Business and industry to have important voice in current monopoly investigation is plan. Washington, D.C., Oct. 6. Plans to give business and industry and important voice in the current New Deal monopoly investigation were formulated today at a meeting of the President's advisory council at the Department of Commerce. In the picture, left to right: W. Averell Harriman, Chairman of the Council; Secretary of Commerce Daniel A. Roper; Willard L. Thorp, Advisor to the Department of Commerce on Economic Studies and a member of the Monopoly Committee; and Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson, also a member of the committee, 10/6/38
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.
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