J.L. Tupy collection on Adolph J. Sabath, 1849-1953 | Louisiana Research Collection

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Box 1: Sabath material

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1934, 1945-1952

The correspondence includes the following items:

A carbon copy of a letter, dated 1934 December 17, written by J.L. Tupy to Representatives in Congress, asking them to vote for A.J. Sabath for Democratic Floor Leader;

A carbon copy of a letter, dated 1945 December 18, from Sabath to President Harry S. Truman, urging him to appoint Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, William Jennings Bryan's daughter, as a member of the United States delegation of the United Nations Assembly;

A telegram, dated 1946 May 4, from President Harry S. Truman, congratulating Sabath on forty years' service in the House of Representatives;

Autographed letter signed, dated 1946 August 8, from Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, to Sabath, thanking him for placing in the Congressional Record, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of her father's first nomination for the Presidency, Ambassador Joseph Daniels' account of the 1896 Chicago Convention;

Three letters from various countrymen.

Folder 2: Autobiographical notes of Congressman Adolph Sabath

These notes were either written or dictated by Sabath. The narrative covers the period from 1882 to the 1930s. In Czech and English.

Folder 3: Biographical notes on Adolph Sabath

These notes, which are in J.L. Tupy's hand, cover the period from Sabath's birth in 1866 to the 1890s. They contain information about Sabath's early life before his emigration to the United States. Chiefly in English, but there are some Czech words and phrases.

Folder 4: Sabath and World War I

Notes dictated by Sabath, 1952 April 7, to J.L. Tupy, concerning the assistance he gave the Roumanian government in securing a war loan. In English.

Folder 5: Sabath and World War I, fragment

This two-page manuscripts is incomplete. It may be in Sabath's hand. In Czech.

Folder 6: Adolph Sabath Memoirs

Sabath began dictating his memoirs to J.L. Tupy in 1952. The narrative begins with Sabath's arrival in the United States in 1881 and continues through the 1930s. The reminiscences are not in straight chronological order. Sabath mainly discusses his political career. There are almost no references to his private life. The first page is numbered "500" and contains the notation "A.J.'s personal dictation 7/11/52." There are seventy numbered sheets, written on both sides. Notation on pages 513, 519, 542, 554, and 566 indicate that the memoirs were probably dictated onto a recording device and were later transcribed.

After the memoir there are seven pates on which were transcribed eight letters from President Harry S. Truman to Sabath, and one letter each from Prseident Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Cordell Hull. In English.

Folder 7: Other biographical notes and Adolph Sabath biography

Biographical notes-In English.

Biography- typed carbon copy. This is an incomplete typescript copy of a biography of Congressman Sabath written by J.L. Tupy. The biography, which is largely based on the autobiographical and biographical notes kept by Tupy and on Sabath's memoirs, covers the period from 1866 to approximately 1910.

Folder 8: Part I, Sabath's childhood in Bohemia

In Czech. Typed (carbon).

Folder 9: Part II, Emigration of Sabath to the United States of America

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 10: Part III, About the first letter Sabath wrote to his parents from America

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 11: Part V, About Sabath's activities in America among the Czechs and Slovaks in the country

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 12: Part VI, About the beginnings of Sabath's commercial and political career in America

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 13: Part VII, Sabath's election as Municipal Judge and later as Congressman

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 14: Part XIII, About the foundation of the Czech Orphanage in Chicago and Sabath biographical sketches

Part XIII.- Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Biographical sketches- Typed (carbon). In addition to the typescript of the Sabath biography, there are eight brief articles dealing with various aspects of Sabath's political career. Tupy may have planned to incorporate these into the biography.

Folder 15: Sabath in the working class movement in Chicago: his struggle for social justice, 1893

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 16: Sabath's election as Democratic Congressman from Chicago in 1906 and his departure for Washington

Typed (carbon). In Czech. This contains information on the social democratic movement in the Czech section of Chicago.

Folder 17: Chicago Mayor Carter H. Harrison and his close relations with Sabath

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 18: Nomination of Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and Sabath's attitude

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 19: Sabath's struggle in 1917 for the independence of the small national groups of Central and Eastern Europe

Typed (original and carbons). In Czech. This also contains Sabath's speech of 1917 December 7.

Folder 20: Sabath's struggle against speculators, 1929

Box 2: Sabath and Tupy material

Folder 1: Sabath's activities in the New Deal

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 2: World history as a source of Sabath's ideas

Incomplete. Typed (carbon). In Czech

Folder 3: Speeches, articles, scripts by or about Sabath

Typed. Congressman Sabath on immigration. Typed (carbon). In English.

Folder 4: Columbus Day speech, 1949 October 11

Carbon, with pencil deletions and addenda. In Czech.

Folder 5: Speech on water usage of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan

Typed (carbon). In English.

Folder 6: Adolph J. Sabath article in the Chicago Czech publication Svornost, undated, after 1918

Incomplete. Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 7: "A Tribute to Greatness, Adolph J. Sabath," radio script by Irving Litvag, Program #237, American Jewish Hour, 1951 September 9 Sunday

Typed (carbon). In English.

Folder 8: Untitled political speech, 1936 October 20

Concerning Republican economic policies, which Sabath believed were inimical to the interests of the "little people." Typed (carbon). In English.

