Diaries, 1933-1940.

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Diaries, 1933-1940.

Diaries contain detailed daily entries on his activities including affairs of his California law practice; social and family affairs; travel details; meetings with government officials and Democratic Party leaders; meetings of the Federal Reserve Board and the Advisory Board of Federal Reserve; audiences with President Roosevelt; daily problems under his supervision as Comptroller; his speeches before civic and political organizations; meetings with Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; conferences with Senators, Congressmen, and White House officials, including James Roosevelt; discussions of California politics with President Roosevelt and Senator W.G. McAdoo; the Glass-Steagall Act (Banking Act of 1933); the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the chartering of banks; other banking issues and problems; his political and professional activities after leaving office of Comptroller; fund raising efforts on behalf of the Warm Springs Foundation for infantile paralysis victims; his work on behalf of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; his efforts on behalf of relief for Poland; and adventures into the motion picture business.

2 microfilm reels.

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