The reminiscences of George W. Alger

The outer archives are busy

by George William Alger, Harlan B. Phillips, Columbia University. Oral History Research Office

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Vermont boyhood; Law practice in New York City at the turn of the century; Moreland Commission; New York prisons; Moreland commissioner to investigate New York State Superintendent of Insurance in the guaranteed mortgage companies debacle on nearly two billion issues of bonds, 1933; New York City garment industry. Observations on social reformers, including Lillian Wald and Florence Kelley; Theodore Roosevelt.

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