Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081 U.S.A.

Papers of Devere Allen - Document Group 53

CHECKLIST TO THE PAPERS OF DEVERE ALLEN

SERIES D-2 

WORLDOVER PRESS

 

Box 1
History, [1942]-1955
Literature, communications, and form letters, 1942-1955, n.d. (6 folders)
see also Promotion and circulation, box 9
 
Box 2
Plans for Worldover Press, 1942-1955
Publications monitored by Devere and Marie Allen, 1948-1949, n.d.
Correspondence about World Interpreter, 1949-1955, n.d.
Symposium of College Presidents on treatment of post-war Germany,
sponsored by Worldover Press, 1944-1945
Commendation, messages of , 1942-1955 (3 folders)
Anniversary dinner, 1954: preparations
Anniversary dinner, 1954: list of invitees
Anniversary dinner, 1954: publicity
Anniversary dinner, 1954: correspondence
Anniversary dinner, 1954: speeches
Anniversary dinner, 1954: post-dinner appeals
 
Box 3
Finance Committee, 1954-1955
Finance: contributors, [1935]-1955 (2 folders)
Finance: budgets and statements (1942-1955)
Finance: financial reports (audited) (1945-1955)
 
Box 4
Finance: taxation: withholding information, 1943-1955
Finance: taxation: tax-exempt status (U.S.), 1942-1955 (2 folders)
Finance: taxation: tax-exempt status (Connecticut), 1937-1948
Finance: taxation: tax returns (U.S. and Connecticut), 1945-1955
Finance: unemployment compensation, 1937-1942
Finance: grants: foundations, 1948-1952
Finance: grants: Ford Foundation, 1950-1952
Finance: grants: Paine Foundation, 1951-1954
 
Box 5
Finance: DA's expense diaries, 1945-1954
 
Box 6
Finance: Ledger book, staff salaries and expenses, 1941-1944
Finance: Staff records for Social Security, 1945-1955
 
Box 7
Worldover Press incorporation: Articles of Association, By-Laws, 1944
Officers and members of Worldover Press Corporation 1944, 1955
Worldover Press Corporation meetings:
January 31, 1945
May 18, 1945
Sept. 6, 1946
June 20, 1946
June 29, 1949
June 6, 1950
June 6, 1951
Feb. 26, 1954
Dec. 16, 1954
Sept. 16, Sept. 27, Oct. 28, 1955
 
Box 8
Reports to Worldover Press Corporation, by DA and G. Inman, 1946-1955
Correspondence re: Worldover Press Corporation, 1943-1958
Replies to questionnaire [ca. 1953?]
European Project, prospectus, 1946
European Project, contributors solicited, 1946-1947
European Project, finance, 1946-1948
Overseas News Agency, 1944-1948 (2 folders)
American Institute of International Information, 1950-1954
 
Box 9
Promotion and circulation, 1942-1955, n.d.
Promotion and circulation: advertisements for Worldover Press and
World Interpreter, 1942-1954, n.d.
Promotion and circulation: Latin America, 1951-1954
Promotion and circulation: work done by outside agencies, 1943 1951
Promotion and circulation: Burgess dinner, 1949-1951
Promotion and circulation: Biddle Press Award (proposed), 1951 1952
Promotion and circulation: to libraries, 1953-1954
Promotion and circulation: rates, 1948-1950
 
Box 10
Worldover Press client lists, 1942-1954
Changes to client lists, 1950-1955 (2 folders)
Worldover Press subscriber lists, 1942-1954
 
Box 11
Worldover Press clients lists, Latin America ([mid 1940s?])
Worldover Press client lists, arranged by country (excluding Latin America) [1947?]
 
