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Eda Glaser was... (description)
In May 1953, Glaser was fired from her $4,000 library clerk job by Dag Hammarskjold, after she refused to answer questions from loyalty investigators.[1] Glaser's case, one of eleven fired UN employees, as appealed to the UN Administrative Tribunal who ordered that she receive compensation for her termination.[2]
At Four Continents, Glaser specialized in early Soviet imprints.[3] Following her retirement from Four Continents, she worked as a volunteer for the New York Public Library.[4]
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- ^ "Hammarskjold Fires U.S. Employee". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. May 21, 1953. p. 23.
- ^ Manly, Chesly. The UN Record: Ten Fateful Years in America. p. 135.
- ^ Kasinec, Edward (2006). "Russian Imperial and Elite Provenance Books: Their Afterlife in Post World War II New York". Solanus. 20: 38.
- ^ Davis, Robert H. (2001). "History of Slavic and East European Collections in the United States During the Interwar Period: An Agenda for Research". Solanus. 15: 45.
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