The Papers of J. Wilson Newman1955-1978 MSS 85-12 MSS.85.12 The Papers of J. Wilson Newman,MSS 85-12
The Papers of J. Wilson Newman,
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Identification MSS.85.12
Title The Papers of J. Wilson Newman 1955-1978
URL: https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/107334
Quantity 10.4 Linear Feet, 24 boxes
Creator
Newman, J. Wilson, 1909-2003
Language
English
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Abstract Records that include correspondence, memoranda, reports, reviews, legislation, speeches, public hearings, created by J. Wilson
Newman when he served on the Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States (1970-1973), the Price Commission (1971-1973)
and the President's Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Businesses.
J. Wilson Newman graduated from Clemson College in Clemson, South Carolina, in 1931, and received a law degree from New York
University in 1937.
He joined the R. G. Dun Company as a credit reporter in 1931. Dun merged with its major competitor, the John M. Bradstreet
Company, in 1933, and the combined company began operating under the new name in 1939.
Mr. Newman was named a vice president in 1946, president in 1952, and chairman and chief executive in 1960. He joined Dun's
finance committee when he retired in 1968, and remained a member for 12 years.
During Mr. Newman's tenure, Dun acquired several companies, including R. H. Donnelley, a publisher of the Yellow Pages and
trade magazines, and Moody's Investors Service. Dun has since spun off both companies. Mr. Newman also oversaw the computerization
of Dun's business databases in the early 1960's. In 1963, each company in the database was assigned an identifying number
in Dun's Data Universal Numbering System. The nine-digit D.U.N.S. numbers are still used today.
Mr. Newman was a member of the United States Price Commission, which addressed price gouging, in 1971 and 1972, and of the
Commission on Bankruptcy Laws from 1970 to 1973.
He died on July 8, 2003.
"J. Wilson Newman, Ex-Chief of Dun & Bradstreet Company, Dies at 93," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/obituaries/28NEWM.html
(accessed December 8, 2015)
J. Wilson Newman, who moved to Charlottesville with his wife in 1981, was president of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., from 1952
to 1960. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the Nixon administration appointed him to serve on the Bankruptcy Commission,
the Price Commission, and the President's Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Business. Newman donated his personal
records of this work to the Law Library in the summer of 1985. The files were in good order, and the folder headings reflect
the labels on original folders or notebooks. There are 24 boxes (10.4 linear ft.) arranged by commission.
This collection was given to the Law School by J. Wilson Newman on June 24, 1985.
Bankruptcy -- United States
Inflation (Finanace) -- United States
Newman, J. Wilson, 1909-2003
Small business
United States. Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States
United States. President's Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Business
United States. Price Commission
Newman, J. Wilson, 1909-2003
Mixed Materials [35007007670510] MSS 85-12, Box 1 Mixed Materials [35007007670528] MSS 85-12, Box 2 Mixed Materials [35007007670536] MSS 85-12, Box 3 Mixed Materials [35007007670544] MSS 85-12, Box 4 Mixed Materials [35007007670551] MSS 85-12, Box 5 Mixed Materials [35007007670569] MSS 85-12, Box 6 Mixed Materials [35007007670577] MSS 85-12, Box 7 Mixed Materials [35007007670585] MSS 85-12, Box 8
Meeting records arranged by date with a list of topics addressed
1971-72
Scope and Contents
[57 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670593] MSS 85-12, Box 9
Permanent record of meetings and actions
1971-72
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670593] MSS 85-12, Box 9
Public hearings re utilities, rent and food prices
1972
Scope and Contents
[4 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670601] MSS 85-12, Box 10
Correspondence
1971-72
Scope and Contents
[7 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670601] MSS 85-12, Box 10
Fact sheets and staff reports re policy and goal of commission
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670601] MSS 85-12, Box 10
Issue papers by the Price Commission and outside economists
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670601] MSS 85-12, Box 10
Memoranda for the record re the agenda
1973
Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670619] MSS 85-12, Box 11
Miscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc
1971-72
Scope and Contents
[6 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670619] MSS 85-12, Box 11
Miscellaneous printed matter
1971-72
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Operating problems
1972
Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Policy matrix
1972
Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Review of commission operations
1972
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Speeches, luncheons, etc
1972
Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Statements for commissioners re government employment
1971
Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Agricultural Economic Report No. 223: Price control programs, 1917-1971
1972
Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc.: Proposals and recommendations for the Price Commission
1971
Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Automobile industry
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Brookings Institute conference: Wage-price policy
Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Coal industry
1971-72
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Consumer credit
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Consumer price index: Estimated annualized price rate of increase in the consumer price index for the fourth quarter of 1973
[preliminary]
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Cost of Living Council: "The Wage-Price Freeze: Questions and Answers"
1971
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Cost of Living Council: Transcript of press conference re food prices
1973
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Economic indicators
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Economic stabilization program
1971
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Grayson, C. Jackson, Chairman of the Price Commission: Statement before the Joint Economic Committee re Side Effects of Price
Control
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Grayson, C. Jackson: Statement before the Senate Committee on Banking
1973
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Grayson, C. Jackson: CBS Morning News Editorial
1976
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Health care
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Independent Natural Gas Association
1971
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Inflation, consumer price index and wholesale price index
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Inflation: Miscellaneous memoranda and statistics
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
IRS: Retail-wholesale price monitoring program [proposed]
n.d.
