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Kerr, Lorin E. (Lorin Edgar), 1909-

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Lorin E. Kerr received a B.A. from the University of Toledo in 1931 and an M.D. (1935) and a M.S.P.H. (1939) from the University of Michigan. He worked for the U.S. Public Health Service from 1944 until 1948, when he began working for the Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers. Kerr was the founder and first director of the U.M.W.A.'s Department of Occupational Health and was influential in the passage of legislation to compensate coal miners suffering from black lu...

United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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In March 1972 President Richard Nixon called for an "intensive study" and requested a plan for developing a "safe, fast, and efficient nationwide blood collection and distribution system." Nixon's request was the result of several independent events and initiatives throughout the late 1960s that focused on the U.S. lack of an efficient system for maintaining a sufficiently ample, risk-free national blood supply. The primary aim of the policy was to eliminate the nation's dependence on an oft-con...

Schottland, Charles I. (Charles Irwin), 1906-1995

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Charles I. Schottland was born on October 29, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1927. He completed graduate school in Social Work at the New York School of Social Work, 1928 to 1929, and received a Social Work certificate in 1929. He graduated from the University of Southern California Law School in 1933. He was an administrator for the California Relief Administration, 1933 to 1936; executive director of the Federation of Jewish We...

Ribicoff, Abraham A. (Abraham Alexander), 1910-1998

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Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and was the 80th Governor of Connecticut and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in President John F. Kennedy's cabinet. He was Connecticut's first and to date only Jewish governor. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Poland, Samuel ...

Eliot, Martha M. (Martha May), 1891-1978

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Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine. Together with Edwards A. Park, her research established that public health measures (dietary supplementation with vitamin...

Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989

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Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951 and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until 1989. Born in Chambers County, Alabama, Pepper established a legal practice in Perry, Florida after graduating from Harvard Law School. After serving a single term in the Florida House o...

Riesman, David, 1909-2002

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David Riesman (born September 22, 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.-died May 10, 2002, Binghamton, New York) was an American sociologist, attorney, writer, and educator. He is best known as the author of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer, 1950), an examination of post-WWII American society. The book struck a chord with readers and became a bestseller, contributing the terms "inner-directed," "outer-directed," and "tradition-...

United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 1927-2003

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, also Pat Moynihan, (born March 16, 1927, Tulsa, Oklahoma – died March 26, 2003, Washington, D.C.), American politician, sociologist, and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate and served as an adviser to Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon. Moynihan moved at a young age to New York City. Following a stint in the navy, he earned a Ph.D. in history from Tufts University. He worked on the staff of New York Gove...

Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. At one point he helped run his ...

Grasso, Ella, 1919-1981

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Ella Rosa Giovianna Oliva Grasso, née Tambussi (May 10, 1919 – February 5, 1981) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 83rd Governor of Connecticut from January 8, 1975, to December 31, 1980, after rejecting past offers of candidacies for Senate and Governor. She was the first woman elected to this office and the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state without having been the spouse or widow of a former governor. She resigned as governor due t...

Kingsbury, John Adams, 1876-1956

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Social worker and social reformer. From the description of John Adams Kingsbury papers, 1841-1966 (bulk 1906-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979825 Biographical Note 1876, Aug. 30 Born, Horton, Kans. 1897 Graduated, Yakima High School, Yakima, Wash. ...

American Public Welfare Association.

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APWA, founded in 1930 as the American Association of Public Welfare Officials, is a professional organization for staff members of public agencies and others interested in public welfare. APWA studies and distributes information regarding legislation and also offers its members professional development opportunities. From the description of American Public Welfare Association records, 1930-1970 (bulk 1950-1970). (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63313449 ...

Merriam, Ida Craven, 1904-

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Ida C. Merriam (1904-1997) began working in Social Security in 1936, when she joined what become the Social Security Administration's Research and Statistics Bureau and rose to become head of the Bureau's Division of Coordination Studies, then Assistant Director and then Director of Research and Statistics. She retired in 1972 as Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Research and Statistics. She led studies on disability and health insurance, drafted reports for congressional committees, and d...

