The Papers of J. Wilson Newman1955-1978 MSS 85-12 MSS.85.12
The Papers of J. Wilson Newman,
collectionnumber MSS 85-12
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Biographical / Historical
J. Wilson Newman graduated from Clemson College in Clemson, South Carolina, in 1931, and received a law degree from New York University in 1937.
He joined the R. G. Dun Company as a credit reporter in 1931. Dun merged with its major competitor, the John M. Bradstreet Company, in 1933, and the combined company began operating under the new name in 1939.
Mr. Newman was named a vice president in 1946, president in 1952, and chairman and chief executive in 1960. He joined Dun's finance committee when he retired in 1968, and remained a member for 12 years.
During Mr. Newman's tenure, Dun acquired several companies, including R. H. Donnelley, a publisher of the Yellow Pages and trade magazines, and Moody's Investors Service. Dun has since spun off both companies. Mr. Newman also oversaw the computerization of Dun's business databases in the early 1960's. In 1963, each company in the database was assigned an identifying number in Dun's Data Universal Numbering System. The nine-digit D.U.N.S. numbers are still used today.
Mr. Newman was a member of the United States Price Commission, which addressed price gouging, in 1971 and 1972, and of the Commission on Bankruptcy Laws from 1970 to 1973.
He died on July 8, 2003.
"J. Wilson Newman, Ex-Chief of Dun & Bradstreet Company, Dies at 93," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/obituaries/28NEWM.html (accessed December 8, 2015)
Scope and Contents
J. Wilson Newman, who moved to Charlottesville with his wife in 1981, was president of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., from 1952 to 1960. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the Nixon administration appointed him to serve on the Bankruptcy Commission, the Price Commission, and the President's Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Business. Newman donated his personal records of this work to the Law Library in the summer of 1985. The files were in good order, and the folder headings reflect the labels on original folders or notebooks. There are 24 boxes (10.4 linear ft.) arranged by commission.
Scope and Contents
This collection was given to the Law School by J. Wilson Newman on June 24, 1985.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Bankruptcy -- United States
- Inflation (Finanace) -- United States
- Newman, J. Wilson, 1909-2003
- Small business
- United States. Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States
- United States. President's Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Business
- United States. Price Commission
Container List
- Mixed Materials [35007007670510] MSS 85-12, Box 1 Mixed Materials [35007007670528] MSS 85-12, Box 2 Mixed Materials [35007007670536] MSS 85-12, Box 3 Mixed Materials [35007007670544] MSS 85-12, Box 4 Mixed Materials [35007007670551] MSS 85-12, Box 5 Mixed Materials [35007007670569] MSS 85-12, Box 6 Mixed Materials [35007007670577] MSS 85-12, Box 7 Mixed Materials [35007007670585] MSS 85-12, Box 8
Meeting records arranged by date with a list of topics addressed1971-72Scope and Contents
[57 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670593] MSS 85-12, Box 9
Permanent record of meetings and actions1971-72Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670593] MSS 85-12, Box 9
Public hearings re utilities, rent and food prices1972Scope and Contents
[4 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670601] MSS 85-12, Box 10
Correspondence1971-72Scope and Contents
[7 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670601] MSS 85-12, Box 10
Fact sheets and staff reports re policy and goal of commission1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670601] MSS 85-12, Box 10
Issue papers by the Price Commission and outside economists1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670601] MSS 85-12, Box 10
Memoranda for the record re the agenda1973Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670619] MSS 85-12, Box 11
Miscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc1971-72Scope and Contents
[6 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670619] MSS 85-12, Box 11
Miscellaneous printed matter1971-72Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Operating problems1972
- Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Policy matrix1972
- Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Review of commission operations1972Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Speeches, luncheons, etc1972
- Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Statements for commissioners re government employment1971
- Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Agricultural Economic Report No. 223: Price control programs, 1917-19711972
- Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc.: Proposals and recommendations for the Price Commission1971
- Mixed Materials [35707007670627] MSS 85-12, Box 12
Automobile industry1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Brookings Institute conference: Wage-price policyScope and Contents
[3 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Coal industry1971-72
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Consumer credit1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Consumer price index: Estimated annualized price rate of increase in the consumer price index for the fourth quarter of 1973 [preliminary]1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Cost of Living Council: "The Wage-Price Freeze: Questions and Answers"1971
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Cost of Living Council: Transcript of press conference re food prices1973
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Economic indicators1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Economic stabilization program1971
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Grayson, C. Jackson, Chairman of the Price Commission: Statement before the Joint Economic Committee re Side Effects of Price Control1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Grayson, C. Jackson: Statement before the Senate Committee on Banking1973
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Grayson, C. Jackson: CBS Morning News Editorial1976
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Health care1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Independent Natural Gas Association1971
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Inflation, consumer price index and wholesale price index1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
Inflation: Miscellaneous memoranda and statistics1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670635] MSS 85-12, Box 13
IRS: Retail-wholesale price monitoring program [proposed]n.d.
