Landis, James McCauley 1899-1964 creator mixed material monographic eng 63,500 203 1 82 Correspondence, memoranda, interviews, writings, legal drafts and briefs, financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to Landis's career as professor of law and dean of the Harvard Law School, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, director of economic operations and minister to the Middle East during World War II, advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and supervisor for the town of Harrison, N.Y. Subjects include the controversy over the plan to reorganize the U.S. Supreme Court in 1936, the Harry Bridges legal case, presidential election of 1940, public administration, the U.S. Federal Power Commission, and the motion picture and televison industry. Includes material pertaining to Landis's law practice, New York, N.Y.; papers of Landis's second wife, Dorothy Purdy Brown; and material gathered by Donald A. Ritchie for his biography of Landis. Correspondents include Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Zechariah Chafee, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, David Eli Lilienthal, Langdon P. Marvin, Claude Pepper, Roscoe Pound, Richard Manning Russell, and Herbert Bayard Swope. Open to research. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Government official, lawyer, and educator. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Brandeis, Louis Dembitz 1856-1941 Correspondence Bridges, Harry 1901-1990 Trials, litigation, etc Cardozo, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nathan) 1870-1938 Correspondence Chafee, Zechariah 1885-1957 Correspondence Douglas, William O. (William Orville) 1898-1980 Correspondence Frankfurter, Felix 1882-1965 Correspondence Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Correspondence Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) 1888-1969 Correspondence Lilienthal, David Eli 1899-1981 Correspondence Marvin, Langdon P. (Langdon Parker) 1876-1957 Correspondence Pepper, Claude 1900-1989 Correspondence Ritchie, Donald A 1945- Pound, Roscoe 1870-1964 Correspondence Russell, Richard Manning 1891- Correspondence Swope, Herbert Bayard 1882-1958 Correspondence United States. Civil Aeronautics Board. United States. Federal Power Commission. United States. Securities and Exchange Commission. United States. Supreme Court. Harvard Law School. Aeronautics, Commercial Economic development Middle East Law Study and teaching United States Motion picture industry Practice of law New York (State) New York Public administration Securities United States Television broadcasting World War, 1939-1945 Middle East Harrison (N.Y.) Politics and government Middle East Economic conditions Middle East Foreign relations United States United States Foreign relations Middle East Educators Lawyers Public officials Brown, Dorothy Purdy, 1908-2010 mm 78029348 Open to research. DLC 781030 20260227111624.0 mm 78029348 eng