Marshall, Matthew

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Epithet: Chief Cashier, Bank of England British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x0000ec ...

Foote, Franklin Manley, 1908-

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Franklin M. Foote: public health physician; B.S., Yale, 1930, M.D., 1933, D.P.H., 1935; chief, division of local health administration, Connecticut State Dept. of Health, 1937-1941; district health officer, New York City, 1941-1946; medical director, later executive director, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, 1946-1959; commissioner, Connecticut State Dept. of Health, 1959-1973; lecturer in public health and epidemiology, Yale, 1959-. From the description of Franklin ...

Anderson, Odin W. (Odin Waldemar), 1914-

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Authority on the sociological and economic aspects of health services. From the description of The papers of Odin W. Anderson, 1921-1991. (American Hospital Association). WorldCat record id: 25364340 ...

Emerson, Haven, 1874-1957

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Haven Emerson : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309730504 ...

Krantz, Goldie, 1915-1976.

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In 1950, Goldie Krantz joined the staff of ILWU-PMA Welfare Fund, and served as its secretary until 1962. She became Program Analyst for the Group Health Association in 1962, a position she held until 1975. Krantz served as consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service from 1955-1962, and the Pacific Maritime Association, 1962-1968. From the description of Goldie Krantz papers, 1928-1977 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168436 In 1950, Goldie Krantz...

Bugbee, George

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Executive director of the American Hospital Association from 1943 to 1954. From the description of The papers of George P. Bugbee. 1943-1984. (American Hospital Association). WorldCat record id: 13784632 From the description of [The memorabilia of George P. Bugbee.]. 1937-1982. (American Hospital Association). WorldCat record id: 13978474 ...

Wald, Florence Shorske, 1917-2008

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Born on April 19, 1917 in New York City, Florence Wald became a pioneer and a leading voice in the development of hospice care in the United States. Wald obtained a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1938, an M.N. from the Yale University School of Nursing in 1941, and an M.S. from the Yale University Graduate School in 1956. From 1941 to 1943, she served as a staff nurse for the New York Visiting Nurse Service, from 1946 to 1952 she was a research assistant at the College of Physic...

Weinerman, Edwin Richard 1917-1970

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Edwin R. Weinerman: physician, educator and hospital administrator; faculty member, University of California School of Public Health, 1948-1950; medical director, Permanente Health Plan, 1950-1951; medical director, Herrick Memorial Hospital Clinic, El Cerrito, California, 1955-1962; on the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine, 1962-1970; director of Ambulatory Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1962-1968. From the description of Edwin Richard Weinerman papers, 1908-1970 (in...

Rosen, George, 1910-1977

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George Rosen was born in New York City in 1910. After attending City College he went to Humboldt University in Berlin for his M.D. (1935). In 1953 he left medical practice to become a professor of health education at Columbia University's School of Health and Administrative Medicine. Throughout his working career he studied and authored numerous articles and books, including A History of Public Health (1958). Rosen also served as editor of the American Journal of Public Health. From ...

Roemer, Milton Irwin, 1916-2001

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Milton Roemer was born in Paterson, NJ, March 24, 1916. He received his BA from Cornell University (1936), his MD from New York University (1940), and an MPH from the University of Michigan (1943). He interned at Barnert Memorial Hospital, in Paterson (1940-1941), was with the New Jersey Health Department from 1941 and 1942, and from 1943 to 1948 with the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, DC. Dr. Roemer served as a member of the faculty of Yale University Medical School from 1949 to 195...

Axelrod, Solomon J. (Solomon Jacob), 1912-1987

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Public health physician, specialist in public health economics, professor in the University of Michigan School of Public Health, director of its Bureau of Public Health Economics, and chairman of the Department of Medical Care Organization. From the description of Solomon Jacob Axelrod papers, 1938-1988. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422296 Solomon Jacob Axelrod was born in Gloversville, New York on September 25, 1912. He graduated Phi Beta Kap...

Grant, John B. (John Black), 1890-1962

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Public health officer. From the description of Reminiscences of John Black Grant : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734263 ...

