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Ref NoDWE/US/7/D
TitleElmhirst Committee
DescriptionIncludes grant requests and reports from the American Friends Service Committee; American Association for Social Security; sculptor George Blodgett; actress Tamara Daykarhanova; The Cummington School; American League Against War and Fascism; Charity Organization Society; Mount Holyoke College; Affiliated Schools for Workers; National League of Women Voters; Constance Rourke; Pioneer Youth of America; League of Composers; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas; Marshall Shaffer; League for Industrial Democracy; Scott Nearing (for a grant to write a book 'Toward Worldism'); Rural Life Council of the National Council for Prevention of War; Foreign Policy Association; Sidonie Gruenberg and the Child Study Association of America.

A letter, Bogue to Leonard Elmhirst, 20 Jan 1936 mentions the Jooss Ballets arriving in New York City, sea voyages, and Beatrice Straight. A list of funding commitments classifies grants into chart categories of the arts (beauty); experimental learning (intelligence); cultural interaction (tolerance); international action (peace); utilisation of social and psychological disciplines (insight); integration of sciences, technologies and controls (planning); social legislation (security); social education (justice, freedom, and radicalism); strategic fact-finding (research); conventional research; conventional social and health work; continuing publications; and personal philanthropy.
Date1936
FormatManuscript
Person_CodeDS/UK/908
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CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/908Gruenberg; Sidonie M (c1881-)c1881-
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