Correspondence and diaries, 1905-1954.

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Correspondence and diaries, 1905-1954.

Series consists of correspondence and diaries documenting the origins and development of the savings bank life insurance movement and the administration of the state-supported program.

2.09 cubic ft. (7 doc. boxes)Copies 9 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

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Massachusetts Savings Insurance League.

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Grady, Alice Harriet, 1873-1934.

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Massachusetts. Division of Savings Bank Life Insurance.

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Savings Bank Life Insurance (SBLI) was a state-regulated program for Massachusetts savings bank insurance departments conceived of and promoted by then Boston attorney and later Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. St 1907, c 561, drafted by Brandeis, authorized savings banks incorporated in Massachusetts, under the auspices of the bank commissioner and the insurance commissioner, to establish insurance departments for the purpose of issuing life insurance policies. The statute also established...

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...