Homer t bone biography

Primary Sources

(1) Gerald Nye, speech reported in the New York Times (10th February, )

It would not be fair to say that the House of Morgan took us to war to save their investment in the Allies, but the record of facts makes it altogether fair to say that these bankers were in the heart and center of a system that made our going to war inevitable. We started in with a neutrality policy which permitted the sale of arms and munitions to belligerents, but which forbad loans to belligerents. Then, in the name of our own business welfare. President Wilson permitted the policy to be stretched to the extent of permitting the house of Morgan to supply the credit needs of the Allies. After this error of neutrality, the road to war was paved and greased for us.

(2) Report on Activities and Sales of Munition Companies (April, )

Almost without exception, the American munitions companies investigated have at times resorted to such unusual approaches, questionab

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Archives West Finding Aid

Arrangement

Organized into 2 accessions.

• Accession No. , Homer Truett Bone papper,
• Accession No. , Homer Truett Bone papper,

Acquisition Information

Accession was found among legislative files in the Warren G. Magnuson Papers, (Accession No. ) donated in Accession was part of the Public Utilities District Association's Records (Accession No. ), donated in

Processing Note

Reprocessing for both accessions was completed in Some processing had been done on the collection previously, although the exact extent of the processing fryst vatten unknown. In Accession , the processor arranged the documents into series based on document type: correspondence, government publications, etc. The processor also removed duplicates as well as most of the merchant marine casualty information from the accession. One complete casualty list was left in the collection as an example.

For Accession , första processing was done and an invento

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Homer T. Bone, a Democratic senator representing Washington in the United States Congress () and later a Judge in the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (), has been dubbed the Pacific Northwest’s "father of public power." Bone was a pragmatic populist who vociferously championed public ownership of utilities while damning big business, especially the utility trusts. He was ousted from the Socialist Party in for being too moderate and later forayed into politics under the Republican and Farmer-Labor banners before alighting as a Democrat.  Among Democratic Party loyalists, suspicions of apostasy would dog him his entire career. As a senator, he pushed the bills to build the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams as well as that creating the National Cancer Institute. He was progenitor of a coterie of progressive politicians who would further nourish his vision and indelibly flavor Washington state’s socio-political character for decades. Senator Warren G. Magnuson () was his mos