Reminiscences of Stanley Forman Reed, Harold Leventhal and John Sapienza : oral history, 1959.

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Reminiscences of Stanley Forman Reed, Harold Leventhal and John Sapienza : oral history, 1959.

Boyhood in Kentucky; education in United States and abroad; Kentucky legislature; the farm problem in the Hoover administration; appointment as Solicitor General in the early New Deal; presenting cases before the Supreme Court; appointment to the Supreme Court; impressions of other members of the court and members of the bar; cases presented before the court; the role of the court in the New Deal; impressions of men and events of the Roosevelt administration. The memoir includes brief contributions by Harold Leventhal and John Sapienza.

Transcript: 350 leaves.

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