Guide to the Theodore John Kreps Papers

Daniel Hartwig & Jenny Johnson
Stanford University Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford, California
October 2010
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Overview

Call Number: SC0207
Creator: Kreps, Theodore J. (Theodore John ), b. 1897
Title: Theodore John Kreps Papers
Dates: 1926-1962
Physical Description: 14 Linear feet (20 boxes)
Summary: Reports, memos, surveys, statistics, legal documents, and some printed material. Arrangement is chronological. Subjects included are cartels, anti-trust , labor, conservation, investment, reciprocal trade, government purchasing, production, government regulations, inflation, land-lease, war mobilization, and international trade.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository: Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Biography

Theodore John Kreps, born 13 January 1897 in Prinsburg, Minnesota, received his Ph.D from Harvard in 1928. He was professor of business economics at Stanford (1930-1962; emeritus, 1962- ).
1897, January 13 Born, Prinsburg, Minnesota
1917-1919 1st Lt..A.B.F.
1919 Married Esther E1vira Cersberg (six children)
1920 A.B., University of Cclorado
1920-1923 Instructor of history and economics at Colorado State °rep. - Boulder
19214 A.N., Harvard
1925-1930 Instructor of economics and tutor history, government and eccnomics at Harvard
1926 Frederick Sheldon Fellow
1928 Ph.D., Harvard
1928-1929 Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellow, Bureau of International Research
1930 At Stanford since 1930
l935 Chief, Statistics Section, National Recovery Administration; Chairman, Co-ordinating Committee of Central Statistical Board and Works Progress Administration
1936 December Representative U.S. Government to Preparatory Technical Tripartite Conference on Reduction of Hours in Chemical Industry, Geneva, Switzerland
1937, Summer Economic Adviser U.S. Maritime Commission 1938, 1941-1945 Economic Adviser, Anti-trust Division, Department of Justice
1939-1940 Economic Adviser, Temporary National Economic Commission
1914, Summer Chief Consultant, Office of Price Administration
1942-1941 Chief Economic Adviser, Board of Economic Warfare
1949-1951 Staff Director of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report
1951 Ford Foundation exchange Professor to the Free University of Ber1in, Author of books, articles and reviews

Description of the Collection

Reports, memos, surveys, statistics, legal documents, and some printed material. Arrangement is chronological. Subjects included are cartels, anti-trust , labor, conservation, investment, reciprocal trade, government purchasing, production, government regulations, inflation, land-lease, war mobilization, and international trade.

Access Terms

Kreps, Theodore J. (Theodore John ), b. 1897
Managerial economics.


 

Papers

Box 1, Folder 1

1926-1929

Scope and Content Note

Cartel speeches; Webb-Pomerene Act; League of Nations publications (International Labour Office & Economic & Financial Section - standard of living of workers, dumping, monopolies); Federal Trade Commission anti-trust hearing; Income.
Box 1, Folder 2

1930-1933

Scope and Content Note

Price fixing; Cartels - German; Electrical industry trade practice rules; National Unemployment Program of the People's Lobby; Conservation (lumber); Dye Cartel; Investment.
Box 1, Folder 3

1934

Scope and Content Note

Social audit; Anti-trust; Wholesale Drug Industry trade practice rules; Labor; Corporations.
Box 1, Folder 4

1935

Scope and Content Note

Reciprocal trade - chemical; Government purchasing; profits, losses & business assets; German tobacco industry; Labor; Hugh B. White memo on corrosion resisting steel; Fire extinguishers; anti-trust; A.F. of L. Monthly Survey of Business; 1926 Price level; Exchange of corresnondence with Dept. of State re: entry of foreign ships into U.S. ports (copies); Investment; Production & Price Control in Bituminous Coal Mining.
Box 1, Folder 5

1936

Scope and Content Note

The Consumer, Statistics on Copper, 1926 Price level; Labor; Resale Price (Goodyear case); Government stimuli (silver policy); Formal complaints of Federal Trade Commission for unfair competition and price discrimination (anti-trust); answer to complaint; hearing; National Consumer News Proposed Revision of Anti-trust Laws; Foreign Systems Communist Election Platform; Consumer Credit, Debt & taxes.
Box 2, Folder 6

1937

Scope and Content Note

Anti-trust; 1926 Price level; Depreciation reserve policies; Industrial mobilization Plan; Housing; Resale price maintenance; unfair competition; Consumers' Research Bulletin; Labor; Primary producers; International organization of Big Business; Burial vaults; Tax; American Merchant Marine; Government aid; Technical Progress & Agricultural Depression; Food & Drugs Act; Installment selling; Price & production control in British industry; Conservation; Agriculture; Bus, reserves & economic stability.
Box 2, Folder 7

1937

Scope and Content Note

Anti-trust; 1926 Price level; Depreciation reserve policies; Industrial mobilization Plan; Housing; Resale price maintenance; unfair competition; Consumers' Research Bulletin; Labor; Primary producers; International organization of Big Business; Burial vaults; Tax; American Merchant Marine; Government aid; Technical Progress & Agricultural Depression; Food & Drugs Act; Installment selling; Price & production control in British industry; Conservation; Agriculture; Bus, reserves & economic stability.
Box 2, Folder 8

1938

Scope and Content Note

Price competition; Price discrimination; Fence Consumers'Research Bulletin; Conservation; Income Tax; Silver; Summaries of Federal Trade Commission cases, etc.; Recession; 1926 Price level; Statistical Handbook on Federal Finances; Problem of Big Business; Patents investigation; Canadian Tobacco Distribution Combine; Government Aid; Housing -paint & varnish; Caltar Dyes; Re-sale Price Maintenance; Raw materials; Tariff Removal; Trade Barriers; Consumer Protection; Electrical - anti-trust case; small business
Box 2, Folder 9

