Papers, 1933-1962.

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Papers, 1933-1962.

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Correspondence, legal files, drafts of legislation, clippings, and other materials from his government positions including Assistant to the General Counsel of the Treasury Department, 1938-1941; general counsel for the Office for Emergency Management, the Justice Department, and Assistant Solicitor General of the United States, 1941-1943; Lend-Lease Administration and Foreign Economic Administration, 1941-1945; and the Bretton Woods and San Francisco planning conferences for the United Nations, 1944-1945. Subjects include monopoly investigations, national defense, treasury regulations, subversive activities during World War II, selective service, and the War Powers Act. Also, diaries dating from 1938-1945 and 1951-1952; clipping file, primarily dating from 1943-1945; and Cox's subject file including atomic scientists, Bernard M. Baruch and the British Loan, Benjamin N. Cardozo, the Marshall Plan, and speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 1944-1946. Some items concern family and personal matters.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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