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Title: Harry W. Flannery Collection Genre: Papers, Dates: 1932-1974 (Predominantly, 1968-1972) Size: 10 linear feet, 10 storage boxes ID#: 1557 OCLC: Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs |
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The papers of Harry W. Flannery were deposited in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in September of 1993 by his daughter, Patricia A. Yoder, and opened for research in August of 2000.
Harry William Flannery was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on March 13, 1900, the son of John V. and Catherine (Flynn) Flannery. He went to St.Paul’s High School in Scranton, Pennsylvania (1914) and Washington County High School in Hagerstown, Maryland (1915-18). Mr. Flannery then attended Notre Dame University for four years and graduated with a Ph.B. in journalism in 1923.
Mr. Flannery held numerous positions as a reporter. He worked for the Hagerstown Herald in 1916 and later, also for the Hagerstown Mail, the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago City News Service and the Albany Evening News (until 1925). He was editor of the Hoosier Observer (Fort Wayne, Indiana) from 1931-32, before changing to radio broadcasting, serving as radio news editor for station WOWO (Fort Wayne, Indiana) from 1932-33, news editor and analyst for KMOX (St. Louis, Missouri) from 1935-40, Berlin correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from 1940-41 and news analyst for CBS, West Coast from 1942-48.
In 1948 Mr. Flannery became makeup editor for the Los Angeles Examiner. He quit this position in January of 1950 to run for Congress as Democrat for the 15th District in California, a campaign he lost. In 1951he became labor and foreign affairs editor for The Catholic Digest (St. Paul, Minnesota), before switching to an editorial position for the AFL News-Reporter from 1952-55. In 1955 Mr. Flannery again became a radio journalist as AFL-CIO radio coordinator, a position he held until his retirement in 1967. For a couple of years after his retirement, he taught classes on labor issues at the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations.
In addition, Mr. Flannery helped organize the Catholic Labor Institute in Los Angeles and was a member of the Radio Writers Guild Council, the American Newspaper Guild and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists. He was also a member of Broadcast Pioneers.
Mr. Flannery wrote several books and numerous articles on foreign policy (especially Germany) and labor issues in North America, Latin America, and Europe. He is the author of the bestseller Assignment to Berlin (1942), co-author of Off Mike (1944), editor of Pattern for Peace (1962), co-author of The Church and the Working Men (1965), and Which Way Germany? (1968).
Mr. Flannery married Ruth Carmody in 1937. After his first wife’s death in 1968, he married Mary Heinemann in 1969. Harry W. Flannery died in 1975 in Los Angeles, California.
The Harry W. Flannery Collection consists primarily of research files—clippings, correspondence, press releases and speeches—covering a wide variety of topics, but focusing on labor union issues. Well covered is the split of the UAW from the AFL-CIO in 1968. Apart from the research files, the collection contains correspondence with his family, his publishers and his alma mater, Notre Dame University. The papers in this collection date primarily from the later years of Mr. Flannery’s career; those covering his earlier career reside at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
AFL-CIO -- UAW split
AIFLD
Germany -- Brandt, Willy
Germany -- labor unions
Germany -- Nazism
Meany, George
Notre Dame University
AFL-CIO
AFT
AIFLD
Hawthorn Books
Klausner, Bertha
Rustin, Bayard
One manuscript box of photographs and negatives received with the Flannery papers has been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
Contents |
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1-2. Africa; Clippings, 1963-70
3. African-Americans; African-American Labor Center, 1967-68, n.d.
4. African-Americans; Clippings, 1968-72, n.d.
5-7. African-Americans; General, 1967-72
8. African-Americans; Labor Unions; Clippings, 1967-71, n.d.
9-11. African-Americans; Labor Unions; General, 1967-72, n.d.
12-13. African-Americans; Rustin, Bayard, 1966-71
14. American Business; Foreign Trade; Clippings, 1970-71
15. American Business; General; Clippings, 1967-72
16. American Business; Overseas; Clippings, 1971-72
17. American Business; Overseas; General, 192, n.d.
18. American Business; Telecommunication; Clippings, 1969-70
19. Asia; China; China News Service, 1945-48
20-21. Asia; China; Clippings, 1937-72
22-24. Asia; China; Flannery; Articles, 1947-66, n.d.
25-26. Asia; China; General, 1945-69, n.d.
