Blough, Roy Papers

Dates: 1920 - 1972

Director of Tax Research, Department of the Treasury, 1938-1946; Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of Chicago, 1946-1950; Member, Council of Economic Advisers, 1950-1952; Principal Director, Department of Economic Affairs, United Nations, 1952-1955

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FOLDER TITLE LIST
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FILES: Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Box 1

  • Finance Section, 1933-1934
  • General correspondence, 1933-1936
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FILES: Department of the Treasury
  • Committee on Unemployment and Relief, 1937
  • Correspondence, 1937-1968
  • General correspondence, 1938-1946 (folders 1-3)

Box 2

  • General correspondence, 1938-1946
  • Copies of letters and memos, September, 1938
  • Copies of letters and memos, October, 1938
  • Copies of letters and memos, November, 1938
  • Copies of letters and memos, December, 1938
  • Copies of letters and memos, January, 1939
  • Copies of letters and memos, February, 1939

Box 3

  • Copies of letters and memos, March, 1939
  • Copies of letters and memos, April, 1939
  • Copies of letters and memos, May, 1939
  • Copies of letters and memos, June, 1939
  • Copies of letters and memos, July 1939 - August 1940
  • Alphabetical File (A-Cl)
  • Alphabetical File (Co-He)
  • Alphabetical File (Ho-Mc)

Box 4

  • Alphabetical File (Mac-Sh)
  • Alphabetical File (So-Y)
  • Chronology - revenue legislation, 1940-1945

Box 5

  • Canadian trip, December, 1940
  • Report on postwar taxation
  • Diary, July 1, 1942 - December 31, 1943

Box 6

  • Diary, January 1 - December 31, 1944
  • Diary, January 1 - December 31, 1945
  • Diary, January 1 - September 18, 1946
  • Publicity, 1944-1946
  • Spendings Tax

Box 7

  • Memoranda to the Secretary, 1941-1946
  • Memoranda to Mr. Sullivan, 1940
  • Memoranda to Mr. Sullivan, 1940-1944
  • Memoranda on postwar tax revision, 1945

Box 8

  • Advisory Committee on estate and gift taxation
  • Interdepartmental committee meetings
  • Consultants meetings
  • Joint committee staff meetings

Box 9

  • Capital gains and losses
  • Speculative capital and gains tax
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FILES: Council of Economic Advisers
  • 1950, weekly reports to the President
  • 1950, monthly reports to the President
  • June-July, 1950
  • August-September, 1950
  • October-November, 1950
  • December, 1950

Box 10

  • Weekly reports to the President, 1951
  • Economic Report of the President, January, 1951
  • Annual Report of the Council, 1951
  • January-February, 1951
  • March-April, 1951
  • May-June, 1951
  • July-August, 1951
  • September-October, 1951
  • November-December, 1951
  • Weekly Reports - 1952

Box 11

  • Economic Report of the President - January, 1952
  • January-February, 1952
  • March-April, 1952
  • Quarterly Report- April, 1952
  • May-June, 1952
  • Midyear Economic Report-July, 1952
  • July-August, 1952
  • Advisory Committees
  • Operations of the Council
  • Tax program

Box 12

  • Caplan, Benjamin
  • Clark, John D.
  • Hoover, Edgar M.
  • Keyserling, Leon H.
  • Wald, Haskell
  • Agriculture
  • Agriculture - Committee on General Administration
  • Bureau of the Budget
  • Census Bureau
  • Civil Service Commission
  • Defense Department
  • Economic Cooperation Administration
  • Economic Stabilization Agency
  • Farm Credit Administration
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Federal Reserve System
  • Federal Security Agency
  • Federal Trade Commission

Box 13

  • Interior Department
  • International Monetary Fund
  • Justice Department
  • Office of Price Stabilization
  • State Department
  • Treasury
  • White House
  • Legislative Reference - Banking and Currency Committee - Senate
  • Legislative Reference - Joint Committee on the Economic Report
  • Legislative Reference - Flood, Daniel J.
  • Legislative Reference - Ostertag, Harold C.
  • Legislative Reference - Patman, Wright
  • Legislative Reference - tax administration subcommittee
  • Legislative Reference - taxing process, Federal
  • Legislative Reference - Ways and Means Committee
  • Legislative Reference - Letters of congratulation
  • Legislative Reference - Diary, June 29 - December 31, 1950

