Oral history interview with Charles Stern Ascher, 1972.

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

United States. Federal Housing Administration

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The Federal Housing Administration, also known as FHA, provides mortgage insurance on loans made by FHA-approved lenders throughout the United States and its territories. FHA insures mortgages on single family homes, multifamily properties, residential care facilities, and hospitals. It is one of the largest insurers of mortgages in the world, insuring more than 46 million mortgages since its inception in 1934....

United States. Public Works Administration

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The Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project to improve navigation on and provide hydro-electric power from the Santee and Cooper Rivers was authorized by the South Carolina legislature in 1934. Federal approval for the Project was granted in 1935 and construction takes place from 1939-1941; power generation begins in 1942. Fossil fuel generating stations constructed in 1951, 1966, 1972, 1977 and 1981 and a nuclear plant, in cooperation with South Carolina Electric & Gas, opened i...

American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.)

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Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

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Society for Ethical Culture

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Founded in 1876 by Felix Adler; located at 2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West), New York, N.Y. From the description of Miscellaneous material, [1894]-1946. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 476500036 ...

Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials

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Hogan, Thomas F., 1938-

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Lawyer, of Litchfield, Conn.; member of the Litchfield Schools Planning Committee which was formed and met weekly in 2002 and early 2003 to develop options for the renovation and expansion of the intermediate and high schools in Litchfield, Conn. From the description of Thomas Hogan Litchfield Schools Planning Committee papers, 2002-2003. (Litchfield Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 773937363 ...

Ascher, Charles S. (Charles Stern), 1899-1980

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Professor of political science at Brooklyn College from 1949 to his retirement in 1966. (Columbia A.B., 1920; LL.B., 1921). He was also secretary and general counsel of the City Housing Corporation, builder of the experimental developments Sunnyside (Queens, N.Y.) and Radburn (New Jersey); served as founding executive secretary of the Public Administration Clearing House in Chicago; regional director of the National Housing Agency from 1942-1947; and executive officer for progr...

UNESCO

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National Municipal League.

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Kuhn, Loeb & Company

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Otto Kahn was a partner at the investment firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and an active patron of the arts and music; he was on the board of the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. At the time that Gustav Mahler signed his contract with the Metropolitan Opera it was still called the Conried Metropolitan Opera Company. The latter company was formed in 1903 under the direction of Heinrich Conried (1855-1909); when Conried retired in 1908 the name was changed to the Metropolitan Opera Company. ...

United States. National Housing Agency

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Social Science Research Council (U.S.)

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