Portrait of an economics professor : oral history transcript / Ira B. Cross; tape recorded interview conducted by Joann D. Ariff in 1966. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1967 : and related material, 1966-1967.

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Portrait of an economics professor : oral history transcript / Ira B. Cross; tape recorded interview conducted by Joann D. Ariff in 1966. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1967 : and related material, 1966-1967.

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Recollections of his teaching career at Stanford University, 1906-1914, and at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1914 until his retirement in 1951, with comments also on his colleagues, his help in organizing the Berkeley Police School, teaching at the American Institute of Banking and the raising and breeding of chrysanthemums. Maps inserted. Appended: his history of the Economics Dept., 1871-1942; and bibliographies on economics and chrysanthemums.

Transcript : [15], 128 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.Phonotape : 1 sound tape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track ; 5 in.

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....

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Cross, Ira B. (Ira Brown), 1880-

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Biography Ira Brown Cross, a descendant of William Bradford and John and Priscilla Alden of the Plymouth Colony, was born December 1, 1880 in Decatur, Illinois. He received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, and while a student there became a member of the Socialist Party. In 1904 he served as the Assistant Secretary of the National Convention of the Socialist Party in Chicago. Cross received his Ph.D. from Stanford U...

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Stanford University. Dept. of Economics and Social Science.

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