1938

Scope and Content Note

Price competition; Price discrimination; Fence Consumers'Research Bulletin; Conservation; Income Tax; Silver; Summaries of Federal Trade Commission cases, etc.; Recession; 1926 Price level; Statistical Handbook on Federal Finances; Problem of Big Business; Patents investigation; Canadian Tobacco Distribution Combine; Government Aid; Housing -paint & varnish; Caltar Dyes; Re-sale Price Maintenance; Raw materials; Tariff Removal; Trade Barriers; Consumer Protection; Electrical - anti-trust case; small business
Box 2, Folder 10

1938

Scope and Content Note

Price competition; Price discrimination; Fence ConSumers'Research Bulletin; Conservation; Income Tax; Silver; Summaries of Federal Trade Commission cases, etc.; Recession; 1926 Price level; Statistical Handbook on Federal Finances; Problem of Big Business; Patents investigation; Canadian Tobacco Distribution Combine; Government Aid; Housing -paint & varnish; Caltar Dyes; Re-sale Price Maintenance; Raw materials; Tariff Removal; Trade Barriers; Consumer Protection; Electrical - anti-trust case; small business
Box 3, Folder 12

1939 March-April

Scope and Content Note

Trade barriers; American rural refugees; Primary producers; Government investment; Consumer protection; Investment problem; Labor
Box 3, Folder 13

l939 May-July

Scope and Content Note

Potash; Unfair competition (Robinson-Patman); Consumer protection; Tariff removal; International Cartels (I.G. Farben, etc.); Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation; Prices; Electric Home and Farm Authority Investment; Interstate trade barriers; Industries
Box 3, Folder 14

1939 August

Scope and Content Note

Government subsidies (Monopoly Control Bill); Ownership; Government regulation.
Box 3, Folder 15

1939 September

Scope and Content Note

Anti-trust indictments and complaints (unfair competition, cartels, etc.).
Box 3, Folder 16

1939 October-December

Scope and Content Note

Labor; Anti-trust complaints; Consumer protection; Government Information Handbook (?); Planned society; Business Publicity; Government subsidies (and TLS 1940 of George C. Gaede); Government regulation (of competition); Govenment regulation (of competition); labor; Labor costs; National Association of Manufacturers; l926 Price level; Price stabilization (British Program for Armament Plant Expansion, 1935, 1939); Resale.
Box 3, Folder 17

1940 January-April

Scope and Content Note

Manufacture (NLR Act) Labor (T.L.S. of M.H. Hedges, Director of Research, International Brotherhood of Electrical workers); Anti-trust findings, orders indictment, complaint; Trade Practice conf. agreements; Anti-trust Laws; Fire equipment; American shipping needs; Small Business (Robinson-Patma); Technology; Labor.
Box 4, Folder 18

1940 May-August

Scope and Content Note

National Business affairs; Recovery program; Anti-trust; agents; Cost of Flotation for Small issues; Capital structure; Telephone service; A.F. of L. Monthly Survey of Business; National Defense; Optical; Fair Trade and Unfair Practices Acts.
Box 5, Folder 19

1940 September-December

Scope and Content Note

Anti-trust; Industry's Job Under the Defense Program; National Defense; Basing Point; Brink-of-War Planning Capital Expansion, Employment & Economic Stability-; Government Purchasing; Labor; Trade barriers; "Why France Fell."
Box 5, Folder 20

l941 January-March

Scope and Content Note

California Government income and expenditures; Anti-trust British Wartime Control of Copper, Lead & Zinc; Consumer Education; Individual annual savings and underspending; "Amortization Deduction;" T.L.S. re: Fair Trade and Unfair Practices Act; Labor.
Box 5, Folder 21

1941 April-November

Scope and Content Note

Voluntary standards; Anti-trust & Defense Program and Price indexes; Governmental Defense Program; Governmental marketing barriers; Anti-trust violation; Dept. of Justice, minutes of and memos to Policy Board of Anti-trust Division (Temporary National Economic Division); National Defense, Industry and Profiteering (group of letters and papers going back to 1939, includes T.L.S W.J. Buttfield, Arthur B. Gardner); American Merchant Marine; Economic Defense Board; Food Service Equipment; Pipe Line Costs Tariffs; Calif. Fields; National Resources Commission; Consumer Education; Labor; Argentine tungsten; China tungsten (back to 1940).
Box 5, Folder 22

1941 December and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Britain - inflation; Palmer Harmon shipping situation (from July), Merchant Marine, etc. (A.H.S. Palmer Harmon to Mr. Farley); Fats & oils; Deficit Spending and the Defense Effort 1931 - 19141" (paper for Business 390 in Autumn l941 by Lawrence V. Metcalf and C. Howard Janin); Anti-trust; German-Argentina; Compulsory licensing; German Military Administration in Occupied France (diagram); The Soviet Power; Price Ceiling Regulations; Canadian Industries, Ltd.; Trade Barriers
Box 5, Folder 23

1941 December and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Britain - inflation; Palmer Harmon shipping situation (from July), Merchant Marine, etc. (A.H.S. Palmer Harmon to Mr. Farley); Fats & oils; Deficit Spending and the Defense Effort 1931 - 19141" (paper for Business 390 in Autumn l941 by Lawrence V. Metcalf and C. Howard Janin); Anti-trust; German-Argentina; Compulsory licensing; German Military Administration in Occupied France (diagram); The Soviet Power; Price Ceiling Regulations; Canadian Industries, Ltd.; Trade Barriers
Box 5, Folder 24

