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Title[Speeches from the Congress on Education for Democracy]TypeNonMusicAudioMonographContributionCongress on Education for Democracy (1939 : Columbia University) (Contributor)Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 (Contributor)Smith, Thomas Vernor, 1890-1964 (Contributor)Stamp, Josiah, Sir, 1880-1941 (Contributor)Lazaron, Morris S. (Morris Samuel), 1888-1979 (Contributor)Murray, John (Contributor)Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 (Contributor)Hankin, G. T. (Gerald Thornton) (Contributor)Coffin, Henry Sloane, 1877-1954 (Contributor)Pegis, Anton C. (Anton Charles), 1905-1978 (Contributor)Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-1983 (Contributor)Taber, Louis J. (Contributor)Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951 (Contributor)Aldrich, Winthrop W. (Winthrop Williams), 1885-1974 (Contributor)Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, Earl, 1867-1947 (Contributor)Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Contributor)Bigelow, Karl W. (Karl Worth) (Contributor)McAfee, Mildred H., 1900- (Contributor)Cartwright, Morse A. (Morse Adams), 1890- (Contributor)Briggs, Thomas Henry, 1877-1971 (Contributor)Prentis, H. W. (Henning Webb), 1884- (Contributor)Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection (Library of Congress) (Contributor) ClassificationLCC: LWO 6312 reel 62, A5-B4 (preservation master - not for playback) LCC: RXA 5692 A5-B4 (playback copy) Could not render: bf:statusCould not render: bf:statusSummaryExcerpts from speeches given at the Congress on Education for Democracy. Leading educators, labor, business, and industrial leaders from the U.S. and Europe meet to discuss common educational problems facing democratic countries in the past, present and future and ways to increase the quality and quantity of training in democratic principles that citizens receive. Features professor and historian, Charles A. Beard, Representative Thomas V. Smith, leading British economist Sir Josiah Stamp, Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron, John Murray, principal of Univ. College of the South West of England, author Dorothy Canfield Fisher, vice-chairman of Assoc. for Education for Citizenship in Great Britain G.T. Hankin, Henry Sloan Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, Anton Charles Pegis, asst. prof. of Philosophy, Fordham Univ., educator Mordecai M. Kaplan, Louis J. Taber, president of the National Grange, British labor leader Ernest Bevin, lawyer, banker, and diplomat Winthrop W. Aldrich, former prime minister of Great Britain Earl Baldwin, Nicholas M. Butler, president of Columbia University, author Karl W. Bigelow, Mildred H. McAfee, president of Wellesley College, professor and director of American Assoc. of Adult Education, Morse A. Cartwright, educator and author Thomas H. Briggs, and H.W. Prentis, president of Armstrong Cork Co.CaptureDate: 1939-08-151939-08-17Recorded Aug. 15-17, 1939, at Columbia University in New York City.Authorized Access PointCongress on Education for Democracy (1939 : Columbia University) [Speeches from the Congress on Education for Democracy]