Reminiscences of Ewan Clague : oral history, 1958.

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Reminiscences of Ewan Clague : oral history, 1958.

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Education; work at Brookings Institution; New Deal legislation; social security; relationship of Bureau of Labor Statistics to other Federal agencies; Department of Labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower; Frances Perkins and subsequent Secretaries of Labor; John Winant, Arthur Altmeyer, Isador Lubin, John Steelman, and others.

Transcript: 468 leaves.

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

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