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Speeches of Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson

1940 | 1941

– 1940 –

January 20, 1940

Address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, at the Twentieth Anniversary Dinner of the Federal Bar Association, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

February 1, 1940, 12:00 a.m.

Address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, at the Exercises Commemorative of the 150th Anniversary of the First Session of the Supreme Court of the United States

March 30, 1940, 10 a.m.

Remarks of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, on the Occasion of the Graduation Exercises of the 13th Session of the FBI National Police Academy, Great Hall, Department of Justice Building

April 1, 1940, 10 a.m.

"The Federal Prosecutor," an Address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Delivered at the Second Annual Conference of United States Attorneys, Great Hall, Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.

April 9, 1940, broadcast 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. EST

A Square Deal for the Court, an Address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, at Boston College Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, Columbia Broadcasting System

April 11, 1940, 9:30 p.m.

What Are the Essential Differences Between the Republican and the Democratic Parties? An address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, For Delivery at America's Town Meeting of the Air, the Town Hall, Inc., New York City, Broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company

May 3, 1940, broadcast 10:30-10:45 p.m. EST

Business and Government Have Worked Together, Address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, at Forum Meeting, National Institute of Government, Sponsored by Women's Division, Democratic National Committee, Washington, D.C., NBC Blue Network

May 20, 1940, at Noon

Statement of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, on the Occasion of the Presentation of Resolutions Adopted by the Committee on Resolutions of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States at the Memorial Services for Mr. Justice Butler

June 14, 1940

Address of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson Welcoming the Immigration and Naturalization Service to the Department of Justice

June 23, 1940, 3:00 p.m.

Address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, at the Annual Memorial Service in Honor of Robert M. La Follette, Madison, Wisconsin

June 29, 1940, 7:00 p.m. D.S.T.

A Program for the Internal Defense of the United States, Address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, at Mid-Summer Meeting, New York State Bar Association, Saranac Inn

August 5, 1940

Address of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Before the Federal-State Conference on Law Enforcement Problems of National Defense, Great Hall, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

– 1941 –

January 19, 1941

Address of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, at the Dinner of the Presidential Electors, Washington, D.C.

January 21, 1941, 10:00-10:30 p.m.

Address of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Before the Fifth General Assembly of the Council of State Governments, because of the Illness of the Attorney General, the Address was Presented for Him by Solicitor General Francis Biddle, Hotel Mayflower, Washington, D.C.

March 10, 1941, 10:30 a.m.

Address of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Before the Third Annual Conference of United States Attorneys at the Great Hall of the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

March 27, 1941

Address of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, at the First Conference of the Inter-American Bar Association, Read by: Honorable George S. Messersmith, American Ambassador to Havana, Havana, Cuba

April 3, 1941, 10:20-10:35 p.m.

Address of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Before the Common Council for American Unity, Hotel Astor, New York

April 26, 1941

Address by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Annual Law School Dinner, University of Richmond Law School, Hotel John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia

May 7, 1941, 9:00 a.m., E.S.T.

Address of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Annual Meeting of the American Judicature Society, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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