27. Asia; India; Clippings, 1968-71
28. Asia; Indonesia; Clippings, 1967-71
29-30. Asia; Japan; Clippings, 1968-72
31. Asia; Other Countries; General, 1967-72
32. Asia; Pakistan, Bangladesh; Clippings, 1968-72
33. Asia; Taiwan; Clippings, 1968-71
34. Asia; Vietnam; Clippings, 1965-May 1968
1. Asia; Vietnam; Clippings, Jun 1968-72, n.d.
2. Asia; Vietnam; General, 1963-68
3. Asia; Vietnam; Viet-Nam Information Notes, 1967-70
4. Author’s Guild, 1961-72, n.d.
5. Christian Children’s Fund, 1968-70, n.d.
6. Consumer Protection; Clippings, 1969-72
7-11. Consumer Protection; General, 1969-72, n.d.
12. Consumer Protection; No Fault Insurance, 1970-72
13. Consumer Protection; Publicity, 1970-72, n.d.
14. Corresp.; Catholic Magazines, 1963-72
15. Corresp.; Catholic World, 1967-71, n.d.
16-19. Corresp.; Family, 1932-72, n.d.
20-31. Corresp.; General, 1954-1972, n.d.
32. Corresp.; Heinemann, Mary, 1965-72
33. Corresp.; Klausner, Bertha, 1970-71
34. Corresp.; Mo, 1968-70, n.d.
35-36. Corresp.; Publishers, 1967-71
37. Corresp.; Reader’s Digest, 1968-71, n.d.
38. Corresp.; Reynolds, Paul, 1968-69
39. Corresp.; State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967-69
40. Diettrich, Harald; Corresp., 1935-49
41. Diettrich, Harald; Manuscript, Notes, n.d.
42. Education; General, 1967-69, n.d.
43-44. Elisabeth Frey Center; Corresp., 1970-72, n.d.
45-46. Elisabeth Frey Center; General, 1971-72, n.d.
1-2. Employment; General, 1966-70, n.d.
3. Europe; Czechoslovakia; Clippings, 1968-72
4. Europe; East Germany; Clippings, 1962-70
5. Europe; European Community; Clippings, 1968-72
6. Europe; Flannery; Articles, 1946, n.d.
7-8. Europe; France; Clippings, 1960-72
9-11. Europe; Germany; Biographical Material, 1948-72, n.d.
12. Europe; Germany; The Bulletin, 1966-72
13. Europe; Germany; Clippings, 1944-72
14-15. Europe; Germany; Corresp., 1962-72, n.d.
16. Europe; Germany; Economy; Clippings, 1965-72, n.d.
17. Europe; Germany; Education, 1970-71
18. Europe; Germany; Extreme Right, 1966-1971
19-21. Europe; Germany; Flannery; Articles, 1967-72, n.d.
22-23. Europe; Germany; General, 1958-72, n.d.
24. Europe; Germany; German Tribune, 1971-72
25. Europe; Germany; Jews; Clippings, 1970-71
26-27. Europe; Germany; Labor Unions; Clippings, 1945-72, n.d.
28-29. Europe; Germany; Labor Unions; General, 1947-56, n.d.
30-31. Europe; Germany; Labor Unions; International Free Trade Union News, 1946-51
32. Europe; Germany; Nazis; Clippings, 1967-72
33. Europe; Germany; News From the German Embassy, 1964-67
34-35. Europe; Great Britain; Clippings, 1963-72, n.d.
36. Europe; Greece; Clippings, 1968-69
37-38. Europe; Italy; Clippings, 1963-72, n.d.
39. Europe; NATO, 1969-71
40. Europe; Other Countries; Clippings, 1968-72
41. Europe; Poland; Clippings, 1970-71
42. Europe; Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, 1963-67
1-3. Europe; Soviet Union; Clippings, 1966-72
4-5. Europe; Soviet Union; General, 1966-70, n.d.
6. Europe; Spain; Clipings, 1947-72
7. Europe; Yugoslavia; Clippings, 1968-72
8. Flannery; Articles; Other Topics, 1938, n.d.
9. Flannery; Biographical Information, 1968-75, n.d.
10-14. Flannery; Research Notebook, A-V, n.d.
15. Flannery; Retirement, 1967
16. Flannery;Teaching Activities; Corresp., 1969-72, n.d.
17. Flannery; Teaching Activities; Lecture Notes, 1929-30
18-19. Flannery; Teaching Activities; Other Material, 1968-72, n.d.
