., Jr.
Dow Field Air Base
Dresser-ACA
Dresser-ACA
Dresser, Robert b.
Earles, Hon. William G.
Economic Council Lettter 1959
Economic Interpretation of Constitution of United States
Economy, Natioanl Budget
Education, Dept. of State of Maine
Educational TV
Educational TV
Eisenhower, Dwight
Elder, Harold S.
Elections - 1952
Emery, Roscoe C.
Estey, Horace
Fayscott Corporation
F.B.I.
Federal Appropriations - 1961
Federal Housing
Federal Positions - Maine
Federal - State Relations Committee
Feeney, Edward J.
Fellowship - June 1946 (Walter P. Reuther)
First Radio Parish Church
Flamingo Village
Foundation for Economic Education
Fredette, Robert Lee
Freedom, U.S.A.
Gadsby, Edward W.
Gaitskell, Hugh
Gannett Publishing Co.
General Electric Co.
German Dollars, Validation Board for
German Property - confiscated in the U.S.A.
Getchell, Dan
Giles, Everett L.
Gilette, Lydia
Gold Standard and British Industry - 1924
Goldwater, Sen. Barry
Gossett, Ed
Gould, John
Government Grain in Maine
Gov't. Printing Office
Greaves, Percy L., Jr.
Greenbie, Sydney
Grunewald, Henry
Guylay, L. Richard
Gwinn, Ralph W.
Hammer, Dr. Armand (memorandum)
Hanighen, Frank C.
Hannan, Anne (Houlton) (re: 1952 Primary & Bangor Commercial)
Hansen, Philip H.
Harris, Deborah
Hartigan, Col. John
Hartzell, J.S.
Harvard University and Law School
Hawaii State Hood
Hawkes, Albert W.
Hayes, Mrs. Mary M.
Hearst Corporation
Hertz Corporation
Highways
Hildreth, Horace
Hoffman, Clare E.
Holbrook, Linwood S.
Hopper, Hedda
House Disbursing Office
Howard, Perry W.
Howes, Allison P.
Hughes, Blackburn
Hughes
Hull, Cordell
Human Events
Human Events - 1952
Human Events - 1953
Human Events - 1954
Human Events - 1956
Human Events - 1957
Human Events Jan. thru July - 1958
Human Events Aug. thru Dec. - 1958
Human Events - 1959
Human Events Jan. thru July - 1960
Human Events Aug. thru Dec. - 1960
Human Events - 1961
Humphreys, Raymond V.
Hupper, Roscoe H.
Income Tax - Waiver of Exemption by Organization
Indonesia
International Joint Commission Owen Brewster Appointment
Invitations
Iran
Israel
Javits, J.K. Attorney General, New York State
Jenner, Hon. William E.
Jetronics
Johansen, Cong. August E. (Speech - 1958)
Johnson, Maj. Gen. Max S. (Address By)
Johnston, Felton M.
Jones, Fred
Jones, Robert L.
Kauffman, Reginald W.
Kelley, Hugh S.
Kerns, Mrs. R. D.
Klein, Ernest L.
Klein, Julius
Klein
KMLA Broadcasting Corp.
Knowland, Sen. William S.
Krushchev, Nikita
Lacroix, Hon. Ed
Lally, Charles A. M.D.
Landis, Benjamin
Leelenaur
Leavitt, Ralph A. (Customs Broker)
Leighton, Irving H. (re: Postmaster, Milbridge, Maine)
Lemus, Riemzi B. (Race Problem)
Levine, Laurence
Liberty Lobby
Library of Congress
Life Lines - 1960
Life Magazine (Spanish Edition)
Lincoln, Abraham
Loeb, William
Loftus Engineering Corp.
Long, Hamilton A.
Lord, Clarence J.
Lowe, Frank E.
McArthur, Douglas
Macleod, Don W.
Maine Automobile Assoc.
Maine Economy
Maine Geological Survey
Maine Publicity Bureau
Maine State C. of Commerce
Malone, Sen. George W.
Manganese - Maine
Manion Forum Network Weekly Broadcasts - 1958
Marsh, Richard S.T.
Martin, Marion
Martin, Walter B. -M.D.
Martin, Wm. Logan
Mathis, C. Robert Esq.
McCarran, Sen. Patt
McCarthy, Joseph R.
McCaskill, Frances
McCormick, Mrs. Stanley
McCullom, A.J.C., Dr.
Merchants National Bank of Boston
Middle East
Millinocket Airport
Minor, Gil
Miscellaneous
[Miscellaneous] 1/4
[Miscellaneous] 2/4
[Miscellaneous] 3/4
[Miscellaneous] 4/4
Moriarty, G. Andrews
Morris, Robert
Morse, Walter B.
Mowrer, Edgar Ansel
Mt. Desert Island Economic Survey
Murray, (Charles Murray Co.)
Muskie, Edmund S.
