Word: carr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hull House's founder, Jane Addams, in the 19th Century spirit, believed in the social adjustment and education of the alien poor. Miss Carr thought that times had changed, that organization and political pressure were now the best ways for slum dwellers to better their...
...very job of a settlement is to keep putting itself out of business," she announced, to the horror of Hull House traditionalists who not only wanted to keep the place as a going concern but fixed in the course Jane Addams had set. They were also shocked by Miss Carr's smoking and cocktailing, by her taking Jane Addams' bedroom as her office. Charlotte Carr often mourned that Hull House was in danger of becoming a shrine...
When contributions fell off, Miss Carr inevitably had budget trouble. Running in the red for years, Hull House had used up all its surplus funds. A Carr protégée, Mary Wing, offered to make up further deficits of some $20,000-on condition that her friend Charlotte be given a free hand in shaping Hull House policy. The Board of Trustees found the condition unacceptable, and Charlotte Carr refused to work on a smaller budget...
Hull House's budget of some $110,000 a year was peanuts to Charlotte Carr. "Miss Carr is a big-time operator with a flair for the spectacular," said a trustee last week. In her former job, as director of New York City's Emergency Relief Board (1935-37), she had $9,000,000 a month to spend to feed more people than live in all Milwaukee. Before that, she was Secretary of Labor & Industry in teeming, brawling Pennsylvania...
...first jobs after Vassar ('15) was as a policewoman in the tough Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. Tall, heavy and gusty, Charlotte Carr calls herself "a fat Irishwoman" and is a female counterpart of John L. Lewis-more a labor leader than a social worker. Last week she had been offered a job with the Rosenwald Fund (race relations...