Spencer Heath's
Series
Spencer Heath Archive,
Item 2689
Letter from Virgil Jordan, Aurora, West Virginia (Chancellor, The National Industrial Conference Board), with appended names of those among the officers and trustees of The Conference Board to whom he felt it would not necessarily be time wasted for Heath to send copies of Citadel, Market and Altar
August 26, 1957
Dear Mr. Heath:
Your book impressed me as a most penetrating exposition of the anatomy, physiology, and also some aspects of the pathology, of free enterprise capitalism, though I do not feel competent to appraise its therapeutic suggestions. You are free, of course, to send copies, with any comment of mine on it, to anyone in The Conference Board, but as an “emeritus” I have not been in close contact with its personnel since my retirement eight years ago, and I can think of very few among its present Officers and Trustees who would seem to me to be likely to give the book the attention or interest it merits. I have checked these names on the attached list, and have also crossed out certain others to whom I am sure it would be useless to send the book at all.
With my thanks and best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
(signed) Virgil Jordan
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THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE BOARD:
Officers (Six names struck out)
Vice-Chairmen
Charles M. White Republic Steel Corporation
I.W. Wilson Aluminum Company of America
Treasurer
James L. Madden Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Trustees
Chairman
A.W. Robertson Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Trustees (14 names struck out)
Louis S. Cates Phelps Dodge Corporation
Stewart P. Coleman Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
F.J. Emmerich Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation
Austin S. Iglehart General Foods Corporation
Neil McElroy The Procter & Gamble Company
W.C. Mullendore Southern California Edison Company
John M. Olin Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
Cola G. Parker Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Edgar Monsanto Queeny Monsanto Chemical Company
Murray Shields MacKay-Shields Associates
Herman W. Steinkraus Bridgeport Brass Company
Charles J. Stilwell The Warner & Swasey Company
Alan H. Temple First National City Bank of NY
Langbourne M. Williams Freeport Sulphur Company
James B. Wise Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company
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Metadata
Title | Correspondence - 2689 |
Collection Name | Spencer Heath Archive |
Series | Correspondence |
Box number | 17:2650-2844 |
Document number | 2689 |
Date / Year | 1957-08-26 |
Authors / Creators / Correspondents | Virgil Jordan |
Description | Letter from Virgil Jordan, Aurora, West Virginia (Chancellor, The National Industrial Conference Board), with appended names of those among the officers and trustees of The Conference Board to whom he felt it would not necessarily be time wasted for Heath to send copies of Citadel, Market and Altar |
Keywords | CM&A |