Reminiscences of Henry L. McCarthy : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Public administrator.

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education: Redemptorist novitiate, Lewis Institution, University of Chicago; Depression; Chicago gangsters, 1930s; Professor of Mathematics, Lewis Institution, 1931-34; Midwest Regional Social Security Administrator, 1936-46; New Deal; American Jewish Committee, 1947-8; Commissioner of Welfare, New York, N.Y.,1951-59; Assistant Director, Public Aid Committee, Cook County, Illinois, 1962-73.

Subjects

• Davis, Cullom, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• McCarthy, Henry L., 1902-1979.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-
• Oral histories.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Social Security Administration.

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