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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