Reminiscences of Benjamin J. Buttenwieser : oral history, 1979.

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Reminiscences of Benjamin J. Buttenwieser : oral history, 1979.

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Family background, childhood in New York; Columbia University 1916-18; career with Kuhn, Loeb and Company; investment banking practices, steel and railroad securities; Pecora investigation of 1933; merger with Lehman Brothers; marriage to Helen Lehman; United States Navy, 1942-45; assistant to United States High Commissioner, Occupied Germany, 1949-51: political and economic reconstruction; Board of Trustees, Columbia University, 1959--: University endowments, differences between private and state universities, future of higher education; charitable work: Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Lenox Hill Hospital; reminiscences and impressions of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb associates and partners, former Columbia University trustees and others including Herbert and Edith Lehman, Arthur and Adele Lehman, John McCloy, Konrad Adenauer, Nicholas Murray Butler and William McGill.

Transcript: 791 leaves.Tape: 18 cassettes.

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

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

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