Papers of Walter Wyatt [manuscript], 1916-1963.

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Papers of Walter Wyatt [manuscript], 1916-1963.

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The papers consist primarily of office files from Wyatt's years as general counsel to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, 1922-1946, and recorder of decisions for the Supreme Court, 1946-1963. Correspondence relating to the U.Va. Law School Association, and the U.Va. Alumni Association are also included. There are some personal papers, many concerning either the Rock Creek Park Association, or his nomination to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; and Wyatt's restricted diaries, 1946-1963. Topics include the role of the Federal Reserve Board during the depression, the New Deal and World War II, including the Federal Open Market Committee; banking legislation, including the Banking acts of 1932 and 1935, the Securities Act of 1933, the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Assignment of Claims Act, 1940, farm credit bills, and war powers bills. Topics also include the McFadden National Bank Bills, 1924-1927, and the Bank Collection Code, 1931; the House Committee on Banking and Currency; litigation involving Federal Reserve Banks; amendments to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, various Board regulations; the Inter-American Bank; bank suspension studies; branch banking; and war financing. There are also articles and speeches by Wyatt, and an oral history, the reminiscences of Walter Wyatt. The diaries and Supreme Court papers contain information on court operations, judges' personalities, and important decisions such as John L. Lewis vs. the U.S., Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, and Rosenberg vs. the U.S., as well as comments on the Washington, D.C. social scene. Correspondents include Hugo Lafayette Black, Harold Hitz Burton, Thomas C. Clark, Colgate W. Darden, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, John M. Harlan, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Frank Murphy, John Lloyd Newcomb, Stanley Forman Reed, F.D.G. Ribble, Wiley Blount Rutledge, Edward R. Stettinius, Frederick Moore Vinson, and Earl Warren.

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