The Mutual Security Program for Fiscal Year 1953
National Associated Businessmen
National Bank of Washington
National Review 1958 - 1959 - 1960 - 1961
National Sojourners (Portland Chapter no. 92)
National Wildlife Federation
1921 Naval Report (immoral conditions at Newport, Rhode Island)
Near East
Negro Vote
News and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)
News from Germany 1953-1958
Newspapers in Congressional Districts of Congressmen on Ways and Means Committee
New York Herald Tribune
Nixon, Richard M.
Oak Grove School Vassalboro, Maine
Oakes, Raymond
O'Connell, John M.
Owen, Frederick H., Jr.
Owen, Harold, (Milo, Maine)
Panuch, J. Anthony
Parsons, Charles
Payne, Bruce
Payne, Sen. Frederick G.
Pearl Harbor
Pearson, Drew
Pearson, Drew - Re: Brewster's Seeking Chief Counsel for Sent. Operations Committee
Penquis Development Association
Perkins, James Blenn, Jr.
Perkins, John R.
Personal Bills
Philippines
Philippines
Pike, Sumner
Pleasant Street Methodist Church (Waterville)
Plymouth Plantation
Political, Maine
Political, Maine
Political, National
Portland Club
Portland Harbor
Postmaster General
Pozzy, Theo
Prentiss, H.W., Jr.
Puerto Rico
Pullen, Julia M.
Purinton, Edwin M.(State School for Boys)
Puterbaugh, J.G.
Putnam, Fred L.
Quoddy
Railroads
Reader's Digest (Admiral Theobald's Book)
Reece, Hon. B. Carroll
Reed, Gov. John H.
Republican National Committee
Republican Principles and Objectives
Richard H. Rush Enterprises
Riley, Annabel R. (Widow's Pension)
Rockland - Lermond's Cove
Roosevelt Address - Exerpt from 1932
Rosenthiel, Lewis S.
Rumely, Edward A.
Russia
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
San Francisco-National Geographic-1956
Scherer, Gordon H.
Simmons, William J.
Skowhegan
Smith, Dr. Lincoln (Recent trends in appointment of comissioners)
Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase, Smith
Snowden, Robert B.
Society of the Cincinnati
Society of Colonial Wars
Sokolsky, George E.
Somerset County - 1940 Primary Nomination Papers
Somerset County - 1940 Primary Nomination Papers
Spahr, Walter E.
Spain
Speaking Dates
Speeches - Brewster
Speeches, Owen Brewster
Spotlight for the Nation
Stahl, Jasper J.
Stanwood, Harold W., MD
State Department
State Department Letters (Dulles) 1952
Stoddard, Henry L.
Strauss, Lewis L. (Jan. 20, 1919)
Talbott, Harold
Taft, Robert
Teamsters Union
Teetor, Lothair
Textbook Study - D.A.R.
Textiles
Thye, Sen. Edward J.
State Department Travel Voucher
Temple of Understanding- Washington, D.C.
Texas Company (Oil)
Tuller Foundation
Tupper, Stanley R.
Turkey, Ships
Ukrainian Bulletin 1960
United Air Lines
United States v. Paul DeLucia
U.S. versus First Colony Savings & Loan Association
University of Maine
V.F.W.
Voting Machines - Maine
Voting Record - Brewster
Walker, DeLoss
Warren, Constance
Warren, George E.
Weeks, Sinclair
Whitaker & Baxter
Wiley, Alexander, Sen.
Williams, J. Harvie
Williams, Sen. John J.
Williamson, William B.
Willoughby C.A. Major General, G.S.C. - Asst. Chief of Staff, G-2
Wing, Eugene E., Estate of
Wood, John E.
Wood, Robert E.
Wooden Church Crusade
Worcester, Vernon A.; Soldier; North Sullivan, Maine
Wormwood, Ernest
Wyman, J. Hollis
Yoh, H.L. Company, Inc.
Yoh, H.L. Co., Inc. (Bobrink, John H. - Vice Pres.)
Zapp, Dr. Manfred (Germany)
This material, not in folders, consists of Senate bills and reports, pamphlets, newsletters, speeches and a few letters, supplementing the subject files. They cover topics such as transportation and politics.
Unarranged.
No container list available.
Pamphlets, reports, newsletters and other publications, acquired by Brewster for reference purposes. They include Maine tourist brochures and government publications; corporate and educational annual reports; anti-communist and segregationalist journals and pamphlets; Republican Party propaganda and campaign flyers for candidates for national office, most of the latter from 1960; and other pro-American publications. Several items from earlier years (as well as a few added after his death) are also included.
Arranged chronologically.
[Pamphlets, 1935-55]
[Pamphlets, 1956-58]
[Pamphlets, 1959-63]
Congressional reports and bills, federal department publications, and presidential reports and addresses, 1938-63, acquired by Brewster for reference purposes. They include information on post-World War II foreign aid and relations; national security, including communist infiltration, the Soviet Union and Cuba; small businesses; and federal budget and expenditures. Several items from earlier years, concerning issues in which he had a continuing interest, are also included.
Arranged chronologically.
[Pamphlets, 1938-63]
Official photographs dealing with political subjects from early in Brewster's gubernatorial career (1926) to the end of his Senate terms (1952). Particularly well-documented events are the 1943 investigative trip to examine U.S. military bases around the world; and the investigation of the Pearl Harbor bombing. Personal and family photographs form a part of the Brewster Biographical Collection.
