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Call Number: SC0057
Creator:
Turrentine, Lowell.
Title: Lowell Turrentine papers
Dates: 1913-1956
Physical Description:
4 Linear feet
Summary: Collection pertains largely to his professional life at Stanford
University and contains correspondence, both business and personal; his master's thesis;
materials for lectures; degrees, awards, and certificates; and a Turrentine genealogy.
General correspondence concerns financial investments, legal issues (including estate
issues), law curriculum, publication of his articles and books, placement of law
students, and personal affairs such as his health, offers of other teaching posts, and
Princeton and Harvard reunions. There is a substantial amount of correspondence and
memoranda from his work as a Compliance Commissioner for the War Production Board,
1942-44. Other topics include the Stanford Law Veterans Memorial Scholarship, the death
of Allene Lamson, Laisne v. State Board of Optometry, and the effect of World War II on
the Law School. Correspondents include Warren Christopher, Felix Frankfurter, Charles A.
Beardsley, John S. Bradway, Elliott E. Cheatham, Juan Enrique Geigel, Erwin N. Griswold,
Moffatt Hancock, Marion R. Kirkwood, Ray B. Lyon, Philbrick McCoy, D. O. McGovney,
Roscoe Pound, Owen J. Roberts, Malcolm P. Sharp, Fred Ames Weller, and Richard
Wicks.
Language(s): In English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Lowell Turrentine, 1969.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Lowell Turrentine Papers (SC0057). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Lowell Turrentine earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton in 1917 and his law
degrees at Harvard in 1922 and 1929. He practiced law in Cleveland and New York City and
was involved in the prosecution of the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandal, before joining
the faculty of the Stanford Law School in the fall of 1929. During World War II he
served as compliance commissioner for the War Production Board. He was acting dean of
the law school in 1945-46; in 1958 he became the first holder of the Marion Rice
Kirkwood Professorship in Law. He retired in 1961 and died in 1992.
Collection pertains largely to his professional life at Stanford University and contains
correspondence, both business and personal; his master's thesis; materials for lectures;
degrees, awards, and certificates; and a Turrentine genealogy. General correspondence
concerns financial investments, legal issues (including estate issues), law curriculum,
publication of his articles and books, placement of law students, and personal affairs
such as his health, offers of other teaching posts, and Princeton and Harvard reunions.
There is a substantial amount of correspondence and memoranda from his work as a
Compliance Commissioner for the War Production Board, 1942-44. Other topics include the
Stanford Law Veterans Memorial Scholarship, the death of Allene Lamson, Laisne v. State
Board of Optometry, and the effect of World War II on the Law School. Correspondents
include Warren Christopher, Felix Frankfurter, Charles A. Beardsley, John S. Bradway,
Elliott E. Cheatham, Juan Enrique Geigel, Erwin N. Griswold, Moffatt Hancock, Marion R.
Kirkwood, Ray B. Lyon, Philbrick McCoy, D. O. McGovney, Roscoe Pound, Owen J. Roberts,
Malcolm P. Sharp, Fred Ames Weller, and Richard Wicks.
Beardsley, Charles Alexander, 1882-1963.
Bradway, John S. (John Saeger), 1890-1985
Cheatham, Elliott Evans, 1888-1972.
Christopher, Warren.
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.
Geigel, Juan Enrique.
Griswold, Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel),
1904-
Hancock, Moffatt.
Kirkwood, Marion Rice, 1887-1978.
Kreps, Theodore John, 1897-
Lamson, Allene.
McCoy, Philbrick, 1897-
McGovney, Dudley O. (Dudley Odell),
1877-1947.
Pound, Roscoe, 1870-1964.
Roberts, Owen J. (Owen Josephus),
1875-1955.
Sharp, Malcolm Pitman, 1897-
Stanford University. School of Law--Faculty.
Turrentine, Julian.
Turrentine, Lawrence N.
Turrentine, Lowell.
United States. War Production Board.
Weller, Fred Ames.
Wicks, Richard.
Law --Study and teaching.
Universities and colleges --Faculty.
World War, 1939-1945 --Economic aspects --United States.
World War, 1939-1945--California--Stanford.
