Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr, 1962
Creator: | Dorr, Goldthwaite Higginson, 1876-1977 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteLawyer
Scope and ContentsHarvard, 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 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
Subjects- Burner, David, 1937-, interviewer.
- Dorr, Goldthwaite Higginson, 1876-1977.--Interviews.
- Government executives--United States--Interviews.
- Ingersoll, William T., interviewer.
- International agencies.
- Interviews.
- Law--United States.
- Lawyers--Interviews.
- Link, Wendell, interviewer.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Oral histories.
- Political refugees.
- Practice of law.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- United States. National Recovery Administration.
- United States. War Department.
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