Petry, Ann, 1, 20

pneumonia, 130, 132

Post, Langdon, 118, 124

Powell, C. B., 122

Powell Jr., Reverend Adam C., 82–85, 101–103

President's Organization on Unemployment Relief (POUR), 111

Progressive Medical Society, 79

Prosser, Seward, 109

Public Health Reserve Corps, 52

Public Works Administration (PWA), 115, 118, 121

quackery, 47, 49–53, 56

Racker, “Black Herman, ” 41–43

Randolph, A. Philip, 68

Ranking, Miss B., 40

Rapp, Dr. Rudolf, 77

rent strikes, 119

Red Cross, 103

Reed, Daisy, 92

Reid, Ira De, 14, 20

Republican Party, 66–68, 71

Ridder, Victor, 115

Rivers, Francis, 122

Roan, Carita, 122

Roberts, Dr. Charles, 65, 70, 72

Robinson, Reverend Elizabeth, 35, 39, 43–44

Rockefeller, John D., 91, 120

Rogers, J. A., 95

Roktabija, Professor Alpha, 36, 40

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 110–111, 115, 118, 121

Russell Sage Foundation, 122

Rypins, Dr. Harold, 53

Sadiq, Mufti Muhammad, 41

St. Luke's Hospital, 62

Saint Phillip's Protestant Episcopal Church, 103

Salem Methodist Church, 103

San Juan Hill (New York City), 9

Savory, Dr. P. W. N., 122

School Relief Fund, 95–96

Schuyler, George, 85

Shearer, Sytre, 37, 43, 45

Slum Clearance Committee of New York, 21

Smith, Beverly, 108

Smith, Governor Alfred, 51–52

Socialist Party, 68

Sonn Leasing Company, 119

Special Unemployment Census of 1933, 108

spiritualism, 40–42

Springarn, Arthur, 85

Staupers, Mabel Doyle Keaton, 98–99

Sullivan, Policewoman Mary, 55

Sydenham Hospital, 62

Tammany Hall, 66–68, 71–72, 79–80

Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA), 110

Tenderloin (New York City), 9

Tenement Housing Commission, 21

Tibbits, Clark, 89

tuberculosis, 24–26, 88–89, 97, 122, 130–131