Reminiscences of Amyas Ames : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Investment banker, arts administrator.

Scope and Contents

Ames family background; parents' careers; childhood in Boston; Harvard University, AB, 1928, MBA, 1930; impressions of Harvard Business School education; marriage; analyst for Stone and Webster, 1930-1932; sales manager, later partner, Kidder, Peabody, 1932-1962; expansion of investment banking business; administrative officer, War Shipping Administration, 1942-1944; president, Investment Bankers Association, 1962-1969; relationship of IBA to Securities Exchange Commission; chairman, Lincoln Center, 1969-1981: formation, Avery Fisher donation, fundraising, fiscal policies, government funding, constituent companies, future plans for Lincoln Center.

Subjects

• Ames, Amyas.
• Arts--United States.
• Arts administrators--Interviews.
• Bankers--Interviews.
• Banks and banking--United States.
• Culture.
• Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration.
• Interviews.
• Investment Bankers Association of America.
• Kelly, Christine, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Kidder, Peabody & Co.
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
• Oral histories.
• Shipping--Government policy--United States.
• Stone & Webster Service Corporation.
• United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
• United States. Securities and Exchange Commission.
• World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects.

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