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...company of ex-Deputy Andre Tardieu, quondam French High Commissioner to the U. S., went U. S. Financier Bernard M. Baruch to sunny Vendee to take a "peek" at the "Tiger," ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau, in his lair. Said "Barney...
...Aquitania (Cunard)-400 additional members of the American Bar Association; Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, National President of the Woman's Party; Bernard M. Baruch, Wartime Chairman of the U. S. War Industries Board...
...annual dinner of the American Iron and, Steel Institute, Judge Elbert Henry Gary declared that "in the Fall of 1917 or the Spring of 1918" a proposal was made by the Federal Government (through the War Industries Board, of which Bernard M. Baruch was Chairman) to take over the steel industry. He alleged that the proposal originated with Secretary of the Treasury W. G. McAdoo, and that vigorous protest by American steel men, including himself, had blocked the plan. Judge Gary stated that his wish, in making public this hitherto unpublished episode, was to make a permanent record...
...Baruch was quick to challenge the accuracy of Judge Gary's disclosure, and especially the Judge's inference that "it was a gigantic communistic scheme." According to Mr. Baruch, at the outbreak of the War the American steelmakers, flushed with great profits made on sales to European belligerents, wanted to charge the U. S. Government the same high prices as had been obtained from the Allies. To this Mr. Baruch strenuously objected. The War Industries Board passed a resolution to take over the steel plants "if the steel interests should not be willing to give their full cooperation...
...timeliness of the subjects discussed. Its first session was dignified by the venerable figure of the late Lord Bryce, and it has been rumored that the preliminaries to the Washington Arms Conference of 1921 were conducted in Dr. Garfield's study. The Institute, financially supported by Bernard M. Baruch, Manhattan financier, ensured the cordial cooperation of the Department of State, functioned as a summer-school for diplomats, publicists, educators, attracted public men from throughout the nation, focussed public attention on its vivid, clear, intelligent discussions of questions of momentous interest...