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File 1624

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National Business Conference Committee, 1935-1941

 File — file: 1624
Accession: 0473
Scope and Content:

Organization chaired by Raskob, developed after the 1934 joint NAM, U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference for economic recovery at White Sulphur Springs. Most correspondence concerns arrangements and invitations to meetings and conferences to continue the White Sulphur Springs conference's attempt to coordinate business opinion and public statements on the New Deal and the business and economic policies of the Roosevelt administration. Responses to invitations and requests for comments include political statements and opinions from a variety of leading businessmen, including Walter Drew, of the National Erectors Association; the Fuller Brush Company's Alfred C. Fuller; George Torrance of the Link-Belt Company; Charles Hook of the American Rolling Mill Co; Louis Madeira III; Owen Young; Henry I. Harriman, among many others. Also includes minutes of meetings, lists of invitees and prospects, and correspondence concerning organizational and advertising strategies, including scheduling of proposed second White Sulphur Springs conference; anti-New Deal articles and manifestos from various organizations; press clippings concerning Conference meetings and activities

Dates: 1935-1941