- Alexander Sachs
Alexander Sachs (
August 1 ,1893 -June 23 ,1973 ) was an American economist and banker. In 1939, he delivered theEinstein-Szilárd letter toFranklin D. Roosevelt , in which it was suggested that the atomic bomb be built.Born in Rossien,
Lithuania , Sachs came to the U.S. in 1904. He was educated atTownsend Harris High School inNew York City , the City College of New York, and Columbia College. In 1913 he joined the municipal bond department at Boston-based investment bankLee, Higginson & Co. , but in 1915 returned to education as a graduate student in social sciences, philosophy and jurisprudence atHarvard College .Between 1918 and 1921 he was an aide to Justice Brandeis and the
Zionist Organization of America on international problems of the Middle East and the World War I peace conference.From 1922 to 1929 he was economist and investment analyst for
Walter Eugene Meyer in equity investment acquisitions. He then organized and became Director of Economics Investment Research at the Lehman Corporation, a newly established investment company ofLehman Brothers . From 1931 he joined the board at Lehman. He was Vice President from 1936 to 1943, remaining on the board until his death in 1973.In 1933, Sachs served as organizer and chief of the economic research division of the
National Recovery Administration . In 1936, he served on theNational Policy Committee . During the war, he was economic adviser to the Petroleum Industry War Council, and special counsel to the director of theOffice of Strategic Services .References
*cite web
url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/findbrow.cgi?collection=Sachs,+Alexander
title=Papers of Alexander Sachs
publisher=Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
*cite news
title=Alexander Sachs, 79, Prominent Economist, Dies
last=Hailey
first=Jean R.
date=1973-06-28
work=Washington Post
*cite book
last = Hakim
first = Joy
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title = A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz
publisher = Oxford University Press
date = 1995
location = New York
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isbn = 0-19-509514-6
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