Oral history interview with Bernice Bernstein [electronic resource], 1965

Biographical Note

Lawyer. Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Wisconsin unemployment legislation, influence of Senator Robert La Follette; National Industrial Recovery Act, Social Security Board, Social Security Administration; legal problems and procedures, preparation of Draft Act; federal-state relationships; 1939 amendments to Social Security Act; effect of World War II; War Manpower Commission; 1947, regional attorney for Federal Security Agency; impressions of Thomas H. Eliot, Jack B. Tate, John Winant, Arthur Altmeyer.

Subjects

• Bernstein, Bernice L. (Bernice Lotwin), 1908-1994--Interviews.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--United States--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Social Security Administration.
• United States. Social Security Board.
• World War, 1939-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1982.