Thurman Arnold

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Thurman Wesley Arnold ( June 2, 1891 - November 7, 1969 ) was an American lawyer specializing in competition law .

Career

Arnold was born in the Prairie town of Laramie , Wyoming . He was the son of Annie (Brockway) and Constantine Peter Arnold. He began his university studies at Wabash College, Indiana , but then moved to Princeton and received his BA in 1911. Arnold earned a master's degree in law from Harvard Law School in 1914.

Arnold served in World War I, working briefly in Chicago before returning to Laramie. There he was 1921 a member of the Wyominger parliament and 1923-1924 mayor of Laramie.

Arnold was a lecturer at the University of Wyoming from 1921 to 1926. He was dean of the College of Law at West Virginia University from 1927 to 1930. He was visiting professor at Yale from 1930 to 1931, then full professor of law from 1931 to 1938 .

Arnold was assistant US Attorney general, Department of Justice from March 1938 to January 1943. As the US government’s leading competition attorney , Arnold initiated numerous studies into antitrust efforts in the late 1930s Years to toast. The Roosevelt administration later moved away from the antitrust tightening in order to give companies a free hand in wartime production for the Second World War. In early 1943 Arnold was appointed judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. With that he was promoted "up" by Franklin Roosevelt to get him out of the Antitrust Division.

Arnold supported - or even initiated - the campaign of American progressivists against international cartels . In early 1943 he wrote the foreword to the work of his colleague Joseph Borkin Germany's Master Plan: The Story of Industrial Offensive . He represented a radical anti-cartel position that dominated US politics between 1943 and 1946, for example through publications by Corwin D. Edwards or Wendell Berge from 1944. This new political line was rejected as unrealistic or imperialist by both conservative and Marxist sides.

Thurman Arnold married his longtime partner, Frances Longan Arnold, in September 1917. They had two children, Thurman Jr. and George, both of whom pursued legal careers.

Arnold died on November 7, 1969.

Biographical sources

  • Arnold, Thurman. Fair fights and foul; a Dissenting Lawyer's Life .
  • Arnold, Thurman (edited by Gressley, Gene M.). Voltaire and the Cowboy: The Letters of Thurman Arnold .
  • Gressley, Gene M .: Thurman Arnold, Antitrust, and the New Deal . In: The Business History Review . 38, No. 2, pp. 214-231.
  • Miscamble, Wilson D .: Thurman Arnold Goes to Washington: A Look at Antitrust Policy in the Later New Deal . In: The Business History Review . 56, No. 1, pp. 1-15.
  • Waller, Spencer Weber: Thurman Arnold: A Biography , 2005 New York University Press, New York.

Works

  • Arnold, Thurman W. The Bottlenecks of Business . New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940. ISBN 1-58798-085-1
  • Arnold, Thurman W. The Folklore of Capitalism . New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1937; 1962, with new preface. 1-58798-025-8
  • Arnold, Thurman W. The Symbols of Government . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935; New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962, with new preface.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miscamble, Wilson D .: Thurman Arnold Goes to Washington: A Look at Antitrust Policy in the Later New Deal. In: The Business History Review. 56, No. 1, pp. 5.15.
  2. ^ De Haas, Jacob Anton (1944): International cartels in the postwar world. New York [u. a.]: American Enterprise Assoc .; Allen, James S. (1946): World monopoly and peace. New York: International Publishers.
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Thurman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold, Thurman Wesley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer specializing in competition law
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1891
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1969