California progressive, railroad commissioner, and attorney : oral history transcript / Max Thelen ; tape recorded interviews conducted by Willa K. Baum in November, 1961. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1962 : and related material, 1961-1962.

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California progressive, railroad commissioner, and attorney : oral history transcript / Max Thelen ; tape recorded interviews conducted by Willa K. Baum in November, 1961. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1962 : and related material, 1961-1962.

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Recollections of his law career in San Francisco; the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League in Berkeley; his work on the California State Railroad Commission (1911-1918); Hiram W. Johnson's administration as governor of Calif.; work with the War Dept., 1918-1919, as surveyor of contracts and with the U.S. Railroad Administration (1919-1920); return to law practice in San Francisco.

Transcript : vi, 100 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 814:2) and positive.

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Baum, Willa K.

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Willa Klug Baum was a nationally prominent oral historian and long-time director of the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley. She was born in Chicago in 1926, and grew up in Europe and Ramona, California. She graduated from Whittier College, but work and family obligations kept her from completing her Ph.D. in history at Berkeley. Instead Baum joined ROHO as an editor and interviewer, and became head of the program in 1958. During her years as director over 1,600 i...

Thelen, Max, 1880-

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Regional Cultural History Project (University of California, Berkeley)

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United States Railroad Administration

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