Assistance and outreach administrative files, 1927-1980.

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Assistance and outreach administrative files, 1927-1980.

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The records document Consumers' Research's aid to, assistance to, and relations with United States government agencies, business and medical groups, cooperatives, foreign governments, subscribers, and other groups. The files also concern the use of CR and the reaction to CR's activities by the above groups. The records include correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, and other publications. Subjects include business' loaning samples of products to CR, CR's relations to business groups, business use of CR test data, CR's relationship with the American Medical Association including correpondence with Dr. Arthur Cramp, charitable organizations, use of CR by clubs and study groups, cooperatives' relation to CR, CR's relation to farms, foreigners' consumer questions, international subscribers, CR's relation to Latin America, CR criticized as a conservative organization, CR's relation to liberal, radical, and conservative movements, CR's relation to the United States government, CR's assistance to government agencies including the military (William Consodine correspondence), use of CR by state and local governments, and the use of CR by labor, magazines and newspapers, organizations and associations.

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Consumers' Research, Inc.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...

Consodine, William A.

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