Preliminary Inventory of the B. E. (B. Edwin) Hutchinson papers
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
General Correspondence, arranged alphabetically, Economic Club of Detroit to J. Howard Pew (the Bishop Emerich European Trip Fund). March - June 1956,
General Correspondence, J. Howard Pew to Mrs. Mark J. Woodhull. Separate folders of correspondence with the American Enterprise Association, the Parishfield Conference, the Spiritual Mobilization (Los Angeles), the Tax Foundation, and St. Paul's Cathedral (Detroit) Endowment Fund. March - June 1956,
General private correspondence, Significant correspondents include Sen. Robert A. Taft, Sen. Stuart Symington, and noted conservative Russell Kirk. 1950-1955.
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, Extensive files on the Tax Foundation and St. Paul's Cathedral (Detroit), including recordings of telephone conversations; daily appointment book 1959; 1954.
General correspondence, Large files on the Foundation for Economic Education. Box includes Hutchinson's lecture of "The Automobile's Challenge to America's Transportation Policy" at the Princeton University School of Engineering, and "Some Observations on Troublesome Questions," an address to the Michigan Commercial Secretaries Association on at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C. 1959. 13 December 1932, 13 December 1932 29 April 1952
Personal correspondence; much of it related to Hutchinson's illness and hospitalization for ulcers. Includes about six conservative tracts and speeches; including a speech by George Romney (Automobile Council for War Production) regarding postwar reconversion. Includes a small book by Theodore Iserman and Leo Wolman; Industrial Peace and the Wagner Act; How the Act Works and What to Do About It This is one of over one hundred anti-labor union tracts and books which are found in this collection. 1953 September 1944 (1947).
Conservative tracts or lectures (see separate listing)
Conservative tracts or lectures (see separate listing)
Conservative tracts or lectures (see separate listing)
Conservative tracts or lectures (see separate listing)
Personal and organizational correspondence 1958.
Personal and organizational correspondence, including correspondence with the Rev. Richard S. M. Emrich, Episcopal Bishop of Michigan. Separate files for the Foundation For Economic Education for Hutchinson served as a trustee for this conservative economic "think tank" with its headquarters in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1958.
General Correspondence, The materials from all relate to the Foundation For Economic Education and include the Foundation's history, budgets, etc. 1951, but primarily 1958. 1951
Foundation For Economic Education materials for including reports from annual meetings, lists of donors, and financial information. 1948-1953,
Foundation For Economic Education materials, including correspondence and various publications. June 1946 through 1949,
Daily appointment books, Correspondence, relating to the MIT Corporation (Hutchinson was one of 61 active members), the Foundation For Economic Education, and other miscellaneous correspondence. 1957, 1958, 1960. 1957,
Miscellaneous personal and political correspondence, including correspondence with Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Detailed listing of Hutchinson's Christmas gifts (cash) and various contributions 1957, 1955-1957.
Foundation For Economic Education files, [includes budgets, meetings of the Board of Directors, etc.]; St Paul's Cathedral, Detroit, for charitable contributions, miscellaneous correspondence 1953, 1954 1957; 1957; 1961.
Contributions for spreadsheet of Hutchinson's charitable contributions, correspondence for arranged in folders alphabetically (A to S); Economic Club of Detroit materials (Hutchinson was a director); St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit, including financial reports for and "Rotating Vestry Matter" (at St. Paul's), (Hutchinson was a member of the Cathedral Vestry). 1961; 1944-1961; 1959-1961 (mainly 1961) 1960, 1961; 1957-1959
Correspondence for alphabetically in folders T - W; correspondence, in folders (Bishop Emrich - MIT); and large folder on the Foundation For Economic Education, including lists of donors for 1961, 1959-1961.
Miscellaneous correspondence. including numerous letters to various Protestant churches regarding evangelical Christianity; loose correspondence for Diocese of Michigan to Frances, James; materials relating the to Spiritual Mobilization; and miscellaneous political tracts. 1956, 1957, 1957,
National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., Hutchinson resigned as a vice president on because of the lack of lay involvement in the NCC. 1956-1957. 20 September 1957
National Council of Churches materials, including financial reports for Much discussion of the NCC taking a political position on state "right to work" laws. 1955-1957.
