Series IV. Price professional, 1958-1990, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series IV contains material spanning Robert Price's evolving professional career, from his days as a law clerk serving Judge Archie Owen Dawson of United States District Court, Southern District of New York, to his law partnership with Theodore R. Kupferman, through his days with the Dreyfus Fund (investment firm) and Lazard Frères & Co. (investment bankers), and his own Price Capital Corporation and Price Communications Corporation. Coverage is spotty.
Arrangement
Material is organized chronologically.
Robert Price, "Monetary Remedies Under the Untied States Copyright Code", 1958-1959, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Published in Fordham Law Review, vol. 27, no. 4 (Winter 1958–59), 555–578. [Folder contains complete issue and offprint.]
Robert Price, "The Admissibility of Wiretap Evidence in the Federal Courts", 1959, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Published in University of Miami Law Review, vol. 14 (1959), 57–71. [Folder contains offprint.]
United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York [2 folders], 1958-1959, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Robert Price served as law clerk to Judge Archie Owen Dawson, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1958–1959, and as Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1959–1960.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit [3 folders], 1959-1960, inclusive
Kupferman & Price, 1960-1965, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Law partnership of Robert Price and Theodore R. Kupferman; dissolved in 1965 when Price was appointed Deputy Mayor of New York City. [Attorney and New York City council member Theodore Kupferman (1920-2003) would succeed to John Lindsay's vacated seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 17th district, serving February 8, 1966 – January 3, 1969.]
Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] annual report, 1960, inclusive
Atlantic States Industries, 1964, inclusive
United States Jaycees [Junior Chamber of Commerce] award [2 folders], 1966-1967, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Robert Price was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of America for 1966 by the United States Jaycees, affiliated with Junior Chamber International, a leadership training and civic organization for people between the ages of 18 and 40. Price's fellow honorees included future United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr., and political activist Ralph Nader.
Dreyfus Fund [6 folders], 1966-1969, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Robert Price was Executive Vice President and a Director of the Dreyfus Corporation and Investment Officer for the Dreyfus Fund, 1966-1969.
Price Capital Corporation. General [5 folders], 1969-1971, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Robert Price was President then Chairman of the Board of Price Capital Corporation (later called Highland Capital Corporation), 1969-1972.
Lazard Frères & Co. [8 folders], 1972-1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Robert Price was Vice President and General Partner of Lazard Frères & Co., Investment Bankers, 1972-1978.
Lane Bryant, 1977, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Robert Price was elected to the board of directors of Lane Bryant, the women's clothing store chain, in 1977.
Intarome Fragrance Corporation, 1978-1986, inclusive
Price Communications Corporation [2 folders], 1979-1989, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Robert Price was founder and president of Price Communications Corporation. By 1985 PCC owned and operated 3 television and 11 radio stations, and, in that year, purchased the New York Law Journal.