Reminiscences of Justine Wise Polier, 1981.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, judge; interviewee married Shad Polier

Scope and Contents

Wise and Waterman family backgrounds; family relations, especially with father, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; college education at Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe and Barnard, A.B.1924; early jobs in labor and attempts to organize New Jersey textile industry; Yale Law School, LL.B.1928; referee, New York Dept. of Labor, on medical compensation cases; Assistant Corporation Counsel under Mayor LaGuardia, setting up model insurance system, 1934-35; judge, New York City Court of Domestic Relations: changes in court procedure, attempts to make treatment of children by voluntary agencies and courts more humane and equitable

Subjects

• Children--Legal status, laws, etc.
• Domestic relations.
• Gellhorn, Kitty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government insurance.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Polier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987--Interviews.
• Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949.
• Women judges--Interviews.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984