Edmund D. McGarry papers, 1914-1970 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Papers of Edmund D. McGarry, educator and economist of business administration, including correspondence, lecture notes, typescripts and reprints of McGarry's speeches and articles, newspaper clippings, committee papers, publications of the National Association of Teachers of Marketing and Advertising (NATMA), and printed materials concerning marketing and business research. Includes lecture notes from West Virginia University and Columbia University, taken from Wesley C. Mitchell. Also includes publications and newspaper clippings concerning McGarry's work with the Extension Committee of West Virginia University in the 1920's and correspondence relating to McGarry's dissertation. Of particular interest for the history of the University at Buffalo is a file on "Communism," containing documents relating to the University's policy on communists and ex-communists on the faculty as well as testimony before investigating bodies in 1953. McGarry was a member of an ad hoc committee appointed by University of Buffalo Chancellor T.R. McConnell in March 1953 to formulate campus policy on communists