Public Franchise League

Public Franchise League

The Public Franchise League was "a small informal group of high-minded citizens backed by Boston lawyer Louis D. Brandeis and Boston merchant Edward A. Filene."

Its secretary from 1906 to 1913 was Joseph Bartlett Eastman.


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