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“interesting work”: PAF to HMH, 1/7/1932, at 2, HMHP, Box 3, Folder 3-4.
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academia & public service: LDB to FF, 3/17/1933, HBHS, at 515; LDB to FF, 3/22/1933, id.
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“a highly” & “too eager” & “an excessively” & “is no tribune”: NYHT, 1/8/1932, at 19.
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“deep” & “sweet”: FF to SSW, 2/6/1932 at 1, FFLC Box 164.
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no problem: FF to ES, 2/10/1932, at 1, id.
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“the most sought-after”: FF, “Extract from a letter to a Friend,” 1/9/1932, at 1–2, id.
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“Baker, I am”: Id. at 2.
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“pontificate” & “lacks blood”: FF to ES, 2/10/1932, at 2.
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“apoplectic” & “lack of courage”: FF to CCB, 5/20/1932, FFLC, Box 33.
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“Out of”: FF to Proskauer, 2/22/1932 tel., FFLC, Box 164.
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“the logical”: NYHT, 2/12/1932, at 13.
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“limitations” & “general”: FF to Belle Moskowitz, 3/17/1932, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 164.
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dark-horse candidate: NYHT, 4/28/1932, at 7; NYHT, 5/6/1932, at 19.
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fretted: FF to CCB, 6/29/1932, FFLC, Box 118.
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at the convention: Douglas B. Craig, Progressives at War, 315–22 (2013).
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Since January: BG, 1/17/1932, at A2.
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several friends: JWM to FF, 6/21/1932, extract, FFLC, Box 84; JWM to FF, 6/23/1932, id.
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faculty club: FF to LH, 6/25/1932, at 1, LHP, Box 104B, Folder 104-23.
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“would cut off”: BG, 6/23/1932, at 1, 6.
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“I see”: NYT, 6/23/1932, at 23.
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“the greatest”: BG, 6/23/1932, at 1, 6.
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Anderson & Baker: BG, 6/30/1932, at 32.
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law faculty: BG, 7/2/1932, at 12.
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“the judicial temperament”: NYT, 6/26/1932, at E1.
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congratulatory letters: FFLC, Boxes 118–19.
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decline: LDB to FF, 6/23/1932, HBHS, 491; LDB to FF, 6/26/1932, id. at 492.
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to accept: JWM to WGT, 6/27/1932, FFLC, Box 81.
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“[y]our” & “the long-term”: FF to Ely, 6/29/1932, at 1, FFLC, Box 53.
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hand-deliver: “Memorandum of Conversation between Mr. Bradford, Governor Ely’s Secretary, and Miss Cummings, Mr. Frankfurter’s secretary,” 6/29/1932, FFLC, Box 206. The letter was backdated by a day.
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in person: FF, Memorandum, 7/2/1932, FFLC, Box 52.
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“that’s where”: “Memorandum of telephone conversation between Felix Frankfurter and Governor Roosevelt,” 7/2/1932, R&FF, 74. The conversation suggests it occurred after FDR landed in Chicago.
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reach out: “Memorandum of Telephone conversation between Felix Frankfurter and Governor Roosevelt,” 7/2/1932, R&FF, at 74–75.
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“I pledge”: NYT, 7/3/1932, at 8.
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apartment: FF, “Memorandum of interview between Governor Ely and Felix Frankfurter,” 7/6/1932, at 1–7, FFLC, Box 206.
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summarized & reconsidered: FF, “Memorandum of conversation with Chapman Rose, secretary to Mr. Justice Holmes,” 7/8/1932, id. See Chapman Rose to FF, 6/30/1932, at 2–4, FFLC, Box 98 (including FF note, 7/7/1932); Rose to FF, 7/8/1932, id.
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“never”: FF, “Memorandum of interview between Governor Ely and Frankfurter,” 7/12/1932, at 1, FFLC, Box 206.
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“the greatest”: WOD to FF, 8/7/1932, FFLC, Box 119.
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“much more” & “one of”: FF to FDR, 7/22/1928, R&FF, 78.
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James: FDR to FF, 7/14/1932, id. at 76–77.
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pressed: FF to SIR, 7/11/1932, FFLC, Box 164; FF to Frances Perkins, 7/18/1932, id.
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“You see”: FF to Dewson, 7/18/1932, id.
