Records, 1947-1956, 1948-1950 (bulk)

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Records, 1947-1956, 1948-1950 (bulk)

Notes, memoranda, correspondence, proposals, reports, and summaries documenting the work of the Study for the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program, 1948-1950. Files document the fundamental decisions made by its members regarding the formulation of program disciplines and trustee selection, as well as the coordination of the study itself. The study culminated in the four volume REPORT OF STUDY FOR THE FORD FOUNDATION ON POLICY AND PROGRAM. Members of the Study Committee were H. Rowan Gaither Jr., Thomas H. Carroll, Charles C. Lauritsen, William C. DeVane, Donald G. Marquis, T. Duckett Jones, Peter H. Odegard, and Francis T. Spaulding. Staff members were William McPeak, Dyke Brown, Paul Bixler, and Don K. Price.

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Marquis, Donald G. (Donald George)

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Carroll, Thomas H.

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Odegard, Peter H., 1901-1966

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Odegard was a professor of Political Science at The University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Peter H. Odegard papers, 1947-1966. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26850192 Political scientist, college professor. Odegard was a government official with the Treasury Dept., 1941-1945. From the description of Papers, 1941-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524393 ...

Ford foundation

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Philanthropic organization established in 1936 by Henry and Edsel Ford from profits of the Ford Motor Company. From the description of Grant files, [ca. 1936-1986]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532303 ...

Brown, Dyke.

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McPeak, William.

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Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968

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Lauritsen, C. C. (1892- 1968). Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1930-1962. From the description of Papers, 1927-1977 (Bulk 1946-1973) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80301645 Biography Charles Christian Lauritsen, known to his colleagues as Charlie or C. C., was born in Holstebro, Denmark in 1892 and educated at the Odense Technical School. During World War I, although Denmark officially remained n...

Ford Foundation. Study for the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program.

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The purpose of the Study Committee was to block out in general terms those critical areas where world problems were most serious and where the Foundation might make the most significant contributions to human welfare. From the description of Records, 1947-1956, 1948-1950 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532274 ...

DeVane, William C. (William Clyde), 1898-1965

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Bixler, Paul Howard, 1899-

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Spaulding, Francis Trow, 1896-1950.

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Spaulding graduated from Harvard in 1917, taught education and served as Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Francis T. Spaulding, 1925-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973190 ...

Price, Don Krasher

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Price (1910-) taught government and served as Dean of the J.F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard. From the description of Papers of Don K. Price, 1958-1971 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973157 ...

Gaither, H. Rowan (Horace Rowan), 1909-1961

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President of the Ford Foundation, 1953-1956. From the description of Papers, 1946-1959, 1951-1956 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155531924 ...

Jones, T. Duckett, 1899-1954

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