Records, 1928-1931

United States. Children's Bureau

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The Children's Bureau was formally created in 1912 when President William Howard Taft signed into law a bill creating the new federal government organization. The stated purpose of the new Bureau was to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The signing of this law culminated a grass-roots process started in 1903 by two early social reformers, Lillian Wald, of New York's Henry Street Settlement House, and...

American Law Institute

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The American Law Institute (ALI) is a research and advocacy group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of United States common law and its adaptation to changing social needs. Members of ALI include law professors, practicing attorneys, judges and other professionals in the legal industry. ALI writes documents known as "treatises", which are summaries of state common law (legal principles that come out of state court decisions...

Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973

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Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. Ada Louise Comstock was born on December 11, 1876, in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Solomon Gilman Comstock, an attorney, and Sarah Ball Comstock. Her father recognized her capabilities and potential and set about to cultivate them by encouraging an early and sound ...

Van Waters, Miriam, 1887-1974

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Miriam Van Waters, penologist, was born October 4, 1887, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the eldest living child (an older daughter died before Miriam was born) of George Browne (1865-1934) and Maude Vosburg (1866-1948) Van Waters. She had two sisters and two brothers: Ruth Van Waters Burton (1893-1967); Rebecca Van Waters Bartholomew (1898-1974?); George, Jr. (1899-19??); and Ralph (1906-). She graduated in 1904 from St. Helen's Hall in Portland, Oregon, and then attended the Univers...

United States. Department of Justice

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, and is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration, and administers several federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigat...

United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

Pound, Nathan Roscoe, 1870-1964

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Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century. ...

Ploscowe, Morris

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David Sherman Beach.

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Samuel Bass Warner)

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Gebhart, John C. (John Charles), 1887-1970

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Committee on Lawless Enforcement of Law

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William I. Grubb.

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Pollack, Stern

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United States. Wickersham Commission

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The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, popularly known as the Wickersham Commission, was appointed by President Hoover, under provisions of an act of March 4, 1929, to inquire "into the problem of the enforcement of prohibition under the provisions of the eighteenth amendment of the Constitution and laws enacted in pursuance thereof, together with the enforcement of other laws." Each of the 11 commissioners headed a committee that investigated and reported on one general aspe...

James J. Forrester

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Subcommittee of House Appropriations Committee.

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National Civic League (U.S.)

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Committee on Lewis Project for Criminal Definitions Act.

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U.S. Treasury Department, Bureau of Prohibition

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Kane, Francis Fisher

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United States Brewing Company of Chicago

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Underprivileged Rural Communities

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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...

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 ...

A. E. Sawyer

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Simpson, Sidney Post, 1898-1949

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Law professor. A.B., Knox Coll., 1917, LL.B., Harv. L.S., 1922. Law practice in Wash., D.C., 1922-1925; N.Y.C., 1925-1931. Consultant on cost of crime for U.S. Wickersham Commission, 1929-1931. Prof. of Law, Harv. U., 1931-1947. Author: Report on the Cost of Crime (1931); (with Z. Chafee) Cases on Equity (1934); (with A.W. Scott) Cases on Judicial Remedies (1938). From the description of Papers of Sidney Post Simpson, 1922-1931 (inclusive). (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat reco...

Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, Mark and Co.

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Sawyer, Albert E.

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Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement

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Alfred Bettman.

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American medical association

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House Judiciary Committee

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New York (State). Crime Commission

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Lithgow Osborne was a member of the Commission. From the guide to the New York State Crime Commission Records, 1942-1953., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lithgow Osborne was a member of the Commission. From the description of Records, 1942-1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 265033300 ...

Mackintosh, Kenneth.

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American Bar Association at Chicago

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Zechariah Chaffee

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National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement.

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Winslow, Emma A. (Emma Annie), 1887-

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Bettman, Alfred, 1873-1945

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City planner. From the description of Alfred Bettman papers, 1910-1945. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074394 Alfred Bettman was a city planner. From the guide to the Alfred Bettman Papers, 1910-1945, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Alfred Bettman, prominent lawyer and city planner, was born in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Louis and Rebecca (Bloom) Bettman. He attended Harvard Uni...

Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1913-2000

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Wickersham earned his Harvard AB in 1935. From the description of Three generations of interpretation of Spinoza's doctrine of good and evil : 1886, 1901, 1928. May 1934. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511591 Epithet: of Wall Street New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001027.0x0001b9 ...

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 ...

Bureau of Prohibition and Industrial Alcohol.

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Lévitt, Albert, 1887-

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New York State Crime Commission's

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Norris, George William, 1861-1944

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U.S. representative and senator from Nebraska. From the description of Papers of George W. Norris, 1884-1944 (bulk 1893-1944). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81101513 ...

Dennison, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1877-1952

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Manufacturer of paper goods. A.B. Harvard, 1899. Entered the family business, Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham, Mass., becoming president of the firm in 1917. An early advocate of scientific management, industrial relations techniques, unemployment insurance, and profit-sharing. From the description of Papers, 1900-1952 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 229894254 Henry Sturgis Dennison (1877-1952) was a prominent businessman, ...

Mr. Henry S. Dennison's

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Fred W. Baker

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Professor Z. Chafee.

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Mr. Alfred Bettman

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Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-

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Richmond, Va., lawyer, Republican Party official, American Red Cross commissioner for Romania and Balkan states, and Virginia campaign chairman for William Howard Taft in 1908. From the description of Papers : of Henry Watkins Anderson, 1908-1973. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 29391689 ...

Woodcock, A. W.

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Doran, James M., 1946-

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