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invited: FDR to FF, 7/28/1928 tel., id.
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“astounding” & “one of”: FF to LDB, 8/7/1932, FFLC, Box 29.
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“You stimulate”: FDR to FF, 8/7/1932, at 1, R&FF, at 82.
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“the facts”: FF to FDR, 8/5/1932, R&FF, at 80.
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private line: FDR to FF, 8/7/1932, id. at 82 & FFLC, Box 97 (handwritten note).
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“Warm”: FF to FDR, 9/2/1932 tel., R&FF, 85.
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“No one”: NYT, 9/7/1932, at 18.
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“very severe”: NYHT, 10/7/1932, at 21.
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“there is”: SSW to FF, 9/8/1932, at 1, FFLC, Box 164.
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“with an easy” & “courageous” & “a choice” & “an original”: FF to SSW, 9/14/1932, at 1–3, id.
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water-power: Judson King, “Power Records of Hoover and Roosevelt,” 9/9/1932, FFLC, Box 164; NYT, 9/12/1932, at 3.
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George W. Norris: WP, 9/26/1932, at 1.
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suggested: FF to SIR, 9/29/1932, FFLC, Box 164; SIR to FF, 10/4/1932, id.
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advised: FF to FDR, 10/7/1932 tel. R&FF, 88; FF to FDR, 10/12/1932, id. at 88–89; FF to FDR, 10/12/1932, tel., id.; FF to FDR, 10/20/1932 tel., id. at 90; FDR to FF, 10/25/1932 tel., id. at 90–91.
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Albany: NYT, 10/5/1932, at 17.
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Boston speech: FF to Herbert Bayard Swope, 10/6/1932, FFLC, Box 164; Swope to FF, 10/7/1932, id.
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lunch: FF to MDF, 10/2/1924, at 2–3, FFLC, Box 14.
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newspapers: “Statement of Professor Felix Frankfurter,” n.d., FFLC, Box 164.
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“storm” & “The best”: HCrim, 10/15/1932, at 1, 3 in FFLC, Box 197.
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“extreme” & “be put”: BG, 10/24/1932, at 12.
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“a little boy” & “smiles”: “Pledges of Hoover Not Fulfilled,” n.d., FFLC, Box 164 (FF handwritten comments).
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advising Smith’s aides: FF to Belle Moskowitz, 10/14/1932, FFLC, Box 164.
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train: FF to Smith, 10/24/1924, id.; FF to Swope, 10/26/1932 tel., id.
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special car: BG, 10/27/1932, at 10.
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“unqualified” & “the salvation”: BG, 10/28/1932, at 1, 32, 33.
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“at his” & “the outpouring”: FF to WL, 10/28/1932, R&FF, 92.
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Groton School: Springfield Republican, 10/31/1932, at 1.
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“As progressives”: BG, 10/31/1932, at 13.
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“Governor Roosevelt”: EGE, “Felix Frankfurter: Citizens, Teacher, Friend,” Typescript, at 6–7 & Springfield Republican, 1/15/1933, EGEP, Reel 9.
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stops: BP, 10/31/1932, at 1.
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hotel room & attack lines: Raymond Moley, After Seven Years, 63–64 (1939). See FDR Speech, Boston Arena, 10/31/1931, FDRL, MSF, Series 1, Box 10, No. 582.
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15,000: BG, 11/1/1932, at 1, 22.
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Roosevelt’s request: Freedman, R&FF, 93.
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“any awareness” & “well be”: FF, “Campaign Speech over W.B.J.,” 11/5/1932, at 3, 5, FFLC, Box 197.
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“Your campaign”: FF to FDR, 11/7/1932 tel., R&FF, 93.
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“The end”: FF to FDR, 11/10/1932, id.
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Oxford: NYT, 11/16/1932, at 19.
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attorney general: BaltSun, 12/15/1932, at 1; NYT, 12/23/1932, at 8.
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difficult transition: FF, Memorandum, 1/4/1933, R&FF, 101–3.
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unharmed: NYT, 2/17/1933, at 1 (FDR’s account); BaltSun, 2/16/1933, at 2 (reporter’s account); NYHT, 2/16/1933, at 1; CT, 2/16/1933, at 1; NYT, 2/16/1933, at 1.
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Relieved: FF to FDR, 2/19/1933, R&FF, 107–8.
