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1 C Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, linear feet This collection is available at The State Historical Society of Missouri. If you would like more information, please contact us at INTRODUCTION Personal, business, and family correspondence of a St. Louis lawyer and Democratic politician who was counsel and later president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and was active in civic affairs. DONOR INFORMATION The papers were placed on contract with the University of Missouri by Mrs. Hickman Y. Fisher on 12 June 1967 (Accession No. 3722). BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Russell Lee Dearmont was born February 22, 1891, the son of Washington Strother and Julia Lee McKee Dearmont, of Mound City, Missouri. He received his early education in the public schools in Kirkwood and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and graduated from Southeast Missouri State Teachers College in After receiving a law degree in 1914 from the University of Missouri, Dearmont established a private practice in Cape Girardeau. In 1928, he was elected to the Missouri State Senate. During his years in office he authored legislation providing for minimum salaries for school teachers, the creation of the State Highway Patrol, as well as co-authored Missouri s State Income Tax Law. He was noted for his fight against the high interest rates of the small loan companies in Missouri. Dearmont was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1932 for Governor of Missouri, and conducted a campaign against the opposition of the Kansas City Pendergast machine. He became associated with Missouri Pacific Railroad as a district attorney in Southeast Missouri in 1930, and subsequently was named Counsel for the Trustee in the railroad s bankruptcy proceedings and plan of reorganization. He later became Chairman of the Board and then President of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Dearmont was an active participant in civic work on a national, regional, and local level, and was recipient of the St. Louis Award in 1958 for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of St. Louis. In 1960, he received the Globe Democrat s Humanitarian Award. He served on the board of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, was President of the St. Louis Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, was a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Urban Redevelopment Corporation in St. Louis, and a member of the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of the Civic Redevelopment Corporation. In 1957, he was appointed by Governor James T. Blair, Jr., to the Board of Police Commissioners of the City of St. Louis.

2 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 2 For several years he served as a director on the boards of both Lindenwood and Westminster Colleges, and as presidential advisor at Saint Louis and Washington Universities. Dearmont served in the capacity of board member in the following business and civic organizations: YMCA; American Royal Association; Governmental Research Institute; Missouri Public Expenditure Survey; Automobile Club of Missouri; Association of Western Railways; Southwestern Bell Telephone Company; Texas and Pacific Railway Company; Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis; Association of American Railroads; United Fund of St. Louis; Municipal Theater Association; and Jefferson National Memorial Association. Dearmont was also a member of the following clubs and organizations: Noonday Club; Raquet Club; Bogey Club; St. Louis Country Club; Dallas Club; Bankers Club of New York and Chicago; Scottish Rite Mason; Knights Templar and Shriner; St. Louis Bar Association; Missouri State Bar Association; and American Bar Association. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The collection has been arranged into two series: Correspondence, Subject Files, and Miscellaneous. The Correspondence series (folders , ) is arranged alphabetically according to year and contains civic, personal, patronage, soliciting, and miscellaneous correspondence. The Subject Files series (folders ) is arranged by alphabetically according to the following headings: Automobile Club of St. Louis Bar Association Democratic Party Federal Home Loan Bank Federal Reserve Bank Fund for the Republic Lindenwood College Missouri Pacific Railroad National Conference of Christians and Jews Oliver Family (of Cape Girardeau) Personal (Family Correspondence) Police Commission Public Safety Department Westminster College Y.M.C.A. The Miscellaneous series (folders ) contains photographs, certificates, and a plaque.

3 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 3 FOLDER LIST Correspondence Series f Miscellaneous legal papers and business correspondence including family legal papers of Withers family of Cape Girardeau; correspondence on Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. F Personal letters of general nature which discuss personal friends, personalities, politics and current issues of the period. F Personal papers and correspondence of Dearmont; business correspondence including correspondence on Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Radio Station KFUS in Cape Girardeau, plan for sliding scale adjustment of railroad wages, political appointments and Interstate Commerce Commission. f General business correspondence on proposed dam across St. Francis River, formation of National Lawyers Guild, League of Women Voters, political appointments, and Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. F General business correspondence; correspondence on local politics and political appointments; Annual Report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, f Julien Friant of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Correspondence on Democrat Party; correspondence to President Roosevelt recommending Julien Friant as a Presidential Assistant; memorandums to Henry Wallace; comments on Supreme Court; exchange of topical and personal news. F General business correspondence; political appointments; personal financial and business papers; correspondence on Westminster College, Missouri Senate Bill No. 153, National Advisory Committee for New York World's Fair, Ozark Trails Bridge Company, Julien Friant, Missouri Pacific Railroad. f General business correspondence; political appointments; correspondence on Bar Association of St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri Pacific Rail road Company, Roth Tobacco Company; correspondence with James M. Douglas. F Correspondence regarding mutual friends; comments on agricultural conditions, legality of campaign contributions, Missouri politicians, political appointments, elections and Civil Conservation Corp. f Personal financial and business correspondence; general business correspondence; political appointments; correspondence on Groves. family of Cape Girardeau, campaign of Bennett Champ Clark for reelection to U.S. Senate, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Political correspondence on opposition to Mr. Pendergast; Missouri Bar Association. F Personal financial and business correspondence; general

