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  2. Cadet Nurse Corps - Wikipedia

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    The USPHS established a separate division to administer the CNC program and Parran appointed Lucile Petry a registered nurse (RN) as its director. The program was open to all women between the ages of 17 and 35 who were in good health and had graduated from an accredited high school. Nearly every type of media source advertised for the CNC.

  3. List of executive actions by Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Amendment of Paragraph 7, Subdivision III, Schedule A, Civil Service Rules (Public Health Service Employees) September 26, 1936 1709 1629 7460 Designating the Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission (Henry A. Wiley) September 26, 1936 1725 1630 7461 Placing Certain Lands Under the Control of the Secretary of the Interior (Alabama)

  4. New Deal - Wikipedia

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    The First New Deal (1933–1934) dealt with the pressing banking crisis through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act.The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) provided US$500 million (equivalent to $11.8 billion in 2023) for relief operations by states and cities, and the short-lived CWA gave locals money to operate make-work projects from 1933 to 1934. [2]

  5. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Before its passage, most of the expansion in public health programs occurred at the state and local levels. Many factors helped its passage including the environment of the Progressive Era. [69] Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Illinois never participated in the program. Participation in the program varied depending on states.

  6. History of health care reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Isidore Falk and Edgar Sydenstricter to help draft provisions to Roosevelt's pending Social Security legislation to include publicly funded health care programs. These reforms were attacked by the American Medical Association as well as state and local affiliates of the AMA as "compulsory health insurance ...

  7. Federal Emergency Relief Administration - Wikipedia

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    Workers' education, a form of adult education, emphasized the study of economic and social problems from the workers' perspective. When the FERA created its adult education program in 1933, workers' education classes were included. Between 1933 and 1943, 36 experiment programs in workers' education were launched, 17 of them lasting over ten years.

  8. ‘12 Badass Women’ by Huffington Post

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    Born in New Mexico, Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren made her mark by being the first woman of Mexican descent to run for U.S. Congress, helping New Mexico ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, and tirelessly advocating for underrepresented populations and public education.

  9. She-She-She Camps - Wikipedia

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    Labor Secretary Frances Perkins championed one such camp after ER held a White House Conference for Unemployed Women on April 30, 1934, and subsequently ER's concept of a nationwide jobless women's camp was achieved. While the public largely supported the New Deal programs and the CCC was a huge success, the women's version barely topped 5,000 ...