General correspondence index (not inclusive)
| Name | Box(es) | Folder(s) | Date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beardsley, Charles A. | 1 | 4-6 | 1931-33 |
| Bradway, John S. | 1 | 6-8 | 1933-35 |
| Bradway, John S. | 5 | 3 | 1953 Dec. |
| Carmen, W. B., Jr. | 2 | 4 | 1942 Apr. |
| Christopher, Warren [to George Grimes] | 4 | 2 | 1949 |
| Cranston, John M. | 4 | 4-5 | 1950 May, Nov. |
| Cranston, John M. | 4 | 8 | 1952 Feb. |
| Crothers, George E. | 1952-53 (4/8 – 5/3) | ||
| Curran, J. E. [re son James B. Curran] | 3 | 5 | 1945 Feb., |
| Curran, J. E. [re son James B. Curran] | 4 | 1 | 1948 Feb. |
| Curran, James B. (former student in Armed Services) | 2 | 5-6 | 1942 Sept., Dec. |
| Chandler, George G. | 1 | 2 | 1929 |
| Cheatham, Elliott E. | 4 | 3 | 1950 Jan.; |
| Cheatham, Elliott E. | 5 | 6-7 | 1955 |
| Doty, William S. | 1 | 12 | 1939 |
| Ervin, John W. | 4 | 3 | 1950 Jan. |
| Fletcher, Robert L. | 5 | 6-8 | 1955-56 |
| Frankfurter, Felix | 2 | 3 | 1942 Jan. |
| Frankfurter, Felix | 2 | 7 | 1943 Jan. |
| Geigel, Juan Enrique | 8-9 | 1935-1936, | |
| Geigel, Juan Enrique | 2 | 5 | 1942 (Sept.) |
| Genser, Joseph (former student in Armed Services) | 2 | 6 | 1942 Dec., |
| Genser, Joseph (former student in Armed Services) | 2 | 8 | 1943 Apr. |
| Griswold, Erwin N. | 1 | 41038 | 1932-36 |
| Griswold, Erwin N. | 1 | 12 | 1939 |
| Griswold, Erwin N. | 2 | 7 | 1943 (Feb.) |
| Griswold, Erwin N. | 4 | 8 | 1952 Feb. |
| Griswold, Erwin N. | 5 | 1 | 1953 Mar. |
| Griswold, Erwin N. | 5 | 5 | 1954 Dec. |
| Hahn, Herbert L. | 5 | 1-7 | 1953-55 |
| Hancock, Moffatt | 5 | 1 | 1953 Mar. |
| Kirkwood, Marion R. | 1 | 4 | 1931 |
| Kreps, Theodore J. | 2 | 1 | 1940 |
| Lyon, Ray B. | 3 | 1-2 | 1942 Jan., June |
| Lyon, Ray B. | 4 | 8 | 1952 Apr. |
| Lyon, Ray B. | 5 | 4 | 1954 Feb |
| Lyon, Ray B. | 5 | 41067 | 1955 June, Dec. |
| Lyon, Ray B. | 5 | 8 | 1956 June |
| McCoy, Philbrick (with tss "The Law Student and Professional Standards") | 5 | 1 | 1953 Jan. |
| McCoy, Philbrick | 6 | 2 | |
| McGovney, D. O. | 2 | 2 | 1941 |
| McGovney, D. O. | 2 | 3-4, 6 | 1942 (Mar., May, June, Oct.) |
| Pound, Roscoe | 4 | 2 | 1949 |
| Roberts, Owen J. | 1 | 4-5, 9, 12 | |
| Roberts, Owen J. | 1942 Feb. | ||
| Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine (law firm) | 1 | 4-9 | 1931-36 |
| Alyea, Ethan | 1 | 8-9 | 1935-36 |
| Alyea, Ethan | 4 | 4-5 | 1950 (May, Nov) |
| Alyea, Ethan | 4 | 8 | 1952 (Feb., May) |
| Alyea, Ethan | 5 | 1-8 | 1953-Jan. 56 |
| Laporte, Lloyd | 1 | 12 | 1939 |
| Root, Elihu, Jr. | 2 | 1 | 1940 |
| Sharp, Malcolm P. | 2 | 6 | 1942 Oct. |
| Sharp, Malcolm P. | 5 | 7-8 | 1955 Dec.; 1956 Jan. |
| Turrentine, Julian | 1 | 2-3 | 1929-30 |
| Turrentine, Lawrence N. | 1 | 9 | 1936 |
| War Production Board | 2 & 3 | 1942-1945 | |
| Weller, Fred Ames [also of Root firm] | 1 | 4-9 | 1931-36 |
| Wicks, Richard | 5 | 4-7 | 1954-55 |
| Name | Box(es) | Folder(s) | Date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Science, refuting its approach to medicine | 1 | 4 | 1931 |
| Father's 70th birthday (Rev. Francis M. Turrentine) | 1 | 4 | 1931 |
| Death of Allene Lamson [evidence refutes accident] | 1 | 7 | 1934 |
| World War II, effect on Law School | 2 | 3-6 | 1942 |
| Evacuation of Japanese & Japanese Americans | 2 | 3-6 | 1942 |
| SU's Civilian Defense Plan | 2 | 4 | 1942 May |
| To Mrs. Morie Takasuka and her son Kazuo Takasuka (while in relocation camps) | 2 | 6-7 | 1942 Oct. – 1943 Mar. |
| Report on his work as Compliance Commissioner | 3 | 5 | 1945 May |
| Topic | Date(s) |
|---|---|
| Report on his work as Compliance Commissioner | 1945 May |
| Laisne v. State Board of Optometry | 1942 |
| Stanford Law Veterans Memorial Scholarship | 1945 |
| AAUP matters (national and at SU) | 1953 May |