Speeches and writings, 1909-1983.

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Speeches and writings, 1909-1983.

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Speeches and some articles by members of board of directors and executives, including Coy Eklund, 1953-1983; James F. Oates, 1957-1969; John T. Fey, 1960-1978; Thomas I. Parkinson, 1939-1944; Henry L. Rosenfeld, 1910-1917; J. Henry Smith, 1958-1978; Morton Miller, 1950-1918; and others. Subjects include health care, economics, urban problems, life insurance, and government-business relations.

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Parkinson, Thomas I. (Thomas Ignatius), 1881-1959

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Parkinson was with the Columbia University law school from 1910-1935, specializing in administrative law and legislative drafting. He was president (1927-1953) and chairman (1953-1954) of Equitable Life Assurance Society and served on the boards of several other corporations. From the description of Papers, 1900-1959. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 30564563 ...

Oates, James F

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of James Franklin Oates, Jr. : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122343146 ...

Miller, Morton.

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Rosenfeld, Henry L.

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Eklund, Coy

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Smith, J. Henry.

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Fey, John Theodore, 1917-

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Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (ELAS) was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde (1834-1899). It became, by the year of Hyde’s death, the largest life insurance company in the world. Hyde sought to guarantee that his son, James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), would continue family control of the company after his death, but in 1905 the younger Hyde lost control in a struggle which resulted from an investigation of the insurance industry by New York State. From the g...