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Bertram Gross was born on December 25, 1912, in Philadelphia, United States.
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Bertram Gross was born on December 25, 1912, in Philadelphia, United States.
Gross attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1933 and a master’s degree in 1935.
Gross contributed substantially to the development of legislation regarding employment and wages and was a strong advocate for federal programs to create jobs.
Bertram joined the United States Housing Authority in 1938 and went on to such government appointments as research and hearing director of the Senate Committee on Small Business from 1942 to 1943, staff director of the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee on War Contracts during 1943 and 1944, economic adviser to the Senate Banking and Currency Committee from 1945 to 1946, and executive secretary of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President from 1946 to 1951. Gross was chiefly remembered as an economic adviser to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1938 to 1953.
Leaving Washington in 1953, Gross served as an economic adviser to the government of Israel and taught at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He returned to the United States in 1956, when he assumed a visiting professorship at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Bertram was later the director of the Urban Studies Center at Wayne State University in Detroit and Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs at Hunter College of the City University of New York. A contributor to anthologies and periodicals on various topics of economics and politics. Gross was the author of The Legislative Struggle: A Study in Social Combat (1953), and such legislation as the “Employment Act of 1946” and the “Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act of 1978.”
In 1970, Bertram Gross was president of the Society for General Systems Research. From 1970 to 1982 he was Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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1993Gross is known from his book Friendly Fascism from 1980 and as primary author of the Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act.
From 1941 to 1945 he was a staff member of a number of Senate committees.
Gross was married to Nora Faine Gross and is survived by his second wife, Kusum Singh. He was the father of four sons: physicist and Nobel Prize winner David J. Gross, communications scholar Larry Gross, law professor Samuel Gross, and playwright and community organizer Theodore Gross.