Folder 9: “Joe Tucker Joins Massey-Harris as Assistant to General Manager Hyslop,” Implement Record
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- 1943 August
This article is a min-biography of Joseph M. Tucker.
Folder 9: “Joe Tucker Joins Massey-Harris as Assistant to General Manager Hyslop,” Implement Record
This article is a min-biography of Joseph M. Tucker.
Folder 30: Correspondence, June-December
Folder 65: Scholastic Note Book, Minnie Baringer
Folder 76: Eric A Johnston articles about Russia
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 81: Maurice Hindus articles
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
“The Price That Russia is Paying,” The Readers Digest, 1943 April
“The Russian Slogan: ‘Work, Study, and Learn’” The Readers Digest, 1944 February
Folder 82: Sumner Welles, "What Russia Wants"
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 30: Report on Russia, used in Manuscript
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 16: Massey-Harris Postwar Guide
This booklet is a postwar planning guide for farmers. It includes a guide to farm tax management, a checklist of machine and equipment repairs and/or what can be sold and/or what is needed, and a 5-year farm inventory sheet.
Folder 20: Conditional Sale Contract & Order
This is a photocopy of a conditional sale contract and order for a new #21 SP - 12 foot Massey-Harris combine. This was purchased by Roy Kluck. He made a downpayment of $1,500 and was to pay $1,495.91 upon delivery to Enid, Oklahoma.
Folder 27: Letnes, Lawrence John
Fern Letnes gave the photograph and news clippings to Judy Horsch, daughter of Joseph M. Tucker.
This includes a mini-biography of Lawrence John Letnes who was in charge of the Harvest Brigade during the summer of 1944. The story states that Letnes "was the aerial liaison man who kept a fleet of 20 self-propelled combines rolling across the state of Kansas northward to the Canadian border to harvest grain that may have remained uncut because of the critical shortage of manpower and machines during WWII."
The photograph is of John Letnes standing in front of his airplane. The side of the airplane reads, "Self-Propelled Combines, L. J. Letness, Representative, Grand Forks, N. D."
Folder 10: “Retribution Overdue,” Farm Implement News
A mat framed copy of a joke that was printed in the Farm Implement News poking fun at Joseph M. Tucker.
Folder 24: "Queens Die Proudly" by W. L. White
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 57: Correspondence, Katherine White
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 47: Correspondence, Hills, W. Harold
Folder 71: Correspondence, Hoover, Herbert Family
Folder 15: Photographs, Palmer, Cruise, WWII
Part of Thomas Cruise Palmer papers
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 64: S. E. L. Ledger, Farm Accounts
Folder 39: Report on Russians post publication materials
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 73: Report of the Russians by W. L. White, Book Reviews
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 31: Report on Russia, used in Manuscript
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 1: “Birthday Letter,” Country Gentleman, Vol. CXV, No. 3
This letter was written by Marian Tucker Springer describing the famine in China and letting her father, Joseph M. Tucker, know hard it was to feed her family. After reading this letter Joseph Tucker was inspired to write a proposal to the War Food Administration to began the Harvest Brigade.
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 37: Newspaper Clippings reference W. L. Whit'e book Report on the Russians
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 84: Report on Russia Materials Not Used
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 76: Kansas Legislative Directory
Folder 5: Certificates, War Production Board
War Production Board Certificate of Service and War Production Board Industry Advisory Committee certificate.
Folder 13: 1944-1945 Harvest Brigade...keyed to the wartime harvest emergency
This pamphlet explains America's dwindling food stock in 1943 and how "Massey-Harris foresaw the critical situation of the 1944 harvest - a record crop production with too few men and combines to handle the vast acreages." Recognizing the seriousness of the situation the government approved the plan for a Harvest Brigade (a fleet of 500 Self-Propelled Combines) that "pledged to harvest more acres with less fuel, manpower and equipment than ever before in the history of the world."
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 30: Medal, Order of the British Empire
This is a photograph of the medal, Order of the British Empire given to Joseph M. Tucker by King George VI.
Folder 9: Proclamation by King George VI
A photograph of the proclamation by King George VI appointing Joseph M. Tucker "to be an Honorary Officer of the Civil Division of Our Most Excellent Order of the British Empire."
Folder 12: Speech, "The Story of the Loaves-No Fishes"
This is a speech that Joseph M. Tucker where he was introducing the "Famine Fighters" Program after World War II.
Folder 32: Report on Russia, used in Manuscript
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 2: “Massey-Harris,” Fortune, Vol. XXXIII, No. 6
This article gives a brief history of the Massey-Harris company. Joseph M. Tucker was the Vice-President of the U. S. company and James Duncan was President of the Canadian company.
Folder 12: Palmer Wedding, Cruise Palmer and Dorraine Humphreys
Part of Thomas Cruise Palmer papers
Folder 20: Correspondence, Baringer, Cecil
Folder 77: Kansas Legislative Directory
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 33: Report on Russia, used in Manuscript
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 50: Correspondence, Oswald Garrison Villard
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 22: Correspondence used in Manuscript
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 13: Newspaper Clippings, reports from Legislature
Folder 21: Correspondence, Radio Deal
Part of Research files of E. Jay Jernigan on William Lindsay White
Folder 21: Customer's Order for Oliver Machinery
This is Emil H. Kluck's customer order for a new #21A SP Massey-Harris Combine. The cost of the combine was $3,866.75, the tax was $77.34, with the total price of $3,944.09.
Folder 31: Davisson Family Record