4 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 4 correspondence on political appointments, League of Women Voters, Ozark Trails Bridge Company, School of Successful Law Administration, Mehlville PWA Project. f Correspondence on local Missouri politicians, including comments about Harry S. Truman's Senatorial bid; recommendations on disposal of surplus food; telegrams and correspondence regarding the death of Julien Friant. f General business correspondence; correspondence on the General American Life Insurance Company; political appointments; correspondence with Fred A. Groves on various business matters; correspondence on application of radio station KEVS to Federal Communication Commission to operate full time in Cape Girardeau; description of Kentucky Broadcasting Corporation, Louisville, Ky.; memos regarding liquidation of Manufacturing Lumberman's Underwriters; discussion of Bennett C. Clark and Paul V. McNutt for Presidential nominees in f Ozark Trails Bridge Company. Letters pertaining to the Cape Girardeau Bridge; report on Cairo, Illinois Bridge; correspondence on Congressional action on Chester, Illinois Bridge; auditor's report on cash receipts for Cape Girardeau Bridge; correspondence on litigation involving Cape Girardeau Bridge. f General business correspondence; political appointments; correspondence on candidates for 1940 election; recommendations for penal institution rehabilitation programs; institution of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; correspondence and brochure from the School of the Ozarks; letters urging Dearment to run for Governor; correspondence on Ozark Trail Bridge; proposal and correspondence on moving Department of Unemployment Insurance to Columbia; correspondence on Wilson automatic grade crossing signals. f General business correspondence; Peace Plan sent to Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt; correspondence on political appointments, Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, WPA, Investment Research Corpora ion of St. Louis; correspondence on Cape Girardeau Presbyterian Church matters. f Ozark Trails Bridge Company. Letters regarding private acquisition of Cape Girardeau Bridge; statements before subcommittee hearings on commerce of United States; letters on the lack of need for the proposed Chester, Illinois Bridge. f General business correspondence; correspondence on political appointments, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; political correspondence; correspondence on the Hatch Act, Toll Bridge Revenue Bonds for Chester, Illinois, Wilson automatic grade crossing signal, Adult Education Council of Greater St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Civil Service Amendment to St. Louis City Charter. f Civil Defense. Fund raising speeches, newsletters, speakers letters,

5 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 5 defense bond payroll plan. f General and personal business correspondence; on economists' national committee on monetary policy; correspondence on political appointments, local politics; endorsements; correspondence on USO; Prospectus of Missouri Utilities Company, 1941; Investment Research Corporation papers; copy of Missouri Bar Journal, March, 1941; correspondence on Missouri State Council of Defense; correspondence on University of Missouri School of Mines and Mettalurgy; annual report of Missouri Welfare League; annual report of New York Trust Company; correspondence on Ozark Trails Bridge Company. f Ozark Trails Bridge Company. Correspondence on Cape Girardeau Bridge; tax assessments; acquisition of Cape Girardeau Bridge by Cairo Bridge Commission; recommendations for increase in toll rates. f General and personal business correspondence; correspondence on political appointments, local politics, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra fund drive; financial statements; correspondence from Norman J. Stemme, correspondence and pamphlets on USO. f Correspondence, United Services Organization. Donor prospects, bulletins, newsletters, miscellaneous correspondence. f General and personal business correspondence including correspondence on personal financial transactions; political endorsements and appointments; correspondence, legal papers and pamphlets of Fight For Freedom, Inc.; Inter national Statistical Bureau publications; correspondence and newsletters of Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies; newspaper clippings; pro-war speeches; correspondence on Lend-Lease Act; correspondence from Harry S. Truman. f General business correspondence; correspondence on Wilson automatic grade signal, local politics, political appointments, settlement of John A. Withers Estate, adult education Council of St. Louis bulletins and by-laws, Bar Association of St. Louis, Roy Scouts of America Regional fund, Boatmen s National Bank annual report, 1942, St. Louis Country Club correspondence and speech of Russell L. Dearmont supporting a Missouri constitutional convention. f Civil Defense. "Minute Man" magazines; newsletters, general correspondence on Civil Defense in the St. Louis area. f General business correspondence; personal correspondence; political appointments; letters of recommendation and correspondence on local politics; pamphlet of Farm Security Administration, Civilian Defense Correspondence; pamphlet on occasion of centennial of Hollins College; pamphlet and correspondence on Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Com mission; liquidation of Investment Research Corporation; correspondence on non-partisan court plan; The University of Missouri in Wartime bulletin, February, 1942; Missouri Alumnus magazines and correspondence; proposal for a one-house legislature in Missouri; Missouri Bar Association; Annual Statement of

