James G. Stahlman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS.0413
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of James G. Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville Banner from 1930 to 1972 and member of the Board of Trust for Vanderbilt from 1927 until his death in 1976. As publisher, Stahlman and the conservative Banner carried on storied battles with the more liberal Tennessean until the Banner's sale to the Gannett Corporation in 1972.
Dates
- 1915 - 1976
Chronology
1918 "Enemy Alien" scandal re: Maj. E.B. Stahlman, Sr. (E.B. Stahlman, Marvin Campen, Lee Douglas, Sen. Shields, J.O. Leake, John Lord O'Brian, Luke Lea, Horton)
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?)
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
This collection contains the papers of James G. Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville Banner from 1930 to 1972 and member of the Board of Trust for Vanderbilt from 1927 until his death in 1976. As publisher, Stahlman and the conservative Banner carried on storied battles with the more liberal Tennessean until the Banner's sale to the Gannett Corporation in 1972.
Physical Location
Offsite Storage, Special Collections & Archives
Abbreviations Appearing in Collection
AP Associated Press
ANPA American Newspaper Publishers Association
ASNE American Society of Newspaper Editors
H.R.19123/H.279 House Bill 19123, Newspaper Preservation Act (Became S.1520)
IAEA Inter American Education Association
IAPA Inter American Press Association
INS International News Service
NEA National Editorial Association
NPC Newspaper Printing Corporation
OAS Organization of American States
PACA Pacific Advertising Clubs Association
RFC Reconstruction Finance Corporation
S.1312 Sen. Bill, Failing Newspaper Act
S.1520 Sen. Bill, succeeding S.1312, Newspaper Preservation Act
SIP Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (IAPA)
SME Sales & Marketing Executives
SNPA Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
TCPA Tennessee College Press Association
TNPA Texas Newspaper Publishers Association
UP(I) United Press (International)
Nicknames Appearing in Correspondence
A - Adolph Ochs
ADDIE - Addie Smither (Mrs. Robert A. Smither)
ARNIE - T.A. Springfield
AUNT ALINE - Aline Stahlman
BABE - Merrill C. Meigs
BITSY - E.E. Wilson
BLITZ - M.T. O'Brien
BOBO - Robert L. Alexander, Jr.
BOOTS - George Henry Tyne
BOOTSIE & BILL or RANDY - William & Mrs. Randolph Hearst
BOOTY - Robert Selph Henry
BROWNIE - Robert A. Brown
BUCK - Charles S. Hayden
BUCKET - D.C. Seward
BUD - Samuel Rucks Martin/Westbrook Pegler
BUDDY - Hugh J. Morgan
BUG Milton Smith Lewis
BUTTERMILK - H.B. (Burton) Wilkerson
CNO - Chief of Naval Operations
CHICK - Mrs. Ruhland Rebman
CHUCK - C.F. Baldwin
COTTON - Harold W. Clark
COUSIN WILL - William G. Spence
CUTTER - H.B. Northcutt
DAR - D.W. Sherman
DNI - Dept. of Naval Intelligence
DAKEY - Mrs. Frank W. Fletcher
DAN - G.D. Brooks
DILLON - Clarence Dillon
DINTY - C.E. Moore
DOUGH or DO - Henry K. Ray
DUNK - A.C. Dunkleberger
EATS - European Air Transport Service (Army)
ED - Edwin S. Friendly
EDDIE - E.B. Rickenbacker/E.S. Northrop
FATS - Robert A. Everett
FLAP - Claude M. Adams
FROG - W.E. Metzger
FUTILE - JGS
G or OLD CARPETBAGGER - Gene Markey
GSM - Graduate School of Management (VU)
HACK - J. Haskell Tidman
HECK - Henry Wakefield
HERK - Wade Herbert Armstrong
HONUS - John Craig
HOSS - Charles S. Ragland
HUBY or HUBBIE - Hugh W. Robbins, Jr.
