Oral history interview with John Lord O'Brian, 1952

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Early childhood and education; Harvard; public activities in Buffalo; law practice, 1900; Crapsey case; New York Assemblyman, 1907; New York State politics, 1898-1915; New York Constitutional Convention, 1915; election of 1916; United States Attorney; Theodore Roosevelt-William Barnes libel suit; World War I: Von Rintelen conspiracy case, 1917; War Emergency Division, Department of Justice, 1917-19; German espionage, First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court; "Red Raids" and A. Mitchell Palmer; Zimmermann Note, 1917; election of 1920, head of Anti-Trust Division, 1929-32; Tennessee Valley Authority; law practice in Washington; Republican National Convention, 1940; Office of Production Management; Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; War Production Board; impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Henry L. Stimson, Alfred E. Smith, Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis, Oliver W. Holmes, and Benjamin Cardozo

Subjects

• Albertson, Dean, 1920- interviewer.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• O'Brian, John Lord, 1874-1973--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
• Tennessee Valley Authority.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Dept. of Justice.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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