About this Book

Youth and education; Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania; Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 1903-07; Bureau of Municipal Research, 1907-14; Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Foundation; Training School for Public Service, 1911-14; University of Wisconsin Survey; Dr. Charles Van Hise; Institute for Public Service; New York City Municipal Civil Service Commission, 1934-37; New York state and city politics; impressions of Fiorello La Guardia, James Walker, and Thomas E. Dewey.