Reminiscences of William Ambrose Prendergast, 1951.

Biographical Note

Banker, politician

Scope and Contents

Childhood on the East Side, New York City; business and finance; National Association of Credit Men, 1899-1905; national bankruptcy act, 1906; interest in politics, lecturing; New York City finances; the Office of Comptroller, 1909; New York State and City politics; Board of Estimate and Apportionment; Gaynor Charter; Progressive Party; 1912 Republican National Convention; new subway system, 1913; Mayor William Gaynor and New York City finances; Municipal Reference Library; New York State Constitutional Convention, 1915; Gary plan, 1915; legislative investigations, World War I, 1915-16; West Side improvement plan; "land deals," 1917; retrospections; impressions of prominent New Yorkers, including Theodore Roosevelt, Bainbridge Colby, Herbert Parsons, Henry L. Stimson

Subjects

• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Bankers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Municipal finance.
• Municipal government.
• Municipal officials and employees--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1895-1951.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prendergast, William A., 1867-1954--Interviews.
• Progressive Party (U.S. : 1912)
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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