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5 unusual facts about Bernard Baruch


Arthurdale, West Virginia

Roosevelt spent most of her own income on the project in its early years; philanthropist Bernard Baruch was also a major contributor.

Baruch Plan

The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the United States government, written largely by Bernard Baruch but based on the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) in its first meeting in June 1946.

Hoffman Island

Robert Moses and Bernard Baruch advocated transforming the islands into a city park, but this plan was soon forgotten.

United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

France (Vote: For): Shortly before the vote, France's delegate to the United Nations was visited by Bernard Baruch, a long-term Jewish supporter of the Democratic Party who, during the recent world war, had been an economic adviser to President Roosevelt, and had latterly been appointed by President Truman as the United States' ambassador to the newly created UN Atomic Energy Commission.

Wolf of Wall Street

Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), American financier, stock investor and philanthropist sometimes referred to as "The Lone Wolf of Wall Street"


Donald M. Nelson

In February 1943, Roosevelt invited Bernard Baruch to replace Nelson as WPB head, but was persuaded to change his mind by advisor Harry Hopkins, and Nelson remained in the post.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's record on civil rights

Some of his closest political associates, such as Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Baruch and Samuel I. Rosenman, were Jewish.

James Dudley Fooshe

He again recovered and returned to service, this time, in the Quartermaster Corps as secretary to Dr. Simon Baruch, father of Bernard Baruch, the noted presidential advisor.

Surplus Property Board

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic advisor, Bernard Baruch, originally recommended that the U.S. dispose of surplus war goods through an agency run by a single administrator (and assisted by a policy board), and with general statutory authority.


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