Oral history interview with Albert Henry Aronson, 1965.

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Oral history interview with Albert Henry Aronson, 1965.

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Director of personnel, Social Security Board; selection of administrators; field assistants; personnel problems in public assistance and unemployment insurance; merit system; recruitment; Bureau of Research and Statistics; authority of Civil Service commission over Social Security Administration; Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance; patronage problems; federal-state relationships in personnel administration. Recollections of Arthur Altmeyer, Vincent Miles, and John Winant.

Transcript: 173 leaves.Tape: 5 reels.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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