Editing Bernard Baruch (section)

=== Interwar period ===
[[File:TIMEMagazine25Feb1924.jpg|thumb|''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' Cover, February 25, 1924]]
In the 1920s and 1930s, Baruch expressed his concern that the United States needed to be prepared for the possibility of another world war. He wanted a more powerful version of the [[War Industries Board]], which he saw as the only way to ensure maximum coordination between civilian business and military needs.<ref>Leab, Daniel et al., ed. ''The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia'' ABC-CLIO Inc., 2010, p. 11.</ref> Baruch remained a prominent government adviser during this time, and supported [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s domestic and foreign policy initiatives after his election.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

Baruch was also a major contributor to [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]'s controversial initiative to build a resettlement community for unemployed mining families in [[Arthurdale, West Virginia]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 2: 1933–1938 |last=Cook |first=Blanche Wiesen |author-link=Blanche Wiesen Cook |year=1999 |publisher=Viking |isbn=978-0-670-80486-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecrtAAAAMAAJ |access-date=November 26, 2012|pages=136–141}}</ref>

This relationship did not stop the congressional [[Nye Committee]] from investigating Baruch's role in [[war profiteering]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

In 1940, responding to pleas to help [[Harry Truman]]'s shoestring bid for reelection to the U.S. Senate, Baruch provided crucial funding.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Truman|last=McCullough|first=David|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1992}}</ref>