20. Foreign Aid; Clippings, 1968-71
21-22. Foreign Policy, 1966-69
23. Frontlash, 1969-72, n.d.
24. Frontlash; Flannery; Articles, 1972
25-27. Hawthorn Books; Corresp., 1965-71
28. Hawthorn Books; General, 1968, n.d.
29. Health; Clippings, 1968-71
30-31. Health; General, 1968-72
32. Housing; Clippings, 1966-72, n.d.
33. Hunger; Clippings, 1968-69
34. Justice System; Clippings, 1970-72
35. Labor Unions; ACWA; Clippings, 1968-69
36. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Clippings, 1967
37. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Education, 1971
38-44. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Executive Council; Statements, 1966-72
Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; General, 1955-72, n.d.
1. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Kirkland, Lane, 1969-71
2. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Meany; George; Biographical Material, 1955, n.d.
3-4. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Meany, George; Clippings, 1951-71, n.d.
5-24. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Meany, George; Statements, 1959-74
25. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Member Poll, 1967
26-38. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Statements, 1966-Apr 1971
1-9. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; Statements, May 1971-Aug 1972
10-11. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; UAW Split; Clippings, 1967-68
12-14. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; UAW Split; Flannery; Articles; n.d.
15-16. Labor Unions; AFL-CIO; UAW Split; General, 1959-68
17. Labor Unions; AFSCME; Clippings, 1968-69
18. Labor Unions; ALA, 1968-69
19. Labor Unions; Biographical Material, 1968-72
20. Labor Unions; CIA, 1967-68
21. Labor Unions; Collective Bargaining, 1968-72, n.d.
22. Labor Unions; Community Service, 1967-69, n.d.
23. Labor Unions; Critics; Clippings, 1968-71
24-26. Labor Unions; Flannery; Articles, n.d.
27-28. Labor Unions; Human Resources, 1968-70, n.d.
29-30. Labor Unions; General; Clippings, 1965-72
31. Labor Unions; ICFTU; Clippings, 1965-71, n.d.
32-33. Labor Unions; ICFTU; Free Labor World, 1968-72
34-35. Labor Unions; ICFTU; Congress, 1964
1. Labor Unions; ICFTU; General, 1960-68, n.d.
2-3. Labor Unions; ILO, 1964-71
4.Labor Unions; International Free Trade Unions News, 1946-48
5-6. Labor Unions; John Herling’s Labor Letter, May 1973-Jul 1974
7. Labor Unions; Organization, 1967-71, n.d.
8-9. Labor Unions; Other, Jul 1968-Oct 1970, n.d.
10. Labor Unions; Strikes, 1967-71
11. Labor Unions; Teamsters, 1962-71, n.d.
12. Labor Unions; TUC, 1969
13. Labor Unions; UAW; General, 1968-72
14-15. Labor Unions; UAW; Reuther Family, 1948-70, n.d.
16-17. Labor Unions; UAW; Reuther, Walter, 1954-69
18. Latin America; AIFLD; AIFLD Report, 1968-71
19-23. Latin America; AIFLD; Corresp., Aug 1966-May 1972, n.d.
24-26. Latin America; AIFLD; Flannery; Articles, 1971, n.d.
27-30. Latin America; AIFLD; General, 1965-72, n.d.
31. Latin America; AIFLD; Interviews, 1971
32. Latin America; AIFLD; Press Releases, 1964-68
33. Latin America; AIFLD; Reports, 1971
34-35. Latin America; Alliance for Progress, 1962-69, n.d.
1-2. Latin America; Argentina, 1963-71, n.d.
3. Latin America; Barbados, 1967, n.d.
4-5. Latin America; Bolivia, 1964-69, n.d.
6-7. Latin America; Brazil; Clippings, 1965-72
8-12. Latin America; Brazil; General, 1966-69, n.d.
13-14. Latin America; Catholic Church; General, 1964-72
15. Latin America; CELAM, 1967-69
16. Latin America; Chile; Clippings, 1970-72
17. Latin America; CLASC; Clippings, 1963-67, n.d.
18. Latin America; CLASC; Corresp., 1963-66
19-20. Latin America; CLASC; General, 1963-66, n.d.
