Walter J. Levy Papers

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Walter J. Levy Papers

1911-1988

Collection contains materials dealing with Levy's work in the petroleum industry and trade, international finance, economics, world politics, and foreign relations between the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries and in Asia, particularly Iran and Indonesia from 1911-1988.

41 cubic ft. (102 boxes)

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Levy, Walter J

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Levy was born in Hamburg, Germany and received a doctorate in law from Kiel University in 1933. He left Germany shortly thereafter due to the growing Nazi influence and moved to London to work for the "Petroleum Press Service," a journal of petroleum economics. He emigrated to New York in 1941 and worked briefly as a petroleum writer for "Fortune" magazine. In 1942 he joined the U.S. Office of Strategic Services as a petroleum advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. From 1948 to 1949 ...

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The National Maritime Union of America (NMU), which represented merchant marine workers, was formed in 1937, as a split from the International Seafarer's Union, which was affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (AFL). At its first convention in 1937, the NMU joined the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO). A crucial role in its formation was played by former members of the Communist-led Marine Workers Industrial Union. Among the notable reforms achieved by the union...

Levy, Walter J

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Levy was born in Hamburg, Germany and received a doctorate in law from Kiel University in 1933. He left Germany shortly thereafter due to the growing Nazi influence and moved to London to work for the "Petroleum Press Service," a journal of petroleum economics. He emigrated to New York in 1941 and worked briefly as a petroleum writer for "Fortune" magazine. In 1942 he joined the U.S. Office of Strategic Services as a petroleum advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. From 1948 to 1949 he was chief ...

Levy (W. J.) Consultants Corporation

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