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“You have”: FF to FDR, 2/23/1933, id. at 108.
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“godspeed”: FF to FDR, 3/1/1933, id. at 109.
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cloudy: NYT, 3/5/1933, at 1; WP, 3/5/1933, at 1.
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“the only thing”: FDR, Inaugural Address, 3/4/1933, at 1, FDRL, MSF, Box 13, No. 610. See SIR, Working with Roosevelt 89–91 (1952) (describing the last-minute insertion of the “fear itself” paragraph into FDR’s inaugural address).
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“I shall”: FDR to FF, 3/7/1933, R&FF, 109.
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“lose”: RCM Diary, 2/8/1933, RCMP, Box 1. See RCM Calendar, id. (showing meeting with Walsh with FF on 2/7–8/1933) & in Moley, After Seven Years, 146–47 (photo insert).
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“I am at a better” & “nose” & “fizz water” & “Young fellow”: “Memorandum by Frankfurter of a visit with Roosevelt on March 8, 1933, when the President asked Frankfurter to become Solicitor General,” 3/15/1933, R&FF, 110.
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ambassador: Donald Hiss Int. by Katie Louchheim, 11/14/1981, Tape I, Side I, Pages 7–10, in Louchheim Papers, Box 72, Folder 9 & “Recollection of Donald Hiss,” in The Making of the New Deal, 37 (Katie Louchheim, ed. 1983). See FFR, 242 (recalling the champagne had been produced by the wife of the justice’s nephew Edward Holmes and that she said it was from the French embassy); Brad Snyder, The House of Truth, 561–64 (2017).
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“Frank” & “care[d]”: “Memorandum by Frankfurter of a visit with Roosevelt on March 8, 1933, when the President asked Frankfurter to become Solicitor General,” 3/15/1933, R&FF, 111.
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“for all”: Id.
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“It is my” & “it just” & “of more”: Id. at 111–12.
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“I am” & “I can’t”: Id. at 112.
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“a job” & “to think”: Id. at 112–13.
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5:30: Id. at 113–14; FFR, 241–42.
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did not believe: Donald Hiss Int. by Monagan, 10/13/1979, Pt. 2, at 45 & John S. Monagan, The Grand Panjandrum, 1–2 (1988).
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alpaca coat: Donald Hiss Int. in Louchheim, ed., The Making of the New Deal, 37.
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Treasury Department & Thacher: “Memorandum by Frankfurter of a visit with Roosevelt on March 8, 1933, when the President asked Frankfurter to become Solicitor General,” 3/15/1933, R&FF, 113–14; FFR, 241–42.
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Brandeis & Thacher & “absurd” & “unwise”: “Memorandum by Frankfurter of a visit with Roosevelt on March 8, 1933, when the President asked Frankfurter to become Solicitor General,” 3/15/1933, R&FF, 114.
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Marion: Id.
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politics had consumed: FF to MDF, 10/20/1932, at 1, FFLC, Box 14.
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“I would never”: MDF to FF, 7/24/1932, at 3–4, id.
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hospitalized: LDB to FF, 9/29/1932, HBHS, at 500–501.
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“hard times”: FF to MDF, 2/15/1933, at 1, FFLC, Box 14.
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“a hectic”: FF to MDF, 12/17/1932, at 1, id.
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“how deeply” & “I can” & “I should”: FF to FDR, 3/14/1933, R&FF, 120.
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“You are”: FDR to FF, 4/5/1933, R&FF, 124. See FF to FDR, 4/14/1933, id. at 126 (treasuring the comment).
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clashed & made amends: RCM to FF, 12/8/1930, FFLC, Box 84; RCM Diary, 1/29/1933, RCMP, Box 1; FF Reminisces Transcript 7/23/1957, at 331–32, FFLC, Box 206.
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“stark” & “eye to eye”: FF to AMS Jr., 6/18/1963, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 101. See Nelson L. Dawson, Louis D. Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and the New Deal, 21–23 (1980) (doubting Frankfurter’s late-in-life protest).
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“bubbling”: RCM, After Seven Years, 179–80 (1939). See FF to CCB, 2/24/1933, at 1, CCBP, Box 4, Folder 4-11 (describing RCM as “not of a jealous disposition” and “an excellent influence”); FF to LDB, 2/8/1934?, at 2, FFLC, Box 29 (describing AAB & Tugwell as “greedy for power”).
