FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT

WASHINGTON, D. C.

FILE NO. 77-2873

<table><tr><td>REPORT MADE AT</td><td>DATE WHEN MADE</td><td>PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE</td><td>REPORT MADE BY</td></tr><tr><td>WASHINGTON, D. C.</td><td>3/6/41</td><td>2/7/8/10/11/<br/>12/17/41</td><td>R. W. WALL R/W:NEK</td></tr><tr><td>TITLE</td><td colspan="3">CHARACTER OF CASE</td></tr><tr><td>THOMAS I. EMERSON</td><td colspan="3">DEPARTMENTAL APPLICANT (legal<br/>position)</td></tr></table>

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

EMERSON employed by National Recovery Administration August 1, 1933 to August 1, 1934. He was appointed to a position with the National Labor Relations Board August 1, 1934, resigned from National Labor Relations Board September 14, 1936, to accept position with Social Security Board where he remained until July 10, 1937, when he was reappointed to the National Labor Relations Board. He resigned from the National Labor Relations Board December 18, 1940. (At present he is employed as assistant to the Assistant Solicitor-General of the Department of Justice.) Personnel records of previous employments set out Neighborhood investigations reveal very little information concerning EMERSON, except in one instance where neighbors regarded EMERSON and his wife as radicals and possibly lobbyists. Confidential informant advised that EMERSON'S attitude while on National Labor Relations Board questionable. An address book belonging to EMERSON obtained. The names included therein or set out showed his associates are definitely members of subversive clubs.

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REFERENCE:

Bureau letters dated January 8, February 4, 1941

MAILS: AT WASHINGTON, D. C.

<table><tr><td>APPROVED AND<br/>FORWARDED:</td><td>SPECIAL AGENT<br/>IN CHARGE</td><td>DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">COPIES OF THIS REPORT</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">3 - Bureau</td><td rowspan="4">MAR 11 1941</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">2 - New Haven</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">2 - New York</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">2 - Washington Field</td></tr></table>

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