1942 January-April

Scope and Content Note

Inflation; Price Supply Controls - chemical industry; Nationa.l Defense; League of Nations Association Iron and Steel Scrap (memo by W.S. Whitehead); CAA Medical Exams; Patents; Labor; Cotton - Haiti; Reoccupied areas; antimony; Corning Glass and G.E. - lamp case; Lend lease - Board of Economic Warfare; Cotton - Peru; Price ceiling; Rubber - Peru; Metals Mexico; anti-trust and Advertising; Mobilization of Resources; Importation from Soviet Union.
Box 5, Folder 25

1942 May-June

Scope and Content Note

Rubber- Costa Rica, Nicaragua; Rotenone - Peru; Fats and oils; Indian shellac; Flax - Peru; Quebracho; Henequen - Mexico; Australian Economic Control; Strategic materials - Latin America; Reconstruction; British relations; Price Control; Raw materials; Rubber survey; Quinine - Costa Rica Petroleum industry; Anti-trust; Warsaw Ghetto economic condition - German financing.
Box 5, Folder 26

1942 May-June

Scope and Content Note

Rubber- Costa Rica, Nicaragua; Rotenone - Peru; Fats and oils; Indian shellac; Flax - Peru; Quebracho; Henequen - Mexico; Australian Economic Control; Strategic materials - Latin America; Reconstruction; British relations; Price Control; Raw materials; Rubber survey; Quinine - Costa Rica Petroleum industry; Anti-trust; Warsaw Ghetto economic condition - German financing.
Box 5, Folder 27

1942 July

Scope and Content Note

Axis activities - Latin America; BEW operations Anti-Malarials procurement; Canadian nickel; Industrial diamonds; Economic intelligence; Preclusive buying; Alcohol sales; Rubber, tungsten, tin -Bolivia; Cotton - Nicaragua; Balsa wood - Ecuador; Australia - specified articles production capacity (clothing, troops); Labor and Population Intelligence (International); Quinine; Rubber - Ecuador; Quebracho (TLS of James S. Martin) - anti-trust; public utility taxation; Rubber - Honduras.
Box 5, Folder 28

1942 August

Scope and Content Note

Export and Trade Control - Latin America; Rubber - Trinidad and Tobago, Br. Honduras, Br. Guiana; Ixtl Mexico; Netherlands Indies Intelligence; Abaca -Costa Rica; - Imports; Rubber - El Salvador; Peru - economic and political Raw materials regulation; Chile -prices of metals, etc.; Postwar - Pacific relations.
Box 5, Folder 29

1942 September-October

Scope and Content Note

Rubber - Guatemala; Mahogany - Guatemala; Rubber - Mexico; Rubber survey; BEW operations; Sisal - Mexico; Abaca - Guatemala, Honduras; Rubber - Panama; United Nations Raw Materials administration; U.S. Aviation Corp. - French subsidiary; Canadian metals; German trademarks; coffee, Agave - Haiti; Joint Preemption; Money exchange - Chile; Metals -Minerals Division Progress Report; Brazil - publicty for rubber program, etc.; Flax - Canada; Labor clauses - BEW; Inflation - Bolivia; Labor reserve - Mexico; South African War Program - aid; Rubber - Venezuela; Chile - economic conditions; Critical materials; Fibers; Inflation - Cnile; Brazil - economic conditions; Labor clauses - Metals Reserve Co. - Bolivia and Montezuma Copper Co., Mexico
Box 6, Folder 30

1942 November

Scope and Content Note

Cocoa - Brazil; Inflation - Bolivia; Cartels; Raw materials; Bismutin; Antitrust; Carburators, Cinchona - Peru; Copper, etc. - Chile, l942-43 (TLS in Sp. Jose Macias Contreras); Labor; Business activities of Amer. organizations in ememy occupied countries; Banque de Paris; Mercury; Imports; Mani fiber - Sisal; Wool - Uruguay; Sisal - Bahama; Labor - Bolivia, etc.; Defense; Dyestuffs; Rubber; Transportation - Indo-China, Thailand, etc. - Japanese activities
Box 6, Folder 31

1942 December and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Importation - strategic materials - air; Contra committments and deliveries- foreign metals and minerals; Anti-trust; Cartels; Banque de Paris; Social insurance; Subsidies - Caribbean; Intelligence Report - British Ministry of Economic Warfare -German -Europe Far East; Inflation and profiteering Mexico; Flotation of joint Angle-American loans in Latin America; War Economics and Armament Office of German High Command; Webb-Pomerene; Quinine; Commodity agreements; Bolivian labor; Labor - Brazil; Bolivia (to 1944); Labor - Ecuador; Economic warfare; electricaL; Fats oils; Inflation; Labor -Rubber; Mexican Mercury; -efina; Methane Steam Ammonia Plants to Russia; chemical industry - Mexico; British chart - administrative war Cabinet
Box 6, Folder 32

1942 December and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Importation - strategic materials - air; Contra committments and deliveries- foreign metals and minerals; Anti-trust; Cartels; Banque de Paris; Social insurance; Subsidies - Caribbean; Intelligence Report - British Ministry of Economic Warfare -German -Europe Far East; Inflation and profiteering Mexico; Flotation of joint Angle-American loans in Latin America; War Economics and Armament Office of German High Command; Webb-Pomerene; Quinine; Commodity agreements; Bolivian labor; Lsabor - Brazil; Bolivia (to 1944) Labor - Ecuador; Economic warfare. electricaL; Fats oils; Inflation; Labor -Rubber; Mexican Mercury; -efina; Methane Steam Ammonia Plants to Russia; chemical industry - Mexico; British chart - administrative war Cabinet
Box 6, Folder 33

l943 January

Scope and Content Note

Fats and oils; Siemens and Halske, A.G.; Bolivia - labor; Kuhlmann; Inflation - Chile; Peru - economic developments; BEW program; British blockade; German - industrial offensive; Italy - food situation; Quinine; BEW Organizational Handbook.
Box 6, Folder 34

