Finding Aid for the Paul Albert Dodd Papers LSC.0541

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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
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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Portions of collection unprocessed. Materials in the collection except for boxes 1-71 are unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.

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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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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942329483606533 

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

Files on the University of California Loyalty oath have been transferred to University Archives Loyalty oath file - Paul Dodd files  . These consist of 3 document boxes and 1 scrapbook of clippings.

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 13

Miscellaneous.

box 14

Paul Dodd.

box 15, box 16

Pacific Electric (no.1-2).

box 17, box 18, box 19

Brotherhood of Trainmen (no.1-3).

box 20

Aaron.

box 21

Melinkov.

box 22

Retail Grocery Clerks.

box 23, box 24

Stereotypes (no.1-2).

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 34, box 35

Aaron disputes (no.1-2).

box 36, box 37, box 38

Douglass Aircraft (no.1-3).

box 39

Aircraft Industry (no.1).

box 40, box 41

Hotels (no.1-2).

box 42, box 43, box 44

IIR Printing & Securities - local (no.1-3).

box 45, box 46, box 47

ITASC (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

IIR (no.1-4).

box 56, box 57, box 58, box 59, box 60, box 61, box 62

IIR Hotel Industry (no.1-7).

box 63

Aaron - air industry.

box 64

National Airframe Panel / War Labor Board - IIR.

box 65

Aircraft Parts Assembly.

box 65

Office of Economic Analysis.

box 65

House & Senate Banking.

box 65

House Education.

box 65

Steelworkers.

box 66

National Airframe Panel.

box 66

War Labor Board IIR.

box 67

Enforcement.

box 67

Dickson Amendment.

box 67

SCE.

box 67

NBC union contracts.

box 67, box 68, box 69, box 70, box 71

IIR.

box 68

Chemicals & Allied Products.

box 68

AAW-CIO.

box 68

Wright Aeronautics.

box 68

American Chain & Cable.

box 68

American Chemical.

box 68

Todd Shipyards.

box 68

U.S. Smelting.

box 69, 71

San Francisco Hotels.

box 71

National Airframe Board.

General note

Boxes 72-110 are unprocessed.