Anderson, Robert B. Robert B. Anderson, a 1932 graduate of
the University of Texas School of Law, was Secretary of the Navy and of
the Treasury Department during the Eisenhower Administration.
Scope and Content: This is an artifically created
collection of printed material, news releases, speeches, and
ephemera.
Carrington, Paul, 1894-1989. Paul Carrington was a
distinquished attorney and civic leader in Dallas. A graduate of Harvard
Law School, he served as president of the State Bar of Texas, 1960-1961,
was a member of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates, and
chaired the ABA's Section on Corporation, Banking and Business Law.
Scope and Content: The papers reflects Carrington's
activities on behalf of the ABA Section on Corporation, Banking, and
Business Law; the ABA Committee on Business Corporations; State Bar of
Texas Committee on Revision of Corporation Law; and the American Bar
Foundation. The collection includes correspondence and working records
of these organizations. Also included are draft copies of the American
Bar Foundation's Model Corporation Act.
Curtis, Edward, 1801-1856. An attorney in New York City,
Curtis was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig and
served 1837-1841. He then served as Collector of the Port of New York,
1841-1844, and later resumed the practice of law in Washington,
D.C.
Scope and Content: Letters to Curtis from constituents in
his New York congressional district: 1. Silas Moore Stilwell (U.S.
Marshall, Southern District of New York), 1 Feb. 1840, a long tirade
concerning the General Bankruptcy issue which Stilwell authored and
personally pushed through to enactment. -- 2. Hiram Horton, 30 Jan.
1840, concerning bank issues including "the odious subtreasury bill". --
3. Judah Hammond, 13 Feb. 1840, supporting a bill for relief of the
sureties of Samuel Sivartwout, late Collector of the Port of New York.
-- 4. F. N. Reynolds, 11 Feb. 1840, acknowledging receipt of speech of
Mr. Batts and congratulating Curtis on appointment as chair of Committee
of Commerce. -- 5. Wm. Turner, 15 Jan. 1840, introducing the bearer, Mr.
Chas. Kohlen, who has a claim to urge before Congress. -- 6. Francis N.
Lasak, 30 Mar. 1840, acknowledging receipt of documents and requesting
the Report of the Secretary of War on reorganizing the militia of the
U.S. -- 7. I. Prall, 4 Feb. 1840, asking whether the Committee on
Commerce intends to address compensation of customs officers. -- 8.
Loving D. Chapin, 21 Mar. 1840, concerning an appointment to West Point
for his son.
Frank, John P., 1917-2002, collector. John P. Frank, a
noted attorney and constitutional scholar, was born in 1917. He received
his LL.B. at the University of Wisconsin, and his J.S.D. from Yale
University. He was law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black during the October
1942 term. He taught law from 1946 to 1954 at Indiana and Yale
Universities. He has authored 12 books on the Supreme Court, the
Constitution and constitutional law. A senior partner with the Phoenix
firm of Lewis and Roca, which he joined in 1954, Frank was lead counsel
on the ground-breaking Miranda v. Arizona case, and served as counsel to
Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. While
serving on the Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure, Frank led a group
that worked on drafting revisions to Rule 11 attorney sanctions. Frank
also served from 1960 to 1970 on the Advisory Committee of Civil
Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
Scope and Content: The collection consists of research into
U.S. Supreme Court nominations of the 19th and 20th centuries, and
includes 8 inches of printed materials and 7 microfilm reels (35mm),
1823-1939 (bulk 1860-1939), collected by Frank, for a research project
concerning Supreme Court nominations. The original materials were
transcribed, summarized or microfilmed from the following records in the
National Archives: Department of Justice-Appointments Clerk: U.S.
Supreme Court Justices files; Department of Justice-Supreme Court
Personnel Papers; and the United States Senate-Judiciary Committee:
Nomination and Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices files. Files
include nominated and rejected individuals as well as nominated and
confirmed individuals.
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Extent: 2.5 linear ft. (2 cartons, 1 pamphlet box).
Frank, John P., 1917-2002. John P. Frank, a noted attorney
and constitutional scholar, was born in 1917. He received his LL.B. at
the University of Wisconsin, and his J.S.D. from Yale University. He was
law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black at the October, 1942 term, among
other prominent positions. He taught law from 1946 to 1954 at Indiana
and Yale Universities. He has authored 12 books on the Supreme Court,
the Constitution and constitutional law. A senior partner with the
Phoenix firm of Lewis and Roca, which he joined in 1954, Frank was lead
counsel on the ground-breaking Miranda v. Arizona case, and served as
counsel to Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.
While serving on the Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure, Frank led a
group that worked on drafting revisions to Rule 11 attorney sanctions.
Frank also served from 1960 to 1970 on the Advisory Committee of Civil
Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
Scope and Content: The collection consists of files
relating to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 and revisions to the
attorney sanctions provisions. BOX 1: Rule 11 - Correspondence, drafts,
research, position papers, 1991-1998; BOX 2: Rule 11 - Correspondence,
publications; BOX 3: Rule 11 - Publications.
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Scope and Content: This collection contains case files,
printed material, and photographs relating to John J. Greer's activities
as defense attorney for the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate during
the Japanese War Crime Trials following World War II.
Hamilton, Walton H., 1881-1958. Hamilton was an economist,
educator, and attorney; a prolific contributor to economic and legal
periodicals; and a specialist in the law of social control of business
who was active in the New Deal. He taught economics at University of
Michigan (1910-1914), University of Chicago (1914-1915), Amherst College
(1915-1923), and Robert Brookings Graduate School (1923-1928); and was a
professor of law at Yale University (1928-1948). He worked at the
National Recovery Administration Board (1934-1935); served as U.S.
delegate to the International Labor Conference, Geneva (1935); was
special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General (1938-1945); and
practiced law with the firm of Arnold, Fortas and Porter, Washington,
D.C. (1948-1958).
