Reminiscences of Edward Louis Keenan, Jr. : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Government official.

Scope and Contents

Early career in re-employment, 1934-36; Social Security Board: association with Arthur Altmeyer, Cleveland Regional Representative, other assignments in midwest and southeast; evolution of Unemployment insurance program: relations between state and federal programs, criteria for benefit eligibility and disqualification; budget cuts under Truman administration; Nixon administration management of social security compared to that of previous administrations; recollectins of 1936 Johnstown flood; arbritration of Eaton Manufacturing Company strike.

Subjects

• Cooper, Evangline W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Keenan, Edward Louis, 1911-
• Oral histories.
• Supplemental unemployment benefits.
• Unemployment insurance.
• United States. Social Security Board.

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