Oral history interview with Morris Hadley 1966
Oral history interview with Morris Hadley 1966
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- Name
- Hadley, Morris, 1894- (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Morris Hadley 1966
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Morris Hadley : oral history, 1966
- Abstract
- Serving as Trustee of Stock of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA); Carnegie Corporation grants to TIAA; 1939-1946; becoming Carnegie Corporation trustee, 1947; assignment to Carnegie House Properties Committee concerning Andrew Carnegie Mansion at E 91st St; the New York Public Library’s bids for the Carnegie Mansion and the ultimate use of the building by the Columbia University Sch ool of Social Work, 1949; Institute for Pacific Relations; visiting Japan; 1948-1953; negotiations between Hadley and Henry Wriston of Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching regarding relationship between two Carnegie organizations, 1953; Carnegie Corporation 50 year history in Annual Report, 1961. Hadley’s thoughts on the Carnegie Corporation board and its grantmaking policy; Carnegie’s operational schedule and election process for new board members; the possibility of women and African Americans one day becoming Carnegie board members; the day-to-day life of a board member; the Carnegie Corporation philosophy of giving; Gunnar Myrdal’s AN AMERICAN DILEMMA; changes in Carnegie’s grantmaking during Hadley’s tenure and differences between its Presidents; operations of the Carnegie Corporation Finance Committee; government investigations of the Carnegie Corporation during the McCarthy era; creation of the FOUNDATION DIRECTORY and the Foundation Library Center. Impressions of D.C. Josephs, R.C. Leffingwell, Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles Dollard.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Lawyers; Endowments; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Trusts and trustees; Hadley, Morris, 1894-; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association; Columbia University. School of Social Work; New York Public Library; Foundation Center
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1966
- Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 88 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Senior Partner, Millbank, Tweed, Hadley & McLoy; President of the Board of Trustees, New York Public Library; Chairman of the Board, New York School of Social Work; Trustee, Russell Sage Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Millbank Fund and the Grant Foundation.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on December 12 and 15, 1966.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7094639
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-8n9s-xm53
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.