Background
BROWN, Lewis H. was born on February 13, 1894 in Crestón, Iowa, United States.
chairman Noise Abatement Commission
BROWN, Lewis H. was born on February 13, 1894 in Crestón, Iowa, United States.
Born in Creston, Iowa on February 13, 1894, he attended the University of Iowa in 1915.
Brown served in France as an infantry captain during World War I. After the war, Brown was employed by Montgomery Ward and was promoted to Assistant General Operating Manager within eight years. T.F. Merseles, the President of Montgomery Ward, left in 1928 to become President of asbestos manufacturer Johns Manville, taking Brown with him. Merseles died suddenly in 1930 and Brown was appointed president at the age of 35.
He thereby became the youngest man ever to hold that position in the company"s history.
He was also President of the Asbestos Institute. In April 1939, Brown was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, with the caption "Businessman Brown -- Public Relations Begins at Home."
During World World War II Brown served as an advisor to General Levin H. Campbell, Junior.
After World World War II, at the request of General Lucius Doctorate. Clay, Brown wrote a book entitled "" (Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1947), which served as a detailed recommendation for the reconstruction of post-war Germany, and served as a basis for the Marshall Plan. Brown founded the American Enterprise Association (American Economic Association) in New York, a think tank which later moved to Washington, District of Columbia, and was renamed the American Enterprise Institute.
He served as American Economic Association"s chairman until his death.
Brown also co-founded the Tax Foundation and served as chairman. Brown died in 1951 at age 57, in Delray, Florida. In 1984, twenty-three years after Brown"s death, Johns-Manville was alleged to have prioritized profits over the health and safety of employees during the time of his leadership.
According to testimony given in a federal court by Charles H. Roemer, formerly an employee of Unarco, describing a meeting between Unarco officials, Lewis H. Brown and J-M attorney Vandiver Brown in the early 1940s, "I’ll never forget, I turned to Mr.
Brown, one of the Browns made this crack (that Unarco managers were a bunch of fools for notifying employees who had asbestosis), and I said, ‘Mr. Brown, do you mean to tell me you would let them work until they dropped dead?’ He said, ‘Yes.
We save a lot of money that way."".
Quotations: Mr. Brown, do you mean to tell me you would let them work until they dropped dead?’.
Member: American Library Association Clubs: Harvard (New York). Graduate. (New Haven.).
Spouse Mary A. Allen, June, 1918, Columbus, Ohio.