Papers, 1877-1958.

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Papers, 1877-1958.

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Correspondence, memoranda, legal papers, appointment diaries, research notes, drafts of articles, published materials, and clippings relating to his career as a private lawyer in Louisville, Ky. and New York City and to his government positions with the General Munitions Board, Council of National Defense, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, and the War Finance Corporation, 1917-1920, and in Roosevelt's administration as member of the White House Conference on Power Pooling, Head of the United States Foreign Economic Mission to the Netherlands, and United States Ambassador to the Netherlands. Correspondents include Louis D. Brandeis, Christian Herter, James M. Landis, Franklin D. Roosevelt (including the World War I period), and Alexander Sachs. Other subjects include his affiliation with Harvard University, railroad reorganization in the 1930's, the Tennessee Valley Authority, international law, Indonesia, and legal cases involving railroads. Also includes family letters and papers relating to Amy Brandeis Wehle, Fannie Wehle and Karel deHaas, Otto A. Wehle, and Louis Brandeis Wehle, 1877-1958; and correspondence, notes, and drafts of a projected biography of Hon. Charles McCarthy (of Wisconsin), ca. 1928, including some correspondence of McCarthy and his widow.

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Harvard University

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Emergency Fleet Corporation.

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United States. Council of National Defense

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Wehle, Otto A.

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DeHaas, Karel.

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Wehle, Fannie.

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Wehle, Louis B. (Louis Brandeis), 1880-1959

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Lawyer and government official. From the description of Papers, 1877-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525232 ...

War Finance Corporation (U.S.)

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United States. General Munitions Board.

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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Landis, James McCauley, 1899-1964

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James McCauley Landis (1899-1964), lawyer and government official, was Special Assistant to the President on Regulatory Agencies during the Kennedy administration. From the description of Landis, James McCauley, 1899-1964 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581556 Lawyer, educator, consultant ? Dean, 1937-1946. Sec. 1934-1937; chm, 1935-1937. Member, Pres. Emergency Bd. on Nat. Ry. Strike, 1938. Special trial examiner for U.S. Dept. of Labor in Bridg...

United States. Shipping Board

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Sachs, Alexander, 1893-1973

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Economist. Sachs served as advisor to several Roosevelt agencies, including the National Recovery Administration and the Petroleum Industry War Council. From the description of Papers, 1874-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525586 ...

McCarthy, Charles, 1873-1921

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United States. Foreign Economic Mission to the Netherlands.

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Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966

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American statesman; assistant to Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, 1919-1924; secretary of state, 1959-1961. From the description of Christian Archibald Herter miscellaneous papers, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123458502 Christian Archibald Herter (1895-1966) was born in Paris, France. He was a diplomat, politician, publisher, editor, and author. In 1959 Herter, who served as governor of Massachusetts during the mid-1950's, was appointed by President Dwight Eisen...

Wehle, Amy Brandeis.

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Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...