Title: The reminiscences of George W. Alger
Description: 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.
Subjects: Lawyers, Biography, Politics and government, Sources
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.)
People: George William Alger (1872-)
Time periods: 1898-1951