Agents and Agency

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-105
Author(s):  
Katina Manko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Women Managers ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
Private Writing ◽  
Daily Contact ◽  
New Recruits ◽  
And Training

The CPC traveling agent was a woman who traveled for several months a year, stopping in small towns on her route to recruit women to sell in their neighborhoods. The traveling agent kept in daily contact with the company in New York, evaluating individual sales reports and earnings, handing out catalogs and sample cases to new recruits, and training women for making sales calls, submitting and receiving orders, and distributing products to customers. A demographic profile of these agents shows that most women were either single or widowed and between the ages of twenty and seventy. An analysis of their work gleaned from company literature, private writing, and the national census shows that most of these women welcomed the independence and opportunity for substantial income beyond what ordinary work offered. This group of women would become the first generation of women managers in the company, overseeing the transition from district to city sales offices in the late 1930s.

Low Vision Services in an Agency: Structure and Philosophy

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 241-248
Author(s):  
Eleanor E. Faye ◽  
Clare M. Hood
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Medical Director ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Services ◽  
Full Discussion ◽  
Loan System ◽  
Training Services ◽  
And Training

The development and present structure of the comprehensive Low Vision Service of the New York Association for the Blind are used as the basis for a full discussion of the operation of such a clinical service, including its positive and negative features. The clinic is administered by a medical director and by an administrator who coordinates the work of a staff consisting of ophthalmologists, optometrists, low vision assistants, volunteers, registrar, and receptionist. A separate Optical Aids Service stocks low vision aids which it sells by prescription to clinics, doctors, and patients within and without the agency. Referrals for special services are made to the other departments of the agency. Also described are the low vision examination itself, follow-up and training services, and the aid loan system.

Creative Opportunities for the Retarded Child (Six illustrated booklets containing advice and practical information about arts and handicrafts for the parents, nurse, social volunteer or vocational worker who has daily contact with a handicapped child), by H. Cornelia Hollander, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971, $10.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 937-938
Author(s):  
Jean K. MacCubrey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Retarded Child ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Handicapped Child ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Daily Contact ◽  
Practical Information ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

In six illustrated booklets Cornelia Hollander has set forth a rationale and directions for an arts and crafts program for handicapped children. The first booklet describes how a group of parents and teachers of mentally retarded children organized a workshop to teach "uncreative adults" skills that they in turn could teach their handicapped children." The succeeding booklets deal, respectively, with finger painting and simple print making, drawing and painting, clay and other dimensional media, stitchery, and woodworking and odds and ends.

Children of the Holocaust and Cold War

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Susan M. Reverby
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Medical School ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Cold War

The prologue situates Alan Berkman as an unexpected American revolutionary. Raised in the 1950s and 1960s in small town upstate New York during the Cold War and as part of the first generation of post-Holocaust American Jews, Berkman was focused on doing his parents proud. The author grew up with him, went to his bar mitzvah, and joined him at Cornell for college. But then their paths diverged as Berkman was focused on medical school while the author saw her future in radical politics. The chapter summarizes the arguments of the book and lays out the path of Berkman’s increasingly revolutionary stances.

Reflections of a “Second Generation” German Emigré: The Impact of my Emigré Professors on a Future Economist

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-425
Author(s):  
Ingrid H. Rima
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Joseph Schumpeter ◽  
Friedrich Engels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

My reflections are at least partly those of the child of an emigré who grew up to beome an economist. Since my father was an engineer from Germany's Barmen-Elberfeld textile city—also the city of Friedrich Engels—he clearly is not among the first generation of German scholars who were deprived of their professional positions as the Hitler regime came into power. Indeed, somewhat like Joseph Schumpeter, he came to America to grasp an opportunity rather than to avoid a threat. Like many of educated men of his generation, he was fluent in five languages and an ardent student of philosophy, history, and political economy. His move to America, after three or four trial visits, preceded my birth, because in those days before international air travel the seven day ocean voyage between Bremerhaven and New York was so daunting for a woman approaching childbirth that I was close to a year old before our arrival in America. My early childhood was uneventful except for the arrival of two siblings, and the only negative I recall from those early days was that I hated my first name, Ingrid (so carefully chosen by my parents), and longed to be called Jane, Anne or anything other than Ingrid.

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