6 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 6 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, f Ozark Trails Bridge Company. Correspondence and legal papers on Cape Girardeau Bridge. f General business correspondence; letters of recommendation and political appointments; pamphlets; newsletters; correspondence on St. Louis Taxpayers Committee, Missouri library legislation, David Danken, Jr., School of Mechanical Trades, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra fund drive; financial statements of Cape Girardeau Hospital; correspondence on local politics; correspondence with Norman J. Stemme. f General business correspondence, letters of recommendation and political appointments; correspondence on office of Price Administration; War Chest of Greater St. Louis correspondence, financial statements, brochures, and newsletters; handbook on Administrative Procedure before Federal Agencies; correspondence on adult education, Farm Security Administration, Wild Life Conservation Program. F. 302 Presentation to Russell L. Dearment as a member of the National Advisory Committee for Missouri for the New York World's Fair, 1939 (OVERSIZE). f Missouri Constitutional Convention. Printed material to delegates; minutes of legislative sub-committee of Missouri Constitutional Convention; correspondence and biographical notes on delegates-atlarge; brochures on Constitution revision; report on proposals 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 22, and 54 pending before Constitutional Convention; notes on proposal 76 to amend Section 41, Article IX. f Printed material on consumer credit; correspondence on conservation commission, Farm Credit Administration; newspaper clippings and correspondence on filling government office vacancies; political endorsements and letters of recommendation; correspondence on War Food Administration; stock summary, June, 1943; correspondence on Senate Bill No. 80, on soil conservation districts, 62nd Missouri General Assembly; correspondence on Navy Training programs at Missouri Colleges; pamphlets: annual report of State Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1943; International Conciliation, f General business correspondence; newspaper clippings; correspondence on Missouri Conservation Commission; political endorsements and letters of recommendation; pamphlet entitled How to Avoid Estate Mistakes; Report of the Board of Visitors, University of Missouri, 1942, to Governor Donnell; correspondence on University of Missouri Alumni Fund drive. f Ozark Trails Bridge Company. Letters on tax assessment of Cape Girardeau Bridge and bridges in neighboring areas; miscellaneous correspondence. f Miscellaneous correspondence; First Presbyterian Church of

7 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 7 Cape Girardeau correspondence, newsletters, and financial statements; correspondence and memos concerning Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; letters of recommendation; newspaper clippings on smallloan rates; issues of Spade; financial statement of Cape Girardeau Hospital; correspondence with Mr. E. Sydney Stephens on matters of the Conservation Commission; correspondence and printed matter on Senate Bill No. 34, 62nd General Assembly of Missouri; correspondence on War Food Administration. f War Fund Drive. Minutes of and memorandum to Admissions and Finance Committee; fund campaign manuals; summary of subscriptions in metropolitan St. Louis; speeches; facts for speakers and list of speakers; commercial and industrial firms and their contributions; public service information on American Red Cross. f Miscellaneous correspondence; correspondence and newsletters of Adult Education Council of Greater St. Louis; pamphlet and newsletters of Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission; Year Book of the Missouri Bar Association, 1944; newsletters and correspondence of Bar Association of St. Louis; business and Legislation Reports of Research Institute of America; dockets and history of Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas, f Missouri Constitutional Convention. Material on omitting Article 12 from Missouri Constitution; report of sub-committee on "Selection, Tenure and Removal of Judges." f Miscellaneous correspondence; correspondence on various financial transactions; letters of recommendation; petition to Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, urging continuance of the existent international court signed by nation ally known lawyers and judges; printed material on World Court and the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals; copy of Federal Union World newspaper, October, 1944; correspondence of the Fire Protection Committee of the Post War Bond Citizens Commit tee, Department of Public Safety, St. Louis; Correspondence, pamphlets and newsletters of the St. Louis Win the Peace Forum; 1943 annual report of office of the circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis. f Miscellaneous correspondence, bulletins, newsletters, letters of recommendation and personal correspondence; correspondence and brochures on Junior Achievement, Inc.; miscellaneous legal papers; Missouri Alumnus for July, August and December, 1944; bulletin and correspondence of the National Conference of Christians and Jews; printed material on economic conditions; printed material on Newcomen Society of England. f Miscellaneous correspondence, bulletins, pamphlets, newsletters, letters of recommendation and personal correspondence; correspondence on Ozark Trails Bridge Company tax assessments; papers and report of the Treasurer of First Presbyterian Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri; correspondence and minutes of the St. Louis Race Relations Commission; correspondence on Saint Louis Symphony

