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William K. Divers Oral History Interviews

Oral History Interviews with
William K. Divers

Member of the staff of the Federal Emergency Public Works Administration, 1933 37; member of the legal staff of the U.S. Housing Authority, 1938; regional director of fifteen midwest states, U.S. Housing Authority, 1939 40; assistant general counsel and special assistant to the director of the defense housing division, Federal Works Agency, 1941; regional representative of the National Housing Agency, 1942 43; special assistant to the National Housing Expeditor, 1946; assistant administrator of the National Housing Agency, 1947; chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 1947 53, and member, 1953 54.

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Y-Z

Adams, J. Alston, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 261-262, 263, 282, 340
Adams, Sherman, 335, 338
Administrator of Housing and Home Finance, 228
Agnew, Spiro T., 314, 365
Allen, George E., 186, 187
Alphonso Taft Hall, 6
American Banker, 302
The American Bankers' Association, 300, 301, 319
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 103
Arkansas, 229-230
Atomic bomb, 100, 360

B&O Railroad, 332
Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate, 280
Bayh, Senator Birch, 323
Beers, Marion, 66-67
Belgium, 306
Bennett, Henry Herbert, 105, 112-113
Bevis, Howard, 20
Blandford, John B., Jr., 108-109, 115, 162, 217, 218

  • Bohn, Ernest J., 56, 57
    Brazil, 131
    Bricker, Senator John, 7, 298
    Budget Bureau, 247, 287
    Burklin, Robert Reyburn, 238

    California, 221, 273
    Capehart, Senator Homer E., 350
    Carmody, John, 54, 85, 88
    Carroll, Dorothy, 332
    Carroll, Senator John A., 332
    Chemical National Bank, 77
    Chicago, Illinois, 74, 180, 275, 278, 315
    Chicago "Black Sox", 14
    Chicago White Sox, 14
    Cincinnati, Ohio, 1, 2, 13, 14, 16, 20, 26, 28, 29, 147, 231, 306

    Cincinnati Bureau of Government Research, 147
    Cincinnati Enquirer, 4
    Cincinnati Reds, 13-15
    Civilian Production Agency, 153, 178
    Clark, Tom C., 266
    Cleveland, Ohio, 26, 70, 74, 87
    Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, 56
    Clifford, Clark, 209
    Colonial Federal Savings and Loan Association of Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, 202
    Colorado, 79, 80, 120-121, 302, 332
    Columbus, Ohio, 19, 21, 22, 35, 36
    Concerns of a Conservative Democrat, 313
    Congress, and rise in the cost of living, 290-294
    Congress of Industrial Organizations, CIO, 103, 113
    Congressional Directory, 263
    Congressional relations with the Housing and Home Finance Agency on housing legislation, 294-305
    Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C., 144
    Connelly, Matthew J., 209
    Coolidge, Calvin, 123
    Cortright, Frank, 193
    Cost of living, rises in the, 290-294
    Council of Economic Advisers, 339
    Crane, Jacob, 66, 75, 76
    Creedon, Frank, 198

Davies, Richard 0., 220
Davisson, C. Ray, 195
Dawson, Congressman William L., 275, 276, 278
Dearborn, Michigan, 103
Defense Housing Program, 54, 83
Democratic National Committee, 333
Democrats, a discussion of, 363-364
Denver, Colorado, 48, 50, 120-121, 314
Des Moines, Iowa, 349
Detroit, Michigan, 71, 92, 102, 103, 104, 107, 111, 113, 180, 202
Detroit Metropolitan Housing Authority, 92, 94
Dickerson, Cap, 21-22
Divers, William K.:

    • as Assistant Administrator of the National Housing Agency, 145-146
      as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio, 16, 18-23, 25-27
      background of, 1-32
      Congressional relations with housing and Home Finance Agency on housing legislation, 294-305
      as a Democrat, 307-312
      Federal Emergency Administration, employed by, 32 -37
      Federal Home Loan Bank Board, as chairman of, 225-229, 231-257
      and Foley, Raymond, 219
      House Appropriations Committee, testifies before, 284 , 289
      and Keyserling, Leon, 57-66
      Long Beach Federal Court case, involvement in, 259-284
      and McGrath, J. Howard, 322, 325-327
      Ohio State bonds, issuance of, 18-23
      private construction and housing interests, as a representative of, 160-162, 165-172
      as Regional Representative of the National Housing Agency, 124
      and Roosevelt, Franklin D., 121-122
      and Sawyer, Charles, 306-310, 312-313
      Senate Appropriations Committee, testifies before, 284-285
      and Spence, Brent, 285, 286, 288-290
      and Straus, Nathan,40, 41-54
      and Taft , Robert , 3-7
      and Truman, Harry S., 115, 204-208, 358-362, 363
      and United States Housing Authority, 37, 39-41, 89, 98-99
      and Wolcott, Congressman Jesse, 286-288
  • Division of Defense Housing, 87
    Dixon, Ira,. 350-351
    Doors, shortage of, 155-156
    Douglas, William 0., 42
    Duckworth Democratic Club, 306
    Dyke, Nathaniel, 229, 230-231
Fanny Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association), G.I, Bill of Rights, Hamilton County, Ohio, Ickes, Harold L., Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, Kandane, David, Landis, Judge Kenesaw Mountain, McAllister, Walter W., Sr., National Association of Homebuilders,
  • 131, 160
    National Association of Housing Officials (NAHO), 117-119
    National Association of Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Dealers, 354
    National Housing Act, 317
    National Housing Administrator, 146
    National Housing Agency, 57, 86, 87, 98, 124, 198, 201, 216, 217, 219, 228
    National League of Insured Savings Associations, 262
    National Public Housing Conference, 80
    National Savings and Loan League, 350
    Nebraska, 99
    Nevada, Missouri, 349
    New Albany, Indiana, 100
    New York, 42-43, 55, 77, 136, 221, 237, 243, 256, 278, 323
    New York Giants, 15, 16
    New York Times, 302
    Nixon, Richard M., 361, 363
    North Dakota, 99
    Norwood, Ohio, 11


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Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
  • 100-101
    Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 209
    Ohio, 26, 55, 87, 99, 221, 308
    • court case involving issuance of state bonds, 18-23
    Ohio State University, 20
    Omaha, Nebraska, 47, 48
Parvin-Dohrmann, Race relations, Sallee, Slim, Taft, Charles, United Automobile Workers, Vaughan, Harry, Wagner, Senator Robert F., Youngstown, Ohio,

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