Reminiscences of Nicholas Kelley, 1953

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Family background; Harvard College and Law School; experiences at Cravath, Henderson & De Gersdorff and other firms; war loan staff of the Department of the Treasury during World War I; business reorganization work; trip to Peru as head of mission on behalf of American banking interests; reorganization of the Maxwell Company into the Chrysler Corporation; detailed description of the Chrysler Corporation, including production, finances and labor; Automobile Labor Board during the New Deal; Chrysler strikes in 1937 and 1939; anti-trust action against the automobile industry in 1937; Chrysler's war contracts; philanthropic activities

Subjects

• Automobile industry and trade.
• Chrysler Corporation.
• Interviews.
• Kelley, Nicholas, 1885-1965--Interviews.
• Law.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Link, Wendell, interviewer.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Department of the Treasury.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972