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Jane Addams to Harold LeClair Ickes, October 26, 1928

Addams tells Ickes that her endorsement of Hoover is mostly a personal connection from relief efforts after World War I.

Politics Relief Efforts

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The Political Opinion of Europe Concerning America, September 12, 1922 (summary)

Addams describes public opinion in Europe and calls for American aid and engagement by women voters.

Europe Lectures Relief Efforts Women

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The Political Opinion of Europe Concerning American, September 12, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams describes public opinion in Europe and calls for American aid and engagement in the League of Nations.

Immigration League of Nations Lectures Peace Public Opinion Relief Efforts

Address to the Baltimore City Club, April 27, 1922 (summary)

Addams argues for the release of political prisoners and American intervention in the European food crisis.

Anti-radicalism Foreign Policy Lectures Relief Efforts

Speech to Trinity College, March 30, 1922 (summary)

Addams argues that the United States should offer economic and humanitarian aid to starving Europe.

Food Shortages Foreign Policy League of Nations Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to Trinity College, March 30, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams exhorts Americans to help starving Europeans and discusses her experience there.

Lectures Peace Relief Efforts

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Speech at Winthrop College, March 28, 1922 (summary)

Addams describes the conditions in Europe and urges American aid to help them.

Foreign Policy Lectures Relief Efforts

Lecture to the Alabama Conference of Social Workers, March 26, 1922 (excerpt)

Addams appeals for support for starving children in Europe.

Lectures Relief Efforts

The United States in Relation to World Problems, February 26, 1922

Addams discusses America's role in international relief work.

Foreign Policy Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to the Decatur City Club, February 15, 1922

Addams spoke on America's role in international relief efforts and about the work done at Hull House.

Europe Famine Lectures Relief Efforts United States

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Speech to the Dairy Jubilee, January 30, 1922

Addams urges farmers to set up a corn exchange with Europe to open new markets and feed the starving.

Agriculture Economics Food Shortages International Affairs Lectures

Speech to Dairy Jubiliee, January 30, 1922 (excerpt)

Addams urges dairy farmers to support laws to create an international method of food distribution.

Agriculture Internationalism Lectures

Speech to the Waterloo Business Women's Club, January 16, 1922 (summary)

Addams speaks about conditions in Europe, relief efforts and the role of the League of Nations.

Internationalism League of Nations Lectures Peace Women

Speech to the Emporia Women's City Club, January 11, 1922 (summary)

Addams speaks informally to the Women's City Club about welfare work and the Russian famine.

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts Social Work

Jane Addams to the Chicago Tribune, December 1921 (summary)

The Chicago Tribune retracts a statement it published based on Addams's claim that she was misquoted.

Journalism Relief Efforts

Henriette Margot Irmgard von Treuberg to Jane Addams, October 3, 1924

Von Trueberg asks Addams for help in lobbying Congress to admit more immigrants from Italy, Germany and Austria.

Foreign Policy Immigrants Immigration Politics Relief Efforts Requests

Statement on Marianne Hainisch, October 11, 1921

Addams and Bacon discuss Marianna Haenisch and her charitable work in Vienna and appeal to American women to help Austrian women.

Austria Peace Praise Relief Efforts Requests Travels

Statement on Hunger and Crime, September 30, 1921

Addams argues that juvenile crime wave is caused by hunger and that relief will solve it.

Europe Food Shortages Juvenile Delinquency

Branislawa Oleski Lamprecht de Petschenko to Jane Addams, September 10, 1924

Lamprecht de Petschenko asks Addams to help raise money to keep the Russian Pedagogium afloat.

Education Germany Relief Efforts Requests

Speech to the Boston League of Women Voters, April 12, 1921 (Excerpt)

Addams spoke at a luncheon about the conditions in Europe after the war, especially the plight of children.

Child Welfare Lectures Relief Efforts

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, March 19, 1924

The Committee asks Addams to speak on German children's relief in Philadelphia.

