Finding Aid for the Paul Albert Dodd Papers, 1955-1965
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Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Paul Albert Dodd Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1955-1965
Collection number: 541
Creator: Dodd, Paul Albert, 1902-
Extent: 110 boxes (55 linear ft.)
Abstract: Paul Albert Dodd (1902-1992) was a professor of economics (1932-61), director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (1945-47),
dean of the College of Letters and Science (1946-61), acting vice chancellor (1959-60), and professor emeritus (1961) at UCLA.
He also served as president of San Francisco State University (1962-66), was a member of the Governor's Committee on Health
Insurance (1939-40), and an arbitrator in various industrial disputes. During World War II, he served on the National War
Labor Board, and as chair of the President's Emergency Railway Labor Board. Boxes 1-71 of the collection include correspondence,
reports, and printed materials relating to Dr. Paul Dodd's career at the University of California.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
PARTIALLY PROCESSED COLLECTION UNAVAILABLE FOR USE: except for boxes 1-71. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed,
in writing, to the Manuscripts Librarian, UCLA Department of Special Collections.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
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Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Paul Albert Dodd Papers (Collection 541). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Biography
Dodd was born on July 26, 1902 in Greenwood, Missouri; AB, Park College, 1924; Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania, 1932; LLD,
Park College, 1950; instructor, University of Pennsylvania, 1927-28; associate, UCLA, 1928-30; Harrison Fellow, University
of Pennsylvania, 1930-31; assistant professor of economics (1932-38), associate professor (1939-45), director, Institute of
Industrial Relations (1945-47), professor (1945-61), dean, College of Letters and Science (1946-61), acting vice chancellor
(1959-60), and in 1961 professor emeritus, UCLA; president, San Francisco State University (1962-66); member, Governor's Committee
on Health Insurance, 1939-40; arbitrator in various industrial disputes; during World War II, served on the National War Labor
Board, and as chair of the President's Emergency Railway Labor Board; published works include
Financial policies in the aviation industry (1933) and (with E.F. Penrose)
Economic aspects of medical services (1939); he died on August 22, 1992 in Boulder, Colorado.
Scope and Content
Boxes 1-71 of the collection include correspondence, reports, and printed materials relating to Dr. Paul Dodd's career at
the University of California. Includes files relating to his Academic Senate Committee activities while at UCLA in the 1950s,
a faculty salary survey for UC, the President's Office of San Francisco State, 1962-63, the Academic Senate Committee on Retirement
in the 1950s, and the Ford Faculty Fellowship Committee, 1950-54.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Dodd, Paul Albert, 1902- --Archives.
Economics teachers--California--Archival resources.
Items Removed from Collection
Related Material
Patient persuader [oral history transcript] / Paul A. Dodd, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, c1985. Available at Department
of Special Collections, UCLA.
Container List
Boxes 1-6
Materials
re a national survey of university professor salaries.
Boxes 7-8
Materials
re the University of California retirement and pension plans.
Boxes 9-10
Plans for the reorganization of San Francisco State College.
Box 11
Printed materials
re the Scandinavian countries - mostly health services.
Box 12
Dodd's file on the Department of Labor Advisory Commission.
Physical Description: (4 folders)
Scope and Content Note
Some miscellaneous material regarding the University of California, etc.
Boxes 15-16
Pacific Electric (no.1-2).
Boxes 17-19
Brotherhood of Trainmen (no.1-3).
Box 25
Railway Conductors and Trainmen.
Box 26
War Labor Board Cases.
1943-1944
Boxes 27-30
IIR H. Melinkow - National Labor Board (no.1-4).
Boxes 31-33
Benjamin Aaron - National Labor Board (no.1-3).
Boxes 36-38
Douglass Aircraft (no.1-3).
Box 39
Aircraft Industry (no.1).
Boxes 42-44
IIR Printing & Securities - local (no.1-3).
Boxes 48-51
IIR local files (no.1-4).
Boxes 56-62
IIR Hotel Industry (no.1-7).
Box 64
National Airframe Panel / War Labor Board - IIR.
Box 65
Office of Economic Analysis.
Box 68
Chemicals & Allied Products.
