GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/31/1945 - HFSID 293584
Price: $120.00
GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE
Brief typed letter from the Maryland Senator on his Banking and
Currency Committee stationery
Typed Letter signed: "George L. Radcliffe" as US
Senator, 1 page, 8x½, affixed to an 8½x11 page which also bears a
transmittal envelope on verso with Radcliffe's stamped frank. Washington,
D.C., 1945 July 31. On letterhead of the Senate Committee on Banking and
Currency to Ralph Errington Ward, Washington, D.C. In full: "I
received your letter requesting my autograph, and it is a pleasure to send it to
you. Sincerely yours". GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE (1877-1974), a lawyer with
a PhD in history, was Maryland's Secretary of State (1919-1920) and US
Senator (1935-1947). Although a close friend and ally of President Franklin
Roosevelt, even accused of being a "rubber stamp" for the New Deal, he broke
with FDR on the President's plan to expand ("pack") the Supreme Court.From the collection of Ralph Errington Ward (1926-2009) a fighter
pilot and squadron commander in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II.
Ward went on to become President and CEO of Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc.,
transforming the cosmetics firm into a major home product conglomerate. Multiple
mailing folds. Lightly creased and toned. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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