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new federal securities: FDR, Message to Congress, 3/29/1933, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vol. 2, 94 (1938).
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April 5: DFF, 5/8/1933, at 138 (phone message—mistakenly referred to as Thursday 4/6).
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rooms for three: FF to RCM, 4/5/1933 tel., RCMP, Box 68, Folder 6; RCM, The First New Deal, 312 (1966). See Michael E. Parrish, Securities Regulation and the New Deal, 62–65 (1970); Joel Seligman, The Transformation of Wall Street, 57–72 (1982).
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blue sky laws: JML COH, 159–62; JML, “The Legislative History of the Securities Act,” 28 G.W. L. Rev. 29, 33 (1959).
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In March: FF to JML, 3/27/1933, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 182; Donald A. Ritchie, James M. Landis, 43–61 (1980).
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Muncie, Indiana: BVC Int. by JA, 8/5/1938, at 1–2 JSAP, Box 93, Folder 3; Jerome Frank, “Ben Cohen,” 11/7/1945, at 3–4, TGCP, Box 120; William Lasser, Benjamin V. Cohen, 7–24, 47–64 (2008).
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state minimum-wage: FF to BVC, 11/5/1923, at 1, BVCP, Box 8.
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“two thin”: RCM, After Seven Years, 180–81. See JML, “The Legislative History of the Securities Act,” 28 G.W. L. Rev. at 34–35; RCM Diary, 4/7/1933, RCMP, Box 1.
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6:30 p.m.: FDR Day by Day, 4/9/1933.
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“Everyone” & “hopeful” & “I’m so”: FF to MDF, 4/8/1933, at 1–3, FFLC, Box 14.
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he testified: DFF, 5/8/1933, at 139–40; JML COH, 161; JML, “The Legislative History of the Securities Act,” 28 G.W. L. Rev. at 36.
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“watertight” & “Be assured”: FF to RCM, 4/12/1933 tel., RCMP, Box 68, Folder 6.
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peacemaker: TGC, “Rendezvous with Democracy,” Folio for Chapter 4-7–4-8.
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reassure Cohen: FF to RCM, 4/12/1933, RCMP, Box 68, Folder 6; FF to RCM, 4/15/1933 tel., id.; FF to BVC, 4/14/1933 tel., FFLC, Box 182; FF to TGC, 4/17/1933, TGCP, Box 198.
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must specify: FF to FDR, 4/14/1933 tel., FFLC, Box 182; FF to Rayburn, 4/14/1933 tel., id.
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“we are going”: Rayburn to FF, 4/18/1933, id.
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committee report: FF to Rayburn, 4/24/1933, id.; FF to RCM, 4/27/1933 tel., id.
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“partly innocuous”: FF to RCM, 4/28/1933 tel., at 1, id.
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avoid unconstitutional: FF to Rayburn, 5/1/1933, id.
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reminded: FF to RCM, 5/10/1933 tel. id.
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relied on: FF to Meyer, 5/10/1933 tel., id.
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encouraged: FF to FDR, 5/10/1933 tel., id.
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thanked: 77 Cong. Rec. 2916 (1933).
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“so readily”: BVC to JML, 5/5/1933, at 1, JMLP-LC, Box 6.
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“You are giving”: FF, Memorandum, 5/11/1933, at 1, JMLP-LC, Box 7.
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Pound: JML, Memorandum, 5/10/1933, id.
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tipped off & informed Pound: FF Diary Entry, 5/8/1933, DFF, at 138–39. Grenville Clark tipped off FF about ALL.
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“flexible” & “arbiters” & “ultimate”: FF, “Social Issues before the Supreme Court,” Yale Review (Spring 1933): 476, 480, 487, 495 in FFLC, Box 197.
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Congressional Record: 73 Cong. Rec. 1413–16 (1933).
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incorporated the ideas: BG, 5/15/1933 at 18; LH & FF, “How Far Is a Judge Free in Rendering a Decision?” 5/14/1933, FFLC, Box 197.
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That morning: FDR Day by Day, 5/27/1933.
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“some elementary”: FDR Statement, 5/27/1933, FFLC, Box 135 (FF’s handwritten note on authorship).
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