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Papers of EMIL HURJA 1912-1952 Papers of EMIL HURJA 1912-1952 Accession Number: 59-20 The papers were donated to the Library in October, 1958 by Mrs. Richard C. D. Hunt, Jr. (formerly Mrs. Hurja}. Mr. Hurja's copyright interests in these papers have been donated to the United States. Quantity: 73 feet ~estrictions: None Related Materials: President's Official, Personal and Secretary's Files National Committee of the Democratic Party Papers Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee Papers Mary Dewson Papers Harry Hopkins Papers Emil Hmja was born in 1892 in Crystal Falls, Michigan, the son of a Finnish immigrant, and received an A.B. degree in 1917 from the University of Washington. Later, he was an Alaskan gold miner, a newspaperman, and a financial analyst on Wall Street. Hmja worked on newspapers in Texas and Alaska, and from 1921-1926 was publisher and editor of The Breckenridge (TX) Daily American. At one time, he served as secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, delegate to the House of Representatives from Alaska. Mr. Hmja was executive director of the Democratic National Committee from 1932-1937, when he was widely known as the man who put mathermatics into politics. He used his statistics first in the 1932 campaign and was 97% correct. His analyses of national opinion in 1934 and 1936 allowed James Farley, chairman of the DNC, to concentrate on doubtful sections of the country. Farley's prediction, a week before the 1936 election, that FDR would carry 46 states to defeat Landon, was based on Hmja's chart, graphs, and tables. Hmja's predictions were not always right. He predicted that Willkie would win by a landslide in 1940, and that Dewey would be elected in 1944 by 2,500,000 votes. After he resigned from the DNC, Mr. Hmja worked in New York as a financial analyst. In 1938, he was a member ofthe Pennsylvania State Commission of the Delaware Tercentenary. In 1939, he went to Pathfinder magazine as an editor, serving there until1945. In 1946, he returned to Michigan and unsuccessfully tried to win election as a Republican to the House of Representatives from the twelfth Michigan district. Mr HUJ.ja served in World War I, rising to the rank of captain in the air service of the Army. He was holder of the Order of White Rose (Finland) and the Knight First Class, Order of St. Olav (Norway). He was a member of the American Political Science Association, the American Economics Association, the American Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and Sigma Delta Chi, the nationa1joumalism fraternity. He was the author of the History of Presidential Inaugurations (1932) and Westward Ho, Fare Paid (1936). He married Gudrun Andersen in 1919. Emil Hurja died May 30, 1953 of a heart attack at 3:30p.m. at the National Press Club. .. The Papers of Emil E. Hurja [1912 - 1953] I Personal Correspondence [1933-1952] General, Alphabetical Box 1. A- Bru Box 2. Bu - D (complete) Box 3. E - G (complete) Box 4. Ha - Hoa Box 5. Hon- Len Box 6. Li - Mo Box 7. Mu- Pe Box 8. Pi - Speeches Box 9. Sta- V (complete) Box 10. W Z - (complete) II Personal ·Topical Files Box ll. Corres. of Mary Andersen (Mrs. Hurja's Mother) [1907- 1912} Box 12. Papers of Arthur 0. Hurja (l.!r. Hurja's Brother) Box 13. Personal Correspondence: Name Files Allen, Edward W• .Americans Against Communism (Corres. re. ) Andersen, A. C. Anderson, Clinton P. Austin, Hon. Warren R. · Baruch, Bernard M. Carney, Henry c. Box 14. (Cont'd.) Cowan, S. D. (Cowan & Dengler) Dollar, R. S. Donnelly, Joseph M. Daily, Donald Getchell Mines Girdler, Tom Heintz, Jennie Hummel, R. A. (Lone Star Cement) Hurja, Neil Hurja, Neil and Ted Jackson, Robert H. Hurja 2. .. Box 14 (Cont'd.) Kaiser, Henry J. McKay - Kroeger Lewis, Cong. Earl R. and Lewis Gray Lindahl, Anne MacFarland, Hays Morawetz, Mrs. Victor Murphy, Ron. Frank Box 15. (Cont'd.) National Society of Autograph Collectors Ojala, Lillian Procope', H)jalmar Republic Steel S-K-F Industries ($. F. Wollmar) Schwellenbach, Lewis Truman, Han. Harry s. Washington Digest Box 16. Miscellaneous Correa. [1946-48] Box 17. Miscellaneous Correa. [1940-1952] Box 18. Personal General Files General Political Misc. Political Personal - Orders and Letters Personal - Publicity Public Relations File EmiL Hurja - Personal Westward Ho, Fare Paii!l R.H. - Personal. Early Materials [1919 - 1932] E.H. - Personal. Last Letters, Death Certificate, et6.][1953] E.H. - Personal. Medical Receipts E.H. - Personal. Receipts for Clubs E.H. - Personal. Carras. with Jubes G. Evens and John J. Mitchell, attorneys re case of Hurja v. Pew, . et al., in re Pathfinder Magazine [1946-49] Box 19. Personal Financial Files Bank Statements: Jan. - March, 1945 E.H. - Financial Matters Misc. Financial Memos Coast Trip - Mcnay Personal Bills Paid Unpaid Bills [1946-47] Financial -Legal [1948 - 1952] Personal Miscellaneous Files :::. ·r. Mi's13'l~·-Early' Finiulci-al"Matters [19<:!5-1930) :-; ~ ~:1-·o~~z ! '11?.'1 Hurja 3. Box 20/ Personal Financial Files (Cent' d.) Misc. Early Financial Matters [1921 - 1934] Colonial Loan Federation Loan Gibbons Loan Guaranty Loan John H. Hall Loan Marshall Diggs Loan (empty) Seagrave Loan Second National Loan Tax Matters [19<:!1 - 1950] (Most of these folders were found to be empty) Personal Property Taxes (empty) District of Columbia Income Tax (empty) Char:tty r;.1 -';. :;t.!.