Reminiscences of James Freeman Curtis, 1951.

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Childhood; education at Harvard; early law practice; Assistant Attorney General, Assistant District Attorney, Massachusetts, 1906-1909; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Customs Bureau, 1909-1913; establishment of Federal Reserve System, 1914-1919; Liberty Loan; private legal practice in New York; 1919-1951; 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

Subjects

• Banks and banking--United States.
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
• Curtis, James Freeman, 1878-1952--Interviews.
• Customs administration--United States.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Practice of law.
• United States. Bureau of Customs.

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