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[Clipping: The Massawa Miracle]

Description: Magazine clipping recounting the story of how an American tugboat, the "Intent," traveled from Port Arthur to Massawa during WWII to open a bottleneck for the 8th Army and save North Africa for the Allies. Some parts of the article have handwritten notes and underlining. The back of the second page has text from portions of other articles and advertisements.
Date: November 13, 1943
Creator: Dorcy, Biddle & Kiesling, Barrett C.
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

[Clipping: Hispanidad v. Pan America]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing the recent Hispanidad or pro-Fascist doctrine in South America. Key political actors are mentioned including, the Argentinian Foreign Minister, the Argentinian Dictator, and a Spanish press attaché. On the back page of the article, is a brief passage about the creation of the amber bomb indicator light created by the General Electric company.
Date: April 26, 1943
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Hyman Kempner, February 16, 1949]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to Hyman Kempner in response to a previous letter that Hyman sent; Isaac informs Hyman that for the Kempners to appear in a certain registry, it should only appear under raw cotton. Isaac then states that due to the fact that their primary export is raw cotton, they are unable to open any business contracts with Brazil and Argentina seeing as both countries have a large focus in cotton growing.
Date: February 16, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H.
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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