Preliminary Inventory to the Julius Klein papers

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Title: Julius Klein papers
Date (inclusive): 1928-1952
Collection Number: 56015
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes (1.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Transcripts of radio broadcasts, transcripts of speeches, and correspondence, relating to American economic conditions, foreign trade, and economic policy during the administration of President Herbert Hoover.
Creator: Klein, Julius, 1886-1957
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1976.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Julius Klein papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1921-1929 Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
1929-1933 Under Secretary of Commerce

Scope and Contents

This collection contains transcripts of radio broadcasts, transcripts of speeches, and correspondence, relating to American economic conditions, foreign trade, and economic policy during the administration of President Herbert Hoover. Arranged chronologically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

United States -- Politics and government -- 1929-1933
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
United States -- Commerce
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
United States. Department of Commerce

 

1928

box 1

A Week of the World's Business - What Foreign Trade Means to the Average American

box 1

Some Problems of our Domestic Business

box 1

Our International Balance Sheet

box 1

American Investments Abroad

box 1

American Investments Abroad (second talk on this subject)

box 1

Trade Barriers -- What is being done to minimize them?

box 1

Trade Barriers -- What is being done to minimize them? (second Talk)

box 1

The American Struggle Against Foreign Raw-Material Controls

box 1

America Motorizing Mankind

box 1

Foreign Triumphs of the American Automobile

box 1

China in Transition: Conflict and Commerce

box 1

Picturesque Phases of our Trade with China

box 1

Our Neighbor to the North, and Her Markets for our Goods

box 1

The New Germany: Her Commercial and Industrial Recovery

box 1

The Independent Retailer: His Position and Prospects

box 1

Foreign Quinine Monopoly Relinquishes Its Grip

box 1

Factors Favoring the Independent Merchant Today

box 1

Practical Aids for the Independent Merchant

box 1

Does Factory Efficiency Increase Unemployment?

box 1

"Servicing" Jobs Available for Displaced Factory Workers

box 1

Adventures on the Far Frontiers of Trade

box 1

The Romance of Rubber

box 1

Trade Rivalries Abroad

box 1

International Cartels and What They Mean to Us

box 1

Cooperation in World Trade

box 1

The New Pan-Americanism

box 1

Swinging Down the West Coast

box 1

Chile and Peru: From the Equator to Cape Horn

box 1

The River Plate Countries

box 1

Brazil: A South American Colossus

box 1

The Progress of the United States in the Past Half-Century

 

1929

box 1

Uncle Sam Strides Forward: A Record of Five Decades

box 1

The Cancer of Economic Waste

box 1

Wielding the Scalpel on Waste

box 1

Helping the Grocer Solve His Problems

box 1

Utilize Wood -- and Save the Forests

box 1

Radical Reforms in the Utilization of Wood

box 1

Defective Distribution: Our Greatest Business Problem

box 1

Commercial Europe To-Day

box 1

Commercial Europe of Today (2nd talk)

box 1

Awakening Morocco

box 1

Seven Years of Business Progress

box 1

Speeding Up Our Economic Progress

box 1

Measuring and Mapping Our Country and Its Costs

box 1

Modern Greece and Its Markets

box 1

Czechoslovakia: Its Industry and Trade

box 1

Protecting American Lives and Property on the Water

box 1

The Romance of World Radio

box 1

The Cash-Book of the Nation's Foreign Business

box 1

Adjusting our Trade Balances

box 1

Present-Day Austria and Its Commercial Problems

box 1

Commercial Hungary and Its Relations with America

box 1

Exporting Highways: What Foreign Road-Building Means for our Trade

box 1

Our Aircraft Abroad

box 1

The World's Business on Wings

box 1

Rayon and Its Place in Industry Today

box 1

Must We "Adapt" American Manufactures for Foreign Markets?

box 1

The Economic Position of Great Britain To-Day

box 1

New Ideas in International Advertising

box 1

Advertising American Goods Abroad

box 1

Advertising Abroad

box 1

The Business Outlook

box 1

Keeping the Retailer Off "The Rocks"

box 1

Business and World Peace

box 1

Checking up on Retail Credits

box 1

Prosperity Insurance Through Coordinated Effort

box 1

Government Aid in Business Betterment

box 1

Credits and Retail Failures

box 1

Effective Retail Salesmanship

box 1

Helping the Wholesaler Cut Costs

box 1

Marshaling Facts

 

