Oral history interview with Arthur J. Altmeyer [electronic resource], 1967

Biographical Note

Administrator.

Scope and Contents

Education, background in health insurance movement, John R. Commons; Committee on Economic Security, 1934-1935; Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1934; Advisory Council, National Conference on Health, 1938; administrative problems and policies in Social Security; training, relations with Congress, Treasury Dept., Internal Revenue Service; influence of organized labor and professional associations. Impressions of Frances Perkins, Edwin Witte, Wilbur Cohen, Isidore Falk, and others.

Subjects

• Altmeyer, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1891-1972--Interviews.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.
• Government executives--Interviews.
• Health insurance.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Committee on Economic Security.
• United States. Social Security Administration.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1979.