Finding Aid for the Paul Albert Dodd Papers LSC.0541
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Title: Paul Albert Dodd papers
Creator:
Dodd, Paul Albert
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0541
Physical Description:
55.0 Linear Feet
(110 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1955-1965
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.
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General Physical Description note: 110 boxes (55 linear ft.)
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Paul Albert Dodd Papers (Collection 541). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
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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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Economics teachers -- California -- Archives.
Dodd, Paul Albert, 1902- --Archives.
box 1, box 2, box 3, box 4, box 5, box 6
Materials
re a national survey of university professor salaries.
box 7, box 8
Materials
re the University of California retirement and pension plans.
box 9, box 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.
General Physical Description note: (4 folders)
Scope and Contents note
Some miscellaneous material regarding the University of California, etc.
box 15, box 16
Pacific Electric (no.1-2).
box 17, box 18, box 19
Brotherhood of Trainmen (no.1-3).
box 25
Railway Conductors and Trainmen.
box 26
War Labor Board Cases.
1943-1944
box 27, box 28, box 29, box 30
IIR H. Melinkow - National Labor Board (no.1-4).
box 31, box 32, box 33
Benjamin Aaron - National Labor Board (no.1-3).
box 36, box 37, box 38
Douglass Aircraft (no.1-3).
box 39
Aircraft Industry (no.1).
box 42, box 43, box 44
IIR Printing & Securities - local (no.1-3).
box 48, box 49, box 50, box 51
IIR local files (no.1-4).
box 52, box 53, box 54, box 55
box 56, box 57, box 58, box 59, box 60, box 61, box 62
IIR Hotel Industry (no.1-7).
box 64
National Airframe Panel / War Labor Board - IIR.
box 65
Office of Economic Analysis.
box 67, box 68, box 69, box 70, box 71
box 68
Chemicals & Allied Products.
box 71
National Airframe Board.
General note
Boxes 72-110 are unprocessed.