National Council of Churches materials, Hutchinson's obituary; Hutchinson speeches: "Building Solidly For Permanent Prosperity," Association of National Advertisers, Detroit, Michigan, "The Automobile's Challenge to America's Transportation Policy,"; and "Christianity, Democracy, and Capitalism Are the Foundation Upon Which the Hope of Human Progress Rests," at the Chrysler Institute of Engineering, Richard S. Emrich, Bishop of Michigan, "Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul at the Burial Office for B.E. Hutchinson, " 1952-1954; 27 April 1937; 22 June 1944; September 30, 1961.
Hutchinson Speeches, (see separate listing) March 1943 - October 1952
Hutchinson Speeches, (see separate listing) February 1937 - April 1953
Hutchinson Speeches, (see separate listing) August 1943 - October 1952
General Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, M to Z, for 1960. 1959-1961,
General Correspondence for American Enterprise Institute to Murray, including extensive files for the Foundation For Economic Education. The beginning of documents related to the Chrysler Corporation, including letters from on. Folder of correspondence with K.T. Keller covers and includes an audio recording of a phone conversation between Hutchinson and K.T. Keller, 3:00 PM. 1960, 30 March 1923 March 1941 through February 1954 26 July 1950,
Maxwell Motor Company Annual Reports for Year Ending Maxwell Motor Corporation, Consolidated Balance Sheets, Chrysler Corporation Consolidated Balance Sheets, Chrysler Corporation Annual Reports, and "Printed Speeches, Material About Chrysler Corporation and Automobile Industry Suitable for Mail" (see separate listing). 31 July 1914 though 31 July 1918; 31 December 1921 through 31 December 1924; 31 December 1925 through 31 December 1927; Year Ended 31 December 1928 through Year Ended 31 December 1950;
Chrysler Corporation Annual Reports for Financial Statement (quarterly) for and various Chrysler Corporation printed materials (see separate listing). Year Ended 31 December 1951 though 31 December 1953; 1951, 1952, and 1953;
Maxwell Motor Company Annual Report for Chrysler Corporation; Consolidated Balance Sheets; Annual Reports; Financial Quarterly Reports; Folder; "Notices to Employees;" includes notices regarding stock; savings; and investment plans Employee Representation in the Plants of Chrysler Motors and bonus pay announcements; Chrysler Corporation Certificate of Incorporation and Amendments Chrysler Corporation By-Laws; adopted with twelve amendments through and Dodge Brothers; Inc.; Indenture Year Ended 31 July 1918 1925-1927 1928-1950 1949 1950 (1 July 1929) (October 1929) March 1934 (6 June 1925) (23 December 1925 - 25 April 1949) 6 June 1925 24 September 1953 15 April 1925.
Printed conservative tracts (see separate listing).
Printed materials authored by Chrysler officials and others (see separate listing).
Printed conservative tracts (see separate listing).
Printed conservative tracts (see separate listing).
General Correspondence, arranged alphabetically, Albany, NY Congress to St. Pauls' Cathedral, Includes extensive correspondence with the American Enterprise Association (Hutchinson was a trustee); Automotive Safety Foundation; Campaign For the 48 States (states' rights); Economic Club of Detroit (Hutchinson was a director); Heritage Foundation; Herbert Hoover Foundation (Hutchinson was a trustee); and St. Paul's Cathedral. 1955.
General Correspondence, arranged alphabetically, Institute For Economic Education to William H. Zinsser Includes large files from M.I.T.; Opinion Research; Spiritual Mobilization; Robert Taft Memorial Foundation; and the Tax Foundation, including financial reports (all 1955).
Daily appointment books for correspondence with Herbert Hoover, folder marked "Hutchinson's testimony in January 1947 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and the Public Welfare; correspondence regarding Hutchinson's split with the National Association of Manufacturers over the NAM's position on labor unions and collective bargaining; and Claude Robinson's 120-page typescript journal of his travels with his family 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1959; June 1953, June 1954, and August 1954; 1940s"; 19 July - 25 August 1954.
Detailed listings of speeches, tracts, and other materials:
Theodore R. Iserman; "Some Anomalies in the Steel Board's Report and Some Fallacies of `Fact Finding'"; Iserman; "A Comparative Analysis of the Wagner Act; Taft-Hartley Act; the Wood Bill; and the Lesinsky Bill" Iserman; "Unsolved Problems of Labor Law;" Temple Law Quarterly 21 334-356; Alfred P. Haale; "Is Private Enterprise Compatible With Christianity""; speech to the Economic Club of Detroit; George Romney; "It's Your Ship;" speech to the Mortgage Bankers Association; Detroit; John W. Scoville; Labor Monopoly or Freedom? (New York: Committee For Constitutional Government; Henry J. Weaver; Mainspring: The Story of Human Progress and How Not to Prevent It (Detroit: Talbot Books; George Romney (Managing Director of the Automotive Council For War Production); Statement to the Senate War Investigating Committee on Manpower Problems and Their Effect on War Production; "The Marshall Plan. What It Means to Us;" Hutchinson speech to the Economic Club of Detroit; and "Memorandum on S. 249;" 1949 (1949?) (April 1948): 27 February 1950 1946 1947) 9 March 1945 5 January 1948 11 Feb. 1949.
