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“take”: FF to White, 10/20/1916 tel., FFLC, Box 183.
80
Worried: FFR, 98–101.
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late January: NYT, 10/25/1916, at 18; Bunting v. Oregon, No. 38, 1916 Term Supreme Court Docket Book, at 7, NARA, M216, Roll #15, Dockets of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1915–18, Original and Appellate.
80
so soon: FF to KL, 1/14/1917, at 3–4, FFLC, Box 80.
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Laski & Denison: LDB to HJL, 4/3/1916, at 4 LLDB at 142; WTD to Mather, 9/8/1916, Stettler v. O’Hara Clerk’s Office File, NARA, RG 267, Box 4618, Appellate Case File 24,248.
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$8 & $6: Simpson Record, at 2–3, 10–11, Stettler v. O’Hara Clerk’s Office File. See Stettler Record at 10–11; Stettler v. O’Hara, 139 P. 174, 745 (Or. 1914); Simpson v. O’Hara, 141 P. 158 (Or. 1914).
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$50: Bunting v. Oregon, 243 U.S. 426, 434 (1917).
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Differences: FF, “Hours of Labor and Realism in Constitutional Law,” 29 Harv. L. Rev. at 367 (citing State v. Bunting, 71 Ore. 259, 271, 139 P. 731, 735 (1914)).
81
“intently” & “a small”: “Notes from the Capital: Felix Frankfurter,” The Nation, 3/15/1917, at 320.
81
“the facts” & “snapped” & “How”: Wisconsin State Journal, 1/24/1917, at 12.
81
practical effects: Emporia Gazette, 2/9/1917, at 2.
81
racist and anti-Semite: PC, 3/27/1937, at 1 (protesting McReynolds’s comment that “he had tried to protect ‘the poorest darky in the Georgia backwoods as well as the man in the mansion on Wall Street’ ”); Robert L. Carter, “The Long Road to Equality,” The Nation, 5/3/2004, at 28 (alleging McReynolds turned his back on Charles Hamilton Houston during a 1938 graduate school segregation argument); John Knox, The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox, 36–37 (Dennis J. Hutchinson & David J. Garrow, eds. 2002) (noting McReynolds’s refusal to speak to Jewish justices Brandeis and Cardozo).
81
landed: EMH to FWB, 4/8/1936, FFLC, Box 127; EMH to WW, 7/15/1914, 30 WWP at 285.
81
March 1913: RGV to SFV, 3/26/1913, at 3, RGVP, Carton 7, Folder 76.
82
“What you” & “May I”: FF Int. with JA, at 3–4, n.d., circa 1938, JSAP, Box 93, Folder 3. Cf. Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner, Men Around the President, 49 (1939) (similar quotation); FF to HLS, 4/16/13, FFLC, Box 103 (“What a horde of office seekers is wearing away the strength and time of men like McReynolds—who let them!”).
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“Ten hours!” & “Your honor” & “Good”: FFR, 101–3. See FF to LH, circa 5/11/1916, at 3, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-6 (describing McReynolds as “dull”).
82
“Mr. Frankfurter’s”: “Oregon May Be Right,” The Independent, 2/5/1917, at 203.
82
blue tie: FF to SFV, 1/20/1917 tel., RGVP, Carton 15, Folder 72.
82
April 9: Bunting v. Oregon, 243 US. 426, 438–39 (1917); Stettler v. O’Hara, 243 U.S. 629 (1917) (per curiam).
83
supported Wilson’s: FF to WL, 1/31/1917 (#9), at 1–2, WLP, Reel 9, Box 10, Folder 420; FF to KL, 2/5/1917, at 1, FFLC, Box 80; FF to WL, 2/1917, WLP, Reel 9, Box 10, Folder 420.
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disliked: FF to LH, 1/24/1917, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-6.
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“could not”: FF to MD, 4/6/1917, at 3, FFLC, Box 5.
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labor committee: Samuel Gompers to FF, 3/22/1917, FFLC, Box 59; FF to Gompers, 3/26/1917, id.
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the same mistake: FF to Gompers, 4/3/1917, id.; FF to Gompers, 4/20/1917, id.; FF to MD, 4/1/1917, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 5.
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“to see”: FF to MD, 4/16/1917, at 2, FFLC, Box 6.
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permanent stay: FFR, 114.
84
“indefinitely”: NDB to ALL, 4/22/1917 tel., ALLOP, Box 85, Folder 1163. See FF to MD, 4/22/1917, at 3–4, FFLC, Box 6.
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Judge Advocate General’s Corps: Enoch Crowder to FF, 8/14/1916, FFLC, Box 50; Crowder to FF, 1/18/1917, id.
