Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]

Ward, Robertson Dwight, 1905-

Name: Ward, Robertson Dwight, 1905- (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1968
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Abstract: Invited to become Carnegie Corporation treasurer while employed at American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), 1935; involvement as recording officer of committee to re-evaluate financial management of Carnegie organizations, 1936-1938; departure from Carnegie, 1942. Discussion of the expansion of the Carnegie Joint Investment Office with growth of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA); shifting of Carnegie investments to J.P. Morgan & Co; the Carnegie Corporation’s relationship with the Home Trust Company. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Herbert C. Lee, R.C. Leffingwell, Samuel S. Hall Jr.

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