Simon Ernest Sobeloff Papers 1882-1973 (bulk 1950-1973)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986

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Jacob Koppel Javits (May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Javits served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York's 21st congressional district from 1947 to 1954, as the 58th Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1957 until 1981. After graduating from New York University School of Law, he established a law practice in New York City. During World War II, he serv...

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

United States. Subversive Activities Control Board

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The United States Subversive Activities Control Board was created in 1950 in conjunction with enactment of the Internal Security Act of 1950. This act, known as the McCarran Act after its author Senator Pat McCarran, did not outlaw the Communist Party but sought to secure its control through regulation (or perhaps more likely, its dissolution rather than submit to such control). It required registration with the United States government of domestic "communist-action organizations" (defined as or...

Burger, Warren E., 1907-1995

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Chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; d. 1995. From the description of Papers, 1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149469 Chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; died 1995. From the description of Warren E. Burger introduction, 1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983627 ...

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Secretary of War Henry ...

United States. Solicitor General

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Parker, John Johnston, 1885-1958

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John Johnston Parker (1885-1958) of Charlotte, N.C., was a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit from 1925 to 1958. From the description of John Johnston Parker papers, 1920-1956. WorldCat record id: 25327598 Parker of North Carolina, judge of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1925-1958, served as an alternate judge in the Nuremberg trial of major German war criminals in 1945-1946. From the description of Records of Nuremberg tri...

Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980

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Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and professor of law. From the description of William O. Douglas papers, 1801-1980 (bulk 1923-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068743 William O. Douglas was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. His nearly thirty-seven year tenure as a Supreme Court justice was the longest in the history of the court. From the guide to ...

Paul, John, 1883-1964

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Born in Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1883. Educated at Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia. Served one term in Congress beginning in 1920. Served as U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1932-1964. From the description of Judicial papers, 1930-1964. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 29766812 ...

Bazelon, David L. (David Lionel), 1909-

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David L. Bazelon, born in Superior, Wisconsin in 1909 to Russian, Jewish immigrants, was the first person in his family to graduate from college. After he studied law at Northwestern Law School he briefly entered private practice. In 1936 he joined the US Attorney's Office in Chicago, where he handled civil tax cases brought against some of the city's most notorious gansters. In 1940 he returned to private practice where he became the youngest senior partner in the firm of Gotlieb and Schwartz. ...

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...

Sobeloff, Simon Ernest, 1894-1973

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Federal judge. From the description of Oral history interview, 1971. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32821964 Lawyer, U.S. solicitor general, and federal judge. From the description of Simon Ernest Sobeloff papers, 1882-1973 (bulk 1950-1973). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982559 From the description of Papers, 1882-1973 (bulk 1950-1973). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605207 Biographical Note ...

Baltimore Urban League (Md.)

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National Council on Crime and Delinquency

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Soper, Morris Ames, 1873-1963

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Judge, United States Circuit Court; trustee and chair, Board of Trustees, Morgan State College (1919-1953); and chair, Maryland State Commission on Higher Education of Negroes (1935-1939). From the description of Morris A. Soper papers, 1828-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965236 ...

American Jewish congress

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The American Jewish Congress was founded originally in 1918 by a group of Jewish American leaders as an umbrella structure for Jewish organizations to represent the American Jewish interests at the Peace Conference following the end of World War I. It was seen as a national parliamentary assembly representing all American Jews. Representatives to the Congress were selected by all major national Jewish organizations and delegates representing local communities were elected by some 35...

McKeldin, Theodore R. (Theodore Roosevelt), 1900-1974

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Governor of Maryland (1951-1959) and mayor of Baltimore (1943-1947, 1963-1967). From the description of Oral history interview, 1971-1973. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32822054 From the description of Oral history interview, 1973. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32818907 Government official. From the description of Reminiscences of Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City ...

American bar association

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED In 1971 the American Bar Association formed a committee to prepare a study "...on the respective powers under the Constitution of the President and of the Congress to enter into and conduct war." The committee was chaired by Lyman M. Tondel, Jr. and the project was funded by the Association's Fund for Public Education which in turn contracted with Columbia University to carry out the study. The staff included Abraham D. Sofaer, Project Director and Adjunct Professor of Law at C...

Wright, J. Skelly

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Federal judge and professor of law. Full name: James Skelly Wright. Born 1911; died 1988. From the description of J. Skelly Wright papers, 1933-1987 (bulk 1948-1986). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74985584 Federal judge and law professor; full name: James Skelly Wright; b. 1911; d. 1988. From the description of Papers, 1933-1987 (bulk 1948-1986). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605164 Biographical Note ...

Haynsworth, Clement F. (Clement Furman), 1912-1989

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Federal judge. Died 1989. From the description of Papers of Clement F. Haynsworth, 1886-1989 (bulk 1957-1989). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71072317 Native of Greenville, S.C.; graduate, Furman University (1933) and Harvard Law School (1936); d. 1989. From the description of Clement F. Haynsworth collection, 1940-1989. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 37440701 Biographical Note ...

Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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Director of the FBI. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Arthur William Brown, 1941 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555861 John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served from 1924 to 1972 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As its first director, Hoover molded the FBI into his image of a modern police force. He promoted scientific investigation of crime, the collection and analysis of fingerprints and the hiring and ...

United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit)

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Leventhal, Harold, 1915-1979

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Lawyer and judge, of Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1932-1980 (bulk 1964-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34576609 Lawyer and jurist. From the description of Harold Leventhal papers, 1932-1980 (bulk 1964-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069205 Biographical Note 1915, Jan. 5 Born, New York, N.Y. ...

Watkins, R. Dorsey (Robert Dorsey), 1900-1986

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