Reminiscences of Frederick Trubee Davison : oral history, 1951.

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Family background and early life; Groton; Yale and the Yale Unit; Columbia Law School; New York politics, 1920-1926; Federal Crime Commission, 1926; Assistant Secretary of War for Air, 1926-1932; American Museum of Natural History; election of 1940; Air Force and World War II

Subjects

• American Museum of Natural History.
• Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Presidents--United States--Election--1940.
• United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.
• United States. Army Air Forces.
• United States. War Department.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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