Committee for the Nation's Health

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Incorporated 1946 with Michael M. Davis, Ph.D., as chair of its Executive Committee. Its purpose was to promote national health insurance. With the election of Eisenhower in 1952 began to function as a health information office for organized labor. Abolished in January, 1956. From the description of Committee for the Nation's Health records, 1939-1956 (bulk 1946-1955) [microform]. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 181359085 ...

Rohrlich, George F. (George Friedrich), 1914-

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Biographical note: Austrian emigre economist. George F. Rohrlich was born and educated in Vienna. He immigrated to the United States in 1939 and recieved a Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University in 1943. He4 served in the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, 1943-45; on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff as chief, Economic Analysis Branch, Social Security Division Public Health and Welfare Section of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP),...

Rorem, C. Rufus (Clarence Rufus), 1894-1988

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Pioneer in the field of health economics. From the description of Manuscript and reprint collection, [ca. 1925]-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155473289 ...

Roche, Josephine A. (Josephine Aspinwall), 1886-1976

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Director of the Foreign Language Information Service, Josephine Aspinwall Roche (1886-1976) was educated at Vassar and Columbia University. Before coming to the Service, she was chief probation officer and director of girls' work in the Denver (Colorado) juvenile court, inspector of amusements and policewomen in Denver, and special investigator for the National Consumers' League. The FLIS served sixteen nationality groups; its purpose was to interpret America to the immigrants and vice versa. It...

Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-2009

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Edward Moore Kennedy (b. Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Mass.-d. Aug. 25, 2009), graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1956, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He was elected democratic senator from Massachusetts in 1962, served until his death in August 2009. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County from 1961 to 1962, and sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1980....

Silver, George A.

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George Albert Silver was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1913. After receiving a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1934), Silver earned an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College (1938) and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University (1948). Silver taught at Johns Hopkins and Columbia University and served as chief of the Division of Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital in New York City, before being named deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Health,...

Snoke, Albert W. (Albert Waldo), 1907-

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Albert Waldo Snoke was born in Fort Steilacoom, Washington, in 1907. After receiving a B.S. degree from the University of Washington in 1928, he attended Stanford University Medical School and received his M.D. degree in 1933. In 1936, Snoke joined the staff of the Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, and became its assistant director in 1937. Snoke left Rochester in 1946 to assume the directorship of Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. In New Haven he also taught hospi...

Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984

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Public health specialist. From the description of Reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481519 Isidore Sydney Falk, bacteriologist, public health medical economist, and social security expert, received his Ph.B. from Yale in 1920, and his Ph.D. in 1923. Falk was a professor of bacteriology at the University of Chicago from 1923-1929; a research associate at the Milbank Memorial Fund fr...

Hiscock, Ira V. (Ira Vaughan), 1892-

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Bacteriologist; member of the Conn. Dept. of Health, 1914-1917; from 1920-1960, professor of public health, Yale University; innovator in the areas of public health surveys and state and local health councils; frequent consultant and volunteer to local, state, and national social welfare agencies. From the description of Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers, 1918-1979 (inclusive), 1925-1939 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702205907 From the guide to the Ira Vaughan Hiscock pape...

Falk, Leslie A.

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Born in 1915, Leslie A. Falk attend Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and obtained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. He was a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights and served as its first field secretary in Mississippi. After a medical career in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee, he studied African-American history in his retirement. From the description of Falk (Leslie A.) African American history research collection, 1842-1999. (Unive...

Mills, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Daigh), 1909-

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Congressman. From the description of Reminiscences of Wilbur Daigh Mills : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742101 ...

Somers, Anne Ramsay

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Anne Ramsay Somers, educator, author, and health consultant, was born in 1913. From 1937-1942 she served as educational director of the ILGW Union. Somers worked as a labor economist in the U.S. Department of Labor from 1943-1946, and was a research associate at Haverford College from 1957-1963. She was a faculty member at Princeton and a professor of community and family medicine at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of the New Jersey-Rutgers Medical School. From the description ...