Germany Lectures Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, March 19, 1924

Addams tells Thomas that the best she can do is offer short remarks at a Philadelphia event for relief for German children because she is overbooked.

Jobs Lectures Relief Efforts Requests

Feed the World and Have a League of Nations, February 19, 1921 (excerpts) Also known as Speech to the Rochester City Club, February 19, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams argued that America needs to offer humanitarian help to Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Health Peace Relief Efforts

Feeding Europe and Saving America, February 18, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams spoke to the Reading Chamber of Commerce on the role that the United States could play in reducing the humanitarian crisis in Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Hull-House Immigrants Peace Recreation Relief Efforts Settlement Movement

Alice Clark to Jane Addams, March 23, 1920

Clark sends Addams updates on relief work in Vienna and Germany.

Austria Child Welfare Germany Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, March 21, 1920

Addams sends Thomas donations for European relief she was given at a meeting.

Philanthropy Relief Efforts

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, January 21, 1924

Thomas invites Addams to speak on German relief in New Jersey.

Lectures Relief Efforts Requests

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, January 21, 1924

Thomas asks Addams to speak on German relief in New Jersey.

Lectures Relief Efforts Requests

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, July 24, 1922

Addams briefly discusses Russian relief efforts with Thomas.

Relief Efforts Russia

William Fisher Byron to Jane Addams, July 18, 1922

Byron asks Addams to endorse a check for Russian relief.

Relief Efforts

Feed the World and Save the League, November 21, 1920 (summary)

Addams spoke to the Ethical Culture Society, urging support for relief efforts and for the League of Nations.

Internationalism League of Nations Lectures Relief Efforts

Speech to Washington Woman's City Club, November 19, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams urges women to use their vote to pressure the United States to loan relief funds to European countries.

Charity Foreign Policy Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, March 16, 1920

Addams sends Haldeman-Julius an update on the French boy they sponsored in honor of John Linn.

Education Family France

Address to the Normal School, July 23, 1920 (summary)

Addams argues for American support for European relief at a talk before the State Normal School.

Lectures Relief Efforts

The Necessity for Leadership in the Americanization Movement, June 19, 1920 (excerpt)

Addams argues for women to be able to hold citizenship on their own merits, rather than on the status of their husbands. This speech was given at the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in Des Moines.

Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts Woman Suffrage

Speech to West Side Methodist Episcopal Church, May 2, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams discusses America's responsibility to help starving Europe.

Lectures Relief Efforts

Speech on European Relief, March 21, 1920

Addams makes the case for European relief to save starving children.

Child Welfare Democracy Europe Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts

Americanization, March 13, 1920

Addams discusses the way Americans should view immigrants and European relief efforts.

Education Food Shortages Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

The Wards of a Great City, February 29, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams discusses European food shortage and the responsibility of government toward feeding people at the First Methodist Church in Evanston.

Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

The World's Food Supply and the World's Politics, November 9, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the food situation in Europe as a grim specter over any attempts at peace. This speech was delivered as part of the Social Welfare Conference at the Elm Street Church in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts World War I

Speech to the Missouri State Teachers Association, November 8, 1919 (summary)

Addams discussed the conditions in post-war Europe to the Missouri State Teachers Association at the Auditorium.

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts

Address to the Social Workers' Club of Detroit, January 25, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams describes the conditions in Europe after the war.

Food Shortages Housing Lectures Relief Efforts

Address to the Badger Club, January 18, 1920

Addams discusses efforts to save starving children in Europe.

Europe Lectures Relief Efforts

Present Food Conditions, February 19, 1920 (summary)

Addams gave a speech on food conditions in Europe to the Farmer's Institute, a day later than scheduled.

Europe Lectures Relief Efforts

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, April 1, 1922

Thomas tells Addams that the American Friends are unlikely to continue supporting Allen Ricker and Walter Ligett as fundraisers for the Russian relief program.

Finances Relief Efforts