TY - GEN AU - Landis,James McCauley AU - Brown,Dorothy Purdy TI - James McCauley Landis papers, KW - Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, KW - Bridges, Harry, KW - Cardozo, Benjamin N. KW - Chafee, Zechariah, KW - Douglas, William O. KW - Frankfurter, Felix, KW - Kennedy, John F. KW - Kennedy, Joseph P. KW - Lilienthal, David Eli, KW - Marvin, Langdon P. KW - Pepper, Claude, KW - Ritchie, Donald A., KW - Pound, Roscoe, KW - Russell, Richard Manning, KW - Swope, Herbert Bayard, KW - United States KW - Civil Aeronautics Board KW - Federal Power Commission KW - Securities and Exchange Commission KW - Supreme Court KW - Harvard Law School KW - Aeronautics, Commercial KW - Economic development KW - Middle East KW - Law KW - Study and teaching KW - Motion picture industry KW - Practice of law KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Public administration KW - Securities KW - Television broadcasting KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Harrison (N.Y.) KW - Politics and government KW - Economic conditions KW - Foreign relations KW - Educators KW - itoamc KW - Lawyers KW - Public officials N1 - Open to research N2 - 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 ER -