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"Social Work" used to be regarded as a career for unmarriageable females, male fuddy-duddies and a few selfless souls like Jane Addams. Today professional social workers, headed by Harry Hopkins, are key people in Government's multiplex Relief-dispensing machine. When 3,000 of them met last week...
The late, great Jane Addams shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with the eminent Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Moreover, Theodore Roosevelt once called her "America's most useful citizen." But down to the end of her long life in 1935 Jane Addams was never so proud of anything as...
Last summer this old fortress of personal good works turned with the times as its directors chose to succeed Founder Addams as head-resident an efficient, practised public charitarian. She was Charlotte Carr, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau. A tall, hefty, genial spinster who...
Appointed. Charlotte Carr, 451sh, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau, onetime (1930-34) Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor & Industry; as head resident of Chicago's famed Hull House, pioneer U. S. social settlement, founded by the late, great Jane Addams who ran it from 1889...
Calvin Coolidge is not in the Dictionary of American Biography because he died too late (1933) for Volume IV (Chanfour-to-Cushing). Last year Jane Addams and Edwin Arlington Robinson likewise died too late, William H. Woodin was in time. Last week this unique race between Death and the alphabet...