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Comments on growing up in Sacramento; education at University of California, Class of 1912; career as a San Francisco lawyer, with discussion of labor cases, waterfront strikes, and representing Joseph DiGiorgio, Matson Navigation Company, Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association and the Hearst family; service on the Stanford University Board of Trustees; work as associate director, Legal Division, U.S. Military Government of Germany after World War II, and as legal adviser, U.S. Dept. of State, 1953-57; the Nuremberg trials; attendance at international conferences (Geneva, Suez, Antarctica, etc.); appointment to various government committees; and continuing interest in international affairs. Information also about his wife's family, the Macondrays and the Athertons.
Appended: photocopies of two speeches, including remarks at Newton B. Drury's funeral.

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Title
Herman Phleger, Sixty years in law, public service and international affairs; tape recorded interview conducted by Miriam F. Stein in 1977
Creator
interviewee., Phleger, Herman, 1890-1984,
Sterling, J. E. Wallace 1906-1985. (John Ewart Wallace),
Stein, Miriam.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
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Full Collection Name
California Audiovisual Preservation Project
Other Identifiers
cabeuroh_000222
Subject (Person)
DiGiorgio, Joseph.
Hearst family.
Macondray family.
Atherton family.
Drury, Newton Bishop, 1889-1978.
Subject (Corporate)
University of California (1868-1952). Class of 1912.
Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association.
Stanford University.
United States. Department of State.
Matson Navigation Company.
Subject (Topic)
Lawyers California -- San Francisco.
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
Procès de Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Allemagne, 1945-1946.
Geographic Coverage
Sacramento (Calif.) Social life and customs.
United States Politics and government.
United States Foreign relations.
Germany History -- 1945-1955.
San Francisco (Calif.) Water front.
États-Unis Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis Relations extérieures.
Allemagne Histoire -- 1945-1955.
Type
Audio
Format
Oral histories.
Addresses.
Archive
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