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Published by The International Wizard of Oz Club, Inc. 1987
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Clean, square copy. Text and images unmarked. Very light shelf wear. tbrc/kids. Maginel Wright Enright (illustrator).
In Memorium - Alexander Inglis 1879-1924 / Addresses Delivered at a Memorial Meeting at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, May 28, 1924
Frank Lee; Clerk, Frederick Edson; Capen, Samuel Paul; Beatley, Bancroft and Holmes, Henry Wyman Wright
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Published by Cambridge, MA: Harvard University - Graduate School of Education 1925
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Missing. Good hardcover, some foxing to a few pages, light tanning to pages. Boards show scuffing/wear to spine end and corners.
Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living : A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Twain, Mark; Salamo, Lin; Fischer, Victor; Frank, Michael B.; Bancroft Library Mark Twain Project (COR)
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Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living : A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Twain, Mark; Salamo, Lin; Fischer, Victor; Frank, Michael B.; Bancroft Library Mark Twain Project (COR)
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Published by The International Wizard of Oz C 1987
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Published by The International Wizard of Oz C 1987
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Published by J Geol 1917
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Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 25, No 7, pp. 597-637, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last page in facsimile, else VG.
BOY'S OWN PAPER - Volume 82, number 5 - February 1960
Cox, Jack (editor) (Showell Styles; C. T. Stoneham; John Bancroft; Colin Robertson; Zachary Ball; D. A. Gunn; Leslie G. Pine; L. Hugh Newman; John Bowman; C. M. Mitchell; Norman Baker; Frank Illingworth; Ronald English)
Published by Lutterworth Periodicals, London 1960
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 64 pp. Digest format. General wear; no interior markings. Harbour firefighting-rig cover art by Roland Davies. This issue contains: STORIES: The Long Pull by Showell Styles; Beginner's Luck by C. T. Stoneham; Point of View by Colin Robertson; My Pal Skeet by Zachary Ball; Guardian… of Honour - part four of six by John Bancroft. ARTICLES: Flying Jets at Sea by D. A. Gunn; Find Your Own Ancestors by Leslie G. Pine; Do Lizards Like Tea by L. Hugh Newman; Collecting Sporting Programmes by John Bowman; Fighting Harbour Fires Afloat - anonymous; The Totems of Thunderbird Park by C. M. Mitchell; Buying a New Rod by Norman Baker; Below Zero Highway by Frank Illingworth; and Cycling by Lamplight by Ronald English; along with all the usual features; including the monthly Crossword Puzzle - unmarked; and The Boy's Own Bus Spotters' Guide by Trevor Holloway. Size: 12mo. Roland Davies; (illustrator). Book.
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Published by International Wizard of Oz Club 1987
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1941
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1941 (Vol. 8 No. 7) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and conta…ining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Editorial - Time for Social Security Advance (on Old Age and Survivors Insurance, Unemployment Compensation, Public Assistance, and Health Insurance); California's Labor Laws Under Fire by Robert W. Kenny, State Senator, Los Angeles County ("Whetted by success in the attack against relief standards, the 'Economy Bloc' levels its artillery upon the Department of Industrial Relations"); Social Work in Embattled China by Ruth Packard, National Committee, YWCA of China (with photo: "Though progress in professional development has been retarded by the war, the people carry forward a widening program of social services"); You're the Doctor, Uncle Sam by Frank Kelly, Director, Welfare Department, National Maritime Union ("The National Council for Federal Health Security seeks to coordinate the health programs of labor, social work, and other community groups"); Case Work Notebook - Realities in Child Placement; Social Work and Defense - Reemployment and Relief Standards.
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1941
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1941 (Vol. 8 No. 4) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and con…taining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: In Defense of Group Work by Graenum Berger and Norman Lourie, Director and Associate Director, Bronx House ("Should the scientific objectives of group recreation and education be redefined or reasserted in a period of national social crisis?"); Society and the Individual [Part II] by Ruth Smalley, Associate Professor of Case Work, University of Pittsburgh ("Self-realization of individuals in the kind of society which makes such realization possible is the principal objective of social work"); Youth's Stake in National Defense by Jean Horie, Executive Secretary, New York City Youth Council ("The American Youth Congress offers a practical program for preserving peace and protecting the social and civil rights of young Americans"); The Social Work Student by Anne Oppenheim Freed, President, Student Org., Smith College School for Social Work; centerfold double-page list of Social Work Today Cooperators - 1940 ("In accordance with its annual custom, Social Work Today lists below the names of the men and women who have remained or who have become active Social Work Today Cooperators during 1940"); Social Work and Defense - Some Professional Implications of the Draft; Case Work Notebook: Relief Giving and Taking in the Family Agency.
