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President Roosevelt thinks George W. Alger’s article about William H. Taft is one of the best, and has used his ideas in a letter to Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-07
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary asks George W. Alger to respond to the enclosed letter, desiring Alger to provide Mr. Bannister with citations for the decisions Roosevelt referenced when he spoke in Boston. The cases included the Worker’s Compensation Act, the manufacturing of cigars in tenement houses, provision of safeguards for dangerous machinery, and laws pertaining to women workers in factories.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-14
Theodore Roosevelt writes to George W. Alger to discuss a proposition of Roosevelt’s to amend state constitutions, saying he expects it to be accepted since his proposal is similar to the Eleventh Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-04
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to see George W. Alger at Carnegie Hall and to hear that Alger does not believe his proposition to be “really revolutionary.” Roosevelt asks Alger to speak with William Draper Lewis about the proposition’s practicality.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends George W. Alger a copy of Roosevelt’s recent reply to Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, and further encloses a number of letters and newspaper clippings that help provide context to the issue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-11-25
Theodore Roosevelt responds to a request to write an article. He agrees to write the article but doubts that many Americans will understand it, because they may not be aware of what he has already written on the subject.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-11-12
Theodore Roosevelt is flattered that George W. Alger thinks that Roosevelt is “willing to take advice.” Roosevelt is caught between Alger’s advice and Dr. Abbott’s advice on a draft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-22
President Roosevelt tells George W. Alger that he will read Alger’s book with pleasure, and that he thinks Alger takes “an eminently sane and proper view of just the matters in which I feel most interest.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-07
President Roosevelt found George W. Alger’s article on yellow journalism admirable.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-07