Blankenhorn, Heber, 1884-1956
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Consultant to United States War Department.
Labor journalist. Industrial economist. Chairman of the first and second National Labor Boards.
Heber Blankenhorn was born in Orville, Ohio on March 26, 1884. Blankenhorn received an A.B. from the College of Wooster in 1905 and A.M. from Columbia University in 1910. He worked as a reporter and assistant city editor for the New York Evening Sun from 1900-1914. In 1919 he became the co-director for the Bureau of Industrial Research. Blankenhorn then went on to become a foreign correspondent with the international staff of Labor. He also worked as an assistant to Senator Robert F. Wagner and as industrial economist to chairman and the 1st and 2nd National Labor Boards. In his later career Blankenhorn directed the United Auto Workers (UAW) investigation into the attempted murders of Victor and Walter Reuther and he returned to the staff of Labor. Also during this time he married Ann Washington Crafton in 1936 and authored two books, Adventures in Propoganda (Boston, 1919) and The Strike for Union (New York, 1923). Blankenhorn died January 1, 1956 in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Automobile industry and trade
Criminal investigation
Journalism
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Labor
Labor movement
Labor unions
Labor unions
Labor unions
New Deal, 1933-1939
Newspaper editors
Psychological warfare
Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920
Strikes and lockouts
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
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Pennsylvania--Somerset County
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United States
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Spain
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