1943 February

Scope and Content Note

Bolivian Labor; Mexico - economic and financial; American business activities in Asian countries; Inflation -Venezuela; Inter-nation economic issues; Food in Russia; Mexican labor; Rubber; Lend-Lease; North African Phosphate cartel; Mexican chick pea; Colombia rubber; Latin America - Axis alien property disposal; Bolivia - mining and raw materials; Fascist economic bankruptcy - Italy; BEW - Departmemt of State; Taxes; Mica.
Box 6, Folder 35

1943 March

Scope and Content Note

Commodity Credit Corp. - Mexico; BEW and Commerce Department; Reoccupied - food - Italy; Bolivia; BEW - Office of Imports; Essential industries - soda; strategic materials - Colombia - platinun, cinchon rubber; CivilIan money income; Peru; Mexico - mini Mexican development; Japan's war economy.
Box 7, Folder 36

1943 April

Scope and Content Note

Reoccupied areas; Coffee imports: Brazilian labor clauses; FEA purchase arrangements; Bolivian Development Corp.; Uruguayan industry and War ; Labor conditions, military highway - Guatemala; Bolivian commerce and industries; inflation - western South America; Axis fuel injection; Foreign Subsidy Company -preliminary report (TLS Ralph W. Bettelheim); File Dollar balances -Mexico; International Telephone Telegraph; Cartels - Pirelli (TLS William T. Stone); Bolivia - tin, tungsten, food, labor, etc. American Ship Owners - just compensation; Latin America - aid to U.S. War effort; Export - Great Britain to Peru; Inflation - Chile; U.S. economic warfare; China - commodity stockpile - air transport.
Box 7, Folder 37

1943 May

Scope and Content Note

Water carriers - Transportation service; India speculation; Latin iimerica currents; Drugs chemicals; Kuhlmann; Laval's Bank; South African economy - gold; Rubber; Union of South Africa; Defense Supplies Corp. - India; international Tin Cartel; Bolivia - loan from Argentine bankers; Mexican binder twine; Farben - synthetic nitrate; Equador -government stability; Cartels.
Box 7, Folder 38

l943 June

Scope and Content Note

Procurement and Developnent - Foreign; Chemicals and Drugs; Airplanes; Moscow Dateline and Mother Russia Kuhlmann - chart; Bolivia - tungsten tax; Bosch - fuel injection; Gold - South Africa; Cartels - German; Mexico; Alcohol - Canada; European Dyestuff Cartel - charts; Cartels; subsidies; Balanced distribution; Mercury Cartel
Box 7, Folder 39

1943 July

Scope and Content Note

Bolivia; France; Pyrethrum; Commodities available for air transport - chart; French Dyestuff Industry - Kuhlmann; economic warfare revisions; Inflation Chile; Liberian palm oil; Peru - metals mineral agreement; Britain - wool; Mica; BEW weekly report Cuba - contracts; Commodity Agreements Prospectus; tea - purchase procedure; Black List - Philip's subsidiaries; Webb-Pomerene; Quinine - Axis inventory; Mexican chemical properties - Alien Property seizure; Tin - Netherlands Indies; Patents; Ships compensation for.
Box 7, Folder 40

l943 August

Scope and Content Note

Foreign projects; Nicaraguan rice; Britain - toward post-war monopoly; Reoccupied areas; Subsidies - foodstuffs (T.L.S. A.N. Fischel, Richard Quinilain, Edwin J. Kuh, T.R. Merryweather), fats and oils, misc. commodities, negotiations reports, deliveries of commodities preclusive operations shipment, rubber (textile div.), fibers; Peru -mine labor; industrial diamonds; Imports; Stockpiles; Farben; Bolivia; Colombian replacement negotiations.
Box 8, Folder 41

1943 September 1-15

Scope and Content Note

Canadian nickel; Pomeranz affair - Bolivian labor; Cartels - Latin American subcommittee; Merchant shipping - U.S.; Cattle hides - program; Quebrache industry Joint Anglo-American-Canadian Mission on Hides & Leather to Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay; Japan - Naruo aircraft factory and airfield.
Box 8, Folder 42

1943 September 15-20

Scope and Content Note

Strategic and critical materials - Agreements U.S. and foreign countries; White Paper Policy; Frankfurt, Ger. - industry, transportation, power and defense; European Iron and Steel Cartel - activities in South America; Intercoastal shipping.
Box 8, Folder 43

1943 September 21- n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Pirelli Co.; Synthetic rubber - Germany; International regulation of primary products; Bolivia; Nitrogen plant - Poland; U.S. Commercial Co. - foreign purchase, development and activities; Loss to Axis of European areas - economic consequences; White Paper Policy; International Investment Agency; Wartime Liquid Accumulations; Lend-lease; Colombian Progress Report; Intercoastal shipping compensation; Industrial diamonds; Commodity agreements; Societee Generale de Belgique and African Metals Corp. Malaysia - commodity posItion -quinine; Dry cargo vessels.
Box 8, Folder 44

1943 October 5-15

Scope and Content Note

Cartels; Multilateral tariff; Diamonds; International Commodity State Trading; white Paper; International cartels; International Commercial Policy Organization; Taxes.
Box 8, Folder 45

1943 October 16-n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Mexican labor; Cellophane - Europe; Coffee - commodity control; International Commodity Policy; Control and Procurement Agencies; Pyrethorum, etc. -Brazil; International Cartels; Foreign trade - post-war; Optical glass - anti-trust; Taxes - social security; Fats and oils; Rubber.
Box 9, Folder 46

1943 November-December

Scope and Content Note

Nitric acid - France; N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken; Brazil - mica; Kalle and Co., A.G.; Belgian Congo - Pyrethrum; FEA & State Department; Stockpiles; U.S. Commercial Co.; Commodity agreements; Strategic and Critical Materials; Foreign procurement financing; industrial diamonds.
Box 9, Folder 47

1943, n.d.