IRISHMAN - Clare Lovett
JCS - Jt. Chiefs of Staff
JICA - Joint Intelligence Collection Agencies
JICACBI - " China, Burma, India
JICAME - Joint Intelligence Collection Agencies, Middle East
JICANA - " North Africa
JICASAC - " Southeast Asia
JACK - A.A. Allen
JUDGE - E.M. Eller
"KAY" - K.P. Tsolainos (Phoebe & Kay)
LENA, Aunt - Lena Bowles (Mrs. George B.)
LEON - Leland P. Lovette
LERON - Leron Matthews (Destin, FL)
LIGE - E.N. Kirkpatrick
LIP - W. Lipscomb Davis
LISHE - Elisha Hanson
LIZZIE - Lizzie Armistead (Mrs. James H.)
LUCE - Luce Priest (Mrs. Fenton F.)
MIN - H.B. Miller
MONK - Claude Simons
NME - Ntl. Military Establishment
NARD - Nard Jones
NED - Ashley DeWolf
NICK - Henry F. Nichol
NUCK - Enoch Brown
ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence
OWI - Office of War Information (dir., Archibald MacLeish)
PECK - Ralph Owen
PECKERWOOD - Frank van der Linden/J.C. Akers, Jr.
PEGGY - Peggy Spurrier (Mrs. Keith McCauley Spurrier)?
PEPE - Jose Dutriz
PINK - William J. Wade
PINQUE - Hamilton Douglas/Fort Flowers
POPS - Marcellus B. Frost
PUD - G.W. Reyer
PUNCH - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
PUNKA - Punka Holmes Bassett (Mrs. Robert C.)
RABBIT - Irby Rice Curry
RADDY - Arthur W. Radford
RALPH - Ralph M. Watt (Coosa Pines, AL)
RED - O.M. Mosier (WW II)/Henry D. Jamison (60s)/H.R. Sanders ('41)/John Cullom Floyd (1915 Football Team)
RENA - Katharine Schlater
ROBBIE - Francis Robinson
RONS - Reserve Officers Naval Services
ROUSSEAU - T.R. Duncan
RULE BOOK - Walter M. Morgan
SBM Controversy - Strategic Bombing Myth Controversy
SCEF - Southern Conference Educational Fund
SDS - Students for a Democratic Society
S.M.E.A.R. - Silent Majority for Eradication of All Radicals
SNCC -Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
SSOC - Southern Students Organizing Committee
SAD - H.W. Sadler
SANDLOT - Maxwell E. Benson
SANTIAGO - JGS
SAWNEY - William R. Webb
SHAVER - David S. Huggins
SHORTY - Cecil Sims
SIS - Anne Orr
SISTER [NAFF] - Mrs. L.C. Naff
SKINNY - Eldred A. Woolwine, Jr.
SLATS - Adm. H.B. Sallada
SLICK - James T. Welsh
SLIM - W.G. Beecher, Jr.
SLOPPY - O.H. Bateman
SONNY - C.V. Whitney
SPEEDY - (Edith Knox; Mrs. Jack)
SPUD - H.A. Ellis
STEAMBOAT - A.C. Wahlstedt
STEIN - J.N. Stone
STEVE - C. Douglas Stephenson (England)/Alec B. Stevenson
STEVE & ELISE - Alec B. & Elise Stevenson
STUD - Alec B. Stevenson
TEMPIE - Tempie Chester (Mrs. Sam H.)
TEX - M.T. Moore
TINY - Fermine Pride
TITO - Alberto Gainza Paz
TOMMY - Arthur S. Thompson
TRINNIE - Bertram H. Chalfant
UNCLE FRANK - F.C. Stahlman
USELESS - Vernon Tupper
VVAC - Vanderbilt Vietnam Action Committee
VAN - W. I. Van Dusen
VIC - Victor S. Johnson, Sr.
VINEGAR JOE -
WAXO - Dudley E. Green
WEER - Joseph H. Weer
WICK - D.W. Stubblefield
WINDY - A.B. Windham
WINK - Winston Folk
YEN - Charles E. Coney
- 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
Contact:
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu