Records, 1924-1981 (bulk 1944-1977).

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Records, 1924-1981 (bulk 1944-1977).

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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, legislation, notes, speeches, testimony, publications, newsletters, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter, relating chiefly to the work of Olya Margolin as the council's representative in Washington from 1944 to 1978. Topics include the aged, child care, consumer issues, education, employment, economic assistance to foreign countries, food and nutrition, housing, immigration, Israel, Jewish life and culture, juvenile delinquency, national health insurance, social welfare, trade, and women's rights. Contemporary concerns include nuclear warfare, European refugees, postwar price controls, and the establishment of the United Nations during the 1940s; the NCJW's Freedom Campaign against McCarthyism in the 1950s; civil rights and sex discrimination in the 1960s; and abortion, human rights, and Soviet Jewry in the 1970s. Includes material on the Washington Institute on Public Affairs and the Joint Program Institute (both founded by a subcommittee of the Washington Office), on activities of various local and state NCJW sections, and on the Women's Joint Congressional Committee and Women in Community Service, two organizations that were founded in part by the National Council of Jewish Women.

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Joint Program Institute.

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Margolin, Olya.

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Washington Institute on Public Affairs.

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Women in Community Service (U.S.)

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Women's Joint Congressional Committee (U.S.)

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McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957

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National Council of Jewish Women. Washington, D.C., Office

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Established in 1944 as a liaison office between the National Council of Jewish Women and the U.S. Congress and government agencies; coordinated through the council's Public Affairs Department in New York, N.Y. From the description of National Council of Jewish Women, Washington, D.C., Office, records, 1924-1981 (bulk 1944-1977). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132258 Established in 1944 as a liaison office between the National Council of Jewish Women and the U.S. Congress a...

United States. Congress

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Bills of the 96th Congress to provide for temporary increases in the public debt limit, and for other purposes. From the description of Public debt legislation, 96th Congress : legislative history of public debt legislation, 1979-1980. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243776779 Bill of the 96th Congress to impose a windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil, and for other purposes. From the description of Crude oil windfall profit tax act of 1980 ...