| Title: |
Reminiscences of James Paul Warburg
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A199
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Family, youth, education; AB Harvard, 1917; Navy Flying Corps, 1918; International Acceptance Bank, 1929-32; economic advisor to Roosevelt, 1932-33: planning for World Economic Conference (British debt group); plans for emergency circulation and economic stability; foreign exchange policies; stabilization fund, passive control measures; bimetallism and monetary policies; negotiations with foreign delegations; international gold standard; Hugh Johnson and National Recovery Administration; tariff and import quota negotiations; reciprocal trade program; debt settlement plans; stimulation of capital goods industries vs. public works; Thomas Amendment controversy; Most Favored Nation status; Emergency Banking Act; preliminary meetings for London Economic Conference; financial advisor to American delegation; conference politics, press leaks, United States liaison, return to Washington, new domestic currency policy formulation; new gold pricing; commodity dollar proposal; Glass-Steagall Bill; mobilizing business and academic support for sound money, 1934-36; Chicago Committee on Monetary Policy; impressions of Raymond Moley, Bernard Baruch, Rexford Tugwell, William Bullitt, Herbert Feis, W. Averell Harriman, Lewis Douglas, Key Pittman, Hjalmar Schacht, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Dean Acheson. Account based in part on diary and correspondence.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 1,873 leaves, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part IV, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1952 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Warburg, James Paul, 1896-1969
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1896
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| Speaker occupation: |
Banker
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| Age at speaking: |
56
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| Document date: |
1952
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| Interviewer: |
Albertson, Dean, 1920- ; Link, Wendell
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. National Recovery Administration
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Bankers; Banks and banking; International economic relations; North America; U.S. National Recovery Administration; United States; United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
International finance; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States--Economic policy--1933-1945; Warburg, James Paul, 1896-1969
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0017925-13368
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