Box 14

  • Legislative Reference - Diary, January 1 - December 31, 1951
  • Legislative Reference - Diary, January 1 - August 30, 1952
  • Legislative Reference - Correspondence, 1952
  • Legislative Reference - Memoranda - general

Box 15

  • Legislative Reference - Publicity, 1950-1952
  • Legislative Reference - Speeches, 1950-1952
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FILES: General File
  • ECA Mission to Turkey - 1950
  • Improving fiscal system of the Republic of Turkey
  • Tax mission to Turkey, 1949
  • Consultant - Treasury of the United States, 1961-1962

Box 16

  • Consultant - Treasury of the United States, 1961-1963
  • Consultant - Treasury of the United States, 1962-1968
  • Consultant - Treasury of the United States, 1964-1965
  • Consultant - Treasury of the United States, 1969
  • Consultant - Congressional Committees
  • Fiscal monetary conference - November 15, 1962
  • International Development, Agency for - 1962, 1964
  • International Development, Agency for - 1964-1965

Box 17

  • Organization of American States
  • Peru tax mission - 1957
  • Peru tax mission - 1964
  • Peru tax mission - 1966-1967 (2 folders)
  • Projects - general - consultant
  • Tax Conference at Harvard University
  • Treasury - balance of payments study - January, 1961
UNITED NATIONS FILES

Box 18

  • Fiscal Commission (UN) New York City - May 7-8, 1951
  • General Correspondence, 1953
  • General Correspondence, 1953-1954
  • General Correspondence, 1954-1955
  • General Correspondence, 1955

Box 19

  • General Correspondence, 1955-1963
  • General Correspondence, 1958-1960
  • Peru - report on taxation - 1957
  • Peru - mission to - 1959
  • Peru - supplementary report - 1959
  • Peru - management conference - 1961
  • United Nations diary
  • United Nations report on Southeast Asia
  • United Nations World Economic Report
STATE GOVERNMENT FILES

Box 20

  • County rankings (Wisconsin) - tax assessments
  • "The Geographical Distribution of Wisconsin Tax Bases" by J.R. Blough
  • General memoranda, 1927-1928 (3 folders)
  • General memoranda, 1930

Box 21

  • General memoranda, 1931
  • Minnesota Tax Conference - 1931
  • Puerto Rico - consultant
  • Puerto Rico - taxation (2 folders)
  • Statistical tables and charts - Wisconsin tax bases (3 folders)

Box 22

  • Tax studies - reference file (2 folders)
  • Wisconsin State Tax Commission - bulletins
  • Wisconsin State Tax Commission - notes on conferences and reports
  • Wisconsin State Tax Commission - reports
ACADEMIC FILES
  • "The International Flow of Management as an Aid to Industrial Development" by Roy Blough

Box 23

  • Interviews (2 folders)
  • Management - general
  • Management - projects (2 folders)
  • Management - studies (2 folders)
  • Management - surveys: correspondence (folder 1)

Box 24

  • Management - surveys: correspondence (folder 2)
  • Questionnaires
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1959-1960
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1960-1961
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1961-1962
  • Policy harmonization in the EEC

Box 25

  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1963-1964
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1965-1966 (2 folders)
  • Post-Kennedy trade policy, 1966
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1967 (2 folders)

Box 26

  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1968
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1968-1969
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1969 (3 folders)

Box 27

  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1970 (3 folders)
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1970-1971 (2 folders)
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1971 (folder 1)

Box 28

  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1971 (folders 2-3)
  • Correspondence and memoranda, 1972 (2 folders)
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
  • Correspondence - 1959
  • Steel Committee - 1960 (folder 1)

Box 29

  • Steel Committee - 1960 (folder 2)
  • Correspondence, 1962
  • Correspondence, 1963
  • Correspondence, 1964
  • Correspondence, 1965
  • Correspondence, 1966 (folders 1-2)

Box 30

  • Correspondence, 1966 (folders 3-4)
  • Correspondence, 1967 (3 folders)
  • Correspondence, 1968-1969
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES

Box 31

  • A
  • American Economic Association
  • American Hospital Association
  • American Institute of Accountants
  • American Management Association, Inc.
  • American Municipal Association
  • American Political Science Association
  • American Statistical Association
  • B
  • Banking school lecture
  • Brookings Institution
  • Building Products Executives Conference
  • C
  • California - summer, 1952
  • Chamber of Commerce (United States)