Automobile Manufactures Association; 100 Motor Vehicles: A Study of Mass Production and Its Effects on the United States (Detroit; Raymond Morely's broadcast regarding the U.S. and Russia; Rev. Edward A. Keller; "The National Income and Its Distribution;" speech at University of Notre Dame; letter from Hutchinson to Morris Sayre; president of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) attacking Social Security as a threat to freedom; NAM; "Answer to the CIO's Wage Case;" NAM; "International Affairs and Our Internal Economy;" NAM; "Memorandum on Labor-Management Relations;" "Public Awareness of NAM Growing Steadily;" NAM News 16 4-6; Hutchinson's letter of resignation from the NAM; Hutchinson letter to Morris Sayre confirming his resignation; "NAM Policy in the Field of Social Security;"; "Memorandum on the NAM Policy in the Field of Social Security;" Confidential; Victory For Freedom: A Program Adopted by the War and Reconversion Congress of American Industry (New York: NAM; NAM; "What Bureaucracy Means to You" and Dexter Masters and Katherine Way; One World or None; A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb (New York: McGraw-Hill 1948) (29 April 1948) 1947 (20 July 1948) 1948 April 1948 18 September 1948 21 March 1945 (2 October 1948: 13 December 1948 29 December 1948 26 October 1948 December 1944) (1945) 1946).
What the Public Opinion Polls Show on the Subject of Labor Legislation; Opinion Research Corporation; The Taft-Hartley Law and Its Successor (Princeton; NJ: Claude Robinson; Taft-Hartley Aims Still Popular With Workers; Look; Garet Garrett; The Revolution Was (Caldwell; Idaho: Caxton Printers; George Romney (vice president of Nash-Kelvinator); It is Already Late: An Appeal For the Removal of Special Excise Taxes on Automotive Products; to the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee; Dr. George S. Benson; A Plea For Personal Self-Reliance; in testimony on the Full Employment Bill; George McGraw; Jr.; one-page advertisement; The Election of Gave No Mandate For Socialism;; Spiritual Mobilization; An Appeal to the Religious Forces of America; signed by B.E. Hutchinson; Henry C. Simons; Some Reflections on Syndicalism; The Journal of Political Economy 52 (1-25; The Tax Foundation; The Crisis of Centralization;; The Tax Foundation; Tax Outlook special issue on the Hoover Commission; Willima R. Ballard; There is No Mystery About Patents (New York: J. M. Barrett Corporation; James H.W. McGraw; Jr.; one-page advertisement; Now Is the Time To Fight Socialism in Washington; and John T. Flynn; The Truth About Pearl Harbor 10 March 1947 1949) 26 April 1949 1944) February 1950 18 October 1945) November 2 1948 September 1946 March 1944: (December 1948) 1946) February 1949 1944.
