Influence, philosophy, and history administrative files, 1925-1980.

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Influence, philosophy, and history administrative files, 1925-1980.

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The records document the evolution of Consumers' Research's influence on consumer theory and consumerism in the United States and abroad by focusing on CR's philosophy and functions, CR's history, attacks against CR, and consumer agencies similar to CR. Included are correspondence, publications, and magazine and newspaper articles. Topics include agencies similar to or imitating CR (including state and federal agencies), Albert Lane's Consumer Bureau of Standards and Consumers Research Foundation, Consumers' Preference, Haldeman-Julius Consumers Magazine, International Organization of Consumer Unions (IOCU), Consumers of Canada (Charles E. Nix), Canadian Consumers League, and Consumers Research Service (Chicago); CR's aid to research and scientific education; attacks on CR by Frank Dalton O'Sullivan, author of the anti-CR book, Poison Pen of New Jersey; campaigns against CR; attacks on CR by advertising agencies, patent medicine manufacturers, Printers' Ink, Christian Century, Anna Steese Richardson of Woman's Home Companion, Seiberling Rubber Co., Readers Digest, and the Forum; deliberate confusion of consumer organizations; attempts to mislead CR (razor blades); business pressure on CR; confusing CR with other organizations including Consumers Digest; and effect of CR's criticisms.

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Matthews, J. B. (Joseph Brown), 1894-1966

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Haldeman-Julius, E. 1889-1981.

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Consumers Club.

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Phillips, M. C. (Mary Catherine), 1903-

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International Organization of Consumers' Unions.

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Richardson, Anna Steese, 1865-1949

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Anna Steese Richardson was born in Ohio, and raised by her aunts and grandmothers in Philadelphia after the early death of her mother. Around 1883, after acquiring a Normal School diploma, she took a teaching job in Colorado. She married William Richardson, with whom she had three children; they later divorced. Richardson ran their household in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and also reported news for the local daily newspaper. In 1900, Richardson and her family moved to New York where she b...