Rules and Regulations for Liberty Loan Workers
Title
Rules and Regulations for Liberty Loan Workers
Creator
Strong, Benjamin, 1872-1928
Identifier
WWP18657
Date
1919 June 3
Description
Regulations for Liberty Loan workers, by Benjamin Strong Jr.
Source
Benjamin Strong Jr. Papers, New York Federal Reserve Bank
Language
English
Text
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR LIBERTY LOAN WORKERS.
BY BENJAMIN STRONG
1. All letters sent out from this organization shall be signed by me personally.
2. Every day during a Liberty Loan Campaign an advertisement must appear on the financial page signed by me personally.
3. Between campaigns a general advertisement must appear every day signed by me personally.
4. At least three news releases must be sent out daily during the entire period of existence of this organization quoting me personally.
5. No bonds shall be sold to any individual in this District without my personal O. K.
6. Every piece of advertising copy, press material, pamphlet, outdoor sign, painting, cartoon, sales letter, coupon book, bookkeeping form, mimeographed letter, sign on Brooklyn bridge, poster, copy for book matches, milk bottle top, pictorial news, honor flag, pay envelope insert, factory sign, boiler plate, or telephone conversation shall be personally O.K’d by me.
7. I desire personally to pass on every office boy, secretary, executive, stenographer, mimeograph operator, stencil cutter, typist, space solicitor, reporter, copy reader, salesman, moving picture actor, General, doughboy, President, cabinet officer, Admiral, bank president and gob that works for this committee.
8. All unimportant and routine matters must be taken up personally in my office.
9. All matters connected with the money committee, stabilization of American finance, advising the President and Secretary of the TreasuryCarter Glass on financial matters, matters pertaining to the Bank of England, Bank of France and the Bank of Monte Carlo, handling the Liberty Loan and the Stock Exchange, handling distinguished guests and all other details of this kind will be left to Mr. Beyer.
10. All department heads are prohibited from consulting with one another and no conferences, meetings, breakfasts, luncheons, dinners or any other cooperative movements shall be held without my presence.
11. I am not interested in the spending of money. It is important that no plans for spending money shall at any time be submitted to Washington or to me. Every department head, bureau manager, division chief, and all others connected with the organization can spend all monies at any time and for any purpose according to their best judgment. We want results!
BY BENJAMIN STRONG
1. All letters sent out from this organization shall be signed by me personally.
2. Every day during a Liberty Loan Campaign an advertisement must appear on the financial page signed by me personally.
3. Between campaigns a general advertisement must appear every day signed by me personally.
4. At least three news releases must be sent out daily during the entire period of existence of this organization quoting me personally.
5. No bonds shall be sold to any individual in this District without my personal O. K.
6. Every piece of advertising copy, press material, pamphlet, outdoor sign, painting, cartoon, sales letter, coupon book, bookkeeping form, mimeographed letter, sign on Brooklyn bridge, poster, copy for book matches, milk bottle top, pictorial news, honor flag, pay envelope insert, factory sign, boiler plate, or telephone conversation shall be personally O.K’d by me.
7. I desire personally to pass on every office boy, secretary, executive, stenographer, mimeograph operator, stencil cutter, typist, space solicitor, reporter, copy reader, salesman, moving picture actor, General, doughboy, President, cabinet officer, Admiral, bank president and gob that works for this committee.
8. All unimportant and routine matters must be taken up personally in my office.
9. All matters connected with the money committee, stabilization of American finance, advising the President and Secretary of the TreasuryCarter Glass on financial matters, matters pertaining to the Bank of England, Bank of France and the Bank of Monte Carlo, handling the Liberty Loan and the Stock Exchange, handling distinguished guests and all other details of this kind will be left to Mr. Beyer.
10. All department heads are prohibited from consulting with one another and no conferences, meetings, breakfasts, luncheons, dinners or any other cooperative movements shall be held without my presence.
11. I am not interested in the spending of money. It is important that no plans for spending money shall at any time be submitted to Washington or to me. Every department head, bureau manager, division chief, and all others connected with the organization can spend all monies at any time and for any purpose according to their best judgment. We want results!
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Strong, Benjamin, 1872-1928, “Rules and Regulations for Liberty Loan Workers,” 1919 June 3, WWP18657, Benjamin Strong Jr. Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.