Lectures and publications of Leo Wolman regarding labor relations: The American Labor Problem in speech; Economic Club of Detroit; Industry's Policies of Labor Relations; speech; American Iron and Steel Institute; Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; New York; Industry-Wide Bargaining (Irvington-on-Hudson; NY: The Foundation For Economic Education; What Are the Immediate Prospects For Business; Industry and Labor?; speech; Economic Club of Detroit; and The Turning Point in American Labor Policy; Political Science Quarterly 55 161-175. 1944 6 November 1944 25 May 1944 1948) 19 October 1953 (June 1940):
Hutchinson Speeches -- The Church and Industry; at the Second Baptist Church of Detroit; The (MIT) Class of `43; Ahoy!; reprinted in The Technology Review 45 1-4; Statement Made Before the Special Committee on Postwar Economic Policy and Planning; U.S. House of Representatives; Statement on Industry-Wide Bargaining and Labor Monopoly made to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and the Public Welfare; Freedom; Politics; and Businessmen; before the Automotive and Aviation Parts Manufacturers; inc.; Detroit; MI; Green Light or Red For the Automotive Industry; before the National Association of Taxicab Owners; (no place); How Business and Industrial Management and Education Can Cooperate For A Better Metropolitan Detroit; given at a conference between Industry and Education; Hotel Statler; Detroit; Inflation and Its Implication; before the National Association of Manufacturers 19 April 1951 (March 1943): 28 March 1944 4 February 1947 12 April 1946 22 October 1952 9 May 1944 3 December 1948
Hutchinson Speeches - - Let Us Get On With the Revolution, before the National Industrial Council, New York City, Graduation Day Address, Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., Left and Right: Right and Wrong, before the Women's Town Meeting of Detroit, Tribute to John L. Lovett at the meeting of the Michigan Manufacturers' Association, Remarks at the Men's Corporate Communion Breakfast at St. Paul's Cathedral (Detroit), More Talk, before Wittenagemote, Our Postwar Outlook, before an Episcopal men's group (no place, Religion, Economics, and Politics, before the Grosse Pointe (Michigan) Memorial Church Men's Association, 5 October 1948; Road Building in the Public Interest, before the Annual Dinner of the Institute of Traffic Engineers, Detroit, MI, Social Capitalism: Today's Frontier, before the Columbus Industrial Association, Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, and American Business: Capitalist and Competitive!, before the Illinois Manufacturers' Costs Association, at the Palmer House, Chicago 4 December 1946; May 1943; 21 November 1950; 7 April 1953; 22 February 1953: 19 February 1937; no date); 3 October 1947; 12 May 1949; 15 November 1949.
Hutchinson Speeches - - "Social Capitalism: America's Frontier," before the Mississippi Economic Council, Jackson, Miss., "Some Facts About the Chrysler Corporation Before and During the War," before the Society of Security Analysts, New York City, "Some Postwar Thinking," to the Men's Association of the Grosse Pointe (Michigan) Memorial Church, "Some Postwar Thoughts," at the Rotary Club, Detroit, MI, "Some Reflections on Practical Idealism," before the "Men of Christ Church," "Some Observations on Troublesome Questions," before the Michigan Commercial Secretaries Association, Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., "A United Front For Business," before the Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce, Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, "What's the Automotive Destination?," before the Sacony-Vacuum Oil Company, Hotel Fort Shelby, Detroit, and "Citizen Responsibilities of the Individual," before the Government Research Association, Detroit 3 November 1949; 24 October 1945; 8 February 1944; 4 August 1943; 28 February 1950; 29 April 1952; 7 November 1947; 9 October 1952; 13 December 1945.
An Evening With the National Review: Some Memorable Articles From the First Five Years (New York: National Review; autographed by Bill Buckley; with personal note; Leonard E. Reid; "Conscience of the Majority;"; The Princeton Panel: A New Approach For Gaining Understanding and Support For Competitive Capitalism; prepared by Claude Robinson; with correspondence between Robinson ad Hutchinson; and Russell Kirk; The American College: A Proposal For Reform 1960) 30 January - 14 March 1956 (1957).
Materials Relating to Chrysler Corporation: B.E. Hutchinson; "Inflation and Its Implications;" before the National Association of Manufacturers; Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; New York City; "Some Facts About the Chrysler Corporation; "Chrysler's Answers to Questions Submitted by Standard & Poor Regarding the Future of the Auto Industry;" The Men Who Made Chrysler Motors "Motor Cars to Munitions;" special issue of American Machinist New Worlds in Engineering "Sit-Down: What's Happened in the Automobile Industry Since Enactment of the National Labor Relations Act... As Told to Congress;" testimony before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor by William J. Cronin; Secretary of the Automobile Manufacturers Association; Some Facts About the Products and Growth of the Chrysler Corporation also called the "Black Book"; John V. Scoville; Chief Statistician; Chrysler Corporation; "Technology and the Value of Employment;" address to the Academy of Political Science; New York City; and A Tale of Three Cities (Detroit; MI: Maxwell Motor Company; Inc.; reprinted from The Maxwell Magazine 3 December 1948 November 18, 1954," (no date ca. 1954) (August 1930) 11 June 1942 (1940) 27 June 1937 (March 1936) 25 March 1938 1916) 1916.