Box 32

  • Columbia University
  • Committee for Economic Development
  • Conference of Business Economists
  • Congratulations
  • Congress of Industrial Organizations
  • Controllers Institute of America
  • Coonley, Prentiss L.
  • Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
  • Council of State Governments
  • D
  • Dartmouth College lecture
  • E
  • Economic and Business Foundation
  • El Salvador
  • F
  • G
  • H

Box 33

  • Harvard University
  • I
  • Indiana State Chamber of Commerce
  • Indiana University
  • Industrial College of the Armed Forces
  • Institute of International Education
  • International Chamber of Commerce
  • International Economic Club
  • Investment Bankers Association of America
  • J
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Johnson and Johnson
  • Joint Council on Economic Education
  • K
  • L
  • League of Women Voters
  • M
  • Machinery and Allied Products Institute
  • Midwest Economics Association
  • N
  • National Academy of Economics and Political Science

Box 34

  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • National Council of Churches
  • National Educational Association
  • National Industrial Conference Board
  • National Planning Association
  • National Tax Association
  • National Tax Journal
  • New School for Social Research

Box 35

  • Newspapers and periodicals
  • New York State taxation and finance
  • New York University
  • O
  • Ohio Wesleyan University
  • P
  • Pennsylvania State College
  • Politiconomic Forum
  • Pomona College
  • Prentice-Hall, Inc.
  • R
  • S
  • Sacred Heart International Foundation Fund, Inc.
  • Stanford University
  • State University of Iowa
  • Study of Business Income Group

Box 36

  • Swarthmore College
  • T
  • Tax Administrators- N.A.T.A. and Federation
  • Tax Executives Institute, Inc.
  • Tax Foundation
  • Tax Institute
  • Twentieth Century Fund
  • U
  • United Nations
  • United Nations - Geneva Conference, July, 1951
  • University of Buffalo
  • University of Chicago Alumni
  • University of Chicago Federal Tax Conference
  • University of Chicago Law School
  • University of Cincinnati
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Minnesota

Box 37

  • University of Wisconsin
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z
  • Miscellaneous material (folders 1-7)
  • Cross reference sheets
TAX RESEARCH FILE

Box 38

  • Congressional war finance proposals, June 22, 1940 (B-12)
  • Federal revenue system, September 20, 1937 (D-2)

Box 39

  • Federal Tax chronology, 1928-1937 (D-2a)
  • Postwar tax proposals (D-5)
  • Tax evasion and avoidance (D-6)
  • Proposals for increasing the revenues (D-9)

Box 40

  • Proposals for improving the revenue system - Part I, Vol. I (D-10)
  • Proposals for improving the revenue system - Part I, Vol. II (D-10a)
  • Percentage depletion (E-H)
  • Inventory profits and reserves (E-6)
  • Form taxation (E-10)

Box 41

  • Tax exemption of building and loan associations (E-11)
  • Individual income tax - general (F-1)
  • Individual income tax data book (F-2)
  • Rate schedules and personal exemptions (F-3)

Box 42

  • Corporation income and profits taxes - general (G-1)
  • Life insurance (G-5)
  • Excess profits tax legislation, 1940 (H-11)
  • Estate and gift tax base book (J-4)

Box 43

  • Estate and gift taxes - general (J-1)
  • Sales tax, Vol. I (L-1)

Box 44

  • Sales tax - Vol II (L-1)
  • Federal Manufacturers' and Wholesalers' sales taxes, 1941 (L-2)
  • Excise taxes - general (M-1)
  • Alcoholic beverages (M-2)
  • Manufacturers' excise taxes (M-4)

Box 45

  • Tobacco taxes (M-3)
  • Miscellaneous taxes (M-6)
  • Treasury's 1943 excise tax proposals and related information (M-7a)
  • Excises considered but not proposed by the Treasury (M-8)
  • State and local tax (O-2)

Box 46

  • Federal - state relations (0-3)
  • Federal - state tax coordination, Vol. I (O-6a)
  • Federal - state tax coordination, Vol. II (O-6b)

Box 47

  • Federal - state tax coordination, Vol. III (O6-c)
  • Federal - state tax coordination, Vol. IV (O6)
  • Federal - state tax coordination, Vol. V (O6)
  • International tax comparisons (P-1a)
  • Note cards
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