-C' j~... :.--. .• -. ..... .:.... ~:~... ~~·~ Box 21. Personal Financial Files (Cont'd.) National Savings Hate - (empty) Riggs ~lote Industrial Bank of Coa~erce Justice Departmant (empty) Insurance Matters Aetna Life Metropolitan Life Insurance Equitable of Iowa Insurance (empt-,tQ Provident (empty) Misc. Insurance Medical Personal Matters Pending (mostly c0ncerned with autograph collection. misc. legal matters. and copies of his letters to Pres. Truman.) Box 22. Mining and Oil Interests [19~0 - 1952] Mi~es and Mining (General) ' Siscoe Gold Mines Co. Gold and Silver Situation Texas Oil Leases - Royalty Sheets • Royalties California [1926] Old Texas. California and Alaska Material [1918-1921] Gold Mining in California, Prospects for [1933] Gold Institute Box 23. Record Publishing Company - Corres. and Papers [1936-39] Box 24. Record Publishing Company - Corres. and Papers [1940-41) Box 25. Record Publishing Company - Misc. Files, Check Stubs, etc. Box 26. Merrill - Lambie Good 'Ifill Flight [1937) - General Corres/ ! ,, Box27. Speeches and Speech Materials, Misc. Articles and Writings "Gatepost" - Column for the Pathfinder Sketches for a Work on Prominent Americans (in conjunction with the autograph collection) 1946 Primary Campaign Speeches (see further below) Westward Ho!; Fare Paid Misc. Writings and Speech Materials Box28. Personal Corres. re Autograph and other Collections [1945-1952] Box29. Autograph Collection- Data Notebook with biographical sketches (lgh.) Autograph Checks Data on US Cabinet Members - for use in publication (2 note books) Presidents of the United States (notes for) by E.H. Presidents and Cabinet Officers- Lists, corres. Box 30. Memorabilia Box 31. Memorabilia (oversize) - Filed at end of collection Box 32. Fraternal Organizations, Clubs, Societies, etc. Burning Tree Club Masonic Data Kappa Sigma Box 33. Mining Club National Press Club The Players Box 34. Misc. and Unfiled Club Material The Players Mining Club Sigma Delta Chi Miscellaneous III. General Corresj;londence [1933-1939]-arranged alj;lhabeticall)l Box 35. A-Clea Box 36. Clee-Dig Box 37. Dil- Erickson, G. Box 38. Erickson, J. - Fiske Box39. Fitts - Gengler Box40. Gerard- Guthrie Box 41. Haas - Haskin Box42. Haven - Hokkanen Hutja 4 General Corres. (Cont'd.) Box43. Holcombe- Hurja Box 44. I- Johnston Box45. Johnston, cont. - Juva Box46. K Box47. L Box48. Me Box49. Mackay - Miller Box 50. Millhollen- Myers Box 51. N-0 Box 52. P- Riddell Box 53. Ridder- Ryder Box 54. Saari- Sew Box 55. Sha- Stef Box 56. Stel- Titus Box 57. Tob-Two Box 58. U- Wilson Box 59. Wim-Z; Miscellaneous Box 60. General Correspondence: Kelly, Ward J. Kemper, W.T., Jr. Kennedy, G. Donald Mackey, J.H. IV. General Political Files Box 61. Misc. Political Correspndence [1933-1937] Box 62. Misc. Political Corres. Requiring Dictated Reply [1936-1937] Box 63. Misc. Political Corres. Requiring No Reply or Fmm Letter [1936-1937] Box 64. Misc. Political Correspondence [1932-1936]-arranged alphabetically Box 65. Misc. Correspondence Received on Western Trip [July-Aug., 1936] Box 66. General Political Corres. Speeches- Manuscripts Speeches - Speech Material Political Form Letters Sent Western News Paper Union Data Box 67. Clippings re E. H. Leaving the Democratic National Comm. [March 1937] Hurja 5 Hurja 6. Box 68. Reconstruction Finance Corporation: Corres. and Data (unarranged) Box 69. 1932 Campaign Statistics Box 70. 1932 -1936 Campaigns: Misc. Data, Statistical Comparisons, etc. Box 71. 1936 Ca.."!lpaign Poll 'Materials, Misc. Box 72. 1936 Campaign Poll Materials 1932-36 State Comparisons Literary Digest Poll N. Y. Daily News Poll Crum Adjustment,Poll Baltimore Sum Poll Cincinnati Post~Poll Cleveland Press Poll Columbus Dispatcg Poll Crossley Poll Blue Polls National Inquirer Poll [Jan. 1935; June 1936; Sept. 1936} ldiscellaneous Polls Working Papers Raw Data Box 73. 1936 Campaign Poll by National Inquirer January 1936 (work sheets) January 1936 (tables only) June 1936 July 1936 (city ballott) All other polls except National Inquirer (work sheets) National Inquirer, Inc. Records and Papers Final Report of National Inquirer in re Political Polls (« c<ppies) Boxes 74, 75 and 76. National Inquirer Poll : Statistical Raw Data Box 77. National Inquirer Report on 1936 Polls and Elections (several copies) and Preliminary Reports Box 78/ and Records 1 --r National Inquirer, Inc.: Correspondence v ,~t~Statistical Materials Sample Ballots , ,,,1 11 J-tf'i:' .-ov Miscellaneous Box 79. Miscellaneous Statistical Jliaterials &: Correa. re 1936 N.I. Poll Box 80. Registration and Statistical Material re 1936 Campaign (unarranged) Box 81. Statistical Analyses Bearing on 1936 Campaign (unarranged) Registration Data Box 82/ Statistical P.aw Files; Misc.
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