Oral history interview with Davidson Sommers, 1961
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- Name
- Sommers, Davidson, 1905-2000 (Interviewee)
- Oliver, Robert W (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Davidson Sommers, 1961
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Davidson Sommers, 1961
- Abstract
- Career at World Bank, 1946-1960: assistant general counsel, general counsel, vice president; relationship of World Bank to United States government; Aswan Dam; relations with Export-Import Bank, Development Loan Fund, United Nations; role as mediator; loan policy; International Development Association
- Collection Name
- World Bank project
- Subjects
- Lawyers; International officials and employees; International agencies; Technical assistance; Economic development projects; Sommers, Davidson, 1905-2000; World Bank; Export-Import Bank of the United States; United Nations
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1961
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawyer
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Robert Oliver on August 2, 1961
- Note (Provenance)
- Davidson Sommers, Gift 1961
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7144904
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-g2em-tn62