Reminiscences of Bernard Louis Gladieux, 1951

Biographical Note

Government official, management consultant

Scope and Contents

Early life and education, Oberlin College and Maxwell School, Syracuse University; administrative consultant in federal government, 1936-1940; Chief, special staff on war organization, Bureau of the Budget, 1939-1942; administration and budgetary management of the executive branch in wartime; preparation of executive orders for president; formation, operation, and budgets of Office of Production Management, Board of Economic Welfare, Supply Priorities and Allocation Board, War Production Board, Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Office of Defense Transportation, Office of Strategic Services, Office of Civilian Defense, Office of War Information, Office of Economic Stabilization; wartime production and manpower problems; leadership and operational evaluations; later work in War Production Board, 1943-1944; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944; Department of Commerce, 1945-1950; Ford Foundation, 1950-1951

Subjects

• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.
• Ford Foundation.
• Gladieux, Bernard L. (Bernard Louis), 1907-1997--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Board of Economic Warfare.
• United States. Bureau of the Budget.
• United States. Department of Commerce.
• United States. Office of Civilian Defense.
• United States. Office of Economic Stabilization.
• United States. Office of Production Management.
• United States. Office of Strategic Services.
• United States. Office of War Information.
• United States. War Production Board.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975