8 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 8 Orchestra; correspondence and brochure of St. Louis University Building Expansion Program; annual financial report of Southeast Missouri Hospital; correspondence with Norman J. Stemme while Stemme was stationed in England; Missouri Supreme Court reports, 1943, f Correspondence on Insurance Committee of Missouri Bar Association; miscellaneous correspondence; newsletters; brochures; pamphlets; minutes, newsletters, reports, pamphlets and correspondence of Greater St. Louis War Chest, and Fifth War Loan Drive. f Correspondence of Adult Education Council of Greater St. Louis; American Bar Association Journal, May, June, July, August, and November, 1943; Journal of the American Judicature Society, October, 1945; miscellaneous correspondence; correspondence with officers of the American Red Cross, Red Cross pamphlets, newsletters, and reports; papers and correspondence on placement of lawyers committee of Missouri Bar Association; printed handbook: Legislation Information for Committees and Sections of the Missouri Bar; Journal of the Missouri Bar, January, February, March, April, May, 1945; Committee Reports of the Bar Association of St. Louis, f General correspondence, political endorsements, letters of recommendation; correspondence on Community Race Relations Institute, Missouri Conservation Commission; correspondence with Fred A. Groves; 1944 Annual Report of St. Louis Office of the Circuit Attorney; Journal of the American Judicature Society, correspondence on preparation and publication of aerial map of St. Louis; Union Electric Company of Missouri Annual Report, 1945; sporting goods catalogues. f Miscellaneous correspondence, political endorsements, letters of recommendation; correspondence on St. Louis USO Council; University of Missouri Alumni Association; 1945 Missouri Alumnus magazines; bulletins of the University of Missouri Medical School and Rural Health Care, 1945; correspondence urging defeat of proposed Kansas City Medical School; Printed matter: The Index, Summer, 1945; Board of Curators Report on the University of Missouri Survey of Medical Education; correspondence on opening of U.S. Treasury Regional Office in Missouri; letters from World War II soldiers; correspondence on Ozark Trails Bridge Company; financial report of First Presbyterian Church of Cape Girardeau. f Petition to United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America to National Labor Relations Board to penalize two unions for discrimination; correspondence and minutes of St. Louis Race Relations Commission; photo graphs and speech of Russell L. Dearmont at opening of exhibit, "Railroads of the West;" Community Relations Manual of the American Council on Race Relations;

9 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 9 miscellaneous correspondence; correspondence and printed material on Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Fund Drive; letters of recommendation, political endorsements; correspondence on Missouri Senate Bill No. 7 concerned with the names of the State Teachers College and curricula expansion; correspondence and financial reports on Southeast Missouri Hospital; The Lamp, publication of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, December, f Miscellaneous general correspondence; letters of recommendation; political endorsements; correspondence and printed material on Victory War Loan Drives and Greater St. Louis War Chest including financial statements, newsletters, minutes, pamphlets and magazines. f Miscellaneous general correspondence; letters of recommendation; political endorsements; statement of Modern Job Evaluation; correspondence on Wheeler Reed Bill of U.S. Congress, 1946; correspondence and printed material on American Bar Association and St. Louis Bar Association; newspaper clippings; correspondence, printed matter and newsletters on foundation of Greater St. Louis Community Chest; correspondence and minutes of Forestry Committee of Conservation Federation of Missouri; correspondence with S. P. Dalton, Missouri Supreme Court; pamphlets and publication of the Newcomen Society of England. f Ozark Trails Bridge Company, Newspaper clippings; correspondence and legal papers on the dissolution of Ozark Trails Bridge Company; report of physical condition and traffic of the Cape Girardeau Bridge; letters and legal papers on the sale of Cape Girardeau Bridge to Cape Special Road District. f Miscellaneous correspondence; report of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to the Synod of Missouri; financial report of First Presbyterian Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri; financial campaign of Westminster College; minutes and correspondence of St. Louis Race Relations Commission; memo in opposition to proposed ordinance assessing license tax on railroads; miscellaneous pamphlets and report of Social Planning Council of Saint Louis; financial statements of Southeast Missouri Hospital; minutes and correspondence of St. Louis Community Chest, War Chest Executive Committee and War Chest Finance Committee; report and recommendations on St. Louis Center; correspondence on Mid-Western Negro Democratic Association, Miscellaneous legal papers. f Correspondence and publications of Adult Education Council of Greater St. Louis; miscellaneous correspondence; printed material of American Bar Association on the development of international law; correspondence and journals of the Missouri Bar; miscellaneous pamphlets; letters of recommendation; publications and correspondence on Community Chest; correspondence on political appointments; correspondence on University of Missouri Alumni Fund;

