Reminiscences of Justine Wise Polier : oral history, 1981.

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Reminiscences of Justine Wise Polier : oral history, 1981.

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Wise and Waterman family backgrounds; family relations, especially with father, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; college education at Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe and Barnard, A.B.1924; early jobs in labor and attempts to organize New Jersey textile industry; Yale Law School, LL.B.1928; referee, New York Dept. of Labor, on medical compensation cases; Assistant Corporation Counsel under Mayor LaGuardia, setting up model insurance system, 1934-35; judge, New York City Court of Domestic Relations: changes in court procedure, attempts to make treatment of children by voluntary agencies and courts more humane and equitable.

Transcript: 225 leaves.Tape: 2 reels and 5 cassettes.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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