Robert H. Tucker Papers, 1923/1957

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
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Preferred citation:

Robert H. Tucker Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
5.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Tucker, Robert H.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Robert H. Tucker Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers; 1923-1957; of Robert H. Tucker, professor of economics at Washington and Lee University, who served on Virginia Commission on County Government and the Virginia Commission on State and Local Government. Includes articles, speeches, lectures, reports and other writings concerning Virginia state and local government, tax reform, education, highways, economics, and Washington and Lee University. Most of the material is undated.

5 items

Folders 3 to 19

Outline

Speech and Article

Speech to the Fortnightly Club

Outline and report

Presidential Address to Southern Economic Association

Letter to the New York Times

Folders 20-31

Reprinted from the South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. XXII, No. 2

Speech

Report on the matter of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company & International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 464

Subject material

By Edward D. Jones

Folders 32-54

Speech at the Fortnightly Club

Speech at the Fortnightly Club

Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association

Review by Robert H. Tucker

Presidential Address to the Southern Economic Association

Speech to the Fortnightly Club

Address to the Virginia Society of the Cincinatti

On price controls

On the pension system

Lectures and Outline

Scope and Contents "Possible Methods of Minimizing Business Fluctuations," by W.A. King; "Multiple Banking and Bank Merging," by Oscar Wells; "Distribution and its effects upon production," by Edward A. Filene; "The Present Status and Future Prospects of Chains of Department Stores," by Edward A. Filene; "Unemployment; Industry Seeks a Solution,"; "Coming changes in Distribution," by Edward A Filene; Address at Washington and Lee by Albert H. Morrill on April 23, 1931; "The South's challenge to Youth," by David E. Lilienthal; "An Increased Income for the South," by David E. Lilienthal

Scope and Contents "Possible Methods of Minimizing Business Fluctuations," by W. A. King; "Multiple Banking and Bank Merging," by Oscar Wells; "Distribution and its effects upon production," by Edward A. Filene; "The Present Status and Future Prospects of Chains of Department Stores," by Edward A. Filene; "Unemployment; Industry Seeks a Solution,"; "Coming changes in Distribution," by Edward A Filene; Address at Washington and Lee by Albert H. Morrill on April 23, 1931; "The South's challenge to Youth," by David E. Lilienthal; "An Increased Income for the South," by David E. Lilienthal

Folders 55-61

Excerpts from speech on Founder's Day in Farmville

Speech delivered to the Fortnightly Club

Typed copy of letter from Lord Macauley to Honorable H. S. Randall of New York regarding the dangers of pure democracy

Address by Henry Wallace

Folders 62-73

National Muncipal Review, Vol XVII, No. 11

Delivered to the Fortnightly Club

Speech delivered to the Fortnightly Club

Scope and Contents "The State Corporation Commission of Virginia," by Edmund C. Campbell; "Outline of our State Trends," by LeRoy Hodges; "Virginia in the Building," by LeRoy Hodges; "State Chamber's Work for Hampton Roads," by LeRoy Hodges; "Some Problems of the New Virginia," by LeRoy Hodges

Scope and Contents "The State Corporation Commission of Virginia," by Edmund C. Campbell; "Outline of our State Trends," by LeRoy Hodges; "Virginia in the Building," by LeRoy Hodges; "State Chamber's Work for Hampton Roads," by LeRoy Hodges; "Some Problems of the New Virginia," by LeRoy Hodges

Letter of Clyde King, office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Robert H. Tucker on November 13, 1925. Reorganization of the administration machinery of the State of Pennsylvania. Letter of A. E. Buck, Institute of Public Administration, to Robert H. Tucker regarding the Department of Finance on March 3, 1941.

Folders 75 to 97

Delivered to Fortnightly Club

American County Life Conference

Robert H. Tucker's comments

National Muncipal Review, Volume 21, No. 8

Radio broadcast

Adapted from an address delivered at the Virginia Highway Conference

"Can Local Government be Preserved in our Rural Areas?" by Paul Wager, University of North Carolina

Organization charts

Letter from Wylie Kirkpatrick regarding county government

Folders 98-103

Scope and Contents "Highway Conditions and Highway Needs in Virginia," includes comments regarding other reports

Folders 104-111

Address given to Association of Virginia Colleges in Roanoke

Annual Meeting of the Association of Virginia Colleges in Fredericksburg

Address given to Virginia Education Association

The Report of the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council

Scope and Contents "Intelligence is not enough," by W. H. Cowley and "How to Avoid Teaching American History," by Matthew Page Andrews

Folders 112-133

Article adapted from address given at the Manhattan Alumni Association

Washington and Lee, typescript for booklet

Association of American Colleges

Addressing students and faculty of Washington and Lee

32 pages; 2 copies

8 page handwritten speech

2 page speech

Scope and Contents Reminescences of student life at the College. Similar speech delivered December 10, 1953. Notes on the "Seven Wise Men," at the college

39 page typed undated paper

Biographical / historical:

Robert H. Tucker was a member of the class of 1893 at the College of William and Mary. He was professor of economics and business administration from 1919-1946 and dean of Washington and Lee University. Tucker served as chairman of the Virginia Commission on County Government, 1930-1932; member of Virginia Commission on Sate and Local Government, 1922-1924; chairman of the Industrial Commission of Virginia, 1918-1919; and economic consultant to the Virginia Department of Highways, 1953-1957. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Acquisition information:
Gift
Physical description:
200.00 (138 folders)