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1939
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1939 (Vol. 6 No. 7) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and conta…ining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The Byrnes Report and WPA [Works Progress Administration] by Harry L. Lurie, Executive Director, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds (which begins, "The action of Congress in slashing $150 million off the WPA deficiency appropriation in spite of the opposition of the President and of progressive sentiment in general must be considered an important setback to the public welfare system"); The Future of the Private Field [Part I] by Jacob Fisher, President, Local 19, Social Service Employees Union, UOPWA ("The first of a series on the future of private social service"); Behold the American Pariah [Part II] by Hazel A. Hendricks, The Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor (with three photos: "The second of two articles about America's army of dispossessed migratory workers"); Case Work Notebook: The Limited Goals of Case Work. Covers nearly detached but present; covers worn; chipping along outer fold.
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1940
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1940 (Vol. 7 No. 7) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and conta…ining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The Navy Re-Examines the Recreation Problem by Maurice M. Witherspoon, Commander, Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy (topics include The World War [WWI] Cradled Recreation; Navy Develops Its Own Program; Recreation, Afloat and Ashore, in Peace Time; Recreation on Mobilization; Morale in Wartime); Relief: Old Problem, New Setting by Jacob Fisher, President, New York City Joint Council, UOPWA ("With business on the downgrade and legislatures bending to reactionary pressure, the outlook of the unemployed is 'little short of desperate'"); Industrial Relations Work in Civil Service by Ellis Ranen, Industrial Relations Counselor, Department of Welfare, New York City; Union Rights for Government Workers by Henry Wenning, Secretary-Treasurer, State, County and Municipal Workers of America, CIO. Lightly worn.
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1940
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 1940 (Vol. 8 No. 2) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and co…ntaining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Editorial - What the Draft Means to Social Work (which begins, "On October 16th approximately 16.9 million young men between the ages of 21 and 35 were registered for compulsory military service under the Selective Service and Training Act of 1940"); National Defense and Unemployment by Ralph Hetzel, Jr., Director, Committee on Unemployment, CIO ("The National Defense Program will leave at least 7 million unemployed in June 1941 and will usher in a depression of unprecedented severity"); This Too for Defense by Milton Schwebel, Guidance Counselor, National Youth Administration ("The most powerful army and navy go for naught where young men and women look in vain for jobs, security and marriage" with three case studies, including "William Smith, a young Negro, [who] has pearly white teeth that sparkle as his face brightens into a smile. But Bill doesn't smile much now except when he talks of his wife and the child that has begun to quicken within her"); What Price Personal Advice? by MacEnnis Moore, Field Representative, American Foundation for the Blind ("Next time you hear one of those bogus personal advice radio programs trading upon human difficulty - 'Get Mad and DO Something About It'"); Case Work Notebook: Resistance - Some Implications for Case Work (a discussion of client resistance to social workers and why this may occur). Front cover scuffed in places.
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1939
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1939 (Vol. 6 No. 5) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and co…ntaining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The Battle Around the WPA [Works Progress Administration] by David Lasser, National President, Workers Alliance of America (with his photo; the author of "The Conquest of Space" [1931] was highly involved in the workers' rights movement); The Schools and the Public Field by Samuel Dallob, Home Relief Division, New York City Department of Welfare; Rural Pioneering Is Uphill by Winifred Lomasney, Aid to Dependent Children, Minneapolis [second of three articles]; Richard C. [Clarke] Cabot Is Claimed by Four Callings; Monongahela, Allegheny: Ohio by Alice F. Liveright, Member, General Executive Board, United Office and Professional Workers of America (with her photo); The Students Are Also Active by John Skinner, Chairman, Eastern Region, American Association of Social Work Students ("The increased tempo of organization of student associations in schools of social work is indicative of a mature student interest in curricula, field work, supervision, placement and the wider social field surrounding the schools and the profession. The history of the development is traced"); Case Work Notebook: The Basic Philosophy of Social Case Work. Covers lightly age-toned, lightly worn.
