George Thomas Washington papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2600
Subjects: Correspondence; Commerce; United States; National security; Lend-lease operations (1941-1945); Coal miners; Aliens; Labor; Subversive activities; Price regulation; War criminals; World War, 1939-1945; Coal mines and mining; Sabotage; Economic aspects; Nazis; United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of the Attorney General
Description: Correspondence, speeches, writings, personal and office files, legal memoranda, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Washington's service in the U.S. Dept. of Justice Office of the Attorney General and as chief of U.S. lend-lease operations in Iran and head of the American economic mission in Iraq during World War II.  Subjects include the labor conditions of coal miners, price controls, congressional investigations of subversives, resident aliens and national security, the 1942 trial of Nazi saboteurs, and treatment of German war criminals.  Includes drafts of Washington's book Corporate Executives' Compensation (1942) and writings by others chiefly on legal topics.  Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Tom C. Clark, Livingston L. Short, Edward R. Stettinius, Robert S. Stevens, and Harry S. Truman.
Notes: Open to research.

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Gift, Helen Goodner Washington, 1971.

Judge, official in the U.S. Office of the Attorney General, and law professor.

Collection material in English.

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