James G. Stahlman Papers
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1915 - 1976
Chronology
1930 JGS elected pres. of Banner
1931 June/July -- elected v.p. of TN State Press Assn.
1932 April 27-29 -- ANPA (NYC)
July -- JGS elected pres. of SNPA
1933 Jan. 9 -- speech to Am. Assn. of Univ. Women
Jan. 13-14 -- speech to PA Newspaper Publishers Assn. (Harrisburg) Jan. 27 -- speech to NY State Publishers Assn. (Syracuse) Feb. 19-20 -- SNPA (Nashville) - Bd. of Dirs. April -- ANPA (NYC) June 26-28 -- SNPA Conv. (Chattanooga, TN) Luke Lea Scandal
1934 April 24-27 -- ANPA (NYC) June 25 -- speech to SNPA Sept. 24 -- speech to Middle TN Retail Grocers Assn. c. Sept. 24 -- radio speech re: Constitution/New Deal 1935 Jan. 17 -- speech to NY State Publishers Assn. Jan. 24 -- speech to NC Press Institute (Chapel Hill, NC) Feb. -- speech to TX Newspaper Publishers Assn. (Beaumont, TX) March 4 -- SNPA (Birmingham) April -- ANPA (JGS elected v.p.) May 20-22 -- SNPA (Hot Springs, AR) Sept. 13 -- speech to NY Press Assn. (honoring Jerome Barnum)\ 1936 Feb. 14 -- speech to TN College Press Assn. April 21-24 -- ANPA (NYC) June -- Democratic Convention
1937 March 2 -- speech to 50 Years in Business Club (Nashville) April 23 -- speech to ANPA (JGS elected pres.) May 14 -- ANPA testimonial dinner honoring JGS (Nashville Chamber of Commerce) May 19 -- speech to Sheriffs & Peace Officers Assn (?) July 18-21 -- speech to NEA (Detroit; "A Free Press the Right of a Free People") Sept. 20-25 -- speech to Columbia Univ. School of Journalism (NYC) Oct. 6 -- keynote speech to Herald-Tribune's Forum on World Problems Oct. 19 -- speech to Inland Daily Press Assn. (Chicago, "Some Things for the Press to Think About") Dec. 10 -- speech to ANPA (Wash. DC)
1938 Jan. 1-5 -- speech to FL Industrial Day (Fernandina, FL) Jan. 8 -- speech to TN Society of St. Louise Jan. 14 -- speech honoring Charles H. Herty (Jacksonville, FL) April 27 -- speech to ANPA (NYC) April 28 -- speech to Advertising Club of NY (NYC, "Responsibilities-Yours & Mine") May-June -- SNPA Aug -- Time, Fortune newspaper probe controversy Nov. 29 -- speech to Southern States Industrial Council ("A Free Press in a Democracy")
1939 Jan. 20 -- speech to Fresno Advertising Club (Fresno, CA, "Your Business & Mine") Jan. 21 -- speech to CA Newspaper Publishing Assn. (LA, "A Free Press in a Democracy") Jan. 27 -- speech to CO Press Assn. (Boulder, on radio) April 26 -- speech to NY World's Fair (re: Freedom of Press Statue) April 26-28 -- speech to ANPA (NYC) May 4 -- speech tp US Chamber of COmmerce (Wash. DC, "Free Enterprise & a Free Press") June 15-17 -- SNPA (Old Comfort, VA) July 10-12 -- speech to Ntl. Assn. of Broadcasters (Atlantic City, NJ) July 13 -- Broadcast from London to Ntl. Assn. of Broadcasters (Atlantaic City, NJ) c.July 24-27 -- speech to PACA (Oakland, CA)
1940 Feb. 19 -- speech to Economic Club of Detroit ("The Govt., a Free Press & the People") April 25 -- ANPA (NYC) April 29 -- Southern States Industrial Council (Wash. DC) June -- Republican Ntl. Convention (Philadelphia) June 18- -- in Alaska Dec. 3 -- ANPA (NYC) Dec. 17 -- luncheon for H.R. KNickerbocker (Nashville)
1941 April 24 -- ANPA (NYC) JGS vs. FCC (HGS as org. of Press-Radio Bureau)
1943 April 22 -- ANPA "Victory Dinner" (NYC)
1946 March 29 -- Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam Column
1949 April 23 -- ASNE (NYC) c. May 1 -- Frank C. Stahlman dies (uncle) Nov. -- elected Fellow in Sigma Delta Chi (journalism society)
1950 Feb. 20 -- rec'd key - Sigma Delta Chi (Columbia, MO, School of Journalism) April -- rec'd Order of the Southern Cross (from Brazilian amb.) July 10 -- Laymen's League of Gay-Lea Christian Fellowship Church program
1951 March -- IAPA (Mexico) April -- ASNE May 22 -- Testimonial dinner for JGS June 9 -- elected to Bd. of Coosa River Newsprint Co. Nov. 16-Dec. 8 -- Tour of Europe & Middle East w/Pentagon ("Europe Revisited" articles) Banner's 75th Anniversary: March 29 April 10 (Eddie Rickenbacker) May 19 (Clifton Gates) Sept. 5 (Fulton Oursler) Oct. 10 (William Laurence) Nov. 9 (George Sokolsky)
IAPA (Montevideo)
1953 March -- IAPA (Jamaica) April 15 -- speech to Women's Ntl. Press Club (Wash. DC) April 17-22 -- ANPA (NYC) May 26 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. bd. mtg. (NYC) Nov. 23-24 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. bd. mtg.
