Reminiscences of Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr, 1962.

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Harvard, European travel; early law practice; assistant United States Attorney; War Department, 1917-19; renegotiating war contracts conversion to peace; law practice, New York; travels in Middle East, 1931; World War II, special assistant to Secretary of War; Hoover Commission on Law Observance, 1930-31; Cotton Textile Code and early days of National Recovery Administration, 1932-33; Cabinet Committee to prepare joint plan with British for solution to Palestine problem, 1947; International Refugees and Displaced Persons Bills, 1947; International Relief Organization, 1948; problems of European migration, Migration Conference, 1950; representative of Defense Department at Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris, 1949; travels; Joseph McCarthy era. Impressions of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman; of Henry L. Stimson, Robert P. Patterson, Benedict Crowell, Hugh Johnson, and many other political figures

Subjects

• Burner, David, 1937- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Dorr, Goldthwaite Higginson, 1876-1977--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Ingersoll, William T., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• International agencies.
• Interviews.
• Law--United States.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Link, Wendell, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Political refugees.
• Practice of law.
• United States--Economic policy.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Department of Defense.
• United States. National Recovery Administration.
• United States. War Department.