Viseltear, Arthur J. (Arthur Jack), 1938-

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Arthur Jack Viseltear was born in New York City on March 19, 1938. He earned a B.A. from Tulane University in 1959, and an M.P.H. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in history in 1965 from the University of California at Los Angeles. From 1963 through 1969, he was a lecturer in public health at UCLA. In 1969, he was appointed an assistant professor of public health and research associate in the history of medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in ...

Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002

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John William Gardner (1912-2002) was vice president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1949 to 1955, and president of the Carnegie Corporation from 1955 to 1965. He was a member of President Kennedy's Task Force on Education in 1960, on President Johnson's Task Force on Education in 1964, and he served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1965 to 1968. From the description of Gardner, John William, 1912-2002 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)...

Myers, Robert J. (Robert Julius), 1912-2010

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Actuary. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert J. Myers :koral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451883 ...

O'Brien, Lawrence F.

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Politician. From the description of Reminiscences of Lawrence F. O'Brien : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376720 ...

Sinai, Nathan, 1894-2000.

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Nathan Sinai: foundation official; D.V.M., San Francisco College, 1915; M.S. in Public Health, University of Michigan, 1924, Dr. P.H., 1926; director, Division of Sanitation, Stockton, 1916-1921; health officer, Stockton, 1921-1923; instructor, hygiene and public health, University of Michigan, 1924-1927, assistant professor, 1927-1929, associate professor, 1929-1932, professor, 1932-1964, professor emeritus, 1964-. From the guide to the Nathan Sinai papers, 1912-1966, (Manuscripts a...

Dublin, Louis I. (Louis Israel), 1882-1969

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Dr. Dublin, vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was with that institution from 1909-1952. His analytic studies on birth rates, vital statistics trends, suicide, accident rates, mortality rates of whites and African-Americans, and the increasing population of aged Americans raised awareness of the implications these areas had on national medical care, including prevention and costs. He was president, or director, of various public health institutions, inclu...

Trussell, Ray E. (Ray Elbert), 1914-

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Ray Elbert Trussell: oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122452042 ...

Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957

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Henry E. Sigerist was born in Paris, France in 1891. He studied in Europe, served in the Swiss Army Corps, and received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in 1917. He was lecturer and professor of history of medicine at Zurich (1921-1924) and the University of Leipzig (1925-1932). He then served as professor and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (1932-1947), before becoming a research associate at Yale University (1947-1957). Sigerist published ...

Esselstyn, Caldwell B., 1902-1975.

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Caldwell B. Esselstyn: physician, health care administrator; A.B., Yale, 1925; M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1929; established the Rip Van Winkle Foundation in 1946 [renamed the C. B. Esselstyn Foundation in 1975] in the Hudson River Valley to provide medical care for the impoverished; appointed to Public Health Council of New York, 1955-1963; organized support for federally sponsored health insurance for the aged [the Medicare Act of 1965]; director of the Commun...

Jordan, Edwin O. (Edwin Oakes), 1866-1936

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Bacteriologist. B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1888. From the description of Papers, 1888-1936 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248229 Edwin Oakes Jordan was born July 28, 1866, in Thomaston, Maine. His interest in bacteriology grew from his studies with William Thompson Sedgwick at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. degree in 1888. Although the work of Pasteur and Koch was well kn...

Perrott, George St. J. (George St. John), 1893-1980

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Chemist, government official. From the description of Reminiscences of George St. John Perrott : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419169 Perrott, a biostatistician, directed the National Health Survey of 1935-1936. He was with the U. S. Public Health Service from 1933-1958, and from 1962-1975 worked with the Group Health Association of America. From the description of George St. John Perrott papers, 1920-19...

Sanders, Barkev S.

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Barkev Sanders was born Barkev Sandragortzian in Tagh, Shatach, Turkey to an Armenian family on July 2, 1903. His father was a teacher and a Protestant minister. Shortly after his birth, Sanders was taken to the city of Van, where he spent most of his childhood. In 1915, during the Turkish persecution of Armenians, Sanders and his family fled Turkey and relocated to Alkamar, Russian Armenia, where, also in 1915, both of his parents and two of his brothers died. Following his sojourn...

