Reminiscences of John Michael Carmody, 1954

Biographical Note

Administrator

Scope and Contents

Family background and description of life in northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York at the turn of the century; education and early work experiences as a steel inspector; later as an executive in the garment industry and coal mining industry; editor-in-chief successively of COAL AGE and FACTORY & INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT for the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company; detailed account of service in government; Civil Works Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, National Defense Mediation Board, National Labor Relations Board, Rural Electrification Administration, President's Power Policy Committee, the Cabinet-rank position as head of the Federal Works Agency (encompassing Public Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, United States Housing Authority, Bureau of Public Roads, Bureau of Public Buildings, Fine Arts Commission, and Lanham Act Defense Housing Program), United States Maritime Commission, Maritime War Emergency Board, and Federal Interdepartmental Safety Council

Subjects

• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.
• Carmody, John M. (John Michael), 1881-1962--Interviews.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Industries.
• Interviews.
• McGraw-Hill, inc.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Federal Works Agency.
• United States. Maritime Commission.
• United States. National Labor Relations Board.
• World War, 1939-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987