Reminiscences of Boris Basil Shishkin : oral history, 1957.

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Reminiscences of Boris Basil Shishkin : oral history, 1957.

Early life and education in Russia; World War I and the Russian Revolution; flight to Istanbul; Columbia University during the late 1920s; role of American Federation of Labor in New Deal legislation; American Federation of Labor conventions, 1933-1936; impressions of William Green, John L. Lewis, Maurice Tobin, Matthew Woll, and other labor leaders.

Transcript: 872 leaves.

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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