Institute of Governmental Studies research materials, 1935-1944.

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Institute of Governmental Studies research materials, 1935-1944.

Copies of correspondence and memoranda regarding civilian defense, World War II; studies by California State Emergency Relief Administration, 1935, concerning proposed labor laws, Chinese social needs, and disease among the Chinese; and clippings relating to agricultural labor, 1943-1944.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7014477

UC Berkeley Libraries

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California. State Relief Administration

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Biographical Note The State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) was created in 1933 as a provision of the Unemployment Bond Relief Act. In 1935, SERA was succeeded by the State Relief Administration (SRA). Both agencies were created to help alleviate certain conditions caused by the Great Depression, and their responsibilities included the distribution of state and federal funds for unemployment relief. The activities of the State Relief A...

University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies

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Thomas Truax served as assistant to executive director of ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments). In 1968, was convicted of grand theft; diverted some $511,000 from ABAG funds. From the description of Correspondence regarding the case of Thomas N. Truax, 1968 Feb. 9-1976 April 20. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 58910570 ...