Reminiscences of Nicholas Kelley, 1953
- Name
- Kelley, Nicholas, 1885-1965 (Interviewee)
- Link, Wendell (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Nicholas Kelley, 1953
- Abstract
- Family background; Harvard College and Law School; experiences at Cravath, Henderson & De Gersdorff and other firms; war loan staff of the Department of the Treasury during World War I; business reorganization work; trip to Peru as head of mission on behalf of American banking interests; reorganization of the Maxwell Company into the Chrysler Corporation; detailed description of the Chrysler Corpor ation, including production, finances and labor; Automobile Labor Board during the New Deal; Chrysler strikes in 1937 and 1939; anti-trust action against the automobile industry in 1937; Chrysler's war contracts; philanthropic activities
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Lawyers; New Deal, 1933-1939; Automobile industry and trade; Law; Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Kelley, Nicholas, 1885-1965; Chrysler Corporation; United States. Department of the Treasury
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1953
- Physical Description
- 522 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawyer
- Note
- Interviewed by Wendell Link
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 15182487
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-9s5s-xa92
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.