Rufus Edward Miles papers, 1934-1985.

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...

United States. Bureau of the Budget

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The records were created and accumulated in 1941 by Eric H. Biddle on behalf of his mission, sponsored by the American Public Welfare Association, to study public welfare conditions and activities in Great Britain under the heavy aerial bombardment of that country. During the mission Mr. Biddle was appointed as Foreign Observer for the Bureau of the Budget, attached to the United States Embassy in London. In this capacity he brought the records of his mission to the Bureau, where they were offic...

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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The School of Public and International Affairs was founded in 1930 as a cooperative enterprise of the History, Politics, and Economics Departments of Princeton University at the undergraduate level. With the establishment of a graduate program in 1948, the school was renamed for former president Woodrow Wilson, and a substantial gift in 1961 allowed for the enrollment of additional graduate students and the construction of a new facility (Robertson Hall). From the description of Wood...

États-Unis. Dept. of Education

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A Department of Education, headed by a Commissioner, was established by an act of March 2, 1867. It was abolished as an independent agency on July 20, 1868, and reestablished as the Office of Education in the Department of Interior. The original statutory function of both the Department and the Office was to collect and desseminate information on education in the United States and abroad and to promote better education throughout the country. Later legislation and Executive orders h...

United States. Federal Security Agency

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Miles, Rufus E.

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Biographical note: Rufus Miles was a senior administrator at the U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 1941-42, 1945-50; U.S. Federal Security Agency, 1950-53; and U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953-65; a major proponent of the creation of a U.S. Department of Education; and subsequently a faculty member at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1965-70. From the description of Rufus Edward Miles papers, 1934-1985. (Unknown). World...