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Manufacturing companies with sales of 100 million or over1971
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Miscellaneous forms and White House press releases1971
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Nader v. Grayson1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
National Retail Merchants Association Program Concerning the Implementation of Phase II Price Guidelines1971
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Newman: Memos and correspondence re effects of price controls on various industries and individuals1972-73Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
New York Stock Exchange: Reports on status of member firms1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Pay Board news releases1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
"The Pay Board After One Year of Operation"1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670643] MSS 85-12, Box 14
Phase I and II: Summary statements1971Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Phase II1971-72
- Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Phase III1973
- Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Piggly Wiggly Southern, Inc. v. Price Commission1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Pott Industries v. Price Commission1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Price control1971-72
- Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
Price control: Price Control, Present and Future, prepared by the Office of Price Policy1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670668] MSS 85-12, Box 15
"A Price Control Strategy," vols. 1-3, submitted by Robert N. Anthony1972Scope and Contents
[5 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
"A Price Control Strategy," vol. 41972Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
"The Productivity Factor in Phase II" by John W. Kendrick1971
- Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Productivity1971
- Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Resumes for the assistant to the chief executive officer1972-73
- Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Secular inflation1971
- Computer Disks [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Vorando, Inc.: Request for exception from executive guidelines1971-72
- Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Wages: Background information for the Price Commission1971-72
- Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Wholesale price index1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670650] MSS 85-12, Box 16
Year-end statement on the economy by the President's Council of Economic Advisors1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Final report1968-69
- Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Final report and correspondence1968-70
- Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Task force bulletins and internal correspondence1969Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Correspondence1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670676] MSS 85-12, Box 17
Correspondence: White House, government agencies, trade groups, business associations, etc1969-71Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Handbook for Small Business: A Survey of Small Business Programs of the Federal Government1969
- Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Legislation defining and affecting small business1968, n.d.Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Recommendations for legislation1968-69
- Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Material re Newman's appearance before the Select Committee on Small Business of the U.S. Senate1971, 1975Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670684] MSS 85-12, Box 18
Source material, correspondence and news releases1970
- Mixed Materials [35007007670692] MSS 85-12, Box 19
Speeches and miscellaneous papers re economic prospects facing businessmen1955-70Scope and Contents
[5 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670700] MSS 85-12, Box 20
Material pertaining to the commission's composition, establishment and purpose1970-72Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670700] MSS 85-12, Box 20
Memoranda, background and issue papers re meetings and hearings1972Scope and Contents
[4 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670718] MSS 85-12, Box 21
Public hearings1972Scope and Contents
[5 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670718] MSS 85-12, Box 21
Meeting records1972Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670726] MSS 85-12, Box 22
Minutes of meetings1971-73Scope and Contents
[8 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670734] MSS 85-12, Box 23
Miscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc1970-74Scope and Contents
[4 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670734] MSS 85-12, Box 23
Conference on the Economics of Bankruptcy, Brookings Institution1971 August
- Mixed Materials [35007007670734] MSS 85-12, Box 23
Expenses incurred by Newman while a member of the commission1972-73
- Mixed Materials [35007007670734] MSS 85-12, Box 23
Newman's appearance before the Subcommittee on Citizens' and Shareholders' Rights and Remedies of the Senate Judiciary Committee1977Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Report by the Rand Corporation and commission memorandum re U.S. bankruptcy laws1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Reports submitted to the commission on the U.S. bankruptcy lawsn.d.
- Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Correspondence concerning the Price Commission, Bankruptcy Commission and the Small Business Task Force1975-77
- Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Sweet Briar Institute v. Button1966
- Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Correspondence re National Industrial Conference Board1966-78
- Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Securities and Exchange Commission v. National Student Marketing Corp1972Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
- Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Material concerning Newman's appearance before the SEC1977
- Mixed Materials [35007007670742] MSS 85-12, Box 24
Historical Working Papers on the Economic Stabilization Program1971