Oral history interview with Ida Klaus, 1998

Biographical Note

Attorney-at-Law

Scope and Contents

Family: political interests, unions; Girls High School; Hebrew High School; Hebrew Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary: 1925; Hunter College: BA French and German, 1927, faculty, curriculum; Columbia University Law School: LLB 1931: discrimination, faculty; study abroad, Germany, labor; Johns Hopkins Institute of Law, research assistant; Great Depression; economy; New Deal; Farm Credit Administration, chief legal assistant; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Department of Agriculture; National Labor Relations Board, solicitor; National Labor Relations Act of 1935; Taft-Hartley Act of 1947; separation of functions; New York City Department of Labor, labor counsel 1954; New York City Board of Education; private arbitration, U.S. Steel; Railroad Labor Act; New York State Public Employment Relations Board, discrimination; pro-bono work, New York Diabetes Association, Multiple Sclerosis Society

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Interviews.
• Klaus, Ida, 1905-1999--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Portnoy, Sara, interviewer.
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

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Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2002