Reminiscences of Bernard Mannes Baruch : oral history, 1963.

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Reminiscences of Bernard Mannes Baruch : oral history, 1963.

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Early acquaintance, impressions of James B. Duke; purchase of Liggett and Myers, Continental Tobacco companies; War Industry Board, World War I; labor drafting; wheat sales to Russia; Duke's investments in textiles, chemicals (American Cyanamid), railroads; importance of Duke Endowment to South Carolina; creation of Duke University; impressions of Common Market.

Transcript: 51 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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