Reminiscences of Stanley M. Isaacs, 1950.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, politician

Scope and Contents

Columbia University, New York Law School, 1905; settlement house work; Republican political activity, 1900-1912; fusion movement; Theodore Roosevelt and National Progressive Party, 1912, Convention, 1916; Draft Board, War Department under Secretary Newton D. Baker, 1917-1918; Republican platform, 1920; New York real estate, 1919-1937: mortgage participation, Lockwood Committee investigation, Tenement House Law, United Neighborhood Houses; campaign manager for Congresswoman Ruth Pratt, 1928, 1930; LaGuardia mayoralty campaigns, 1929, 1933; Samuel Seabury investigation; State Constitutional Convention, 1938; Manhattan Borough President, 1938-1941; East River Drive, acquisition of riparian rights; Robert Moses, Works Progress Administration; City Council from 1941; New York City mayoralty election, 1945; New York election, 1949. Recollections of Herbert Parsons, Ogden Mills, Kenneth Simpson, Irving Ives, Fiorello LaGuardia, Thomas Dewey, William O'Dwyer, Newbold Morris

Subjects

• Bombard, Owen W., 1922-2007, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Isaacs, Stanley M. (Stanley Myer), 1882-1962--Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Politicians--Interviews.
• Progressive Party (U.S. : 1912)
• Real property.
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• United States. War Department.

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