Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies

Appendix B Denver, Colorado ; and Jesse F . Steiner, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington . Except for Evarts B . Greene and William E. Lingelbach, who under press of other duties retired in 1930 ; Avery O .

Craven and Carlton J . H . Hayes, who were appointed in the same year to fill the places thus made vacant, and Edmund E . Day, who though appointed in 1929 did not accept appointment until the following year, the membership remained unchanged for the duration of the investigation. A . C. Krey and Frank W. Ballou served as chairman and secretary, respectively, of the Commission throughout the period .

Owing to the broad scope of the inquiry, the Commission faced the necessity of providing for both the differentiation and the integration of its work . The former was achieved through the appointment of five major committees and numerous special investigators ; the latter, through the Commission itself, an executive committee, a chairman, a research director, and an executive secretary .

The Commission met for two- or three-day conferences as occasion demanded, holding three meetings in 1929, two in 1930, one in 1931, one in 1932, and two in 1933 . The Executive Committee, consisting originally of A. C. Krey, Charles E. Merriam, and Jesse H . Newlon, and enlarged in 1931 by the addition of Edmund E . Day and Guy Stanton Ford, met at intervals between the meetings of the Commission .

The immediate conduct of the investigation was in 152