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Manufacturing companies with sales of 100 million or over
1971
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Miscellaneous forms and White House press releases
1971
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Nader v. Grayson
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
National Retail Merchants Association Program Concerning the Implementation of Phase II Price Guidelines
1971
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Newman: Memos and correspondence re effects of price controls on various industries and individuals
1972-73
Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
New York Stock Exchange: Reports on status of member firms
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Pay Board news releases
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
"The Pay Board After One Year of Operation"
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Phase I and II: Summary statements
1971
Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Phase II
1971-72
Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Phase III
1973
Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Piggly Wiggly Southern, Inc. v. Price Commission
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Pott Industries v. Price Commission
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Price control
1971-72
Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Price control: Price Control, Present and Future, prepared by the Office of Price Policy
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
"A Price Control Strategy," vols. 1-3, submitted by Robert N. Anthony
1972
Scope and Contents
[5 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
"A Price Control Strategy," vol. 4
1972
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
"The Productivity Factor in Phase II" by John W. Kendrick
1971
Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Productivity
1971
Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Resumes for the assistant to the chief executive officer
1972-73
Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Secular inflation
1971
Computer Disks [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Vorando, Inc.: Request for exception from executive guidelines
1971-72
Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Wages: Background information for the Price Commission
1971-72
Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Wholesale price index
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Year-end statement on the economy by the President's Council of Economic Advisors
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Final report
1968-69
Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Final report and correspondence
1968-70
Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Task force bulletins and internal correspondence
1969
Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Correspondence
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Correspondence: White House, government agencies, trade groups, business associations, etc
1969-71
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Handbook for Small Business: A Survey of Small Business Programs of the Federal Government
1969
Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Legislation defining and affecting small business
1968, n.d.
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Recommendations for legislation
1968-69
Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Material re Newman's appearance before the Select Committee on Small Business of the U.S. Senate
1971, 1975
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Source material, correspondence and news releases
1970
Mixed Materials [35007007670692] MSS 85-12, Box 19
Speeches and miscellaneous papers re economic prospects facing businessmen
1955-70
Scope and Contents
[5 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670700] MSS 85-12, Box 20
Material pertaining to the commission's composition, establishment and purpose
1970-72
Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670700] MSS 85-12, Box 20
Memoranda, background and issue papers re meetings and hearings
1972
Scope and Contents
[4 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670718] MSS 85-12, Box 21
Public hearings
1972
Scope and Contents
[5 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670718] MSS 85-12, Box 21
Meeting records
1972
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670726] MSS 85-12, Box 22
Minutes of meetings
1971-73
Scope and Contents
[8 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670734] MSS 85-12, Box 23
Miscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc
1970-74
Scope and Contents
[4 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670734] MSS 85-12, Box 23
Conference on the Economics of Bankruptcy, Brookings Institution
1971 August
Mixed Materials [35007007670734] MSS 85-12, Box 23
Expenses incurred by Newman while a member of the commission
1972-73
Mixed Materials [35007007670734] MSS 85-12, Box 23
Newman's appearance before the Subcommittee on Citizens' and Shareholders' Rights and Remedies of the Senate Judiciary Committee
1977
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Report by the Rand Corporation and commission memorandum re U.S. bankruptcy laws
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Reports submitted to the commission on the U.S. bankruptcy laws
n.d.
Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Correspondence concerning the Price Commission, Bankruptcy Commission and the Small Business Task Force
1975-77
Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Sweet Briar Institute v. Button
1966
Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Correspondence re National Industrial Conference Board
1966-78
Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Securities and Exchange Commission v. National Student Marketing Corp
1972
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Material concerning Newman's appearance before the SEC
1977
Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Historical Working Papers on the Economic Stabilization Program
1971
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