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 1938 (Vol. 6 No. 1) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and con…taining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Balance the Budget or Budget the Balance? - A Message to Social Workers by Elmer A. Benson, Governor of Minnesota (with his portrait); The Firing of Dorothy Kahn by Frank C. Bancroft ("On August 29th Joseph Burke, Chairman of the Philadelphia County Board of Public Assistance, stepped unexpectedly into the office of Dorothy Kahn, Executive Director, and requested her resignation - Thus Philadelphia has lost the services of an exceptionally able administrator and a social worker of the first magnitude - How did it all happen and what does it all mean?"); Organization: New Needs, New Forms [Part I] by Clara Rabinowitz, Brooklyn Jewish Family Welfare Society ("The economic and professional factors leading to the rise of the trade union movement in social work are traced in broad outline"); Without a Hearing by Gordon Hamilton, New York School of Social Work ("The Social Service Employees Union's fight against the summary dismissal of three members of the staff of the Edwin Gould Foundation brought splendid support from professional and lay groups in New York City. The AASW Chapter, after a conference with the president and secretary of the board and the executive director, stated, in its report, that there had been 'a clean-cut violation of personnel practices.' The campaign for reinstatement is narrated by Miss Hamilton, who played an active role in its prosecution"); Cities of Peace for the Children of Spain by Blanche Mahler, Executive Secretary, Social Workers Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy; William Hodson [New York City's Commissioner of Welfare] Works Amid New Forces; Placing the Social Worker by Dorothy Dulles Bourne, Associate Director, Joint Vocational Service Study Committee. Scuffing along outer narrow spine fold; general cover wear.
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1941
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1941 (Vol. 8 No. 8) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and contain…ing 44 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: five-page Special Feature - The People's Program in 1941 (with four large photos: "The American people want to live in the security of their homes, developing a family life which satisfies their thirst for relationship and devotion" - "The American people want to work" - "The American people are more than animals. They want to understand, to appreciate, to express their common life in sport, in song, in prose and verse, in drama, in festival, in culture" - "The American people are determined, today as always, to be free to organize their common living as they wish"); The Constructive Role of Social Work by Marion Hathway, Executive Secretary, American Association of Schools of Social Work; Case Work and Race Prejudice by Edward Dalton, Student, Institute of Public and Social Administration, University of Michigan ("There is some literature dealing with the relationship between the white [social] worker and the Negro client. Little, if anything, has been published about the interaction of the Negro [social] worker and the white client"); Human Conflict 1941: Three Statements (The Individual by Walter Briehl, M.D.; The Group by Benedict Alper; The Social Worker by Bertha C. Reynolds); Taxation in a Democracy by Jerome R. Hellerstein, Committee on Taxation, National Lawyers Guild; Case Work Notebook - Can Case Work Remain Democratic in a Time of Crisis.
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1941
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 1941 (Vol. 8 No. 6) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and conta…ining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Defense Invades the Southeast by Paul A. Unger ("A graphic picture of what the sudden impact of defense industry and troop concentration means to 'natives' and 'visitors' in daily life"); Canadian Social Services and the War by Margaret Robinson ("These are some of the things which are happening to people at the lower end of the economic scale as War Production nears the peak"); Public Housing: Critical and Chronic by James H. Berger, Educational Director, City-Wide Tenants Council, New York City ("As new needs are added to old, increased federal appropriations and maintenance of high standards become primary social concerns"); Unemployment Today by David V. Zimmerman, Research Director, Workers Alliance of America ("The myth of sudden 'war economy reemployment' is examined in the light of hard facts and a practical program for economic security is outlined"); The Picket Line Did It by William Piehl, Organizer, Social Service Employees Union Local 19, New York City ("A time-honored device of organized labor is used successfully by private agency workers to win recognition and reasonable gains in social security"); Help Yourself to Health by Craig E. Lundberg, Rochsdale Institute, New York City ("The Group Health Cooperative is an important sector in the wide fight for adequate health legislation to meet the needs of the whole people"); Social Work and Defense: A Critical Examination of Current Youth Programs; Case Work Notebook - Case Work Responsibility in a Psychiatric Hospital.