85
Baker: Douglas B. Craig, Progressives at War, 65–67 (2013); Daniel R. Beaver, Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1–8, 37 (1966); Frederick Palmer, Newton D. Baker, Vol. 1, 6–11 (1931).
85
a million men: NYT, 4/6/1917, at 1.
85
War Department job: WL to FF, 4/1917, at 2–3, FFLC, Box 77; WL to NDB, 5/10/1917, at 1–2, NDBP, Reel 2, Pages 137–38.
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second-floor: Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, 120 (1980); Brad Snyder, The House of Truth, 170–73 (2017).
85
“as of old”: FF to MD, 4/30/1917, at 4, FFLC, Box 5.
85
“a truly”: FF to MD, 5/15/1917, id.
85
“I’d rather”: FF to MD, 6/8/1917, id.
86
Henry Morgenthau, Sr.: Morgenthau to WW, 6/7/1917, 42 WWP at 462–63; FF to WL, 3/20/1916, at 2–3, WLP, Reel 164, Box 1, Folder 29.
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thanked: WW to FF, 6/11/1917, 42 WWP at 475.
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“These days”: FF to WW, 6/12/1917, id. at 486.
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Lowell: FF to ALL, 6/18/1917, ALLOP, Box 85, Folder 1163.
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public purpose: NYHT, 6/20/1917, at 7.
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secret purpose: Robert Lansing to WW, 5/17/1917, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States: The Lansing Papers, Vol. 2, 1914–1920, at 17–19 (1940); Memorandum of Henry Morgenthau’s Secret Mission, 6/10/1917, at 101–5, Unpublished Lansing Diary Blue Boxes, Box 2, 4/4/1916 to 12/30/1919, Reel 1.
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families pause: Liva Baker, Felix Frankfurter, 40–41, 49–50 (1969) (based on 6/8/1968 int. with Marion’s sister Helen).
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photograph: FF to MD, 6/20/1917, at 1, 3, FFLC, Box 5; FF to MD, 6/21/1917, at 3, id.
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“as a talisman”: FF to MDF, 2/21/1933, at 2, FFLC, Box 14.
87
Max Lowenthal: Max Lowenthal, “Felix Long Ago,” in Felix Frankfurter: A Tribute, 126–27 (Wallace Mendelson, ed. 1964); Snyder, House of Truth, 176, 219–20.
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casebook: FF, “Prefatory Note,” A Selection of Cases under the Interstate Commerce Act, iii (1915); Interstate Commerce Act Casebook handwritten drafts, MLP, Box 24, Folders 1–2.
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Zionist: Lowenthal to FF, 10/22/1914, FFLC, Box 79.
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closed: “ML – Dates in life of,” n.d., at 1–2, 5, Lash Papers, Box 65, Folder 1.
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worst fears: FFR, 146–48.
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Gibraltar: William Yale, “Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s Special Mission of 1917,” World Politics 1, no. 3 (Apr. 1949): 316–20; Chaim Weizmann to Sir Ronald Graham, 7/5/1917 & Weizmann to Graham, 7/6/1917, The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Series A, Vol. 7, at 460–65 (Leonard Stein, ed. 1975).
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impressed: FFR, 149.
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panicked: Frank Polk to WW, 7/12/1917, 43 WWP at 159–60 & n.1 (containing telegram from FF and Henry Morgenthau, 7/8/1917).
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Brentano’s: FFR, 151–52. See Henry Morgenthau Sr. Diary, 7/13/1917, Henry Morgenthau Papers, Box 2, Reel 2.
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“fiasco”: EMHD, 7/14/1917, Series II, Vol. 5, at 213.
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“This morning”: Lansing to WW, 8/13/1917, 43 WWP at 442 (enclosing FF’s memorandum).
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“the real”: FF to MD, 8/19/1917, at 2, FFLC, Box 5.
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thanked: FF to LDB, 8/14/1917, FFLC, Box 29.
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“the sense”: FF to KL, 8/14/1917, at 2, FFLC, Box 80.
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“in a judicial”: FF to NDB, 9/18/1917, at 2, FFLC, Box 132.
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Judge Mack: Harry Barnard, The Forging of an American Jew, 210–11 (1974); Jeremy K. Kessler, “The Administrative Origins of Modern Civil Liberties Law,” 114 Colum. L. Rev. 1083, 1111–43 (2014).
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unpacked & opposed: FF to MD, 10/1/1917, at 1, FFLC, Box 5.
