Henry Melvin Hart Papers

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),...

Riesman, David, 1909-2002

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David Riesman (born September 22, 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.-died May 10, 2002, Binghamton, New York) was an American sociologist, attorney, writer, and educator. He is best known as the author of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer, 1950), an examination of post-WWII American society. The book struck a chord with readers and became a bestseller, contributing the terms "inner-directed," "outer-directed," and "tradition-...

Hart, Henry Melvin, Jr., 1904-1969

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Henry Melvin Hart, Jr. was born on December 25, 1904 in Butte, Montana to Henry Melvin and Mary (Tyson) Hart. He earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1926; an LL.B. magna cum laude in 1930; an S.J.D. in 1931; and an LL.D. from Columbia University in 1954. He married Mary Jane White on December 3, 1932, with whom he had 1 daughter, Elizabeth Tyson. He was admitted to the Washington, D.C. Bar in 1939 and served as a law clerk to Justice Brandeis on the U.S. Supreme Court...

Rostov, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1913-

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Curtis, Charles P. (Charles Pelham), 1891-1959

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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 ...

Reed, Stanley Forman, 1884-1980

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Supreme Court justice. From the description of Reminiscences of Stanley Forman Reed, Harold Leventhal and John Sapienza : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723466 Reed began law practice in Maysville, Kentucky (1910), served as general counsel of the Federal Farm Board (1929-1932) and Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932-1938), and as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938-1957). From the desc...

Wiener, Frederick Bernays, 1906-1996

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Deák, Francis, 1898-1972

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Goodrich, Herbert F. (Herbert Funk), 1889-1962

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Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and judge for the United States Court of Appeals (3rd Circuit). From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1935-1962. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 236170574 ...

Lyons, Louis Martin, 1897-1982

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Lyons (1897-1982) served as Curator of Nieman Fellowships at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Louis M. Lyons, 1957-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973105 ...

Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986

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United States ambassador to India, 1951-1953 and 1963-1969. From the description of The Indo-American development program : the problems and opportunities : mimeograph, 1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867525 Chester Bowles was born on April 5, 1901, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University in 1924 (B.S.) and established the advertising firm of Benton and Bowles, with William Benton, in 1929. Bowles served in the Office of Price Administration ...

Nader, Ralph, 1934-

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Ralph Nader (b. Feb. 27, 1934, Winsted, CT) graduated from Princeton University (1955) and received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1958). After law school he served in the U.S. Army as a cook. Starting in 1959, Nader began practicing as a lawyer in Hartford, CT, while lecturing at the University of Hartford. He was also a writer for the Christian Science Monitor and The Nation. In 1964, he relocated to Washington, DC to serve as a consultant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick M...

United States. Immigration and naturalization service

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A federal act of 1882 established procedures for recording immigrants arriving in the United States. The records maintained by federal immigration officials were often called immigration passenger lists of manifests. From the description of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Savannah, Ga., 1906-1945. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 174142611 Ellis Island, an island in Upper New York Bay, is named for Samuel Ellis, who acquired land on the i...

Dimock, Marshall Edward, 1903-1991

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Political science professor, government official. Dimock's positions included Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1938-1940, Associate Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1940-1942, and Director of Recruitment and Manning Organization of the War Shipping Administration, 1942-1944. From the description of Papers, 1936-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155522604 ...

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006

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Galbraith taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973248 John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada in 1908. He emigrated to the United States in 1931 and became an American citizen in 1937. He received degrees from Ontario Agricultural College (1931), University of California (1933, 1934), and studied at Cambridge, England (1937-38). His academic career has...

Hastie, W. (William), 1842-1903

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Philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (8) : to Prof. Knight, 1893-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270476476 1904, Nov. 17 Born, Knoxville, Tennessee. Son of William Henry and Roberta (Child) Hastie 1921 Graduated from Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C. 1925 ...

United States. Office of Price Administration

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Doris Razook lived in Savannah, Georgia. From the description of Doris Razook ration book, 1943. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 166147794 During World War II the Office of Price Administration (OPA) was the government agency that rationed most consumer goods and regulated their prices. Some of the rationed items included, tires, cars, gas, coffee, meats, and other food stuffs. OPA was in place for the duration of the war and continued operations until 1947...

Wyzanski, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1906-

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Judge. Harvard A.B., 1927, LL.B. magna cum laude, 1930, LL.D. (hon.), 1958. Adm. to Bar 1931, law practice in Boston, 1931-1933, 1938-1941. Solicitor, U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1933-1935. Special ass't to U.S. Attorney General, 1935-1937. Judge, U.S. District Court for Mass. from 1941. Judge, International Administrative Court, Geneva, 1950-1955. From the description of Papers of Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr., 1930-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 1224049...

Wirtz, Willard, 1912-2010

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Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of William Willard Wirtz : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122343066 ...

Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968

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Francis Beverley Biddle (1886-1968) was a graduate of Groton and Harvard. After Harvard Law School he served for one year as secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. A practicing attorney in Philadelphia for twenty-five years, Biddle was named the first chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934, filling the post for one year. In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1940, he was appointed Solicitor General of the U...

Clark, Charles Edward, 1899-1963.

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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 ...