10 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 10 Report of the Board of Visitors, University of Missouri, f Miscellaneous general correspondence; letters of recommendation; miscellaneous pamphlets; correspondence regarding Presbyterian Hospital, St. Louis; correspondence and minutes of St. Louis Race Relations Commission; correspondence on Red Cross Fund, Research: Institute of America; annual report of St. Louis circuit attorney; financial statements of Southeast Missouri Hospital; correspondence and printed material on State Conservation Commission in connection with purchase of Weldon Springs; correspondence and newspaper clippings on E. Sydney Stephens Testimonial Dinner; correspondence on the Urban League-of St. Louis and fair employment practices; Journal of the Missouri Bar, February, 1948, September and November, f General miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, legal documents, letters of recommendation and political endorsements; correspondence with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chamberlain, Larry Chumint; correspondence and printed material on Community Fund Drive, Missouri Conservation Commission; Department of State Economic Reports of the President to Congress; Foreign Policy Bulletins dated 1947 and 1948; correspondence records and pamphlets of League of Women Voters. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, letters of recommendation; correspondence on University of Missouri alumni fund; Summary of County Budgets, 1947; correspondence of Irene Peterson, secretary to R. L. Dearmont, on Business and Professional Women's Clubs; minutes of St. Luke's Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospital Committee. f Miscellaneous legal and business correspondence concerning Southeast Missouri State College as member of the Board of Regents; Miscellaneous bills, pamphlets, correspondence, etc.; letters of recommendation and political endorsements; correspondence and newsletters of Urban League of St. Louis; minutes, pamphlets, and correspondence on Boys Scouts of America program in St. Louis; Consolidated Report, Offices of the Circuit Attorney, St. Louis, 1947, 1948, 1949; Circuit Court Procedures pamphlets. f Miscellaneous general correspondence; Annual report of the Community Chest, St. Louis, 1948; Community Chest Correspondence, brochures, minutes, newsletters, etc.; political endorsements and letters of recommendation; correspondence on future of Current River and Conservation Commission; newspapers clippings, report, minutes and correspondence on St. Louis Council on Human Relations; study of the Fairgrounds Park Incident conducted by St. Louis Council on Human Relations. f Speeches given at memorial services for Reverend Charles Hay Morton; miscellaneous general correspondence, legal papers, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, etc.; minutes and correspondence of

11 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 11 Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State Teacher's College; minutes, reports, brochures, and correspondence on Urban League of St. Louis; correspondence on Bethesda General Hospital Building fund; Circuit Court Procedures, Nos. 14, 18, 21, 22; Community Chest Drive Correspondence. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, letters of recommendation, political endorsements, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; correspondence, resolutions and minutes of Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State College; Bethesda General Hospital, St. Louis, Builders Fund correspondence and reports; correspondence, pamphlets and reports of St. Louis Council of Boy Scouts of America; correspondence and minutes of the Revenue Section of the Mayor's Citizens' Advisory Finance Committee, St. Louis; Comptroller's Annual Report, St. Louis, ; St. Louis Civil Defense report, correspondence and information kit; St. Louis Community Chest correspondence, reports, minutes, and pamphlets; correspondence with Chester C. Davis; Correspondence and newsletters of Crusade for Freedom. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, legal papers, letters of recommendation, political endorsements, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; correspondence on National Housing Policy Conference; University of Missouri Alumni Association correspondence pertaining to Missouri's health needs and School of Medicine in Columbia; correspondence and pamphlets concerning Root Tilden Scholarship, School of Law, New York University. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, legal papers, letters of recommendation, political endorsements, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; commencement speeches of Russell L. Dearmont; correspondence of Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State College; correspondence and minutes of Board of Directors, Urban Redevelopment Corporation of St. Louis; correspondence relating to Dearmont's brief illness; correspondence of Federal Re serve Bank Board of Directors of St. Louis; comptroller's annual report, St. Louis, ; Civil Defense materials; correspondence on the election of f General correspondence, miscellaneous pamphlets, brochures, legal papers, and news paper clippings; correspondence of University of Missouri Alumni Associations including support for appropriations for a four year medical school in Columbia; New York University Law Review, January, 1952; applications for and correspondence concerning Root-Tilden scholarship to New York University School of Law. f General correspondence, Southeast Missouri State Catalogue, 1952; miscellaneous brochures, pamphlets, newsletters and newspaper clippings; correspondence and minutes of Urban

