Oral history interview with John Lord O'Brian, 1952
Other Titles
Reminiscences of John Lord O'Brian, 1952
Abstract
Early childhood and education; Harvard; public activities in Buffalo; law practice, 1900; Crapsey case; New York Assemblyman, 1907; New York State politics, 1898-1915; New York Constitutional Convention, 1915; election of 1916; United States Attorney; Theodore Roosevelt-William Barnes libel suit; World War I: Von Rintelen conspiracy case, 1917; War Emergency Division, Department of Justice, 1917-19 ; German espionage, First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court; "Red Raids" and A. Mitchell Palmer; Zimmermann Note, 1917; election of 1920, head of Anti-Trust Division, 1929-32; Tennessee Valley Authority; law practice in Washington; Republican National Convention, 1940; Office of Production Management; Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; War Production Board; impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Henry L. Stimson, Alfred E. Smith, Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis, Oliver W. Holmes, and Benjamin Cardozo
Government executives--United States; Lawyers; New Deal, 1933-1939; Internal security--United States; World War, 1939-1945; New York (State) Politics and government 1865-1950; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; O'Brian, John Lord, 1874-1973; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Tennessee Valley Authority; United States. Dept. of Justice
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1952
Physical Description
611 pages
Note (Biographical)
Lawyer
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010