Business Men's Group, Jan. to Apr. 1935 (1st group- misc. folder), 1934-1935 Digital
January 19-20, 1935. Subject: Social Responsibilities and Problems of Industry. Speakers: Dean Wallace Donham, Professors Elton Mayo and Philip Cabot.
Business Group meeting, Feb. 1935 Digital
February 16 -17, 1935. Subject: National Planning. Speakers: John Pierson, Department of Economics, Yale, (Communism); Dr. Albert Sprague Coolidge, Department of Chemistry, Harvard (Socialism); Dean Donham and Professor Cabot.
Business Group meeting, Mar. 1935 Digital
March 16-17, 1935. Subject: NRA Codes -- Cotton Textile Code, Retail Code, Petroleum Code.
Business Group meeting, April 1935 Digital
April 13-14, 1935. Subject: Labor Relations. Speakers: George Fonda (Weirton Steel Co.); Professors T. N. Whitehead, Philip Cabot, Sumner Slichter, John C. Baker; C. E. Shaw (Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey).
Business Group meeting, May 1935 Digital
Business Group meeting, Dec. 1935 Digital
December 14-15, 1935. Topic: Social Security Act of 1935 (general principles of (1) Unemployment Relief, (2) the Cost and Character of Medical Care, and (3) Old Age Pensions. Speakers: Dr. B. M. Selekman and Professor Cabot.
Business Group meeting, April 1936 Digital
April 25-26, 1936. Topic: Problems of Medical Care. Speakers: Dr. Michael N. Davis (Julius Rosenwald Fund); Dr. Hugh Cabot (Mayo Clinic); Dr. Morris Fishbein (Editor of American Medical Association Journal); Dr. Nathan Sinai (Division of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Michigan); Dr. Pierce Williams (author of The Purchase of Medical Care Through Fixed Periodic Payment).
Business Group meeting, Jan. 1936 Digital
January 11-12, 1936. Topic: Unemployment Compensation continued-- Pooled vs. Individual Reserves for Unemployment Compensation. Speakers: Marion B. Folsom (treasurer of Eastman Kodak and member of Advisory Council to President's Committee on Economic Security); Dr. I. M. Rubinow (authority on Social Insurance).
Business Group meeting, Feb. 1936 Digital
February 8-9, 1936. Topic: The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization. Speakers: Professors T. N. Whitehead, Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger.
Business Group meeting, March 1936 Digital
March 7-8, 1936. Topic: Reserves for Old-age Pensions provided for in the Social Security Act of 1935. Speakers: O. C. Richter (AT & T); W. R. Williamson (Travelers Insurance Company); C. M. Armstrong (General Electric); and Murray Latimer (Railroad Retirement Board).
Programs of Business Group, meetings & publicity, 1935-1938 Digital
Business Group meeting, Dec. 1936 Digital
December 5-6, 1936. Topic: Present-day Aspects of Business Policy. Speakers: Professors Whitehead, Cabot, and Roethlisberger.
Business Group meeting, Jan. 1937 Digital
January 9-10, 1937. Topic: Some Proposals for Radical Changes in the Structure of our Government (especially Communism and Fascism). Speakers: Emanual Levin (Progressive Labor School - Communism); Lawrence Dennis (E. A. Pierce & Company - Fascism); Professors Elliot, Whitehead, Cabot
Business Group meeting, Feb. 1937 Digital
February 6-7, 1937. Topic: The Social Structure Within an Industrial Firm. Speakers: Professors Whitehead and Roethlisberger; Marvin Bower; H. A. Wright (Western Electric Company).
Business Group meeting, Mar. 1937 Digital
March 6-7, 1937. Topic: The Leadership of Organizations. Speakers: Austin L. Levy (Treasurer of Stillwater Worsted Mills); Chester I. Barnard; Professor T. N. Whitehead; Dr. Hugh Cabot (Mayo Clinic).
Business Group meeting, Apr. 1937 Digital
April 3-4, 1937. Topic: Labor Unions and Company Unions as Methods of Integrating and Enriching the Social Life of Industrial Workers. Speakers: Members of Industrial Relations Office (Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey); Charles Campfield (President of Boston Central Labor Union and Business Agent District 38, International Association of Machinists); Professors Issacs and Bevis.
Business Group meeting, May 1937 Digital
May 1-2, 1937. Topic: The Promotion of Social Security. Speakers: Dr. B. M. Selekman (Executive Director of Associated Jewish Philanthropies); A. H. Robinson, (Eastman Kodak); Henry S. Dennison (President of Dennison Mfg. Co.); Jerome Greene (Secretary of Harvard University) and Thomas C. Blaisdell (Assistant Director of Research of Social Security Board).
Business Group, Dec. 1937 Digital
December 11-12, 1937. Topic: Industry and Society. Speakers: Professors Cabot, Whitehead and Roethlisberger.
Business Exec. Group, January 8 & 9, 1938 Digital
January 8-9, 1938. Topic: Some Problems Involving the Human Factor in Business. Speakers: Professors Mayo, Cabot, Roethlisberger, Whitehead, Pigors; Sargent Kennedy; Assistant Dean Boyce F. Martin; Dean Wallace Donham, Dr. A. V. Bock.
Reunion meeting of 1st two groups, Jan. 22, 1938 Digital
Feb. 1938 meeting Digital
February 5-6, 1938. Topic: A Specific Example of How a Large Firm is Handling its Human Relations. Speakers: Professor Roethlisberger and executives of Western Electric Company.
March 5 & 6, 1938 Digital
March 5-6, 1938. Topic: Collective Bargaining-A Problem of Administration. Speakers: C. S. Ching (United States Rubber Products); C. S. Golden (Steel Workers Organizing Committee); H. A. Enochs (Pennsylvania Railroad); J. P. Burke (Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers of U.S.).
April 30 & May 1, 1938 Digital
April 30-May 1, 1938. Topic: The Leadership of Business Organizations. Speakers: Ralph E. Flanders (Jones & Lamson Machine Co.); F. W. Willard (Nassau Smelting & Refining Co.); Morris Sayre (Corn Products Refining Co.); Austin T. Levy (Stillwater Worsted Mills).
Business group, Oct. 1938 Digital
Dec. 10 & 11, 1938 Digital
December 10-11, 1938. Topic: The Social Obligations of Large Scale Business Operations. Speakers: Professors Cabot, Whitehead, Mayo and Roethlisberger.