Oral history interview with Devereux Colt Josephs, 1968.

Biographical Note

Business executive.

Scope and Contents

Personal background, vice president, later president of Teachers Insurance Annuity Association, 1939-45; president, Carnegie Corporation, 1946-48; philosophy of Corporation; projects, selection of staff; Alger Hiss; impressions of trustees and staff.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations.
• Endowment of research.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Josephs, D. C. (Devereux Colt), 1893-1977--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.