Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of James McCauley Landis, 1964.
Creator: | Landis, James M. 1899-1964 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 685 pages Sound recording 1 reel | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteLawyer, government official
Scope and ContentsFamily background; childhood and education in Japan and United States; Harvard Law School; early legal writings; secretary to Justice Louis Brandeis; professor, Harvard, 1926-34; government service, 1933-37; Dean, Harvard Law School, 1937-46; later government service: Civil Defense, World War II; Civil Aeronautics Board; Middle East; government studies and reports, 1953-60; 1956 and 1960 campaigns, elections; presidential adviser. Comments on Justices Felix Frankfurter, Oliver W. Holmes, and Benjamin Cardozo; Samuel Williston, Roscoe Pound, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph P. Kennedy, John L. Lewis, Fiorello La Guardia, King Farouk, Lord Moyne
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975
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