Scope and Content: Correspondence, memoranda, reports,
speeches, lectures, printed materials, legal briefs, outlines, student
papers, notes, court transcripts, literary productions, and photographs
relate to Hamiltonšs activities as an author, professor of economics,
director of the Institute of Economics (which later merged with the
Robert Brookings Graduate School to become the Brookings Institution),
director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, law professor at
Yale University, economist, practicing attorney, and business
consultant. Significant correspondents include Clarence E. Ayres,
Thurman Arnold, Abe Fortas, and Felix Frankfurter. His papers reflect
his research and publications in areas including social control of
business, the bituminous coal industry, patents, cartels, price-fixing,
antitrust, wage & price controls, the economics of medicine, the
U.S. Supreme Court, and academic freedom. Also documented is Hamilton's
service on the Committee on Research in Medical Economics (1938) and the
Committee on the Costs of Medical Care (1930), and his work as a legal
adviser to Edwin H. Armstrong involving the patent for FM radio.
Scope and Content: The bulk of the materials consists of
four bound volumes of briefs filed by the governments of the United
States and the Republic of Chile before an international commission in
an action brought by the survivors of Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean
diplomat and opponent of the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who
was assassinated by a car bomb in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 21, 1976,
together with Mrs. Ronni Moffitt. An investigation concluded that
Chilean secret police were responsible for the assassination. The
commission, established under a bilateral treaty, determined the amount
of a settlement due the claimants. Samuel Buffone, attorney for the
plaintiffs, deleted those portions of the briefs containing personal
information about the claimants, including their personal affidavits and
psychiatric reports. Also included are photocopies of U.S. court
decisions handed down prior to the formation of the international
commission, and digests of the commission's final award.
Arrangement: Arranged in the following folders: 1. Letters
of transmission (2 items), 1993 Nov. -- 2. Printed decisions
(photocopies, 5 items), 1980-1992. -- 3. Presentation of the Government
of the United States of America (2 vols.), 1991 Oct. 3. -- 4.
Observations of the Government of Chile to presentation of the
Government of the United States ... (1 vol.), 1991 Nov. -- 5. Comments of
the United States Government on the observations submitted by the
Government of Chile on November 7, 1991 (1 vol.), 1991 Nov. 19. -- 6.
Rejoinder on behalf of the Chilean Government to the comments presented
on November 19th, 1991 by the United States Government (1 vol.), 1991
Nov. 30.
Scope and Content: Wills of William B. Marshall (undated)
and his sister Catherine Searcy (1866), together with correspondence,
legal instruments, and ephemera relate mainly to efforts by William W.
Searcy (1810-1880), widower of Catherine Searcy (d. 1860), to settle the
estates of Marshall and Searcy in Madison County, Tenn., and in Grimes
County and Lavaca County, Texas. The Marshall will is of interest
because of its provisions to free Marshall's three female slaves and
provide for their financial support. The papers illustrate the
difficulties in settling estates in the 19th century. Also present are
several title deeds for land purchased by Oliver Cromwell Searcy
(1838-1912) in Grimes and Lavaca Counties.
Arrangement: Chronological arrangement: 1. Wills of William
B. Marshall, undated, and Catherine Searcy, 1866 (2 items). -- 2.
Correspondence and legal instruments, 1866-1868 (13 items) -- 3.
Correspondence and legal instruments, 1871-1879 (8 items). -- 4. Legal
instruments, 1881-1888 (5 items). -- 5. Correspondence and ephemera,
1900, 1910, undated (9 items). -- 6. Family histories, 1957-1965,
undated (7 items).
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Williams, Jerre Stockton, 1916-1993. A judge on the U.S.
5th Circuit Court of Appeals (1980-1993) and a professor of law at the
University of Texas at Austin (1946-1980), Jerre S. Williams also served
for 30 years as a labor and commercial arbitrator with the American
Arbitration Association and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service. He was elected to the National Academy of Arbitrators and
served on the Academy's Board of Governors and as vice-president.
President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to an emergency board which
settled a strike of the Pan American Airways System, and President Jimmy
Carter appointed him in 1978 to a three-member emergency board which
settled a nationwide railroad strike. He served several times in Panama
as an arbitrator with the Canal Zone Government and the Panama Canal
Company in 1975 and 1977.
Scope and Content: Correspondence, legal documents, printed
materials, and sound recordings relate to Williams' work as labor and
commercial arbitrator, and contain a wealth of information and insight
into the development of labor law in the U.S. Included are several
arbitration cases involving the Panama Canal Company and the Canal Zone
Government (1975, 1977). Most of the cases are from Texas and
surrounding states. Case files typically contain transcripts of
arbitration hearings, drafts of the arbitrator's ruling, documents
presented as evidence, and administrative records. Typical disputes in
the arbitration cases involve firings, suspensions, employee discipline,
or labor-management contract disputes. Companies represented by several
files include Friedrich Refrigerators (San Antonio), General Portland
Cement, Gulf Oil, Hughes Tool, International Paper, Mason and
Hanger-Silas Mason (San Antonio), Reynolds Metals, South Central Bell,
Southwestern Bell, and U.S. Steel. Labor unions represented include the
Air Line Pilots Association; Communication Workers of America;
Independent Metal Workers Union; International Association of
Machinists; Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers; Teamsters; Texas City
Metal Trades Council; United Packinghouse Workers of America; United
Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers; and United Stone Workers. Major cases
not present in the collection are the Pan American Airways strike of
1966 and the 1978 national railway strike.
Arrangement: Organized in the following series: I. General
materials; II. Case files; III. Cases settled without arbitration. The
physical arrangement of the files maintains their original order, which
is generally chronological.
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
