INVENTORY OF THE PAPERS OF
J. WILSON NEWMAN
University of Virginia Law Library
Mss 85-12
Processed by Gary Gibbs
1985
1985
INTRODUCTION
J. Wilson Newman, now a resident of Charlottesville, was president of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. from 1952 to 1960. In the late sixties and early seventies 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.
| Box | Date and Content Description |
| Price Commission Records | |
| 1-8 | 1971-72, Meeting records arranged by date with a list of topics addressed (57 folders) |
| 9 | 1971-72, Permanent record of meetings and actions (2 folders) |
| 1972, Public hearings re utilities, rent and food prices (4 folders) | |
| 10 | 1971-72, Correspondence (7 folders) |
| 1972, Fact sheets and staff reports re policy and goal of commission | |
| 1972, Issue papers by the Price Commission and outside economists | |
| 1973, Memoranda for the record re the agenda (3 folders) | |
| 11 | 1971-72, Miscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc. (6 folders) |
| 1971-72, Miscellaneous printed matter (2 folders) | |
| 12 | 1972, Operating problems |
| 1972, Policy matrix | |
| 1972, Review of commission operations (2 folders) | |
| 1972, Speeches, luncheons, etc. | |
| 1971, Statements for commissioners re government employment | |
| Price Commission-Related Documents | |
| 1972, Agricultural Economic Report No. 223: Price control programs, 1917-1971 | |
| 1971, American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc.: Proposals and recommendations for the Price Commission | |
| 1972, Automobile industry | |
| 13 | Brookings Institute conference: Wage-price policy (3 folders) |
| 1971-72, Coal industry | |
| 1972, Consumer credit | |
| 1972, Consumer price index: Estimated annualized price rate of increase in the consumer price index for the fourth quarter of 1973 (preliminary) | |
| 1971, Cost of Living Council: "The Wage-Price Freeze: Questions and Answers" | |
| 1973, Cost of Living Council: Transcript of press conference re food prices | |
| 1972, Economic indicators | |
| 1971, Economic stabilization program | |
| 1972, Grayson, C. Jackson, Chairman of the Price Commission: Statement before the Joint Economic Committee re Side Effects of Price Control | |
| 1973, Grayson, C. Jackson: Statement before the Senate Committee on Banking | |
| 1976, Grayson, C. Jackson: CBS Morning News Editorial | |
| 1972, Health care | |
| 1971, Independent Natural Gas Association | |
| 1972, Inflation, consumer price index and wholesale price index | |
| 1972, Inflation: Miscellaneous memoranda and statistics | |
| n.d., IRS: Retail-wholesale price monitoring program (proposed) | |
| 14 | 1971, Manufacturing companies with sales of 100 million or over |
| 1971, Miscellaneous forms and White House press releases | |
| 1972, Nader v. Grayson | |
| 1971, National Retail Merchants Association Program Concerning the Implementation of Phase II Price Guidelines | |
| 1972-73, Newman: Memos and correspondence re effects of price controls on various industries and individuals (3 folders) | |
| 1972, New York Stock Exchange: Reports on status of member firms | |
| 1972, Pay Board news releases | |
| 1972, "The Pay Board After One Year of Operation" | |
| 1971, Phase I and II: Summary statements (3 folders) | |
| 15 | 1971-72, Phase II |
| 1973, Phase III | |
| 1972, Piggly Wiggly Southern, Inc. v. Price Commission | |
| 1972, Pott Industries v. Price Commission | |
| 1971-72, Price control | |
| 1972, Price control: Price Control, Present and Future, prepared by the Office of Price Policy | |
| 1972, "A Price Control Strategy," vols. 1-3, submitted by Robert N. Anthony (5 folders) | |
| 16 | 1972, "A Price Control Strategy," vol. 4 (2 folders) |
| 1971, "The Productivity Factor in Phase II" by John W. Kendrick | |
| 1971, Productivity | |
| 1972-73, Resumes for the assistant to the chief executive officer | |
| 1971, Secular inflation | |
| 1971-72, Vorando, Inc.: Request for exception from executive guidelines | |
| 1971-72, Wages: Background information for the Price Commission | |
| 1972, Wholesale price index | |
| 1972, Year-end statement on the economy by the President's Council of Economic Advisors | |
| President's Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Business | |
| 17 | 1968-69, Final report |
| 1968-70, Final report and correspondence | |
| 1969, Task force bulletins and internal correspondence (3 folders) | |
| 1972, Correspondence | |
| 1969-71, Correspondence: White House, government agencies, trade groups, business associations, etc. (2 folders) | |
| 18 | 1969, Handbook for Small Business: A Survey of Small Business Programs of the Federal Government |
| 1968, n.d., Legislation defining and affecting small business (2 folders) | |
| 1968-69, Recommendations for legislation | |
| 1971, 1975, Material re Newman's appearance before the Select Committee on Small Business of the U.S. Senate (2 folders) | |
| 1970, Source material, correspondence and news releases | |
| 19 | 1955-70, Speeches and miscellaneous papers re economic prospects facing businessmen (5 folders) |
| Bankruptcy Commission | |
| 20 | 1970-72, Material pertaining to the commission's composition, establishment and purpose (3 folders) |
| 1972, Memoranda, background and issue papers re meetings and hearings (4 folders) | |
| 21 | 1972, Public hearings (5 folders) |
| 1972, Meeting records (2 folders) | |
| 22 | 1971-73, Minutes of meetings (8 folders) |
| 23 | 1970-74, Miscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc. (4 folders) |
| 1971 August, Conference on the Economics of Bankruptcy, Brookings Institution | |
| 1972-73, Expenses incurred by Newman while a member of the commission | |
| 1977, Newman's appearance before the Subcommittee on Citizens' and Shareholders' Rights and Remedies of the Senate Judiciary Committee (2 folders) | |
| 24 | 1972, Report by the Rand Corporation and commission memorandum re U.S. bankruptcy laws |
| n.d., Reports submitted to the commission on the U.S. bankruptcy laws | |
| Miscellany | |
| 1975-77, Correspondence concerning the Price Commission, Bankruptcy Commission and the Small Business Task Force | |
| 1966, Sweet Briar Institute v. Button | |
| 1966-78, Correspondence re National Industrial Conference Board | |
| 1972, Securities and Exchange Commission v. National Student Marketing Corp. (2 folders) | |
| 1977, Material concerning Newman's appearance before the SEC | |
| 1971, Historical Working Papers on the Economic Stabilization Program | |

