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Wilbur Leads Better Homes Movement Nationally
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur becomes president of Better Homes in America succeeding Hoover who remains honorary chair. The movement, founded by Hoover and Mrs. William Brown Meloney, aims to improve home planning, furnishing and family life through education and local demonstrations across over five thousand communities.
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Ray Lyman Wilbur
Interior
Hoover
Better Homes In
America
William Brown Meloney
New York
Better Homes Movement
John M. Gries
James S.S. Taylor
U. S. Department of Commerce
Grace Abbott
Children’s Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
Edwin H. Brown
Architects’ Small House Service Bureau
Christian A. Herter
the Outlook
Harold Irving Pratt
Garden Club of America
James J. Storrow
American Homemakers, Inc
James Ford
Washington, D. C
Wilbur
Coolidge