Box 12
File of index cards of Worldover Press correspondents and subscribers (unprocessed)
 
Box 13
File of index cards of Worldover Press correspondents and subscribers
(continued) (unprocessed)
 
Box 14
Files of index cards of Worldover Press subscribers (unprocessed)
 
Box 15
Files of index cards: 1) inactive file, subscribers and contributors; 2) geographical file of financial prospects, contributors, interviews, editors (unprocessed)
 
Box 16
File of index cards of inactive subscribers and contributors (unprocessed)
 
Box 17
Files of cards of index of releases (unprocessed)
 
Box 18
Subscribers to World Interpreter (envelopes), ca. 1949? (unprocessed)
 
Box 19
Card file of papers read by DA and MA (unprocessed; left as found)
 
Box 20
Information for correspondents, 1942-1955
Lists of WP correspondents, 1942-1955
Correspondence to and about WP correspondents, 1942-1948
Special articles (includes correspondence):
Alba, Victor. I Was a Minister of Stalin: Hernandez' Revelations of
Spanish Civil War, 1953
Alba, Victor. Remember the Spanish People, 1950
Allen, Devere. For Them That Despitefully Use You, 1948
Allen, Devere. Paul-Henri Spaak, "President of Everything", 1948
Allen, Devere. Swiss Flag, War Orphans, World View, 1947
Allen, Devere. Trieste: Symbol of a World in Fission, 1948
Allen, Devere. University Sanitorium, 1948. (Correspondence only, article not found)
Allen, Marie. Switzerland Faces an Issue, 1948
Bock, Paul. Churches From Rubble, 1948
Clifford, Cay. Catholic Italy's Key Protestant, 1950
Cranston, Maurice. The London World, [series of columns, undated, probably 1940s]
Fabra Ribas, A. Colombia's Crisis -- Its Moral Roots, 1949
Fliegers, Serge. San Francisco -- And After, 1945
Hubbard, Hugh W. The Chinese Communists and Religion, 1953
Inman, Samuel Guy. How Mexico Votes, 1952
Joesten, Joachim, Various articles [ca. 1949]
 
Box 21
Kozaki, Michio. Evangelist's Paradise -- Japan, 1953
Kozaki, Michio. Will Japan Become Christian? 1950
Kurashige, Tetsuichi. Can Japan Be Democratized? 1949
Lester, Muriel. The Japan Nobody Knows, 1951
Lewis, Alfred Baker. The Balance Sheet for Racial Justice, 1951
Niemoeller, Martin. German Unity and Peace, 1950
Pioli, Giovanni. Italian Peace Workers Find Tough Going, 1949
Pioli, Giovanni. Will Italy Legalize Its War Objectors? 1951
Sen, Ramar Sanjan. Has Gandhi's Method Been Forgotten? 1947
Sayre, John Nevin. South Africa: Land of Gold and Discord, 1952
Sunder-Rao, Mark. India's Christians Caught in Crossfire, 1954
Sweetser, Arthur. Latin America and World Organization, 1954
see also Series B-1, Writings of Devere Allen
Articles by Latin American authors [undated]
Articles by Latin American authors, 1954
Articles by Latin American authors, 1955
Articles about Europe (adult religious), 1946-1947
Articles about Europe (youth religious), 1947-1948
 
Box 22
Source materials for releases (examples), 1950s (4 folders)
 
Box 23
Lease for Worldover Press offices, 1947
Worldover Press trademark/trade name, 1941-1949
Brookside Press (WP's printer) correspondence, 1942-1949
Letterhead samples and correspondence about, 1944-1955
Worldover Press logo, mats for (n.d.)
U.S. Post Office correspondence, 1943-1949
Office expansion, 1937
Dissolution of Worldover Press, 1955
Inventory of furniture and equipment, 1955
Correspondence/proposals re: successor organization to Worldover Press, 1955-1956
 
Box 24
Worldover Press, Vol. 10, no. 1-Vol. 15, no. 15 (Jan. 7, 1942-Dec. 27, 1946 (13 folders)
 
Box 25
Worldover Press, Vol. 15, no. 16-[unnumbered] (Jan. 3, 1947-Dec. 21, 1951) (14 folders)
 
Box 26
Worldover Press, Jan. 4, 1952-Aug. 26, 1955 (5 folders)
Worldover Press, unnumbered releases, Oct. 7, 1942-June 7, 1944
A set of Worldover Press is in the Peace Collection periodical area for the years 1942-1949.
 
Box 27
World Interpreter, Vol. 1, no. 18-Vol. 6, no. 15 (July 28, 1950-Sept. 9, 1955) (11 folders)
A complete set of World Interpreter is in the Peace Collection periodical area.
The successor periodical, World-Around Press, Mar. 1, 1956-Mar. 6, 1958,
is also in the Peace Collection periodical area.