WW1 - United States War Production Board
Formed 8 Jul 1917. Dissolved 1 Jan 1919.
No disrespect is intended for honourable servicemen and women.
Wilson appointed Bernard Baruch to head of the War Industries Board, whose function was purchasing munitions for America’s military. After the war, Congress’s Graham Committee conducted an investigation that revealed the public had been defrauded out of billions for war-related items that were unnecessary, or undelivered, or never even produced. Here is an excerpt from the Committee’s report:
We had 53 contracts for 37-millimeter shells, on which we expended $9,134,592. None of these shells ever reached our firing line. We had 689 contracts for 75-millimeter shells, on which we expended $301,941,459. Of these shells, we fired 6,000. We had 142 contracts for 3-inch shells, on which we expended $44,841,844. None of these shells 14,000 were fired by our forces. We had 305 contracts for 6-inch shells, on which we expended $24,189,085. None of these shells ever reached the firing line.
… The committee listed similar frauds in production of howitzers, artillery of all calibers, and gun carriages.
A billion dollars was spent on aircraft never delivered. Comparable reports were made on other articles of war.
Hundreds of millions were invested in companies which used the money to build factories that contributed nothing to the war effort. House Report no 998 of the 66th Congress stated:
The committee finds that there has been expended for construction upon the Government’s nitrates program to the present time the sum of $116,194, 974.37, and that this expenditure produced no nitrates prior to the armistice, and contributed nothing toward the winning of the war. The nitrates program originated with the War industries Board of the Council of National Defense, and is directly traceable to Mr Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the board …
Many industries, such as copper and steel, charged the government inflated prices. Needless to say, the Rockefellers’ Standard Oil enjoyed skyrocketing war profits.[4][5]
Members include - to be completed
Bernard M. Baruch (Freemason) -
Harold Terry Clark (S&B1903) - Assistant to Bernard M. Baruch (Freemason)
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878), Member of War Industry Board.
Robert S. Brookings
Robert S. Lovett - Railroad Executive - President and Chairman of the Board of the Union Pacific Railroad (Owner E. H. Harriman, Sons, W. A. Harriman (S&B 1913) and E. R. Harriman (S&B 1917) - Son, Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918)
Alexander Legge (Harvester International).
Ollie Josephine Prescott Baird Bennett (Order of the Eastern Star)
Samuel P. Bush (Co-founded Wolf’s Head) - Grandson, George H. W. Bush (S&B 1948. Freemason. Bohemian. Delta Kappa Epsilon…)
Clarence Dillon, Dillon Read & Co.
Army General Washington Goethals (West Point)
Hugh S. Johnson
Eugene Meyer - 1954, Invested in George H. W. Bush S&B 1948’s, Zapata Off-shore Oil Company
John Millard
Edward R. Stettinius - Partner of J.P. Morgan. Son Edward Stettinius Kr (Seven), Secretary of State by President Harry S. Truman (Freemason) and Franklin D. Roosevely (Freemason)
Walter D. Stewart
George Cameron Stone
Major Seth Williams
Walace Delafield Simmon (S&B 1890) - Severed on the War Industries Board, Chairman of its War Finance Committee and Excess War Profits Advisor Board.
Frederic Augustus Stevenson (S&B 1888) - Served on War Operating Board - 1918 to 1919 - Assistant Vice President, Telegraph and Telephone Administration by Federal Government under Postmaster General, **Albert S. Burleson (Freemason)
Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed.
1918 - Harold Terry Clark (S&B 1903) - Assistant to Chairman, Honary Bernard M. Baruch (Freemason), friend of Aristotle Onassis and Winston Churchill, US War Industries Board.
George Henry Townsend (S&B 1908) - Industrial War Service.
Grosvenor Ely (S&B 1906) - Capt, CT State Guard, Chief of Section, War Industry Board.
Murray Sargent (S&B 1905) - Director, War Industries Board, Hardware and Hand Tool Section Section. Blood Transfusions Association, NY Hospital Association.
Walter Chauncey Camp (S&B 1880) - Represented clock companies of United States as chairman of Clock Industry Division, War Service Board.
Frederick Winthrop Allen (S&B 1900) - Member of Raw Materials Committee in Washington. (Division of War Industries Board)
[2] - FYI - Wiki - War Industries Board
[3] - NY Times. Apr 15, 1979 - CLARENCE DILLON, FINANCIER, IS DEAD by Alfred E. Clark
[4] - Book - The 13 Pieces of the Jigsaw by James Perloff
[5] - Book - Americas 60 Families by Lundberg Ferdinand (1946)
[6] - Article - References William Howard Taft being a member of the War Industry Board
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