Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Barbara Armstrong [electronic resource], 1965
| Creator: | Armstrong, Barbara Nachtrieb, 1890-1976 | Project: | Social security project.
(see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript: 317 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteLawyer; interviewee married Ian Alastair Armstrong.
Scope and ContentsSocial Insurance Commission, California, 1915-19; attempts to get social and health insurance; INSURING THE ESSENTIALS, 1932; consultant on unemployment insurance and old age insurance, Committee on Economic Security, 1934; detailed account of preparatory work for social security legislation: effect of the Depression, Wisconsin plan, separation of taxing and spending provisions, constitutionality, relationship with insurance industry, Treasury Dept., Edwin Witte, J. Douglas Brown, Arthur Altmeyer, Senator Robert La Follette, and others.
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1983.
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