Physical Description: (some pen and pencil notea by Kreps ?)

Scope and Content Note

Cartels, German and other; Economic Reconstruction and Reconversion; Black Mica; Quinine - Ecuador; Anderson-Clayton; Colombia; Shipping - hull; Antitrust - rubber; Civilian Economy; Relation with Europe; Reports on Argentina, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, 1942-3, Mexico, Peru, South Africa; Development Corporations (Inter-American) -international investment and development - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador (TLS Henry A. Wallace), Honduras, Mexico, SHADA. - Haiti
Box 9, Folder 48

1943, n.d.

Physical Description: (some pen and pencil notea by Kreps ?)

Scope and Content Note

Cartels, German and other; Economic Reconstruction and Reconversion; Black Mica; Quinine - Ecuador; Anderson-Clayton; Colombia; Shipping - hull; Antitrust - rubber; Civilian Economy; Relation with Europe; Reports on Argentina, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, 1942-3, Mexico, Peru, South Africa; Development Corporations (Inter-American) -international investment and development - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador (TLS Henry A. Wallace), Honduras, Mexico, SHADA. - Haiti
Box 9, Folder 49

1943, n.d.

Physical Description: (some pen and pencil notea by Kreps ?)

Scope and Content Note

Cartels, German and other; Economic Reconstruction and Reconversion; Black Mica; Quinine - Ecuador; Anderson-Clayton; Colombia; Shipping - hull; Antitrust - rubber; Civilian Economy; Relation with Europe; Reports on Argentina, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, 1942-3, Mexico, Peru, South Africa; Development Corporations (Inter-American) -international investment and development - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador (TLS Henry A. Wallace), Honduras, Mexico, SHADA. - Haiti
Box 9, Folder 50

1944 January 1-15

Scope and Content Note

Labor standards - foreign procurement; Carburetors - Axis; banque de l'Indochine; Bondix - axis aircraft starters; Surplus property; Volume of money and price level.
Box 10, Folder 51

1944 January 18-n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Patents; Bismuts - Anti-trust; Combined Raw Materials Board; Hochschild case; Postwar plans - United Nations; Corporate profits; Magnesite cartel Industrial alcohol.
Box 10, Folder 52

l944 February

Scope and Content Note

Commercial Policy - postwar agreements; Military Government - Italy; -Development Corporations; Phosphate - cartel monopoly; Foreign procurement development; Industrial diamonds; Postwar Office of Demobiization; industrialists - 1939 Dusseldorf Conference; Rubber.
Box 10, Folder 53

1944 March

Scope and Content Note

Cartel Comm. - Industrial diamonds; Trading with the enemy; Osram G.M.B.H., Cartel Kommanditgesellschaft; International Tin Cartel; (Memo to Jim Baker); Cartels; Japanese Trading Companies in U.S.; Phosphate; Profiteering.
Box 10, Folder 54

1944 April 1-20

Scope and Content Note

SAIAC; Banque de l'Indochine; International Commodity Policy; Cartels - Latin America; Cartel Industrial diamonds; Nersk Hydro and I.G. Farben; Potassium; Patents - Ericsson (TLS Leonard Dorn Industrial diamonds; Surplus Property; Postwar economic policy; IT & T.
Box 10, Folder 55

1944 April 7

Scope and Content Note

Universal Oil Products Co. & Japan Gasoline Co.
Box 10, Folder 56

1944 April 21-n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Optical glass - Zeiss; Tin; Phosphate industry; Consent decrees, U.S. monetary control - German circumvention; Carbon black; Africa (includes other material - misc., India, Brazil).
Box 10, Folder 57

1944 May

Scope and Content Note

Expert Associations and Sherman Act; N.V. Philips; Hochschild; I.G. Farben & post-war; ~Electronic equipment; Banque Francaise et Italienne Pour l'Amerique du Sud; Asbestos - German barter & financial activities in U.S.; Surplus property; Bolivia; Potash; U.S. connections of Axis concerns; Potash (TLS Homer Jornes); Diamonds.
Box 10, Folder 58

1944 June

Scope and Content Note

German lamp industry - postwar; Siemen-Reiniger-Werke; A.G. in Latin America; I.G. Farben industrie Dynamit-Aktien-Gesellschaft; Industrial diamonds; International Cartels (TLS Dean Acheson); Samuel Schweier; Swedish banks - manufacturing interests; Iron and steel - Ubbelohde; Executive Com. on Economic Foreign Policy; Patents tin; Business machines, etc. - Germany econczny.
Box 10, Folder 59

1944 July 12-14

Scope and Content Note

Societe General - Belgian Congo; Phosphate - Export violations; Unilever - fats and oils; Cartels German.
Box 11, Folder 60

