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Cedar Rapids Chest History Tracks United Campaign Reforms
A detailed history of Cedar Rapids Community Chest and United Campaign reforms from 1914 to 1940. It covers governance shifts, budget reviews by mixed gender panels, agency representation, and the creation of a year round Public Welfare Bureau led by Karl Blaise and others. It also notes campaign timing, funding totals, and key chairmen over twenty-five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Stone
J. S. Ely
Arthur Poe
Commercial Club
Welfare League
Social Welfare League
United Campaign
General Fund
League
Public Welfare Bureau
Linn County Relief Department
Code of Iowa
Europe
Red Cross
Public Health Nursing Association
Boy Scouts
Community House
United Welfare Campaign
United Campaign Fund
The
Chamber of Commerce
Salvation Army
Camp Fire Girls
Karl Blaise
A. L. Smulekoff
van Kgong
Community Chest
Cedar Rapids
Archer C. Sinclair
A. L. Killian
Ben H. Witwer
John S. Ely
August C. Reps
Morris Sanford
S. P. Moore
Howard H. Cherry
R. H. Pickford
George Laird
E. J McKibben
Richard Lord
FE. L. MaKibben
Mr. MaKibben
Charles T. Hickok
Welfare
H. M. Gage
Ralph Yuill
Howard Green
van Vechten Shaffer
E. B. Cameron
Clare Marshall
M. H. Morrison
Karl P. Blaise
Roy E. Choate
E. L. McKibben
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