Box 18
Contains 19 Results:
Virgin Islands legal, 1931-1934, n.d.
Carbons and prints copies of Executive Order of Herbert Hoover placing the government of the Virgin Islands under the Department of the Interior. Subsequent reports, memos, etc.
Correspondence, 1931
Personnel and other official correspondence. Reflects the controversies that Pearson faced upon arriving in March 1931, including issues with Herbert D. Brown and Office of Efficiency.
Correspondence, 1932
Economic issues and lack of support from Quakers in the States who had endorsed him for the position
Correspondence, 1933
Economic issues and political controversies
Correspondence, 1934 1mo-7 mo
Pearson's status becomes more controversial as he declares personal bankruptcy due to Swarthmore Chautauqua debt and endorses the manufacture of rum in the Virgin Island to save the economy. His assistant, Paul C. Yates, makes claims to the press about Pearson and mismanagement
Excerpts from family letters (photocopies), 1931-1934
Photocopies of excerpts of family letters, created as a diary. Original carbons copies stored in Series. 2 Family Correspondence. Transcript of complete set catalogued in FHL books
Correspondence, 1934 8 mo-12
Pearson accused by Yates of mismanagement and being a Republican reactionary; calls for his resignation
Correspondence, 1935 1 mo - 7 mo
Senate hearings on corruption in U.S Virgin Islands, claims and counter-claims.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. to Pearson, Paul M., 1935 7 mo 23
TLS, confirming that no charges against Pearson have held, but offers him to transfer to another area of service, that being Assistant Director of Housing in charge of public welfare
Correspondence, 1935 7 mo - 12 mo
Pearson returned to the U.S., and Lawrence William Cramer, formerly Lieutenant Governor, replaced him as Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands
