{"value"=>"<p>The case files consist of correspondence Representative Bloom and of his staff with constituents seeking aid in the solution of a problem requiring the intervention of a department or agency of government. The files are arranged alphabetically by name of the constituent seeking relief and consist of correspondence of the New York City and Washington, D. C. offices. Portions of the files of the two offices have been commingled and filed together alphabetically. The case file record of each office includes materials not contained in the record of the other office. The bulk of the case files fall in the period 1938-1949 with a significant amount of correspondence earlier to circa 1925. The bulk of the Washington office correspondence falls in the period 1946-49. About 70% of the cases concern immigration problems and especially those of Jewish refugees and of displaced persons in Western and Eastern Europe and elsewhere (including Canada, South America, Palestine and the Far East) seeking visas from American consulates to enter the United States before, during and after World War II. Several cases concern refugees interned in concentration camps in unoccupied France. Most of the requests for aid originate with a relative, friend, lawyer, or Jewish welfare organization in New York City who represented the alien seeking admission although there is some correspondence with the principal abroad. Many cases contain first- or second-hand accounts of the plight and suffering of the Jews during the Holocaust. Other cases handled include import/export problems, commercial matters relating to the Marshall Plan, surplus government property, recovery of properties confiscated during the war, armed services matters, employment, government positions, pensions, social security and other matters. The case files contain correspondence of Bloom and his staff with various governmental departments and agencies including the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Treasury, Army and War, Immigration and Naturalization, Displaced Persons Commission, Economic Cooperation Administration, Social Security Administration, War Assets Administration, and the U. S. Civil Service Commission. Much of the official correspondence to Bloom is signed by senior officials including Dean Ache son, Cordell Hull, James Forrestal, Henry L. Stimson, and Edward R. Stettinius. The case files also include extensive inter-office correspondence between Bessie Flegelman, secretary in the New York office and staff of the Washington Office especially Boyd Crawford, clerk of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Louise Dreisonstok, and Lillian Van Steenburgh There is also present extensive correspondence between Bloom and his staff relative to the case problems. Since several of the constituents seeking assistance were also personal friends of Sol Bloom some of the correspondence is of a personal and social nature. Also interspersed in the case files especially of the Washington Office are a few name/subject files containing correspondence often with Congressional colleagues on matters of public policy. These subject folders include: \"Israel, State of\"; \"Palestine Question\"; \"Sesquicentennial Commission\"; \"State Dept. \"; \"Telegrams\" (sent by Sol Bloom); \"UnAmerican Committee\" (which Sol Bloom opposed); \"White House\" (correspondence with secretaries to the president); and\" Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation\". The name folders include: Melville Minton (and Marie Wilkerson, editors at G. P. Putnam's Sons and relating to the publication of his book <span class=\"title\">One with God Is a Majority</span> (1947); _ Nicholas Murray Butler; Drew Pearson; Claude Pepper; William O'Dwyer; Thomas B. Stanley; Harold Stassen; Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger; T. O. Thackrey; Harry S. Truman; General J. M. Wainwright; Henry A. Wallace; and Walter Winchell.</p> <p>Following the main body of the case files are case files (1946-49) of the New York Office of constituents requesting aid in obtaining civil service employment. Two files are present arranged alphabetically in the period 1946-49, and for the year 1949. Many of the constituents were referred to Sol Bloom by Democratic Party clubs. Included is one folder of files of persons seeking employment with the United Nations. Included is correspondence of B. Flegelman. and Sol Bloom with constituents, and correspondence between Sol Bloom and Flegelman relative to the cases. There is also extensive correspondence with the Civil Service Commission and various departments of government.</p>"}