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 1940 (Vol. 8 No. 1) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and con…taining 16 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The World We Live In by Harmon S. Ephron, M.D. ("Without presenting a long case history at the moment, I think we have enough evidence to justify our diagnosis that we are living in a highly neurotic world"); Social Work and Defense by Frank C. Bancroft; Welfare, Not Warfare by Gwen Barclay, Chairman, Peace Committee, Social Service Employees Union Local 19; In Answer to War Hysteria by Henry Doliner, Chairman, Peace Committee, New York District, State, County, and Municipal Workers of America. As stated by Editor Frank Bancroft in his introduction to the issue, "This is an unusual issue of 'Social Work Today.' We plan to follow it, through your cooperation, with a whole year of normal issues. It reaches you two weeks before the usual date. That is because we want to tell you the facts and to have your cooperation during the next few weeks around a campaign of financial stabilization. [This issue] is half its usual size. That is because of an acute shortage of funds at the time of the early publication date. See page 15 for current financial picture" - Page 15 contains an interesting full page report entitled "Current Financial Status of Social Work Today" with two illustrations: "GROWTH (Annual Income)" and "GRIEF (Cumulative Cash Liabilities") as well as specifics related to Income and Expenditures. Light wear.
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Published by Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY 1941
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Magazine. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 1941 (Vol. 9 No. 1 - although incorrectly printed as Vol. 8) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazin…e measuring 7-1/4" by 9-7/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Let's Face Facts This Time by Albert Deutsch ("Some plain speaking about the big job of social workers in today's crisis and a call to help defeat Hitlerism on two fronts"); God Made Oklahoma Rich [Part I] by Elizabeth Zeleny Green (with her photo: "During the last year and a half, the State of Oklahoma has become known throughout the nation as the scene of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in America. Members of Jehovah's Witnesses have been beaten up, run out of town, and jailed throughout the state by bands of self-styled 'patriots.' A professor in a State college was dismissed for urging his Congressman to vote against the Draft Bill. A public book burning was advertised over the radio and staged in the tabernacle of one Dr. Webber, rumored to be connected with the organization known as the Silver Shirts. And finally four alleged Communists have been sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, while eight others still face trial - not for anything they ever said or did, but solely on the basic of books in their possession - books on the shelves of every large library in America"); USO [United Service Organizations] - A Cooperative Venture by Louis Kraft, Executive Director, National Jewish Welfare Board; poem "What About Me (Negro")" by Naomi Burgum ("an eleven-year-old daughter of a New York social worker"). In worn, soiled covers.
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 1938 (Vol. 6 No. 2) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and co…ntaining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Whose Politics in Relief? by H. Jerry Voorhis, Congressman, 12th District, California ("Politics in relief, yes, says the progressive young California Congressman; but in nine cases out of ten it is put there by local politicians inimical to the New Deal. Those who raise the hue and cry seldom offer positive programs for meeting the challenge of mass unemployment"); Organization: New Needs, New Forms [Part II] by Clara Rabinowitz, Brooklyn Jewish Family Welfare Society; Mary Simkhovitch [Founder and Head Resident of Greenwich House] Battles for Her Neighborhood; Czechoslovakia: Social Services, Social Legislation - A Symposium (with articles Early Reminiscences by Mary Hurlbutt, New York School of Social Work; Fascism vs. Social Welfare by Ludmila Foxlee, National Board of YWCA; Social Legislation by Brackett Lewis, Executive Secretary, Masaryk Institute); Good, But Not Good Enough by Leo Allen, Director, Social Service Employees Division, UOPWA ("The exclusion of social service employees from protection under the Social Security Act is but one indication of its inadequacy"). Small edge chip to rear cover; short closed edge tear to front cover; covers lightly age-yellowed and worn.
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1938 (Vol. 6 No. 3) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-7/8" and co…ntaining 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Public Health: The Challenge to Social Work - Six Statements (with portrait photos of each author: Surgeon General of the United States Thomas Parran, M.D.; Paul de Kruif, Author of 'Microbe Hunters; John P. Peters, M.D., Professor, Yale University School of Medicine; Antoinette Cannon, Instructor, New York School of Social Work; Mary Luciel McGorkey, R.N., Director, Hospital Division, SCMWA; Lester B. Granger, Welfare Council, New York City); Needed: In-Service Training by David Kaplun ("I am a $32-a-week New York City welfare investigator, or if you want to be fancy about it, you might call me, as Russell Kurtz does, a Public Assistance Worker - I give, deny or withdraw relief to about 150 families a year - It's a tough, demanding job, and I work hard at it"); The Migrant Follows the Crops: A Group Study ("High on the agenda of America's urgent social obligations is that to do something IMMEDIATELY about the disinheritance of more than 200,000 migratory agricultural workers in California and similar, though smaller, numbers of their fellows in other states"); Charlotte Carr [Head Resident of Chicago's Hull House] Is Needed in the Front Ranks; Case Work Notebook: Some Important Implications in Child Placement. Covers lightly age-yellowed and worn.