1944 July 17-n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Cartels - British foreign trade policy; Patents Bayer Products; Wood pulp for Sweden; Nestle - General Milk Cartel; Cartels - British, international (South American), cocoa; Dyestuffs; Cartels; Du Pont - anti-trust; N.V. Philips; Chrysler; Cashew nut shell oil; Iron & Steel industry; Enemy Europe organization.
Box 11, Folder 61

1944 August-September

Scope and Content Note

Industrial diamonds; Suisse pour Valeurs Metaux Pirelli; Chromite Automobiles; I.G. Farben; Sieve -furnaces; Societe General; National Product; Argentina - Defense Supply Corporation, living conditions, import & export, political platform, production foodstuffs, sulphur, facsist propoganda & organization, labor; Aircraft manufacture & service; Industrial diamonds; German firms' American connections; Gyroscope; IT & T; Cocoa - Africa; Philips Company; Proclaimed & statutory lists; Iron & Steel - German cartels; Webb-Pomerene - export trade.
Box 11, Folder 62

1944 October

Scope and Content Note

FEA director - Conf. Bolivian Uranian Tungsten Mine; Trademark; Patents; SKF - bearings; Surplus War Property.
Box 12, Folder 63

1944 October

Scope and Content Note

German Economic Warfare; Inflation - Greece; Surplus property disposal; Property of U.S. - Austrian A.B. Svenska Mullagerfabriken (SKF)
Box 12, Folder 64

1944 November-December

Scope and Content Note

SKF; World Week - Russia; Electrical; Elektroholm; A.B.; Rayon; Surplus property disposal; German industrialists - plans for underground activity; Profiteering; Cartels & National Security; International Commodity Agreements; Webb-Pomerene; Industrial Diamonds; Shipping.
Box 12, Folder 65

1944 n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Air Transport Policy - International; Canada, Royal Bank cf; Cartels - international airline pools general; Copper - postwar Europe; Drugs - Patents; FEA blockade of Germany; Nicaro nickel in Cuba, programs; Free Enterprise and Government; Merchant Marine; Patents - science & monopoly; Railroads -anti-trust; Steel: Sulpher & sulphuric acid; Titanium.
Box 12, Folder 66

1944 n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Air Transport Policy - International; Canada, Royal Bank cf; Cartels - international airline pools general; Copper - postwar Europe; Drugs - Patents; FEA blockade of Germany; Nicaro nickel in Cuba, programs; Free Enterprise and Government; Merchant Marine; Patents - science & monopoly; Railroads -anti-trust; Steel: Sulpher & sulphuric acid; Titanium.
Box 12, Folder 67

1944 January-February

Scope and Content Note

Voorhis Bill, H.R., 97 - anti-trust; Profiteering - Littell; Public Education bill s. 181; Public Health Service Act amendment s. 191; Phosphate; Cartel memo - Convention on Restrictive Trade Practices; Patents; Electrical; Industrial Diamonds; Colombia Valley Authority bill s. 460; Postwar stockpiles; Cartels; Missouri Valley Authority a. 555; Fair Employment Practices bill H.R. 2232; Axel Wenner - Gren's interests; Electrical.
Box 13, Folder 68

1944 March

Scope and Content Note

Rubber - synthetic & natural; Sulphur; Government Corporations; Cartels - French, Safehaven report; Patents - bill H.R. 2612; Farben; Aircraft Surplus- rental for commercial use; Cartels - restrictive governmental agreements & arrangements on manufactured products; Chemicals, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals; Economic conditions; Postwar Trade - U.S. & U.S.S.R.
Box 13, Folder 69

1945 April

Scope and Content Note

Societe Generale; IT& T - interests in German Electrical. I.G. Farben industrie, A.G. - guide for investigation; Taxation; Machine tools.
Box 13, Folder 70

1945 May-June

Scope and Content Note

Tin - Bolivia; Sweden -Wallenberg's control of economy; IT & T; Canada; Stockpiling; Electrical; Aviation gasoline; Chemicals, etc.; International Trade Tribunal; Southern U.S. - health; Transportation - antitrust; Cartels - plastic - German patents; Iron & Steel - war plants disposal (T. letter stamped Joseph C. Mahoney); Kilgore Corn. - subcommittee on war mobilization; External Security Program (regarding Farben); Spain, Bank of; War Productic: WPB index.
Box 13, Folder 71

1945 July-Decenber

Scope and Content Note

Inflation & Deflation; IT & T; Selected Subcommittee Docs. - index; bill a. 1297 for National Science Foundation; Removing Wartime Economic Controls - international aspects; Thomas Jefferson (inscribed by author, George Fort Milton); A New Economic Order; Patents; Borax; Chemicals, etc.; Tariff reduction; Socialized Medicine; The Hotel Industry; Drugs & Pharmaceuticals; Control of I.G. Farben - Military Government. of Germany; Canada & International Cartels; Labor - take-home pay; Reconversion; Webb-Pomerene (TLS Edward S. Mason).
Box 13, Folder 72

1945 n.d.-1946 February

Scope and Content Note

Cartels - & enemy property; China Trade; Electrical; Industrialization of South; Machine Tools surplus; Stockpiling; Webb-Pomerene (TLS Morris Rosenthal, Fritz Machlup); Patents; Water & Power California; Labor - wages; Standards of Living; Cartel control; Bendix Aviation - Patents, etc.
Box 13, Folder 73

1946 March-n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Webb-Pomerene; Nationalists - American Action Company clips; Electrical & Glass; "The Commununist in Labor Relations Today;" Coal - anti-trust; Nickel; International Communications Merger; Anti-trust. - Pacific Coast - European Conf. - Maritime Commission; USSR; Monopoly & Foreign U.S. Communication; Soil Conservation; Bullion & Gold-Silver Ratio; Canada & U.S.; Consumer education; International ~Trade Organization; Labor - Management; International Trade Disputes - arbitration; Minimum Wage; U.S. Prices v Soviet Bargains.
Box 14, Folder 74