12 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 12 Redevelopment Corporation; correspondence on "This I Believe," Edward R. Murrow's radio program; correspondence on Plaza Bond Issue and St. Louis Urban Redevelopment; papers of Boy Scout Camp Development Campaign; St. Louis Commerce magazines, March, April, and May, f St. Louis Citizens Finance Committee Report; correspondence and newsletters of Greater St. Louis Community Chest; miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings and legal papers; Land and Water: The Report of the Missouri Basin Survey Commission, 1953; Annual Report of the Missouri Pacific Hospital Association, f Miscellaneous general correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and news paper clippings; correspondence and other material of Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State College; correspondence and miscellaneous material on Boy Scouts of America, St. Louis Council. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and legal papers; Third Annual Report of the East European Fund, Inc ; Senator Hennings' Reports from Washington, January, and February, 1954; printed material concerning the reorganization of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Interstate Commerce Commission; Modern Railroads, June, 1957; Federal Communications Commission Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in St. Louis Telecast, Inc. case. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and legal papers; proposal of Missouri Pacific Line to aid Southeast Missouri Hospital Building Fund; correspondence and material on Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State College; letter concerning Senator Joseph McCarthy addressed to Robert T. Stevens, Secretary of the Army; correspondence on Boy Scouts of America fund drive; correspondence, pamphlets on voting machines; Report and Recommendations of Board of Election Com missioners, Saint Louis; Forty-Second Annual Report of the Missouri Pacific Employees' Hospital Association, 1954; University of Missouri Alumni correspondence; summary of National Planning Association activities during f National Planning Association correspondence, memorandums, reports on farm policy and United Nations Charter Review; Looking Ahead, monthly reports by National Planning Association for January, April, 1954; membership directory of National Council of the National Planning Association, 1954; miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings; speech by Russell L. Dearmont entitled "America's New Frontier--Industrial Development," delivered to Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, 1956; correspondence concerning St. Louis Telecast, Inc., St. Louis University and FCC Hearings on television construction permit; copy of the Communication Act of 1934

13 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 13 and its amendments; Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., annual report, 1953; copy of Federal Communications Commission Rules governing Radio Broadcast Services. f Miscellaneous general correspondence; correspondence, minutes and other materials of Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State College; Asian Artists in Crystal published by Steuben Glass; weekly information of Association of American Railroads; miscellaneous legal papers; correspondence, photographs, and printed material of St. Louis Council of Boy Scouts of America; speech of Russell L. Dearmont for Cape Girardeau Sesquicentennial Celebration; newspaper clippings on Democratic Convention of 1956 and Stuart Symington; correspondence and minutes of St. Louis Citizens Charter Committee; Correspondence and newspaper clippings on Missouri Pacific Railroad reorganization and designation of Russell L. Dearmont as a Director; correspondence and report on state of Missouri State Highway Patrol; correspondence and directory of National Council of the National Planning Association; correspondence of St. Louis Off-street Parking Commission; printed material on the history and contributions of railroading. f Correspondence, minutes, and brochures of President's Council, Saint Louis University including correspondence related to St. Louis Telecast, Inc.; miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, newsletters and newspaper clippings; correspondence and reports on the increase of truck shipments of processed meat, poultry and poultry products and decrease in rail transportation; correspondence of Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State College, the appointment of a new president for South east Missouri State College and the Implementation of a building program. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; correspondence of Association of American Railroads; correspondence with James T. Blair, Jr., Governor of Missouri; correspondence and printed material of National Council, Boy Scouts of America; miscellaneous business correspondence of Missouri Pacific Railroad; Printed reports on the Beryllium Corporation; Interstate Commerce Commission pamphlets; proceedings of hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee of the Judiciary, United States Senate, 84th Congress; correspondence and pending legislation of the Colorado Legislature forty-first General Assembly which affects the railroads; correspondence and printed material on Missouri College Joint Fund Committee, Inc. f St. Louis Commerce, January, 1957; miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; business correspondence of Missouri Pacific Railroad; "Transportation's Future in America's Growing Economy," speech by Russell L. Dearmont to Southeast Shippers Advisory Board and Traffic Club of New Orleans; correspondence upon Missouri Senate

14 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 14 Bill 150, 1957, a dental care bill; Magna Carta for Transportation, published by Association of American Railroads; correspondence ad printed material on taxing of railroads and other matter by Association of American Railroads; paperback copy of Prophecies of Melchi-Zedek in the Great Pyramid and the Seven Temples by Brown Landone, (New York: Book of Gold), 1940; Resume on Meramec Basin Corporation and Meramec Basin Research Project. f Railroads. Testimony given before United States Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee on conditions of railroads in the United States. f Directory of Bell Telephone System directors; miscellaneous general correspondence, correspondence on Missouri Pacific Railroad business; Annual Report of Texas and Pacific Railway Company, 1958; correspondence, lists of donors, and reports on Jewish Community Centers Associations building fund campaign. f Railroads. Newspaper clippings on various aspects of railroad industry. f Miscellaneous general correspondence; business correspondence of Missouri Pacific Railroad; Report by Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis; speech of Russell L. Dearmont to Traffic Club of St. Louis; 1959; Annual Report of Wabash Railroad Company, 1959; correspondence, newsletters and printed matter of Association of American Railroads; applications before Interstate Commerce Commission concerning Western Pacific Railroad Company Transactions; correspondence and printed material, Boy Scouts of America, St. Louis Council; miscellaneous pamphlets, brochures, magazines, and newspaper clippings; correspondence, reports and printed matter pertaining to Jewish Community Centers Capital Fund Campaign. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; Annual Railroad Handbook, 1960 Edition; "The Social and Political Responsibilities of Business," by Bert C. Goss; correspondence, pamphlets and annual report of American Telephone and Telegraph Company; agenda and minutes, December 9, 1960, Board of Directors, Texas and Pacific Railway Company; study of Western Maryland Railway Company; combined engineering and financial study of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad; correspondence and newsletters of Advertising Club of Saint Louis, Missouri; correspondence and report on the development of the Meramec Basin. f Railroads. Material printed by the Association of American Railways concerning federal legislation of railroad industry; addresses by President of Association of American Railways on transportation and railroads. f Correspondence. Papers submitted to the Subcommittee on Automation and Energy Resources on New Views on Automation, Joint Economic Committee of the Congress of the United States;