1954 March 15-25 -- IAPA (Puerto Rico) April -- ASNE April -- AP, ANPA April 19 -- ANPA Stag Party (NYC) Aug. 19 -- Newhouse Purchase offer Sept.-Nov. -- South American IAPA Trip Dec. 15 -- IAPA executive cmte. mtg. (NYC)
1955 Jan.-March -- Eisenhower/Wt. Hse.-IAPA dinner invitation flap March -- IAPA bd. mtg. (Guatemala) -- JGS purchase of Davis-FCS stock/Banner purchase) March 1 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. mtg. (Birmingham) May 24 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. (Birmingham) June -- Silliman Evans dies
1956 Jan. 12 -- speech to Overseas Press Club (NYC) April 6-8 -- IAPA bd. mtg. (Bermuda) May 17 -- speech to Coffee House Club (Nashville) Oct. 12 -- Americas Fndn. Award (to JGS) Oct.-Nov. -- IAPA Gen. Assembly (Havana, Cuba) Dec. -- speech to AL Education Assn.
1957 Jan., April 3 -- S.I. Newhouse's purchase offers Oct. 10-18 -- IAPA (Wash. DC)
1958 c.Feb. 24 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. mtg. March-April -- IAPA (Jamaica)
Hearst Corp. Takeover Effort begins (?)
1959 March 3 -- Coosa River Newsprint bd. mtg. (Birmingham) March -- IAPA bd. mtg. (El Salvador) May 26 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. mtg. (Coosa Pines, AL) Sept. 30 -- IAPA (San Francisco) Oct. 12 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) Nov. 22 -- IAPA (NYC) Dec. 1 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. (Birmingham)
1960 Jan. 11-12 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. (10th Anniversary) Feb. 4 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) Feb. 15 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. mtg. Aug. 22 -- IAPA Nov. 29 -- Coosa River Newsprint Co. mtg.
1961 Feb. 2 -- JGS resigns from Coosa River Newsprint Co. bd. April 28 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) July 30 -- Silliman Evans, Jr., dies Dec. 4-7 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC)
1962 c.May-June -- Central European Tour c.June -- JGS' 50th anniversary as reporter Aug. 13 -- IAPA (NYC) Aug. 14 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) c.Sept. 1-7 -- SNPA (NYC) c.Sept. 21-25 -- IAPA (NYC) c.Oct. 13 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) Nov. 14 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC)
1963 March 7 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) April -- ASNE April 1 -- AP, ANPA May 21 -- European Trip
1964 Jan. 8 -- IAPA (NYC) Amon Carter Evans/John Jay Hooker, Jan. 10 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) attempted purchase of Banner begins Feb. 28 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) April 24 -- IAPA (NYC)
1965 April 17 -- ANPA (NYC) July 10-17 -- (NYC) Sept. 8 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) Nov. 22 -- Tribute dinner for Lowell Thomas (NYC)
1966 c.Feb. 1 -- Pat & Rich. Nixon hse. guests of JGS (weekend) April 28 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) April 29 -- IAPA (NYC) Sept. 9-Oct. 14 -- Iberian & Riviera Cruise
1967 c.April 10-12 -- Banner editorial re: Stokely Carmichael at VU June 16 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) Aug. 15 -- JGS testifies re: S.1312 (Wash. DC) c.Oct. 19 -- IAPA (Puerto Rico)
1968 Feb. 26 -- S.1312 (Wash. DC) March 6 -- S.1312 (Wash. DC) July 20 -- speech to American Legion (Memphis, TN) Sept. 12 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) c.Sept. -- H.R.19123 Oct. 11 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) Newspaper Preservation Act (S.1312, H.19123) 1969 Oct. 2-Oct. 31 -- IAPA (Wash. DC) Oct. 6 -- Americas Fndn. Dinner Oct. -- Wt. Hse. dinner honoring PM of Canada (JGS & Gladys attended as guests of Rich. Nixon) S.1520 succeeds S.1312
1970 Newspaper Preservation Act (S.1520, H.279) May 22 - speech to American Legion
1971 July 1-July 19 -- Alaska Cruise (with Gladys)
1972 Jan. 14 -- Gannett buys Banner Feb. 11 -- speech to Annual Distinguished Salesman Award (SME, Nashville) April 8 -- Gridiron Dinner (NYC) April 22 -- ANPA April 23 -- Gannett mtg. (NYC) June 1 -- JGS retirement from Banner Oct. 9-13 -- IAPA (Santiago, Chile) Nov. 28 -- Tribute dinner for Hearst (NYC)
1973 Oct. 11 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC) Oct. 15-19 -- IAPA (Boston) Nov. 3 -- JGS' grandfather, Maj. Ed. B. Stahlman, inducted into TN Newspaper Hall of Fame (Knoxville, TN)
1974 April 7-9 -- ANPA (New Orleans) July -- Cruise (USSR, Scandinavia) Oct. 10 -- Americas Fndn. dinner honoring J. George Harrar Dec. 12 -- Americas Fndn. (NYC)
1975 Oct. 19-24 -- IAPA (Brazil; JGS didn't attend?)
Extent
60.5 Linear Feet (139 Hollinger boxes; 1 Flat box)
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Physical Location
Abbreviations Appearing in Collection
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- Title
- Finding Aid for the James G. Stahlman Papers
- Status
- Partially Processed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections Repository
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
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