Reminiscences of Nicholas Kelley : oral history, 1953.

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Reminiscences of Nicholas Kelley : oral history, 1953.

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Family background; Harvard College and Law School; experiences at Cravath, Henderson & De Gersdorff and other firms; war loan staff of the Department of the Treasury during World War I; business reorganization work; trip to Peru as head of mission on behalf of American banking interests; reorganization of the Maxwell Company into the Chrysler Corporation; detailed description of the Chrysler Corporation, including production, finances and labor; Automobile Labor Board during the New Deal; Chrysler strikes in 1937 and 1939; anti-trust action against the automobile industry in 1937; Chrysler's war contracts; philanthropic activities.

Transcript: 522 leaves.

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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