Correspondence with Felix Frankfurter, 1952-1965

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Correspondence with Felix Frankfurter, 1952-1965

Photocopies of correspondence between Justice Felix Frankfurter and Sir William Haley (originals held at the Churchill Archives Centre), primarily written during Haley's years as editor of the London Times, which constitute an ongoing discussion of British and American legal topics, current events, and other issues.

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Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971

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Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State, born Dean Gooderham Acheso, in Middletown, Connecticut, on April 11, 1893. After being educated at Yale University (1912-1915) and Harvard Law School (1915-18) he became private secretary to the Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis from 1919 to 1921. A supporter of the Democratic Party, Acheson worked for a law firm in Washington, D.C., before President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933. During World War II (1941),...

Haley, William, Sir

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Haley was born in 1901, on the island of Jersey . After working on the staffs of several newspapers and at Reuters , he become the head of the BBC in 1944, a position he held until 1952. He was then editor of the London Times from 1952-1966 and editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1968-1969. He died in 1987 in Jersey. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1882, and immigrated with his parents to New York in 1894. A lifelong Anglophile, Frankfurter was educated at Harva...