Records, 1935-1941.

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Records, 1935-1941.

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, special studies, and reports concerning public health problems, Federal health care, and the location and construction of clinics and hospitals; technical committees addressed the issues of food and nutrition, public health nursing, industrial hygiene, crippled children, public health and safety education, recreational projects, the Indian medical services, workers' education, medical care, work with the needy blind, personnel standards in the Social Security Program, probation, parole, crime prevention, transient and migratory problems, federal-state relations, and medical care and public health services in the Resettlement Administration. Committee members were Josephine Roche, Chairman, Oscar Chapman, and A.J. Altmeyer.

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United States. Resettlement Administration

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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...

Chapman, Oscar L. (Oscar Littleton), 1896-1978

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Oscar L. Chapman (b. 1896) was the Secretary of the Interior from 1949 to 1953. Chapman died in 1978. From the description of Chapman, Oscar L. (Oscar Littleton), 1896-1978 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10571795 Lawyer and secretary of the Dept. of the Interior. From the description of Papers, 1931-1952. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70943865 ...

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 States. President's Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare Activities.

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The Committee was appointed in August 1935 by Franklin D. Roosevelt to better coordinate the new government programs in the health field. It sponsored a National Health Conference in July 1938 and recommendations from it were submitted to Congress in January 1939. From the description of Records, 1935-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525192 ...