Reminiscences of Thomas Irwin Emerson : oral history, 1953.

Biographical Note

Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Family, early youth and high school, Yale College; Yale Law School and LAW JOURNAL; law practice, New York, N.Y.; Depression and election of 1932; National Recovery Administration, 1933-34; drafting National Labor Relations Act; Garrison Board in 1934 textile strikes; cases testing the National Labor Relations Act; Social Security Board and John Winant; formation of National Lawyers Guild; legislative aspects of National Labor Relations Board; duties as special assistant to Attorney General Francis Biddle; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Martin Dies; Smith Committee; social life in Washington; Office of Price Administration law enforcement problems; loyalty problems; policy decision of Office of Economic Stabilization; death of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Victory in Europe Day; Office of War (cont.) Mobilization and Reconversion; drafting of Atomic Energy Act; teaching at Yale Law School, 1946; political associations; Public Affairs Committee; Political Action Committee of Congress of Industrial Organizations; formation of Progressive Party, campaign of 1948.

Subjects

• Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
• Emerson, Thomas I. (Thomas Irwin), 1907-1991.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Labor laws and legislation.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Practice of law.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1932.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1948.
• Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Department of Justice.
• United States. National Labor Relations Board.
• United States. National Recovery Administration.
• United States. Office of Economic Stabilization.
• United States. Office of Price Administration.
• United States. Office of War Mobilization.
• United States. Social Security Board.
• World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects.

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