1947

Scope and Content Note

Unconditional Most-Favored-Nation Policy; Trends of Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions; California Farm Reporter; Rent Control; Cartels & Combines in Occupied Areas; Fire Equipment; Military Tribunals Case No. 6. - Nuremberg War Crimes case against I.G. Farben officials; Agriculture - Schultz' analysis & policy proposals; Medical Care; U.S. Foreign Policy - Far East; Business standards; Reconstruction of Europe; International Cartels; National Debt.
Box 14, Folder 75

1948

Scope and Content Note

German decartelization - Military Government; Bosch Combine; United Nations principles & Labor; Price fixing - optical; Standard Oil of California - antitrust; Survey of Consumer Finances; Cartel - International Electrical Equipment; Canada's Natural Resources; Pipe - anti-trust; Nickel - anti-trust; United States Lines et al - anti-trust; Cable -anti-trust; Basing points - steel; Power Irrigation & Flood Control Projects; World's Food; European Recovery & Free Labor; International Business Organization - postwar trends.
Box 14, Folder 76

1949

Scope and Content Note

Trupp - Military Tribunal Nuremberg Case No. 10 Property confiscation; Workers' Buying Power; Conservation - forests; Corporate Profits; Risk Capital Germany - Decartelization & deconcentration; Government subsidies; Optical - anti-trust; Conservation & Utilization of Resources; Medical Economics; Socialists in America.
Box 14, Folder 77

l950

Physical Description: capital formation.

Scope and Content Note

Taft-Hartley; Methodism's Pink Fringe?; Income payments vs. Price supports; Prevent World War III; James Stewart (John Earl Ferguson) - Harry Bridges and Communism; Communism; Big Business; Economic Progress- Primary Products; Optical - anti-trust; Korea, etc & Soviet policy; Tin-Pan Alley monopoly; Business
Box 15, Folder 78

1951-1952

Scope and Content Note

Wage stabilization & Inflation; Price control rationing of meat; Market explanaion under mobilization; Productive capacity, use of; Peace Offensive -investments; Inventories - Key Business Problem -Budget Cutting; Communism vs. Democracy In Near East; Lecture outlines - Credit Controls, Inflation, International Political situation & effects on U.S.; Gold in Modern Economy; Du Pont - "The Story ox' Research; European Recovery Program - Commodity Report; Resale Price Maintenance.
Box 15, Folder 79

1953

Scope and Content Note

Restrictive Business Practices; [80] Legal sources for study of Anti-trust laws; Bibliographies - Legal & economic concepts, Foreign Trade, Administration & Enforcement; Standard Oil of New Jersey; Basic Miners Resources.
Box 15, Folder 80

1953

Scope and Content Note

Restrictive Business Practices; [80] Legal sources for study of Anti-trust laws; Bibliographies - Legal & economic concepts, Foreign Trade, Administration & Enforcement; Standard Oil of New Jersey; Basic Miners Resources.
Box 15, Folder 81

1954-1962

Scope and Content Note

Government competition;_Anti-trust Bulletin Electrical anti-trust; Cellophane Anti-trust Case; Punched Lard Accounting - MBA; Depletion - oil & gas wells; Honey Creation; Credit Expansion & Interest Rates; Big Corporation - where its money goes; Tensions; Percentage Depletion; Pooled Money Investment; Pacific Finance Corp.; Railway Age; U.S. Steel Quarterly, The Humble Way; John Deere; Economic forecast; Prudential Insurance
Box 15, Folder 82

n.d. (includes fragment.)

Scope and Content Note

American-Soviet Relations; Axel Werner-Gren; German cartels - charts, decision, analysis; Rubber; French Africa - economic aid; Government aid; Optical; Belgium -economic development; Conservat1on; Glass; Milk; Dollar; Soil; Standardization - testing materials; Lost Monopolies; American Shipping; Pacific Northwest Rayon Industry; Dangers of American Fascism; Dyestuffs
Box 16, Folder 83

Cartels- 1 1921-1961

Scope and Content Note

List of International Cartels in 1939 (1944), Outline of Proposed International Trade Organization (n.d.), U.S. Government Loans to Private Corps, involved in Restrictive Trade Practices in International Trade (n.d.); List of Cartel Memoranda (1944); Germany -re: book about Farben (1946), Germany & Enlarged Dye Cartel (1932, s. by Sydney B. Redecker), Use of Cartels in Heavy Industry (1943); O'Mahoney Bill (1945); Cartel clips. etc. (1944 & n.d.) & memo re: Combined Boards (1944) & Cartel memo 107 (19145); Dynamics of German Cartels & Patents (n.d.)
Box 16, Folder 84

Cartels - 2 1921-1961

Scope and Content Note

Dyes & Dyestuffs - British report (1921); Outline for Cartel Study - Possible contents of hearings on Concentration, Control & Cartelization of U.S. Copper Industry (1935-45); mostly general atudies & correspondence.
Box 16, Folder 85

Cartels - 3 1921-1961

Scope and Content Note

Brazilian Industry & the War, Moroccan Groupements International Commodity Organization, International Cartel Policy, Agreements, Registration & Control, Bolivia Gustaf Thain, Norwegian law, Britain, FEA policy (1939-1414); Webb-Pomerene (1935); foreign Trade Work (1938); Cartels & Business Crisis (1931); Cartelization of England (n. d.); German Cartel Policy (1933), Maps (1938).
Box 16, Folder 86