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recommended: NDB to WW, 9/1/1917, 44 WWP at 120; FF, Memorandum for the Secretary of War, 9/4/1917, id. at 161–64.
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incorrectly: FF to EMH, 9/4/1917, at 2, EMHP, Box 45, Folder 1443.
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“a very”: NDB to WW, 9/7/1917, id. at 161.
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“ ‘The Education’ ”: FF to WL, 10/3/1917, FFLC, Box 77.
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Globe: FF to MD, 10/17/1917, at 1–3, 10, FFLC, Box 5 & FF to LDB, 10/20/1917, at 1–11, FFLC, Box 29.
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“the men” & “no security”: FF to MD, 10/9/1917, at 1–3, 10, FFLC, Box 5.
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Allied leaders: FF to MD, 10/27/1917, at 5–6, FFLC, Box 5.
90
Lewisohn & Percy: FFR, 120–21.
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Stanley King: FF to WL, 10/2/1917 tel., FFLC, Box 77; SK to FF, 10/4/1917 tel., id.; FF to WL, 10/22/1917, at 1, WLP, Reel 9, Box 10, Folder 420.
90
Globe strike: FF to SK, 10/25/1917, NARA, Labor Department, General Records, RG 174, Box 1.
90
Clifton strike: FF to MD, 10/30/1917, FFLC, Box 5; Basis of Settlement Clifton-Morenci-Metcalf Strike, 10/31/1917, Presidential Mediation Commission, NARA, Labor Department, General Records, RG 174, Box 1.
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reasonable & peaceful: President’s Mediation Commission Session at Bisbee Arizona, 11/1–5/1917, at 18, 28, 62, 351–52, NARA, General Records, RG 174, Box 1. See Report on the Bisbee Deportations Made by the President’s Mediation Commission, 11/6/1917, at 1–7 (Washington 1918); James W. Byrkit, Forging the Copper Collar, 144–244 (1982); Jonathan D. Rosenblum, “Felix Frankfurter and the Bisbee Deportation,” Western Legal History 31, no. 2 (2021): 131–67.
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bed: FFR, 136–37.
90
Father O’Dwyer: FFR, 117; FF to MD, 10/27/1917, at 8–9; FF to WL, 10/3/1917.
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“is not”: President’s Mediation Commission Session at Bisbee Arizona, 11/6/1917, at 615–16.
91
“wholly”: President’s Mediation Commission, “Report on the Bisbee Deportations,” 11/6/1917, at 7. See Philip Taft, “The Bisbee Deportation,” Labor History 13, no. 1 (1972): 3–40.
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“I don’t” & “the National”: FF to LDB, 11/7/1917, at 1, FFLC, Box 29.
91
pipe bomb & tried: Richard H. Frost, The Mooney Case, 80–102, 173–93 (1968).
91–92
President Wilson & last name & contacted: FFR, 130–31; FF to Max Thelan, 9/26/1917 tel., FFLC, Box 154; Thelan to FF, 9/29/1917 tel., id.
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deliberations & interviewed & “a bad”: FFR, 131–35.
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“[T]he feeling”: “Report on the Mooney Dynamiting Cases in San Francisco,” 1/28/1918, Official Bulletin, at 15 in FFLC, Box 194. See Frost, Mooney Case, 164–72, 493–95.
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socialized & dinner coat: FF to MD, 12/14/1917, at 3, FFLC, Box 5; FFR, 121–27.
93
telephone company: FF to SK, 11/22/1917 tel., NARA, Labor Department, General Records, RG 174, Box 1.
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Baker & Gompers: FF to LDB, 12/14/1917, at 1–4, FFLC, Box 29.
93
lumber & meat-packing: FFR, 127–29; FF to John Walker, 3/10/1929, at 2–3, FFLC, Box 110.
93
“Americans” & “to re-affirm”: TR’s secretary to FF, 8/30/1917, FFLC, Box 98.
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“You know”: FF to TR, 8/31/1917 tel., at 1–2, id. & TRP, Reel 244, Series 1, Images 607–8.
93
“the issue”: SFExam, 11/18/1917, at 1.
93
“is in nowise”: FF to ERB, 11/20/1917 tel., at 1, FFLC, Box 31 & TRP, Series 1, Reel 252, Image 838.
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“an attitude” & “to any”: TR to FF, 12/19/1917, at 1, TRP, Reel 398, Series 3A, Image 214 & FFLC, Box 98.
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“Your report” & “the I.W.W.”: TR to FF, 12/19/1917, at 3–4.
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“the effective” & “in a thoroughgoing” & “a trained” & “Surely”: FF to TR, 1/7/1918, at 1–5, TRP, Reel 258, Series 1, Images 561–66 & FFLC, Box 98.
