Encyclopedia of american business history part 9 ppt

... 192 2, Kennedy bought Film Booking Offices of Amer- ica with a small syndicate of Boston investors in early 192 6 and became the company’s president. Between 192 6 and 193 0, Kennedy spent much of ... Austin: University of Texas Press, 198 9. Kennedy, Joseph Patrick (1888– 196 9) fin- ancier, U.S. government official, and diplomat Kennedy was the progenitor of an American politic...

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... Robert F. The Dukes of Durham, 1865– 192 9. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 198 7. Porter, Patrick G. “Origins of the American Tobacco Company.” Business History Review 43 ( 196 9). antitrust Characterizing ... States—Commerce History Encyclopedias. 2. Business enterprises—United States History Encyclopedias. 3. Indus- tries—United States History Encyclopedias. I. Title. HF3...

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... Transforming American Life. New York: Penguin, 199 9. Rose, Mark. Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 193 9– 198 9. Austin: University of Texas Press, 199 0. ———. Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 194 1– 195 6. Lawrence: ... Company of Adventurers, 3 vols. Markham, Ontario: Viking Penguin, 198 5– 199 1. Rich, E. E. The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1670–1870, 2 vols. L...

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... industry 2 89 Meany also served as secretary-treasurer of the AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL) from 194 0 to 195 2. In 195 2, he became president upon the death of William Green. In 195 5, he became ... Social Origins and Business Behavior of W estern Mining Entrepreneurs, 1870– 190 0. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Pr ess, 197 1. Rickard, T. A. A History of American...

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... in 199 1, and NAFTA was passed by Congress in November 199 3. The agreement went into effect on January 1, 199 4. The three countries have a combined GDP of $9. 5 trillion and a population of 396 ... Legacies, 193 3– 199 3. Chapel Hill: University of North Car olina Press, 199 7. Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Coming of the New Deal: The Age of Roosevelt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 195...

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... Report of the Sixth Annual Session of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada. Official Archives of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Individual ... Papers of Alexander Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 196 1-87. 3. CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, 1886 Charter of organization f...

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... Rowland. Biography of a Bank: The Story of Bank of America, 1 891 – 195 5. New York: Harper & Bros., 195 4. Johnston, Moira. Roller Coaster: The Bank of America and the Futur e of American Banking. ... the rest of the century. It was passed as a result of congressional hearings (the Pecora hearings) investigating the causes of the crash of 192 9 and the banking and sto...

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... in 1837, 1857, 18 69, 1873, and 1 893 , as well as in 190 7. When the market fell in October 192 9, the term crash became widely used. In all of the panics prior to 192 9, dozens of banks were forced ... chief executive of Chase in 196 1. The bank’s reputation suffered in the early 193 0s as it became one of the focal points of dis- content after the Crash of 192 9 and the early...

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... Modernization Act of 199 9 abolished many of the regulations found in the BANKING ACT OF 193 3, and the Inter- state Banking Act of 199 4 replaced the restrictive branching provisions of the MCFADDEN ACT of 192 7. The ... Enigma. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 199 5. Sobel, Rober t. The Life and Times of Dillon Read. New Y ork: Dutton, 199 1. Disney, Walt ( 190 1– 196 6) animator a...

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... 198 9 and was elected president and chief operating officer in 199 6. The company continued to make acquisitions during the later 199 0s as a deliberate strategy of growing through merger. In 199 9, ... Act of 193 3, the Federal Housing Act of 193 4, and the B ANKING ACTOF 193 3 (Glass-Steagall Act). As a result of his public service, Eccles was named chairman of the Fed- eral Rese...

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