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Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.L. Roberts, August 20, 1941
Created: August 21, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe criticizes Roberts' leadership style and asks for information about deaf employees at the Western Electric plant in Chicago
Subject: Letters

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Benjamin M. Schowe Jr., December 7, 1957
Created: December 7, 1959
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks his son for advice on a survey he is doing
Subject: Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Religious thought

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Benjamin M. Schowe Jr., October 6, 1959
Created: October 6, 1959
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks his son about defining the term "deaf-mute"
Subject: Vocabulary--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Byron B. Burnes, April 19, 1941
Created: April 19, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Burnes about what is going on with Tom L. Anderson and suggests that placement officers have thus far demonstrated great interest in the pamphlets
Subject: Unemployment--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Job placement--Deaf, Marketing channels

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Frank Sullivan, December 21, 1967
Created: December 21, 1967
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe discusses the social construction of deafness as a disability.
Subject: Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Guilbert C. "General" Braddock, August 7, 1941
Created: August 7, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Personal letter discussing National Association of the Deaf business, Reunions, and labor pamphlets.
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, Insurance--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Irving S. Fusfeld, October 23, 1942
Created: October 23, 1942
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe urges Fusfeld to reconsider Gallaudet's mission during wartime in order to maintain federal funding.
Subject: Expenditures, public, Educational strategies--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Jay Cooke Howard, May 24, 1941
Created: May 24, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Howard for help with committee work
Subject: Organizations--Deaf--United States, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Leonard M. Elstad, August 28, 1946
Created: August 28, 1946
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe again does not recommend Blevins and outlines the reasons
Subject: Deaf--Employment--Opportunities, Letters--Recommendation

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to RMG and Friends, May 15, 1942
Created: May 15, 1942
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe talks about a play by Gallaudet's troupe then about discrimination against deaf workers
Subject: Safety and health at work, Discrimination--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Tom L. Anderson, August 17, 1941
Created: August 17, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe fills in Anderson on what the industrial committee is doing and discusses the work of local placement officers.
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--Statistics, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Warren H. Giles, General Manager of the Beacon Journal, June 14, 1970
Created: June 14, 1970
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Benjamin M. Schowe Jr. earned his Ph.D from Ohio State University in 1970, an achievement for a deaf person. Schowe Sr. also continues his criticism of Anderson's columns
Subject: Letters to the editor, Industrial Relations