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“I cannot”: TR to FF, 1/18/1918, TRP, Reel 399, Series 3A, Image 165 & FFLC, Box 98.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: FFR, 137–39; FF to William Hard, 4/14/1926, Hard Papers, Box 1, Folder 9.
95
Boston Herald: BH, 6/4 or 6/1919, FFLC, Box 154.
95
James M. Beck: TNR, 10/12/1921, at 189–90; TNR, 10/19/1921, at 218–19; TNR, 1/18/1922, at 212–14; TNR, 1/18/1922, at 215–20; TNR, 1/18/1922, at 221–22.
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pardoned: Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.S. 103 (1935); Frost, Mooney Case, 483–85.
95
opposed Brandeis: EMHD, 1/3/1913, 27 WWP at 23; EMHD, 1/17/1913, id. at 61; EMHD, 1/24/1913, id. at 71; EMHD, 2/13/1913, id. at 110; Charles E. Neu, Colonel House, 78–79, 82 (2015).
95
out of the country: EMHD, 1/28/1916, Series II, Vol. 4, at 37; Neu, Colonel House, 254–55.
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“a silent”: EMH to WW, 9/20/1917, 44 WWP at 226.
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damaged: EMH to WW, 10/3/1917, id. at 298.
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Lippmann failed: WL to FF, 12/28/1917, at 1–2, WLP, Reel 9, Box 10, Folder 420; WL to EMH, n.d. 1917, EMHP, Box 70, Folder 2324.
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meeting & not breathed: FF, “Memorandum on Breach of ‘Confidence,’ ” n.d., at 1, 3, FFLC, Box 67.
96
reorganize: FF to LDB, 12/14/1917, at 4–6.
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three jobs & “Necessary”: FF, Memorandum, 1/7/1918, at 3–7, FFLC, Box 189, & NDBP, Reel 4.
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preempt: FF to NDB, 1/4/1918, NDBP, Reel 5.
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“freed”: FF, Memorandum, 1/7/1918, at 3–7, FFLC, Box 189, & NDBP, Reel 4.
96
“Baker was rather”: EMHD, 1/9/1918, Series II, Vol. 6, at 11.
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Brandeis concurring: LDB to EMH, 1/9/1918, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 26.
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overseas assignment: NDB to FF, 1/27/1918, FFLC, Box 189; EMHD, 1/30/1918, Series II, Vol. 6, at 42; FF to MD, 1/30/1918 & 1/31/1918, Box 5.
96
air raid & Lloyd George: FF to MD, 2/29/1918, at 2-3, id.
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“a little bit”: FF to KL, 3/14/1918, at 2, FFLC, Box 80. See Journal entries, early 1918, FFLC, Box 189.
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“The ascendency”: FF to EMH, 3/24/1918, at 12, FFLC, Box 189.
97
“the ‘hot dog of war’ ” & “[t]his little Jew”: Walter Hines Page to Arthur W. Page, 2/24/1918, at 13–14, Walter Hines Page Papers, Box 989, #128.
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in person: EMHD, 3/27/1918, Series II, Vol. 6, at 91.
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suffragist: MD to FF, 9/6/1917, FFLC, Box 5.
97
special assistant: MD to Fosdick, 4/19/1918, NARA, Records of War Department and General and Special Staffs, RG 165, General Corr. 1917–21, NM 84, Entry 393, Box 51, at 25337.
97
social worker: Marion Denman Passport Application, 5/3/1918, at 1–2, NARA, U.S. Passport Applications, M1490, Roll 511, Certificate #15869.
97
engagement: Baker, Felix Frankfurter, 75–76 (based on int. with Helen Denman).
97
“I want you”: MD to FF, 5/7/1918, at 2, FFLC, Box 5.
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stop publishing: NYT, 5/10/1918, at 10.
97
Britain: NYT, 6/2/1918, at 16.
98
wounded: FF to KL, 8/9/1918, at 4, FFLC, Box 80.
98
“This is”: FF to MD, 6/9/1918, at 2, FFLC, Box 5.
98
National War Labor Board: NYT, 2/28/1918, at 10; NYT, 3/6/1918, at 1.
98
director general: FF and SK to NDB, 4/30/1918, NDBP, Reel 5, Page 194; WW to Robert Woolley, 4/27/1918, 47 WWP at 449.
98
praised: NYTrib, 5/12/1918, at 8.
98
“Uniting”: NYT, 5/26/1918, at SM2.
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Lippmann declared: ERB to FF, 5/16/1918, at 1, FFLC, Box 31.
