RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

214 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
of officials existing knowledge relevant to the
proper performance of their duties, whether
related to long-range basic problems or to more
immediately pressing short-range problems, and,
in addition, will focus private research upon
aspects of the problem that are significant to
sound administration and to the development
of constructive public policy. The committee
has set up its staff headquarters in Washington
under the direction of Dr. J. F. Dewhurst.
Reference should also be made to the Foundation
grant to the Social Science Research Council
for the use of its Public Administration Committee
and staff. This committee is giving considerable
attention to the strictly administrative
problems connected with the social security
legislation enacted during the course of the year.
A fuller account of the purposes of the grant
may
be found in the section of this report devoted
to the Foundation's program in thefieldof
public administration.
The magnitude and the complexity of the
administrative problems that have suddenly confronted
Federal and state officials as a result of
the passage of the Federal social security legislation
have involved frequent and urgent calls for
advisory services from the few men
in this
country possessing a recognized knowledge of
foreign experience and American business organ-
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