| Title: |
Reminiscences of Goldwaite Higginson Dorr
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A162
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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: |
Harvard, European travel; early law practice; assistant United States Attorney; War Department, 1917-19; renegotiating war contracts conversion to peace; law practice, New York; travels in Middle East, 1931; World War II, special assistant to Secretary of War; Hoover Commission on Law Observance, 1930-31; Cotton Textile Code and early days of National Recovery Administration, 1932-33; Cabinet Committee to prepare joint plan with British for solution to Palestine problem, 1947; International Refugees and Displaced Persons Bills, 1947; International Relief Organization, 1948; problems of European migration, Migration Conference, 1950; representative of Defense Department at Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in; 520 |a(cont.) Paris, 1949; travels; Joseph McCarthy era. Impressions of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman; of Henry L. Stimson, Robert P. Patterson, Benedict Crowell, Hugh Johnson, and many other political figures.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 647 leaves, Tape: 1 reel, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1962 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Dorr, Goldthwaite Higginson, 1876-1977
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1876
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| Speaker occupation: |
Lawyer
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| Age at speaking: |
86
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| Document date: |
1962
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| Interviewer: |
Burner, David, 1937- ; Ingersoll, William T. ; Link, Wendell
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. National Recovery Administration
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
International agencies; Law--United States; Lawyers; New Deal, 1933-1939--United States; North America; Political refugees; Practice of law; U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. National Recovery Administration; United States; United States--Economic policy; United States--Foreign relations--1945-; United States--Politics and government--1933-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Dorr, Goldthwaite Higginson, 1876-1977
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0019485-14928
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