B

Badoglio, Pietro, 323, 342

Bailey, Josiah W., 85

Bailey, Thomas A., 297-298

Balkan States, (See Conferences, International, under specific headings)

Ballantine, Arthur, 26, 27, 28, 30

Baltic States, (See Conferences, International, under specific headings)

Baltimore Sun, 224

Bank closings, 5, 25

Bank Crisis of 1933: analysis of, 28, 124-125;

bill to reopen banks, 11;

Detroit crash, 16;

development of, 25, 27;

Hoover letter to Roosevelt about, 17, 18, 20;

Hoover plan for, 22;

banking legislation, 60;

number banks reopened, 32;

plan for, 29;

Roosevelt’s attitude toward, 19, 27;

Roosevelt’s plan for dealing with, 27

Bank of the United States, 19

Bankhead, John, 105, 106, 210, 216, 218

Barkley, Alben, 111, 129, 133, 135, 139, 213-214, 215, 218, 365-366, 374-375, 376

Barnes, William, 261

Barrows, Alice, 75

Baruch, Bernard, 23, 43, 53, 143, 320, 368, 373

Beaverbrook, Lord, 142, 143

Beck, Thomas, 142

Belair, Felix, 141

Berger, Paul, 199

Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 5, 28, 34, 337

Bess, Demaree, 338-339

Beveridge, William, 393

Biggers, E. M., 290

Biggers, John D., 119

Black, Hugo, 92

Black, Van Lear, 262

Blanton, Thomas L., 86

Bloom, Sol, 42

Blue Eagle, 43, 44

Board of Economic Warfare (BEW), 228, 304-309, 326

Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt, 88, 378

BOLERO, 334-336

Borah, William E., 46, 58, 264

Boston Braves, 238

Bovingdon, John, 308-309

Bowles, Chester, 317

Brain Trust, 14, 24, 30, 33, 34, 149, 187, 284

Brandeis, Louis D., 47, 144

Bridges, Harry, 196

British Broadcasting Company, 358

Brophy, John, 192

Broun, Heywood, 89

Browder, Earl, 371-372, 374

Brown, Prentiss, 317

Browning, Gordon, 137

Bruenn, Howard, 378, 401, 407, 410

Bryan, Otis, 400

Bryan, William Jennings, 169, 285

Buckhalter, Louis (Lepke), 197-199

Budget, Government, (See Spending, Public;Deficits, Government; Debt, Government)

Bullitt, William C., 50

Burch, Jack, 247

Bureau of Printing and Engraving, 274-275

Bureaus, Government, (See also under specific headings, as Board of Economic Warfare, Office of Price Administration, etc.), 14, 37, 85, 163, 290-292, 318-319, 415

Business Conditions, 97, 98, 114, 116, 204, 287-288

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 42

Byrd, Harry, 85, 107, 344

Byrnes, James F., 102, 210, 217, 239, 355, 374-375, 376, 383, 387, 389, 390, 393-394, 406