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Bernard M. Baruch, continuing in munificence, the Institute of Politics will meet again this Summer at Williams College...
...Institute has for three years past been a power-house generating serious discussion of international affairs. First projected in 1913 by Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams, it became real in 1921. Mr. Baruch guaranteed its expenses for three years. There were 138 members enrolled, most of them over 50 years of age; half of them from uni-versity faculties, the other half lawyers, diplomats, clergymen, journalists, business men, representatives of the Army and Navy. Distinguished men were secured to give lectures open to the public and to lead the Round-Table Conferences for members only...
...Baruch will be assisted in paying for the Institute by the General Education Board, which has voted partial support until 1928. "Barney" Baruch* became a name known many miles from Wall Street when on March 5, 1918, Woodrow Wilson made him head of the War Industries Board. The Board exercised supervision over virtually the entire industrial fabric of the nation, with power to commandeer plants, purchase for the Allies, allocate materials, place contracts. Mr. Baruch's was the "broadest authority and most autocratic control ever vested in any individual...
BERNARD M. BARUCH, adviser to President Wilson on financial questions at Paris: "President Wilson never made any secret compact with anybody about anything at the Paris Peace Conference. . . . I don't know just what Mr. Lloyd George refers to. Let him produce the documents, if he believes there was a 'secret compact.' But I do not hesitate to make explicit denial, because I know Mr. Wilson never was a party to and never had any secret compacts whatever over there...
...Bernard M. Baruch, of New York...