Oral history interview with Gordon Wagenet, 1965.

Biographical Note

Government official.

Scope and Contents

Professional background; Director, Unemployment Insurance, Social Security, 1935: hiring staff, administration of law, merit rating, relations with Internal Revenue Service and state governments; Employment Service; Director, California Employment Agency, 1940. Impressions of Frances Perkins, Arthur Altmeyer.

Subjects

• California. Employment Services Board.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Unemployment insurance.
• United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
• United States. Social Security Administration.
• Wagenet, R. Gordon, 1890-1975--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1979.