Cartels - 4 1921-1961

Scope and Content Note

Legal Position of --- in Europe (l938); Analysis of Collective Monopolies in Europe (1935); Modern Industrial Organization (n.d.); International Cartels (n.d.); Locations & types (1931); German Cartel Problems (n.d.); Cartel system - Its Future (n.d.); Significance For American Business (1944); -----Postwar World (1943); pamphlets (l944, 1945); Controlling World Trade (1947); Electrical Equipment Anti-trust Cases (1961); Combines Investigation Act (1961).
Box 16, Folder 87

Magnesium in the Pacific Northwest ca. 1938-l947

Physical Description: (Found in one special folder, order maintained-). Reports, surveys, legal proceedings, etc. re: magnesium industry - sources, uses, etc.
Box 16, Folder 88

Magnesium in the Pacific Northwest ca. 1938-l947

Physical Description: (Found in one special folder, order maintained-). Reports, surveys, legal proceedings, etc. re: magnesium industry - sources, uses, etc.
 

Accession ARCH-2015-023 Additional papers

 

Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Approximately 400 original letters, mostly manuscript, from Theodore to his wife, Esther, which the former was away (mostly) in Washington DC, circa 1952-1960, with much correspondence during the periodwhen he was Director the Congress's Joint Committee on the Economic Report (during the Eisenhower years). Also includes correspondence to Kreps from other writers.
Box 1

Collection of letters from former students and associates written in celebration of 80th birthday celebration 1976-11-13

Physical Description: 1 album(s)

Scope and Content Note

A COLLECTION OF LETTERS from former students & associates written with affection and respectfor Theodore & Esther Kreps in celebration of his 80th birthday. The Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, is also proud to announce the establishment of a fund in their honor to be known as the Theodore J.& Esther Kreps Fellowship. Alumni Day, November 13,1976. Thick folio (14 in.) with160 original manuscript andtyped letter, honoring the couple—and especially Krebs as a teacher at the Stanford School of Business, from former student... from Ernest Arbuckle (then Chairman of Wells Fargo Bank) to Wayne Zook. This volume oflettersfrom former studentsand colleague collectively provides much insight, and manyanecdotes, to Kreps' long tenure on the Stanford faculty.
Box 2, Folder 1

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Dec. 1966 1966 Dec

Box 2, Folder 2

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Nov 1966 Nov 1966

Box 2, Folder 3

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Feb 1958 Feb 1958

Box 2, Folder 4

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps 1958 1958

Box 2, Folder 5

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Oct 1966 1966 Oct

Box 2, Folder 6

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Mar-Dec 1959 1959 Mar-Dec

Box 2, Folder 7

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Feb 1959 1959 Feb

Box 2, Folder 8

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jan 1959 1959 Jan

Box 2, Folder 9

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Mar 1958 1958 Mar

Box 2, Folder 10

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jan 1958 1958 Jan

Box 2, Folder 11

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps 1957 1957

Box 2, Folder 12

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Dec 1956 1956 Dec

Box 2, Folder 13

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Mar 1956 1956 Mar

Box 2, Folder 14

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Feb 1956 1956 Feb

Box 2, Folder 15

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jan 1956 1956 Jan

Box 2, Folder 16

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Dec 1955 1955 Dec

Box 2, Folder 17

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Sept 1955 1955 Sept

Box 2, Folder 18

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jun 1955 1955 Jun

Box 2, Folder 19

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps May 1955 1955 May

Box 2, Folder 20

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Apr 1955 1955 Apr

Box 2, Folder 21

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps 1953 1953

Box 2, Folder 22

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Mar 1952 1952 Mar

Box 2, Folder 23

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Feb 1952 1952 Feb

Box 2, Folder 24

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps 1951 1951

Box 2, Folder 25

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Mar 1951 1951 Mar

Box 2, Folder 26

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Feb 1951

Box 2, Folder 27

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jan 1951 1951 Jan

Box 2, Folder 28

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Dec 1950 1950 Dec

Box 2, Folder 29

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps May 1950 1950 May

Box 2, Folder 30

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Apr 1950

Box 2, Folder 31

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Feb 1950 1950 Feb

Box 2, Folder 32

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jan 1950 1950 Jan

Box 2, Folder 33

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Dec 1949 1949 Dec

Box 2, Folder 34

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Mar 1949 1949 Mar

Box 2, Folder 35

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Feb 1949 1949 Feb

Box 2, Folder 36

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jan 1949 1949 Jan

Box 2, Folder 37

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Dec 1948 1948 Dec

Box 2, Folder 38

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Sept 1948 1948 Sept

Box 2, Folder 39

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Mar 1948 1948 Mar

Box 2, Folder 40

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jan 1948 1948 Jan

Box 2, Folder 41

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jan 1947 1947 Jan

Box 2, Folder 42

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Aug 1946 1946 Aug

Box 2, Folder 43

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps Jul 1946 1946 Jul

Box 2, Folder 44

To: Esther E. Kreps From: Theodore Kreps May 1944 1944 May

Box 2, Folder 45

To: Dr. Kreps 1943 1943

Box 2, Folder 46

To: Dr. and Mrs. Kreps 1933 1933

Box 2, Folder 47

Misc. Correspondence

Box 2, Folder 48

Misc. Correspondence

Box 2, Folder 49

Misc. Correspondence

Box 3

Photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photograph albums, photographic portraits, scrapbooks (Kreps vacation trips). Includes early family albums, photographs of ancestors, Kreps' childhood, his school and college days, earlyfamily life, etc.
Box 4

Photographs