Talk:Bernard Baruch/Archives/2013

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Copying and pasting text from another website is a violation of copyright law. Please rewrite copied text so that it at least passes the Google test. --maveric149

20:19, 9 August 2008 (UTC)20:19, 9 August 2008 (UTC)20:19, 9 August 2008 (UTC)20:19, 9 August 2008 (UTC)68.44.91.155 (talk) Needs discussion of Baruch's private life, e.g., marriage, children, etc.

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Thanks for the input, I have made changes in the areas you pointed out. I did not do any copying and pasting I just gathered all the information I could and then wrote out my thoughts from scratch. However there were some phrases that stuck in my memory probably because I saw them on three different web sites. I will be trying to refine the style of writing over the next few days. Just let me know if you see anything else that needs changing.
 * Didn't mean to sound harsh -- just that in order for us to expect others to respect our copyright, we must be extra diligent in respecting the copyrights of others. Welcome aboard BTW. --maveric149

It wasn't taken harshly glad to be here.

Pronunciation and other trivia
The pronunciation of "Bernard Baruch" is controversial, in that most people put the accent in both names on the latter syllable, whereas the family put it on the first syllable, but he wasn't inclined to correct people who mispronounced his name.

Incidentally, it was either Sailing Baruch or Donald Baruch who told me he'd never seen Bernard without his tie and jacket, which seems rather odd, considering that in college, he was a boxer, he always loved boating, and he was known for donning bluejeans when visiting the loading docks of businesses in which he was interested in investing.

Prior to America's abandonment of the gold standard, he advised my father to put all his money into Argentine wheat futures, but Dad found it too tedious to withdraw his money in gold and carry it over to the mercantile exchange, and didn't, thus losing half his wealth. But he did take Baruch's advice to buy a seat on the NYSE, which cost $6000 at the time. Unfree (talk) 00:18, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Dictator
It doesn't come across clearly in the article, in contemporary stories about Baruch, or even in his biographies, but BB was essentially the dictator of America during both world wars. It was he who decided where in the country various industries would be concentrated and what prices would be paid for raw and manufactured materials, labor, transportation, and so on. He wrote a letter to President Wilson before the outbreak of WW I, advising him to establish an agency to supervise the organization of war-related industries in preparation for the war, and Wilson agreed, and chose Baruch to run it: the War Industries Board. In WW II, he held a similar position, as a "dollar a year man", though he tried keeping a low profile. Unfree (talk) 00:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

"Decline" in influence
Baruch didn't "decline" in influence. He was the most powerful man in America in the first half of the 20th Century. He was enormously influential on Eisenhower. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.248.251.220 (talk) 17:09, 9 September 2011 (UTC)