15 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 15 miscellaneous correspondence including correspondence of Bogey, Inc. f Boy Scouts of America. Financial statements, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters and miscellaneous correspondence. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters and news paper clippings; proceedings of National Business Woman Convention, 1960; correspondence and newspaper clippings of Business and Professional Women's Association of Saint Louis; Business Week magazine, April 15, 1961; correspondence on inauguration of John M. Dalton; KMOX-TV, St. Louis, script in which Dearmont opposes John Birch Society; correspondence, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets on St. Louis anti-communism campaign; minutes and correspondence of governmental research institute; minutes of Urban Redevelopment Corporation. f Miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; correspondence on "Doctors in Asia" program; letter to Representative Richard H. Ichord urging support of President John F. Kennedy's foreign aid program; Downing B. Jenks honorary dinner correspondence and biographical sketch of Downing B. Jenks, President of Missouri Pacific Railroad, 1961; invitation to the inauguration of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; letter of thanks from John F. Kennedy for Dearmont's campaign support; Meramec Basic Corporation report; University of Missouri alumni news; correspondence and newsletter on National Jewish Hospital at Denver; reports and correspondence of National Planning Association; correspondence on Missouri State Teachers Association Convention, 1961; papers and minutes of Sessions of Second Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Missouri; Presentation to Missouri Synod of United Presbyterian Church by Tarkio College, June, f Miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; news clippings of Missouri Pacific Railroad financial dealings; Houston Press, March 20, 1961, section on railroad problems and the magna carta for transportation; "Industry Review: Railroads- 1961," by Hayden, Stone & Company; correspondence on proposed federal subsidies for increased waterway transportation; correspondence on proposed junior college district of St. Louis County; 1961 Annual Report of the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction; correspondence of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Board of Directors, miscellaneous pamphlets and company magazines; by-laws of Academy of Missouri Squires and correspondence concerning Russell L. Dearmont's nomination as a Squire; correspondence with Senator Stuart Symington regarding river transportation vs. rail-transportation. f Railroads. Minutes of Terminal Railway Association of St. Louis; publications by United States Chamber of Commerce on transportation and communication; national policy on transportation; suggestions for

16 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 16 development of transportation; recommendations by United States Secretary of Commerce for railroads; plan for unification of transit service in Missouri, & Illinois metropolitan areas. f Miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, newsletters, brochures, and newspaper clippings; The U.S. and Revolution, published by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1961; The University and World Affairs, a Report of the Committee on the University and World Affairs, 1960; report on Wabash Railroad Company; Report to the President; White House Regional Conferences, November, 1961; engineering and financial study of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad; miscellaneous Ad Club Weekly magazines, ; correspondence, minutes and financial reports of American Refrigerator Transit Company; correspondence and miscellaneous material of Missouri Committee for the Borough Plan to Reunite St. Louis, a proposed amendment to create a new political subdivision of the State of Missouri, named "The Municipal County of St. Louis." f Boy Scouts of America. Correspondence; brochures; pamphlets; campaign fund material; membership reports; scouting magazines; area council reports; budget; and an address by Governor Dalton. F Contains picture of astronaut John Glenn with Boy Scouts. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, and news paper clippings; correspondence, newsletters and miscellaneous material of business and Professional Women's Club; copy of Senate Bill No. 74, 71st General Assembly, known as a conflict of interest bill, and correspondence concerning this bill; correspondence, pamphlets and newsletters of Conservation Federation of Missouri. f Downtown St. Louis, Incorporated. Correspondence, proposals and newsletters on development of downtown St. Louis area. f Miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; minutes, correspondence and pamphlets of Governmental Research Institute of St. Louis, St. Louis University and Washington University; correspondence of Miss Catherine Lorenz describing conditions in various state mental and physical hospitals and Mountain View Convalescent Home in an attempt to obtain investigations and corrections of illegal or harmful activities; bulletins of the International Commission of Jurists. f Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. Reports; correspondence; Articles of Incorporation; by-laws and minutes. f Miscellaneous correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; commemorative booklet of 40 years of broadcasting by KSD radio and television, St. Louis; correspondence on Metropolitan Church Federation Hospital Chapel Fund, Homer Phillips Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri; prospectus of Mississippi River Fuel Corporation; Missouri Alumnus magazines, 1962; University of Missouri Alumni Association correspondence;

