Reminiscences of Nathan Witt : oral history, 1969.

Biographical Note

Government official, labor lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education, Harvard Law School; New York, N.Y. legal experience, 1932; New Deal Washington, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933-34; National Labor Relations Board, 1934-40: Assistant General Counsel in charge of Review Division to 1937, later Secretary; formation of National Labor Relations Board, political climate, problems of social legislation, analysis of Wagner and Landrum-Griffin Acts; Smith Committee investigation; impressions of board members, other New Deal figures.

Subjects

• Byne, Judith H., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Labor laws and legislation.
• Labor unions and communism.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
• United States. National Labor Relations Board.
• Witt, Nathan, 1903-1982.

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