1930

box 2

American Business at the Turn of the Year

box 2

Our American Advance Since 1880

box 2

Commercial Triumphs of the Nineteen-Twenties

box 2

The Machine, the Test-Tube -- and Business

box 2

Regional Cooperation in Business

box 2

The Menace of Obsolescence

box 2

The Battle to Preserve Materials

box 2

George Washington as a Business Man

box 2

Beauty as a Business-Builder

box 2

Art in Industry Pays Dividends

box 2

Commercial Forces in Contemporary Spain

box 2

American Influence and Interest in Spain

box 2

Present-Day Portugal and Its Trade

box 2

Construction as a Factor in Prosperity

box 2

The Business of Sports

box 2

American Profits from Foreign Pastimes

box 2

The New Far East

box 2

Squandering Business Experience

box 2

Minimizing Mine Perils

box 2

Business Aspects of Vacation

box 2

Roads as Business-Builders

box 2

The Zeppelin and German Aviation

box 2

Traffic Safety as a Business Asset

box 2

Mastering the Traffic Menace

box 2

The Flexible Tariff Clause

box 2

Explosives as a Civilizing Force

box 2

The Potency of "Invisible" Payments

box 2

The New Business of Refrigeration

box 2

Assembling Your Vacation Requisites

box 2

The United States as a Debtor Nation

box 2

A New Day for the Patent Office

box 2

Serving the Cause of Safety at Sea

box 2

How Science Serves the Mariner

box 2

What Heights and Measures Mean to the Housewife

box 2

What are the People Doing for a Living?

box 2

Flying the Department of Commerce Airways

box 2

The Electrical Servant

box 2

The European Business Depression

box 2

Public Construction as an Aid to Business

box 2

The Drive for Better Homes

box 2

Latin-American Trade Outlook

box 2

Simplification and Its Meaning

box 2

Control of the Business Cycle

box 2

Factors Affecting Foreign Trade

box 2

Controlling our National Surveys

box 2

The American Seamen

box 2

The Romance of Radio Regulation

box 2

Keeping Abreast of Business

box 2

Alaska: Its Fur Seals and Fisheries

box 2

Men and Mines

box 2

Retailing as a Science

box 2

European Business Outlook

 

1931

box 2

Business at the Turn of the Year

box 2

The Building and Loan Centennial

box 2

New Commercial Picture of the Pacific Southwest

box 2

The Challenge of the Machine

box 2

Business Cooperation

box 2

Model Stores Mean Retail Profits

box 2

Why Some Retailers Fail

box 2

The Retail Morgue

box 2

The Work of the United States Department of Commerce

box 2

Constructing Prosperity

box 2

Are We Losing Out in Foreign Trade?

box 2

Siam and Its Commerce

box 2

A New Move Toward Better Business

box 2

A Few Facts about Furniture

box 2

That Installment Bogey

box 2

Saving by Simplicity

box 2

Water Power and Steam

box 2

Yugoslavia: A Country of the Future

box 2

Is Uncle Sam a Skinflint?

box 2

The Business Future of the Small Town

box 2

Factors Favoring Small-Town Business

box 2

Helpful Bureaucracy

box 2

America's Enormous Invisible Payments

box 2

Vacation Business

box 2

Surveying Business

box 2

America's Stake in European Stability

box 2

The Business of Radio

box 2

What We Buy from Abroad

box 2

Where the Money Goes

box 2

Commercial Cooperation with Latin America

box 2

America's Sweet Tooth

box 2

The French Empire and Its Trade

box 2

The New Turkey and Its Markets

box 2

The Railways and Business

box 2

Beating the Slump

box 2

Negro Education and Economic Development

box 2

The Business of Providing Jobs

box 2

Beating the Slump No. II

box 2

Gold and Trade

box 2

Our Merchant Marine

box 2

China and Its Trade Today

box 2

The Bugbear of Bureaucracy

box 2

Christmas and the Retailer

 

1932

box 3

Government Business Publications

box 3

A Great New Business Building

box 3

Some Problems of the Retailer

box 3

One Way to Lower Prices

box 3

Science Serving the Consumers

box 3

Consumers' New Importance

box 3

The Greeting-Card Business

box 3

Washington, Practical Man of Affairs

box 3

The Laundry Business: A Significant Service Industry

box 3

Developments Affecting Trans-Pacific Trade

box 3

Small Business Has Its Inning

box 3

The Drug Store in the Spot Light

box 3

Labor Conditions in Europe

box 3

One Another's Burdens

box 3

Bargains in Brains

box 3

European Budgets

box 3

A Lesson from the Dinosaur

box 3

Telling the World

box 3

Export Business Still is Vital

box 3

Public Works and Planning

box 3

Taxpayers' Dividends

box 3

Looking Back to 1776

box 3

The Imperial Conference

box 3

Our International Cash-Book

box 3

Branch Factories Abroad

box 3

Dollar Ideas

box 3

America Lifts Her Face

box 3

Job Sharing

box 3

The Defense of the Dollar

box 3

Price Trends and Recovery

box 3

Looking Ahead in Foreign Trade

box 3

Life Insurance and Recovery

box 3

Industrial Housecleaning

box 3

Aggressive Retailing

box 3

Trends in the Food Trades

box 3

Taxpayers' Dividends

box 3

International Barter (Some Discussion of Toy Trade)

box 3

The World Economic Conference

box 3

Business Goodwill

 

1933

box 3

Looking Backward and Forward

box 3

The Automotive Industry "Carries On"

box 3

The Test-Tube Route to Recovery

box 3

Small-Town Chambers of Commerce

box 3

Electricity Opens New Doors

box 3

America on the High Seas

box 3

Lincoln and Business

box 3

Back to Quality

box 3

Government and Business