| Title: |
Reminiscences of James Freeman Curtis
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A64
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Childhood; education at Harvard; early law practice; Assistant Attorney General, Assistant District Attorney, Massachusetts, 1906-09; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Customs Bureau, 1909-13; establishment of Federal Reserve System, 1914-19; Liberty Loan; private legal practice in New York; 1919-51; 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.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 334 leaves
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part I, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1951 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Curtis, James Freeman, 1878-1952
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1878
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| Speaker occupation: |
Lawyer
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| Age at speaking: |
73
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| Document date: |
1951
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| Interviewer: |
Phillips, Harlan B.
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| Locations discussed: |
Massachusetts; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Banks and banking--United States; Lawyers; Massachusetts; North America; Oral history; Practice of law; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Attorney General--Massachusetts; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US); Curtis, James Freeman, 1878-1952; Customs administration--United States; United States--Bureau of Customs
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018421-13864
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