This morning I stumbled across a c.v. for the Radcliffe M.A. and Ph.D. alumna, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, that I found earlier in the papers of Herbert Fürth (Gottfried Haberler’s brother-in-law and Federal Reserve Board economist) at the Hoover Institution archives. While there is no date on the c.v., it would appear that it could have been prepared around 1961, though one item (International Board for construction in Berlin) is listed as running through 1964.
Her obituary in the New York Times (November 4, 1996). Best quote:
”[The State Department] is a real man’s world if ever there was one,” she said in 1958. ”It’s riddled with prejudices. If you are a woman in Government service you just have to work 10 times as hard — and even then it takes much skill to paddle around the various taboos. But it is fun to see how far you can get in spite of being a woman.”
Worth viewing are the few minutes taken from the National Portrait Gallery’s video interview of Eleanor Dulles (at age 93) conducted by Marc Pachter on November 28, 1988. She was 101 years old at the time of her death.
The major collection of her papers are at George Washington University. Papers are also to be found at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and at Princeton University.
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Radcliffe College
Eleanor Lansing Dulles, A.M.
Subject: Economics.
Special Field: International Finance.
Dissertation: “TheFrench Franc Since the War.”
Source: Radcliffe College, Report of the Dean 1925-26, p. 25.
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ELEANOR LANSING DULLES
Employment Record |
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| 1917-1919 | Refugee relief work—France |
| 1920-1921 | Employment Management—Steel Mill, etc. |
| 1921-1922 | London School of Economics—Investigation of English Industrial methods in 75 firms |
| 1924-1936 | Teaching 8 years
Simmons College |
| Research 1925-26, 1928-1932 | |
| Study of Unemployment Insurance in England (for President Hoover) 1931 | |
| Economic advisor to investment counselor New York City, 1932 |
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Government |
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| 1936 | Social Security Board
Director of Financial Research Represented U.S. Government at Geneva Conference on Investment of Social Security Funds, 1938 |
| 1942-1961 | Department of State |
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Postwar planning Germany, Austria, UNRRA, British balance of payments, etc. |
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Bretton Woods Banks (attended conference) |
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Vienna, Austria (1945-49) Financial Attaché |
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Berlin reconstruction, investment, (1952-1960) |
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Underdeveloped countries |
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| Detailed to National Production Board 1951-52
Representative on Petroleum Committee for Defense |
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| Originator of Benjamin Franklin Foundation
International Board for construction in Berlin 1956-1964 |
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| Personal Rank of Minister—1960 | |
Awards and Degrees |
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| 1934 | Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1950 | LL.D., Wilson College |
| 1955 | Distinguished Service Medal, Radcliffe |
| 1957 | Dr. h. c. rerum, Political & Econ. Science, Free University of Berlin |
| 1957 | LL.D., Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio |
| 1957 | Carl Schurz-Steuben Plaque for Distinguished Service in furthering German-American cultural relations, presented at Berlin |
| 1959 | Ernst Reuter Medallion for Service to Berlin |
| 1960 | Citation for Distinguished Service, Bryn Mawr College |
Studies and Fellowships |
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| 1914-17 | A.B. Bryn Mawr College (First New England scholarship, 1914) |
| 1919-20 | M.A. Bryn Mawr College (Fellow labor & industrial economics) |
| 1921-22 | London School of Economics |
| 1922-26 | M.A., Ph.D. Radcliffe and Harvard College |
| 1925-27 | Faculté de Droit, University of Paris Other courses: Bonn, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland |
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Languages: French, German, Spanish |
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Public Relations |
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| For many years I have been on the roster for public speaking for the Department of State.
I have given some 100 or more speeches mainly in this country and have appeared on television and radio. |
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Publications |
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| The French Franc, 1914-1928. MacMillan, New York, 1929, pp. 570 A study of inflation, public finance, speculation, and changing international financial relationships with consideration of political and economic factors. |
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| The Bank for International Settlements at Work. Macmillan, New York, 1932, pp. 631 The origins and early operations of the BIS, the hopes for a world bank, plans for international investment and clearance mechanism, bank policy in relation to the central banks of various nations. |
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| The Dollar, the Franc, and Inflation. MacMillan, New York, 1933, pp. 100 A short discussion of recurrent characteristics of inflation, the dangers to special groups, and to the economy as a whole. |
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| Depression and Reconstruction—A Study of Causes and Controls. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1936, pp. 340 A review of alleged causes of the depression of 1929 and subsequent years, an appraisal of major national and international maladjustments and areas of disturbance and relationships changing in the development of a dynamic policy. |
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| Financing the Social Security Act, 1936
Basic study of the tax and benefit laws and formuli. |
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| Fiscal Capacity of States
Planned (1938) and supervised a five year study in Social Security Board of the income and capacity to pay taxes of the states & localities. |
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Among the several hundred articles published are for instance: |
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| The Evolution of Reparation Ideas | |
| The French Franc, 1928-1934 | |
| The Export-Import Bank—The First Ten Years, 1943 | |
| War and Investment Opportunity | |
| Inflation | |
| The Impact of the United States on Europe | |
| The Arithmetic (financial) of Postwar Occupation | |
| Africa—Hopes and Contradictions | |
Source: Hoover Institution Archives, Papers of J. Herbert Furth, Box 4.
Image Source:. World Bank webpage: The Bretton Woods Institutions turn 60/Breaking the Mold.