Reminiscences of Bernard Mannes Baruch : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Financier.

Scope and Contents

Early acquaintance, impressions of James B. Duke; purchase of Liggett and Myers, Continental Tobacco companies; War Industry Board, World War I; labor drafting; wheat sales to Russia; Duke's investments in textiles, chemicals (American Cyanamid), railroads; importance of Duke Endowment to South Carolina; creation of Duke University; impressions of Common Market.

Subjects

• Allen, Joseph, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965.
• Capitalists and financiers--Interviews.
• Duke, James B., 1856-1925.
• Duke Endowment.
• Duke University.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Rounds, Frank W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Tobacco industry.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina.
• World War, 1914-1918.

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