Materials Relating to Chrysler Corporation: Special issue of Automobile Topics devoted to Chrysler's ten-year anniversary; John W. Scoville; Behavior of the Automobile Industry in Depression; address delivered by Scoville; Chief Statistician; Chrysler Corporation; to the Econometric Society; Roosevelt Hotel; New York City; Chronology of the Automobile Industry; from the Automobile Manufacturers' Association The Chrysler Building (New York: Chrysler Tower Corporation; black velvet cover; Dodge and Diesel The Growth of Plymouth The Growth of Chrysler (Detroit: The Chrysler Corporation; and Men; Methods; and Machines in Automobile Manufacturing (New York: Automobile Manufacturers Association (30 December 1933) 20 December 1935 (1939) 1930) (1939?) (1933) 1928) 1939).
"Joint Statement of the Officers of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company before the House Committee on Education and Labor;" (on the menace of "communistic" union leadership); Fred G. Clark and Richard Stanton Rinanoczy; How to Be Popular Though Conservative (New York: Van Nostrand; Clark and Rinanoczy; How We Live Clark and Rinanoczy; Money Automobile Manufacturers Association; Automobile Facts and Figures; K.T. Keller; "The Automobile Industry in the Postwar World;" remarks made at the Seventh Business Conference; Graduate School of Business Administration; Stanford University; National Economic Council; "A Book-Review and Two Letters;"; and Samuel Crowther; "What Happened at Bretton Woods;" published by the National Economic Council 24 February 1947 1948) (1944) (1947) 1946 1947 22 July 1948 July 1944.
Chrysler Corporation; " `Beyond the Facts and the Records'; War Labor Board Panel Admittedly Ignores the Evidence and Rewards Union Irresponsibility;"; Chrysler Corporation Brief Before the National Labor Relations Board; Case No. 7-R-2038 in the Matter of Chrysler Corporation and Foreman's Association of America; Chrysler Chapter No. 3; prepared by Nicholas Kelley and T.R. Iserman; "What is A Foreman's Job?" newspaper advertisement; undated; Pattern For Strikes: How the Movement to Unionize Foremen Fits Into the Background of Organization Strikes in the Automobile Industry; Remarks by Nicholas Kelley before the National War Labor Board on Chrysler Corporation; Peacetime Enterprise Put to War Work exchange of letters between Walter P. Reuther and Herman Weckler; regarding production and strikes; William Arthur; "Michigan G. O. P. Chief Sees Lesson in Party's Comeback: Republicans Can't Win on `Me Too' Platform; New Chairman Asserts (reprinted from the Des Moines Sunday Register; John W. Scoville; Chrysler Corporation Chief Statistician; "Collective Bargaining;" speech before the Kiwanis Club; Detroit; Michigan; Walter H. Judd; M.D.; "At the Crossroads of Our Foreign Policy;" address before the Economic Club of Detroit; Clinton Davidson; Jr.; Your Cost of Postwar Tax Proposals (Searcy; Arkansas: Harding College; Henry Hazlitt; Economics in One Lesson (New York: Pocket Books; and "History; Nature; Purposes; and Responsibilities of the Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy; published by the Committee 20 March 1946 11 18 July 1944 (no date) 26 July 1 August 1946 22 May 1949) 8 August 1944 2 February 1948 1945) 1946) 19 September 1946 1946.
General Motors Corporation; An Analysis of the Pay Sick Leave Plan For Hourly Rated Factory Workers and H.W. Prentis; Jr.; "Government's Place in Post-War Labor-Management Relations;' address given at the National Industrial Conference Board; New York City; The following titles were published by the Foundation For Economic Education; Irvington-on-Hudson; New York: The Law De Jouvenel; No Vacancies an anti-rent control tract; On Behalf of Liberty Betty Knowles Hunt; Show Me Any County Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler; Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem Ludwig Von Mises; Planned Chaos Paul L. Poirot; The Pension Idea; V. Orval Watts; So You Believe in Rent Control? and Henry Hazlitt; Will Dollars Save the World? (1944) 20 January 1944. (no date) (October 1948) (July 1947) (1947) (1946) (1947) (no date) (1947).
Drawing; "Effects of Tax Rate Reductions From Facts and Figures on War Finance (New York: The Tax Foundation; Henry M. Wriston; "A Fire Bell in the Night;" (teachers' strikes); speech delivered at the Economic Club of Detroit; Andrew Dickson White; Fiat Money Inflation in France (Irvington-on-Hudson; New York: Foundation For Economic Education; no date); reprint of an 1876 publication; Fred Rogers Fairchild; Profits and the Ability to Pay High Wages (Irvington-on-Hudson; New York: Foundation For Economic Education; and F.A. Harper; High Prices (Irvington-on-Hudson; New York: Foundation For Economic Education 1922 to 1928 " 1942) 25 October 1948 1946) 1948).