Attorney in Boston, Assistant Attorney of the U.S.; Gen. Solicitor for U.S. Railroad Administration, 1919-1921; Special Counsel, 1921-1925; Consultant, Office of Defense Transportation, 1942; Special Ass't. to the U.S. Ambassador, London, England, 1942-1946.
From the description of Papers, 1890-1969. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236047251
Brown, [Herman] LaRue, lawyer and public servant.
December 17, 1883b. Louisville, Kentucky. s. George Herman and Nelly (LaRue)
Brown18961900Phillips Exeter Academy1904A.B. Harvard College; classmate and lifelong
friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt1906LL.B. Harvard Law School, cum
laudeNovember 23, 1915m. Dorothy Browning Kirchwey; 1 daughter, Eleanor LaRue
(dec.); Freda Kirchwey, sister of Dorothy, long-time editor of
The Nation
19061969Member, Brown, Field & McCarthy, Boston, [originally
Brown, Field, & Murray]1908Assistant reporter of decisions,
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court19121914Chairman, Massachusetts Minimum Wage
Commission, 19141922Special Counsel for the United States in Shoe Machinery and
other Sherman Act and Clayton Act cases19171919Assistant Attorney General of
the United States19191921General Solicitor, U.S. Railroad
Administration19211925Special Counsel for U.S. Railroad
Administration19261933Counsel, truck division, National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce19321934Counsel to the federal and state authorities in prosecution of
banking frauds1936Chairman, Laundry and Retail stores Minimum Wage
Boards1941Jewelry
Minimum Wage Boards1941Member, Hotel and Restaurant Boards1940Member, Jewelry Industry
Commission, Wages and Hours Act1942Consultant, Office of Defense
Transportation19421946Special representative of the Attorney General of the United
States and Special Assistant to the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy, London,
England. LB worked out an agreement between the U.S. and Great
Britain known as the "waiver," or "knock for knock"
agreement.ca. 19441948Member, Power Committee of the Power Survey of the Twentieth
Century Fund19471953Vice-chairman, Regional Loyalty Boards1928LB joined with other liberals in
support of Al Smith's campaign for Presidency. Out of this campaign
grew: (a) Jefferson Society; LB
first president. Society disbanded.(b)
Massachusetts Independent Voters Association, LB
member.1947Dorothy and LB attended organizing convention of the
Americans for Democratic Action, in Washington, D.C. LB was
influential in the decision of Massachusetts Independent Voters
Association to affiliate with and become Massachusetts Chapter of
A.D.A. Early Chairmen: Helen Rotsch, Arthur Schlesinger; LB wrote
statement of Principles for Massachusetts A.D.A.1953LB consented to become State
Chairman of A.D.A., at height of McCarthyism. Also became member of
national board of A.D.A., served until his death1961A.D.A.'s first annual Roosevelt
Day; award presented simultaneously to LB and the late Professor
Arthur SchlesingerApril 3,
1969Died1981Dorothy Brown
died
Membership:
LB
member of American Civil Liberties Union and Civil Liberties Union of
Massachusetts.President, Voluntary Defender's Committee,
1935-1969.Chairman, Massachusetts Defender's Committee,
1960-1962; 1965-1966.Chairman, Friends of Framingham
Reformatory, 1948-1952.Member, Attorney General's
Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, 1958-1962.Chairman,
Boston Bar Association Bill of Rights Committee,
1956-1969.
Author:
Labor Injunctions in Massachusetts.Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, Labor Bulletin No. 70,
1909."Massachusetts and the Minimum Wage," in
The Cost of Living,ed. by the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences,
1913. (First published in
The Annalsof the Academy, November, 1913.)"Bankers and
Tankers" in
The New Republic,25 November 1925."Citizens and the Law:" The
Wellesley Lectures of 1925.Also the author of other
articles, speeches and editorials, most of which were published in
local or national professional, political or general
publications.From the guide to the Papers, 1890-1969, (Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University)