Legal matters administrative files, 1930-1979.

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Legal matters administrative files, 1930-1979.

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The records document litigation and legal matters connected with the operation of Consumers' Research. Included are correspondence, briefs, newspaper and magazine clippings, contracts, incorporation papers and by-laws, and workers compensation, fire, and automobile insurance materials. Also included is correspondence with Consumers' Research counsels William Consodine, Dorothy Kenyon, Oscar Cox, and others. Subjects include CR's confidential restrictions, copyright law, Isaac Goldman Printing Company vs. Consumers' Research, CR's right to criticize products, tax status, and trademarks including CR's dispute with Consumers Union over format in 1957. Also included are extensive files on CR's attempts to avoid paying unemployment insurance in several cases, including that of Alice Evans and the New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Commission vs. CR. This includes materials relating to the operation of CR. Some of CR's correspondence with William Consodine contains materials relating to CR's suspicion of communists working for the United States government during the Second World War.

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Rutgers University

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Kenyon, Dorothy, 1888-1972

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Lawyer; Judge; activist. Municipal Court Justice, New York City, 1930's; president of the Consumers' League of New York; appointed to a League of Nations Commission to Study the Legal Status of Women, 1938; U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1947-50. Charged by Senator Joseph McCarthy with membership in communist organizations and was the first person to appear before Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee, 1950. Was on National Board of the American Civil Lib...

Unemployment Compensation Commission of New Jersey

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Consumers' Research, Inc.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...

Cox, Oscar

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Attorney and government official. From the description of Papers, 1933-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155522184 ...

Consodine, William A.

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