Papers, 1892-1949.
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Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944
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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...
American University (Washington, D.C.)
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Devine, Edward T. (Edward Thomas), 1867-1948
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Edward T. Devine, an author, lecturer and social worker, was a professor at Columbia University from 1905-1919, secretary of the Charity Organization Society of New York, dean of the graduate school of American University, and chairman of the committee on revision of a statement on social ideals for the National Council of the Churches of Christ in America from 1930-1932. Devine was involved in American Red Cross relief efforts following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, in Russia in 1916 and i...
Federal council of the churches of Christ in America
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Succeeded by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. From the description of Records of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1912-1950 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702151783 ...
American Red Cross
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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...