17 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 17 correspon dence and minutes of Missouri Association for Social Welfare; reports of Missouri Public Expenditure Survey; correspondence, reports, and minutes of annual meeting on Missouri and Illinois Bridge and Belt Railroad Company; miscellaneous copies of The Monthly Review, Railroad Retirement Board. f Correspondence on Senate Bill 2573, of 87th Congress, anti-trust laws amendments; miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters and newspaper clippings; telegrams in sympathy at death of Paul J. Neff. f Railroads. Quarterly railroad comparisons; railroad statistics; magazine articles. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings; correspondence, bulletins and newsletters of President's Council, St. Louis University. f Minutes, newsletters, financial statements, and general correspondence of Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis; miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clip pings; projected classroom and laboratory need figures for Southeast Missouri State College, f Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Directors' Manuals which contain monthly reports on the business operations and plans of Southwestern Bell. f Correspondence of Missouri Academy of Squires and minutes of annual meeting; miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, and newspaper clippings; stock reports; minutes of board of directors, financial reports, and correspondence of Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis; Texas and Pacific Railway Company financial statements, executive committee meeting agendas and minutes. f Correspondence, financial statements, newspaper clippings, minutes of Business and Professional Women's Council of Metropolitan St. Louis; miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, and news paper clippings; correspondence and miscellaneous publications of Metropolitan St. Louis Chamber of Commerce; statement of Donald Gunn and correspondence of committee for Gunn for President, Board of Alderman, St. Louis, Missouri, 1963; correspondence and newsletters of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association. f Miscellaneous general correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters and newspaper clippings; miscellaneous Kiplinger Washington Letters, 1963; correspondence with Michael Kinney, Missouri Democratic Senator from the Fifth District; newsletter, minutes, financial reports, and miscellaneous correspondence of Church Federation of Greater Saint Louis including a series of letters from the Philip pines by Paul and Clara McElroy; report of earnings on invested capital of companies doing business in the State of Missouri, June, 1963, prepared by Standard Research Consultants, Inc.;

18 C2665 Dearmont, Russell L. ( ), Papers, Page 18 correspondence and reports of Missouri Public Expenditure Survey; correspondence of Missouri Squires. f Miscellaneous University of Missouri Alumni Association newsletters and Missouri Alumnus magazines, Feb., Oct., and March, 1963; The Monthly Review, Railroad Retirement Board, May and June, 1963; Board of Directors correspondence, reports, and minutes, Municipal Theater Association, St. Louis, Missouri; 1962 annual report National Cash Register Company; audited financial statements and miscellaneous printed material of National Museum of Transport, St. Louis County, June 30, 1963; Pan American Railway Congress Association, Brief Historical Review by Joaquis Nanez Brian; statutes of the Pan-American Railways Congress Association; correspondence, newsletters and copy of a news paper article urging passage of S.533 and H.R of Congress to prevent inhumane treatment and abuse of laboratory animals, 1963; rosters of members of various business, professional, and social organizations; St. Louis Commerce magazines, June and July, f St. Louis University. Correspondence and papers on St. Louis Telecast, Inc., History of radio station WEW; report to stockholders of St. Louis Telecast; television programming and classification; profit and loss statements of St. Louis Telecast; President's Council correspondence. f Miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, and newspaper clippings, brochures, memorandums and correspondence of St. Louis Trade Mission to England and the Common Market; photographs of Dearmont with the mayor of Milan, Italy. f Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis. Minutes; agendas; review of assets; financial statements; newsletters. f Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Directors' Manual; earnings on invested capital of industrial companies doing business in Southwestern Bell Telephone Company territory; annual reports; construction contracts by metropolitan areas and states; miscellaneous correspondence. f Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. Board of Director's minutes; executive committee reports; financial statements; capital investments; miscellaneous correspondence. f Texas & Pacific Railway Company. Minutes; agendas; financial statements; operating costs; improvement program; annual report. f Miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, and newspaper clippings; speech given by Russell L. Dearmont criticizing federal control of railroads; printed material on transportation; United Fund campaign reports, minutes of board of directors and correspondence; correspondence and printed material of advertising club of Saint Louis; correspondence and printed material of St. Louis Bicentennial Corporation. f Boy Scouts of America. Bulletins; fund campaign correspondence;