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Summary Information
Charles C. Pearce Papers
1907-1973
- Pearce, Charles Chester, 1888-1974
Mss 342
4.8 c.f. (12 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Personal and professional papers of Charles C. Pearce, a lawyer who practiced in Washington, D.C. and New York City, and was a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States from 1938 to 1946. Included is general correspondence, material relating to his work with the antitrust division of the United States Justice Department, private legal practice files, and personal papers. Papers relate to a variety of cases; however, the best documentation is of a fertilizer industry investigation, 1939-1940, and a small loan investigation, 1943-1944, done for the Justice Department. Also well documented are claims of German expatriots for property confiscated by Nazi Germany in World War II, handled by Pearce in his private practice working with the Milwaukee law firm of Wengert and Spenner through the Office of Alien Property and the War Claims Commission. Other papers concern the prosecution of a grocery monopoly case in Seattle, 1941-1942, and of a monopoly of soft drink distribution by Pepsi, Coca Cola, and local distributors, 1941-1942; the dissolution of the Japanese monopolistic control groups, 1946; research on food additive legislation from his work for South Dakota Congressman Usher Burdick, 1956-1957; settlement of the Amy Lesher estate, 1960s; and miscellaneous topics of personal interest.
English
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