21-25. Latin America; CLASC; Palisi Report, 1963
26-27. Latin America; CLASC; Speeches, 1963-66
28. Latin America; Clippings, 1968-72
29. Latin America; Colombia; Clippings, 1964-71, n.d.
30. Latin America; Colombia; Flannery; Articles, 1967, n.d.
31-32. Latin America; Colombia; General, 1964-68, n.d.
33. Latin America; Common Markets, 1966-69, n.d.
34. Latin America; Cuba; Clippings, 1967-70
35. Latin America; Dominican Republic; Clippings, 1965-72, n.d.
36-38. Latin America; Dominican Republic; General, 1964-68, n.d.
39-40. Latin America; Father Kearney, 1968-71, n.d.
41-45. Latin America; General, 1961-70, n.d.
1. Latin America; Guatemala, 1967-71
2. Latin America; Guyana; Clippings, 1963-71
3-7. Latin America; Guyana; General, 1963-66, n.d.
8-9. Latin America; Honduras, 1964-71, n.d.
10. Latin America; Mexico; Clippings, 1966-71, n.d.
11. Latin America; Mexico; General, 1963-64, n.d.
12. Latin America; Nicaragua, 1967, n.d.
13. Latin America; Other Countries, 1942-72
14. Latin America; Other Countries; Flannery; Articles, 1967, n.d.
15. Latin America; Panama; Clippings, 1966-71
16. Latin America; Panama; General, 1968, n.d.
17. Latin America; Paraguay, 1966-69
18-19. Latin America; Peru; Clippings, 1966-72, n.d.
20-21. Latin America; Peru; Flannery; Articles, 1969-70, n.d.
22-24. Latin America; Peru; General, 1964-69,n.d.
25. Latin America; Uruguay; Clippings, 1965-68, n.d.
26-28. Latin America; Uruguay; General, 1962-66, n.d.
29. Latin America; Venezuela; Clippings, 1952-70, n.d.
30-32. Latin America; Venezuela; General, 1952-68, n.d.
33. Mexican-Americans; Clippings, 1968-71
34. Mexican-Americans; General, 1966-70
35-38. Middle East; Israel; Clippings, 1967-71
39. Middle East; Israel; Flannery; Articles, n.d.
40-42. Notre Dame University; Corresp., 1959-72, n.d.
43-44. Notre Dame University; General, 1968-71, n.d.
45. Other Material, 1964-71, n.d.
46-47. Pensions; Clippings, 1968-72, n.d.
48. Pensions; General, 1969, n.d.
49. Political Right, 1968-71, n.d.
50. Pollution, 1967-69, n.d.
51. Poverty, 1965
1-2. Poverty, 1966-71, n.d.
3. Productivity, 1971-72
4-5. Religion; Clippings, 1954-72
6. Taxes; Clippings, 1968-72
7-10. Taxes; General, 1967-72
11. Washington County High School, 1964-69, n.d.
Flannery, Harry, Assignment to Berlin (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942) Research Notecards
IndexIndex Anchor |
Index to Subjects and Correspondents
(Correspondence is indicated by an asterisk)
*AALC, 2:21, 2:23
*AFL-CIO, 2:21-23, 2:26, 2:28
AFL-CIO, 4:36-47, 5:1-38, 6:1-16
AFL-CIO - UAW Split, 6:10-16
*AFSCME, 2:25
*AFT, 2:21, 2:26
*AIFLD, 2:37, 7:29-23
AIFLD, 7:18-33
China - 1940s, 1:19-26
*CLASC, 8:18
*Diettrich, Harald, 2:40
*Elisabeth Frey Center, 2:43-44
*Flannery, John, 2:16
*Flannery, Wilbur, 2:16
Frontlash, 4:23-24
Germany - Brandt, Willy, 3:20
Germany - Labor Unions, 3:26-31
Germany - Nazism, 3:21
*Hawthorn Books, 4:25-27
*Heinemann, Mary, 2:32, 4:16
*Heinemann, William, 2:18
ICFTU, 6:31-35, 7:1
*ILGWU, 2:21
*Kiesinger, Kurt Georg, 2:20
*Klausner, Bertha, 2:33
Meany, George, 5:2-24
*Notre Dame University, 9:40-42
Notre Dame University, 9:43-44
*Reader’s Digest, 2:37
Reuther, Walter, 7:16-17
*Rustin, Bayard, 2:21, 2:27, 2:33
Rustin, Bayard, 1:12-13
*Teamsters, 2:23, 2:29
*UAW, 2:21
*Yoder, Kenneth, 2:16-19