Folder 9: Photograph of Adolph J. Sabath, undated

Folder 10: "Administration of Bankruptcy Law, Special Report on the Sabath Bill," Chicago Bar Record, 1937 April

Folder 11: Congressional Record, XCIX, 1, 1953 January 3

On pages 28-31 there are eulogies honoring the deceased Adolph Sabath made by his colleagues on the House floor.

Folder 12: J.L. Tupy correspondence, 1938-1939, 1952-1953

The correspondence includes the following items:

Letter signed, dated 1938 January 18, from Lloyd G. Stark, Governor of Missouri, to Tupy, thanking him for his cooperation in the investigation of the Missouri State Life Insurance Company by the Sabath Committee;

A carbon copy of a letter from Tupy to President Roosevelt, explaining his opposition to the appointment of Jesse Jones to the proposed Federal Loan Agency;

Correspondence with Ann Faris, concerning Tupy's association with T.G. Masaryk.

Folder 13: J.L. Tupy memoir

"Some incidents of my Associationship with Professor T.G. Masaryk," 1952 March 20. Typed (original) with numerous pencil corrections and addenda. In English.

Folder 14: J.L. Tupy Notebook

This notebook, in Tupy's hand, covers the period from 1890 May 28 to 1906 November 13. The entries, which appear to be summaries of news stories from newspapers, chiefly concern the labor movement, social problems, and economic developments. There is no personal material about either Tupy or Sabath. Manuscript. In English.

Folder 15: J.L. Tupy radio addresses, 1936 February 24

Typed. There were radio addresses made by J.L. Tupy on behalf of Congressman Adolph J. Sabath over station WCFL of Chicago. The addresses were to inform Sabath's constituents of his work in Congress.

Folder 16: J.L. Tupy radio addresses, 1936 March 11

Typed. There were radio addresses made by J.L. Tupy on behalf of Congressman Adolph J. Sabath over station WCFL of Chicago. The addresses were to inform Sabath's constituents of his work in Congress.

Folder 17: J.L. Tupy radio addresses, 1936 May 26

Typed. There were radio addresses made by J.L. Tupy on behalf of Congressman Adolph J. Sabath over station WCFL of Chicago. The addresses were to inform Sabath's constituents of his work in Congress.

Folder 18: J.L. Tupy radio addresses, 1936 June 4

Typed. There were radio addresses made by J.L. Tupy on behalf of Congressman Adolph J. Sabath over station WCFL of Chicago. The addresses were to inform Sabath's constituents of his work in Congress.

Folder 19: J.L. Tupy report

Introduction to the report. Typed (carbon). In English.

This is a report submitted by J.L. Tupy, Chief Investigator, to the Select Committee to Investigate Bondholder's Reorganizations, Adolph J. Sabath, Chairman, 1938 May 16. According to the donor of the collection, the information contained in this report was suppressed.

Folder 20: J.L. Tupy report

Final Report to the Select Committee. Typed (carbon). In English.

This is a report submitted by J.L. Tupy, Chief Investigator, to the Select Committee to Investigate Bondholder's Reorganizations, Adolph J. Sabath, Chairman, 1938 May 16. According to the donor of the collection, the information contained in this report was suppressed.

Box 3: Other papers and printed materials

Folder 1: On the history of the first Czech immigrants in America

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 2: On the first Czech immigrants in Chicago (after 1852)

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 3: Czech Day at the World Exposition in Chicago, 1893

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 4: Wilsonian ideology of the New Freedom

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 5: The Bohemian nobleman Count Lützow and the United States of America, 1912

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 6: Visit of Count Dr. F. Lützow in New York, his reception by the House of Representatives, and his reception by President Taft

Typed (carbon). In Czech. Sabath organized the trip.

Folder 7: Governor Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States and his activities, 1917-1918

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 8: From the Revolutionary War against English Imperialism to the Declaration of American Independence

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 9: The contribution of Woodrow Wilson toward the independence of Czechoslovakia (an extract from a pamphlet)

Typed (original). In Czech.

Folder 10: On Woodrow Wilson, 1924 February

Extracts from the monthly Slovo February 1924.

Typed (original). In Czech.

Folder 11: The visit to America by the Czech Falcon Movement in 1909

Typed (original and carbons). In Czech.

Folder 12: The Aristocrat-Politician: Count Albert Apponyi, Count Lützow before Congress

Typed (original). In English.

Folder 13: Fragment

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 14: Casopis Ceského Museum, 1849

Folder 15: Casopis Musea Království Ceského, 1862

Folder 16: Casopis Musea Království Ceského, 1864

Folder 17: Casopis Musea Království Ceského, 1866

Folder 18: United States War Department, General Orders number 29, 1945 April 13

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announces to the Army the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Folder 19: David Gilbert and James P. Sullivan, Frauds...Misrepresentations...Confiscations...Mysteries in Life Insurance--and what to do about it, 1937

Philadelphia.

Folder 20: Robert R. McCormick, The Sacking of America, 1932

Chicago.

Folder 21: George W. Rossetter, The National Organization to Reduce Public Expenditures, undated

Chicago.

Folder 22: George W. Rosseter, The Taxpayer Reaches the End of His Financial Rope, 1932

Chicago.

Folder 23: Revenues Drop, Deficit Grows--Voter Must Act Now, undated

Chicago.

Volume 1: J.L. Tupy real estate ledger, 1926-1930

Contains records of rents collected, other income, and disbursements.