F 1-2: Topical, Veterans Benefits and Programs, 1944 - 1946.
Topics include United States Veterans Administration (Muskogee, Okla.), United States Veterans Administration in Oklahoma City (Okla.), Reconstruction (1939-1951) in Oklahoma, veterans education in Oklahoma, veterans employment in Oklahoma, Veterans training in Oklahoma, veterans' hospitals in Oklahoma, Glennan General Hospital in Okmulgee (Okla.), veterans housing, G.I. Bill of Rights, and Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. Correspondents include Joseph Hurst Ball, Omar Nelson Bradley, Walter Franklin George, Ernest Gruening, Robert Alexander Hefner, Don McBride, Elbert Duncan Thomas, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administration, American Legion Dept. of Oklahoma, Council of State Governments, Oklahoma Attorney General, Oklahoma Dept. of Veterans Affairs Soldiers Relief Commission, Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, Oklahoma State Accrediting Agency, United States National Housing Agency (Dallas, Tex.), United States Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, United States Retraining and Re-employment Administration, United States Selective Service System, United States Selective Service System (Okla.), United States Veterans Administration, United States Veterans Employment Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept. of Oklahoma, Milt Phillips, Allied Veterans of America, Oklahoma Veterans Assistance Program, and United States Soldiers Relief Commission. The information in this record is also in Kerr, Gubernatorial, Box 14, Folders 34-38.
F 3: Topical, Veterans, Disabled American Veterans Fundraising Campaign, 1944 - 1945.
Folder contains several letters from governors regarding this fundraising. Topics include disabled veterans, World War II veterans, and national service fund. Correspondents include Disabled American Veterans, National Association of State Racing Commissioners, and United States Veterans Administration.
F 4-5: Topical, War Effort, National War Fund, Oklahoma War Chest, 1943 - 1946.
Topics include World War II economic aspects in the United States, World War II finance in the United States, and World War II war work in the United States. Correspondents include Winthrop William Aldrich, Gene Autry, Page Belcher, Prescott Sheldon Bush, B. D. Eddie, Edward King Gaylord, Danny Kaye, William Grove Skelly, Boy Scouts of America Region Nine, National War Fund (U.S.), Oklahoma State Dept. of Health, Oklahoma City Air Service Command, United States Dept. of Labor, United States Treasury Dept. War Finance Division (Okla.), L. A. Macklanburg, United Community and War Fund, and United War Chest of Oklahoma.
F 6-8: Topical, War Effort, Occupation of Enemy Territories After Surrender, Release from Military Duty for Law Enforcement Officers, and U.S. War Ballot Commission, 1944 - 1945.
Topics include absentee voting, draft in the United States, soldier suffrage in the United States, traffic police in Oklahoma, and World War II civilian relief in the United States. Correspondents include Fred G. Aandahl - Governor of North Dakota, Ellis Gibbs Arnall - Governor of Georgia, Raymond Earl Baldwin - Governor of Connecticut, Lyle Hagler Boren, Millard Fillmore Caldwell - Governor of Florida, Colgate Whitehead Darden - Governor of Virginia, John Joseph Dempsey - Governor of New Mexico, Walter Evans Edge - Governor of New Jersey, Dwight Herbert Green - Governor of Illinois, Dwight Palmer Griswold, - Governor of Nebraska, Lester Callaway Hunt - Governor of Wyoming, Frank John Lausche - Governor of Ohio, Edward Martin - Governor of Pennsylvania, James Howard McGrath - Governor of Rhode Island, Clarence Watson Meadows - Governor of West Virginia, A. S. Mike Monroney, Mortimer Robinson Proctor - Governor of Vermont, Ross Rizley, Andrew Frank Schoeppel - Governor of Kansas, George Blaine Schwabe, Coke Robert Stevenson - Governor of Texas, William Grady Stigler, Edward John Thye - Governor of Minnesota, Monrad Charles Wallgren - Governor of Washington, Earl Warren - Governor of California, Victor E. Wickersham, Simeon S. Willis - Governor of Kentucky, Oklahoma Dept. of Public Safety, United States War Ballot Commission, United States War Dept. General Staff, Thomas L. Bailey - Governor of Mississippi, Robert D. Blue - Governor of Iowa, E. P. Carville - Governor of Nevada, R. Gregg Cherry - Governor of North Carolina, Jimmie H. Davis - Governor of Louisiana, Sam C. Ford - Governor of Montana, Charles C. Gossett - Governor of Idaho, Horace Hildreth - Governor of Maine, Harry F. Kelly - Governor of Michigan, Ben Laney - Governor of Arkansas, Herbert B. Maw - Governor of Utah, Sidney P. Osborne - Governor of Arizona, M. Q. Sharpe - Governor of South Dakota, Earl Snell - Governor of Oregon, John C. Vivian - Governor of Colorado, and Ransome J. Williams - Governor of South Carolina.
