Reminiscences of Chester Tevis Lane, 1951

Biographical Note

Lawyer, public official

Scope and Contents

Childhood and early education; Harvard Law School; Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Webb, 1930-1935; corporate trusteeship New York, N.Y.; General Counsel's office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 1935-1942; drafting Securities Act; relationship between Securities and Exchange Commission General Counsel, Attorney General, and Solicitor General; Transamerica Corporation cases; special assistant to the Attorney General, 1942-1945; war policies unit, War Division, Justice Department; Solicitor General's office; legal consultant, Army-Navy Liquidation Commission; Lend-Lease administrator and deputy foreign liquidation commissioner, 1946-1947

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Lane, Chester T., 1905-1959--Interviews.
• Law partnership.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Department of Justice.
• United States. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972