Childhood; education at Harvard; early law practice; Assistant Attorney General, Assistant District Attorney, Massachusetts, 1906-1909; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Customs Bureau, 1909-1913; establishment of Federal Reserve System, 1914-1919; Liberty Loan; private legal practice in New York; 1919-1951; impressions of Franklin MacVeagh, Boies Penrose, William Howard Taft, T.E. Lawrence, and Efrem Zimbalist; personal experiences in financial speculation, travels; avocations; philosophy of life
Lawyers; Practice of law; Customs administration--United States; Banks and banking--United States; Curtis, James Freeman, 1878-1952; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.); Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office; United States. Bureau of Customs