Arranged chronologically.
1923-1947, n.d.
1926-1937
1926-May 1947
1939, n.d., campaign snapshots, unsorted and unidentified
June 1947-December 1948
1949-1953, n.d.
1943 Trip, Pearl Harbor investigation
1943 Trip (3.5x5) unsorted and unidentified
Unidentified
1943, Global tour...of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs to installations of the U.S. Armed Forces
1943 Aug 7-16, Senatorial committee tour of North African theater of operations
1943 Jul 30-Aug 6, Inspection trip...covering European theater of operations
Contains clippings covering Brewster's entire career: events, controversies, legislation, and political activities. Includes copies of mastheads where entire issues were reserved. Brewster retained newspaper clipping services throughout his career.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Materials are stored offsite and must be requested at least 1 full business day in advance for retrieval. Contact Special Collections & Archives before visiting. Otherwise, no restrictions.
1924-1926
1924-1926
1925-1926
1925-1926
1925-1927
1925-1927
1926-1934
1928
1928-1961
1929
1932-1933
1937-1950
1947-1951
1951
1952
1952
1952-1954
1954-1960
1956-1962
Travel diary, scrapbooks, certificates, political cartoons, and ephemera relating to Brewster and his political career. The diary records a global tour made in 1943; the scrapbooks are both political and personal, and relate to Brewster, his career or his family. Ephemera includes political campaign bumper stickers, buttons, and souvenirs; promotional posters; and engraving plates with Brewster's picture.
Arranged chronologically.
Travel diary recording a global tour that included Europe, the Near East, South Asia, Australia, and the South Pacific, from July-September, 1943. Scrapbooks, political and personal, relating to Brewster, his career or his family; containing clippings, photographs, invitations and letters. Most are divided by the offices in which he served, i.e. Maine senate (1922-1924) and governor (1924-1928), U.S. House (1935-1939) and Senate (1942-1949). Several relate to Senate trips to World War II theaters of operation; others, possibly kept by Mrs. Brewster, concern Washington social life (1935-1939), or the family, especially the legal career of Charles F. Brewster (1947-1961).
Arranged chronologically.
Scrapbook on Maine state senator: 1922-1924
Governorship scrapbook: 1924-1928
Photograph scrapbook, "Maine Pilgrims and Their Southern Hosts, February 1-20, 1926"
Dexter, Maine [1935-1939]
Washington, D.C. [Social, 1935-1936]
Washington scrapbook [Social] 1938-1939
Diary of trip from Puerto Rico to Florida, 1941 Dec 11-16
S.S. Ocean Wayfarer christened by Mrs. Ralph O. Brewster [1942]
The Subcommittee of the Special Senate Committee Investigating the National Defense Program in the European and Mediterranean theaters of operations May 17, 1943 - June 9, 1945
Travel diary for global tour, 1943 Jul-Sep
Washington, D.C. [1945] [one page only]
Brewster Committee - U.S. Senate [1947]
Agricultural program of Secretary Brannan, The Potato Program [1949]
[Family, including the career of Charles F. Brewster, 1947-1961]
American Republics Lines ... Rio de Janeiro - S. Paulo - Santos [195-]
Certificates, political cartoons, and ephemera, including bumper stickers, buttons, and posters. Also included are some engraving plates with Brewster's picture.
Arranged chronologically.
Certificates, 1922-1951, n.d.
Certificates, 1941-1958
Ephemera, 1942, 1943, n.d.
Ephemera
Pencil sketch of Brewster (head and shoulders) by Norman F. Todhunter, Capt. Air Corps, n.d.
Political cartoons, 1945-1951, n.d.
Audio recordings of speeches made by Ralph Owen Brewster between 1943 and 1947 and recorded on long playing records (12 inch and 15 inch). These recordings are also available on CD.
Arranged chronologically.
No restrictions.
(All LP recordings are also available on CD. The CDs are located in Mss. CD Box 1)
1943 Oct 6. MacArthur's Strategies, From the March of Time. 12 inch, 78 rpm.
1943 Dec 1. The Value of Petroleum, Speech at Standard Oil Company, Baltimore, MD. 15 inch, 33 1/3 rpm.
1944 Feb 6. WWII and Oil Concerns, World Front. 15 inch, 33 1/3 rpm.
1945 Sep 27. Atomic Bomb, American Town Meeting of the Air. 12 inch, 78 rpm.
1947 Mar 4. Potato Surplus in Maine and Other Maine Wartime Concerns. 15 inch, 33 1/3 rpm.
1947 Sep 18. Food Shortages in America, Parmer from Washington interview with Brewster. 15 inch, 33 1/3 rpm.
Nov 12 [n.y.] Oil Controversies, Richard Hollet. 15 inch, 33 1/3 rpm.
[n.d.] Facts About Airpower, Time is Running Out, National Air Council. 15 inch, 33 1/3 rpm.
[n.d.] Salute to States (Maine), American Expeditionary Station, recorded in Africa. 15 inch, 33 1/3 rpm.