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James M. Landis
Typed, signed note America James McCauley Landis (September 25, 1899 - July 30, 1964) was an American academic, government official and legal adviser. Landis was born in Tokyo, Japan, where his parents were teachers at a missionary school. He graduated from Princeton University and received a law degree and a doctorate in juridical science from the Harvard Law School, where he was a student of Felix Frankfurter. In 1925, Landis was a law clerk to Justice Louis Brandeis of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then became a professor at the Harvard Law School, until called into government service during the New Deal. Landis served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (1933-1934), as a member of t...
The Intellectual Sword
A history of Harvard Law School in the twentieth century, focusing on the school’s precipitous decline prior to 1945 and its dramatic postwar resurgence amid national crises and internal discord. By the late nineteenth century, Harvard Law School had transformed legal education and become the preeminent professional school in the nation. But in the early 1900s, HLS came to the brink of financial failure and lagged its peers in scholarly innovation. It also honed an aggressive intellectual culture famously described by Learned Hand: “In the universe of truth, they lived by the sword. They asked no quarter of absolutes, and they gave none.” After World War II, however, HLS roared back. I...
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Prophets of Regulation
"There is properly no history, only biography," Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McGraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.
Investigation, Disposition of Surplus Property: Hearings on Steel Rails (Diversion from China); Pricing and priorities; scarce building materials, etc., Stored (Chicago area); Allocation of C-54 Airplanes; Priority problems, etc. (New York Hearing); Scrap deals (Max Bailis & Sons); Educational priorities, October 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, November 18 and 19, 1946
Aug. 19 hearing was held in Atlanta, Ga.; Sept. 4-6 hearings were held in Kansas City, Mo., pt. 1; Oct. 21-23 hearings were held in NYC, pt. 3; Appendix contains Government documents, photographs, and correspondence related to surplus property disposal problems (p. 3308-3474). Also includes State Dept summary of air rights and air services agreements between U.S. and foreign governments (p. 3335-3393), pt. 5.
That Man
This intimate portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt was written by his close friend and associate, the late Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.
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