Wise and Waterman family backgrounds; family relations, especially with father, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; college education at Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe and Barnard, A.B.1924; early jobs in labor and attempts to organize New Jersey textile industry; Yale Law School, LL.B.1928; referee, New York Dept. of Labor, on medical compensation cases; Assistant Corporation Counsel under Mayor LaGuardia, setting up mo del insurance system, 1934-35; judge, New York City Court of Domestic Relations: changes in court procedure, attempts to make treatment of children by voluntary agencies and courts more humane and equitable
Lawyers; Women judges; Domestic relations; Children--Legal status, laws, etc; Government insurance; New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 1898-1951; Polier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987; Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949