F 9-14: Topical, War Effort, War Bond Drives, 1943 - 1945.
Topics include savings bonds and World War II finance in the United States. Correspondents include James Forrestal, Henry Morgenthau, Wright Patman, Elmer Thomas, Maurice J. Tobin - Governor of Massachusetts, Claudia Volta, Earl Welch, Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction, Oklahoma Publishing Company, Oklahoma Tax Commission, United States Treasury Dept. War Finance Division, United States Treasury Dept. War Finance Division (Okla.), United States War Production Board, War Activities Committee Motion Picture Industry, and Schools at War.
F 15: Topical, War Effort, Women's Army Corps, Recruitment Drive, 1943 -1945.
Topics include women's participation in the war effort during World War II. Correspondents include Dwight Palmer Griswold - Governor of Nebraska, George Catlett Marshall, Governors' Conference, United States Army Women's Army Corps, United States Army Women's Army Corps (Tex., Okla., Ark., La., N.M.), United States Army Service Forces, Oklahoma Recruiting and Induction District, and Oklahoma State War Council.
F 16: Topical, War Heroes and War Memorials, 1944 - 1946.
Topics include Oklahoma (Ship), World War II monuments and Oklahoma, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), and National Committee for War Memorials (U.S.). Correspondents include Ray O. Weems, American Legion (Okla.), Navy Club of the United States of America, and Oklahoma Dept. of Veterans Affairs Soldiers Relief Commission.
F 17: Topical, War Heroes, Service Scrolls, 1940, 1942, 1945, 1947.
Topics include World War II casualties. Correspondents include James Forrestal.
F 18: Topical, Will Rogers Memorial, 1943 - 1945.
Topics include Will Rogers. Correspondents include Grant Foreman, James Blake Rogers, Oklahoma Historical Society, Will Rogers Memorial, and Will Rogers Memorial Commission.
F 19-25: Organizations, American Legion of Oklahoma, 1942 - 1946.
Topics include Oklahoma (Ship), Reconstruction (1939-1951) in Oklahoma, World War II finance in the United States, World War II monuments in the United States, World War II veterans in the United States, World War II war work in the United States, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), American Legion Americanism Endowment Fund Campaign, Masonic Temple Building (Oklahoma City, Okla.), and Oklahoma Postwar Planning Commission. Correspondents include Dwight Herbert Green - Governor of Illinois, A. S. Mike Monroney, Ray O. Weems, American Legion, American Legion (Okla.), Oklahoma Attorney General, United States Veterans Administration, Elmer Fraker, J. B. Koch, Milt Phillips, William F. Rogers, Granville Scanland, and Commission for Community War Memorials for Physical Fitness.
F 26: Organizations, First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City, 1943 - 1946.
Correspondents include John Howard Williams, First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City, Willis Howard.
F 27: Organizations, Cancer Society, 1943 - 1946.
Correspondents include American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society (Okla.).
F 28: Organizations, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1943 - 1945.
Topics include United States Petroleum Administration for War, employment agencies, food prices in the United States, water use in the United States, and United States officials and employees. Correspondents include Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America Dept. of Governmental Affairs, and United States Junior Chamber of Commerce.
F 29-35: Organizations, Council of State Governments, 1943 - 1946.
Topics include United States Civil Aeronautics Administration, United States Office of Price Administration Management, United States War Manpower Commission, aeronautics law and legislation in the United States, airports, airport finance, airport planning, crime prevention, employment agencies, federal aid to education, federal aid to hospitals, unemployment, rationing, Reconstruction (1939-1951) in the United States, recreation in the United States, social security law and legislation, soldier suffrage in the United States, state governments, surplus American government property, tax exemption, taxation in the United States, Thanksgiving Day, World War II economic aspects in the United States, World War II manpower in the United States, World War II veterans in the United States, World War II war work in the United States, United States Armed Forces demobilization, United States economic conditions 1918-1945, United States economic policy 1933-1945, United States National Guard, United States politics and government 1933-1953, Troop Basis Plan, G. I. Bill of Rights, George Bill, Hill Burton Act, Kilgore Murray Bill, and Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1964. Correspondents include Dwight Herbert Green - Governor of Illinois, Julius Albert Krug, Herbert Romulus O'Conor - Governor of Maryland, Harry S. Truman, Council of State Governments, Governors' Conference, Oklahoma State Dept. of Health, Oklahoma State Insurance Board, Oklahoma Tax Commission, Smaller War Plants Corporation, United States Dept. of State, United States Internal Revenue Service, United States Office of Community War Services Division of Recreation, United States Office of Defense Transportation (Okla.), United States Office of Price Administration, United States Office of War Mobilization, United States Surplus War Property Administration, United States War Manpower Commission, United States War Production Board, and Frank Bane. The information in this record continues in Kerr, Gubernatorial, Box 16, Folders 1-4.
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