Joseph B. Eastman-Public Servant

sion, the oldest and perhaps the ablest of the federal independent regulatory commissions. By contrast with public attitudes in 1919, when he had been watched suspiciously because of reports of radicalism, he had now come to be regarded as the most distinguished member of the commission. People in a position to know seemed not so much to identify Eastman with the commission as to identify the commission with Eastman. It was at times remarked loosely that Eastman was the commission. Throughout his career he proclaimed and practiced the ideal of public service. In the light of the quality of his statesmanship, it has been thought desirable to bring together within brief compass an account of his public career and of those aspects of his personal life which throw light upon it

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