Marion E. Kenworthy papers [electronic resource], 1938-1952 1939-1940. [1938-1952]

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Marion E. Kenworthy papers [electronic resource], 1938-1952 1939-1940. [1938-1952]

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Contains correspondence, newsletters and minutes of meetings of the Non-Sectarian Committee for German Refugee Children, which was established in 1938 to lobby the U.S. government to allow immigration for refugee children. Also contains correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper articles and editorials and congressional testimony relating to the 1939 Wagner-Rogers Bill authorizing the admittance of German refugee children to the U.S; and correspondence pertaining to this legislation from the Jewish Children's Bureau of Chicago (1939). Among the more important correspondents are Stephen S. Wise, Robert F. Wagner, Justine Wise Polier, Eugene Meyer and Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

Université d’Ottawa, University of Ottawa

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Université d’Ottawa, University of Ottawa

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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary taste...

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Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to the United States the following year. He graduated with honors from Columbia University and in 1893 he was ordained in Austria "The People's Rabbi," as Wise would later be known, developed his deep concern for the less fortunate at an early age. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers and equal rights for African Americans. He founded th...

Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959

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Newspaperman. From the description of Papers of Eugene Meyer, 1819-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83145968 Financier, newspaper executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Meyer : oral history, 1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733277 ...

Kenworthy, Marion E. (Marion Edwena), 1891-1980

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Lawyer and judge (Barnard College, B.A., 1924; Yale University, LL. B., 1928), Polier was counsel in the Workmen's Compensation Division of the New York State Department of Labor (1928-1935). She was Judge of the New York State Family Court, 1935-1973, where she pioneered the treatment method of juvenile justice. Among her achievements were improvements in shelters for neglected children, detention centers for delinquents, foster homes, youth centers, and expanded mental health services for chil...

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Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953

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