Harris, Seymour Edwin, 1897-1974

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Epithet: Professor of Harvard University, economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001123.0x00033e Seymour Edwin Harris (Sept. 8, 1897 - Oct. 27, 1974), economist, teacher, author, and public servant, was born in New York City, the son of Augusta Kulick and Henry Harris. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1920 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1926. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the David A. Wells Prize ...

Burns, Eveline M. (Eveline Mabel), 1900-1985

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Economist. From the description of Reminiscences of Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309731693 From the description of Reminiscences of Eveline Mabel Burns : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513098 From the description of Reminiscences of Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City o...

Altmeyer, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1891-1972

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Administrator. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Joseph Altmeyer : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527063 ...

United Steelworkers of America

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

World Bank

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American public health association

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The American Public Health Association was founded in 1872 as a professional organization of physicians, nurses, educators, sanitary engineers, environmentalists, social workers, optometrists, podiatrists, pharmacists, dentists, hygienists, and other community health specialists. In pursuit of its goal of protecting and promoting personal and environmental health, the APHA offers services including the promulgation of standards, the establishment of uniform practices and procedures, development ...

Goldmann, Franz

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Physician, educator; born Elberfeld, Germany; M.D., Friedrick Wilhelms University, Berlin, 1920; came to U.S., 1937, naturalized, 1943; fellow Dept. Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, 1937-1939, associate clinical professor, 1939-1946, clinical professor, 1946-1947, lecturer 1947-1949; associate professor Harvard School Public Health, 1947-1958, emeritus professor, 1958-1970. From the description of Franz Goldmann papers, 1939-1968 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702...

Milbank Memorial Fund

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The Milbank Memorial Fund, established and endowed by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson in 1905, has focused its activities in the field of public health. The fund has had a significant impact in promoting reform in the organization and delivery of health care. From the description of Milbank Memorial Fund records, 1898-2000 (inclusive), 1922-1999 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168706 The Milbank Memorial Fund, established and endowed by Elizabeth Milbank An...

Brewster, Kingman, 1919-1988

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Kingman Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts on June 17, 1919. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1941 and his law degree from Harvard in 1948. Brewster taught law at Harvard from 1949-1960. He served as provost of Yale from 1961-1963 and was president of Yale from 1963-1977. Brewster was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain from 1977-1981. Kingman Brewster died on November 8, 1988. From the description of Kingman Brewster personal papers, 1920-1989 (inclusive). ...

Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957

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Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was born in 1877. He received degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1898 (B.S.) and 1899 (M.S.). He taught at the University of Chicago, the College of the City of New York, Columbia University, and Yale University. Winslow also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology (1916-1944), as a member of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia, as president of the American Public Health Association (1926), as editor of the Americ...

Dulles, Eleanor Lansing, 1895-1996

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Eleanor Lansing Dulles (b. June 1, 1895-d. Oct. 31, 1996) was an educator, diplomat, and author. She worked for the U.S. State Department serving as an economic specialist whose efforts helped rebuild West Berlin after World War II, earning her the name "the Mother of Berlin." Dulles was part of a family that was highly involved in civil service. Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration, her brother John Foster Dulles was secretary of state, while her brother Allen W. Dulles was dir...

Davis, Michael Marks, 1879-1971

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Michael Davis was one of the major figures in health care policy in the United States. He served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Committee for the Nation's Health (CNH), incorporated in 1946 and abolished in 1956. Davis received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1906. In Boston and then in New York, Davis led movements to extend dispensary services to people of moderate means. He later served as director of medical services for the Julius Rosenwald Fund and chaired the foundation-funded Com...

Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987

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Wilbur J. Cohen was Director of the Research and Statistics Bureau of the Wisconsin Health, Education and Welfare Department and the author of several texts on Social Security. From the guide to the Wilbur J. Cohen, Papers, 1937-1942, (Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.) Government official. From the description of Reminiscences of Wilbur Joseph Cohen : oral history, 1976. (Columbia Univ...