Box 8: Federal Communications Commission (1955) -- Foreign Relations (1961).
F 1: Federal Communications Commission (1955-1956, 1959-1962).
Purchase of television stations; modification of television antenna; four-way radio system; two-way radio system; subscription television; authorization for relay system; change of frequency; radio facilities; radio paging service; shortwave radio; equal-time provisions; political broadcasting; community antenna television systems; telecasting of professional and college football games; reorganization of FCC; use of television by presidential candidates; issuance of licenses to aliens for the operation of amateur stations; amendments to Communications Act of 1934; communications satellite bill; copy of letter from Jacob K. Javits to James W. Fulbright; all channel television set bill. Correspondents include: University of Oklahoma; Stuart Symington; National Farmers Union..
F 2: Federal Power Commission (1949).
Regulation of the price of natural gas; Natural Gas Act.
F 3: Federal Power Commission (1951, 1954-1957).
Copy of S. 1346: jurisdiction over natural gas pipelines; copy of H.R. 88: safety requirements for natural gas companies; oil imports; regulation of the price of natural gas; rate schedules for sale of gas by Phillips Petroleum Company to Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline Company; regulation of production of natural gas; Markham Ferry Project; hydroelectric power; Dixon-Yates Contract; testimony of John E. Lyle before congressional subcommittee regarding reappointment of Leland Olds to the FPC; copies of letters from John L. McClellan and J. W. Fulbright to Fred A. Seaton re: contract between Southwestern Power Administration, Arkansas Power and Light Company, and Reynolds Metals Company; hydroelectric project on McKenzie River near Eugene, Oregon; rate increase; information on meeting of Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest; copy of S. 3338: relating to rates charged to public bodies and cooperatives for electric power generated at federal projects. Correspondents include: Wayne Morse; and Sid McMath.
F 4: Finance (1949-1952).
Renegotiation Act; appropriations for Southwestern Power Administration; presidential authority to enter into trade agreements; Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; taxation of insurance companies; relations with Organization for European Economic Cooperation and European Payments Union; import quotas on fruits and vegetables; unemployment insurance; and letter from Harry Truman re increase in taxes. Correspondents: Department of State; Roy J. Turner; Walter F. George; Lyndon B. Johnson; and Kenneth McKellar.
F 5: Finance, Private Bills, Mary Thaila Womack Webb (1952-1953).
F 6: Finance (1953-1956).
Reconstruction Finance Corporation; importation of plants; Renegotiation Act; establishment of position of deputy secretary of the treasury; tariffs; merit ratings and tax reductions for employers; excise tax on musical instruments; tax bill; double taxation on dividends; Fair Trade Bill for the District of Columbia; hardboard bill; Federal National Mortgage Association; food stamps; taxation of insurance companies; retroactive taxation; copy of S. 3587: To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the America's New Frontiers Exposition, to be held at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to be admitted without payment of tariff; copy of S. 3018: For the Relief of Frederick August Westphal (1954); copy of S. 1635: To amend and extend the Sugar Act of 1948; Cuba and sugar.. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Retail Merchants Association.
F 7: Finance (Apr. - July 1957).
Federal Reserve System; memorandum from Hubert H. Humphrey on nation's financial condition; refinancing of government bonds; statement by Kerr; debt reduction; inflation; taxation; fiscal policies of the administration; information concerning the Senate Finance Committee's investigation of the nation's financial condition. Correspondents include: Harry F. Byrd; J. G. Puterbaugh; Bernard J. Boyle; Frederick G. Payne; Strom Thurmond; and Harry S. Truman.
F 8: Finance (Aug. - Sept. 1957).
Information concerning the Senate Finance Committee's investigation of the nation's financial condition; inflation; debt reduction; fiscal policies of the administration; FHA and VA loan programs; Federal National Mortgage Association; Federal Reserve System; gold standard; criticism of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Correspondents include: United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); Harry S. Truman; J. Floyd Breeding; Lyndon B. Johnson.
F 9: Finance (Oct. - Dec. 1957).
Information concerning the Senate Finance Committee's investigation of the nation's financial condition; inflation; criticism of Dwight D. Eisenhower; gold standard; fiscal policies of the administration; Democratic Fact Sheet on the fiscal 1958 defense budget.
F 10: Finance (Jan. - May 1958).
Broadening of the market for state and local government bonds; Curtis-Herlong Bill; Trade Agreements Extension Act; GATT; Organization for Trade Cooperation; attempt by the Internal Revenue Service to tax Canadian companies owned by Americans; copy of letter from Canadian Prime Minister Louis S. St. Laurent to the Canadian Ambassador to the United States; Mills Bill; taxation; information concerning the Senate Finance Committee's investigation of the nation's financial condition; fiscal policies of the administration; materials from the Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy of the Joint Economic Committee. Correspondents include: Paul H. Douglas; Robert B. Anderson.
F 11: Finance (June - Dec. 1958).
Trade Agreements Extension Act; mineral imports; statement of Sinclair Weeks before Senate Finance Committee; oil imports; tariffs; Thurmond Amendment; copy of H.R. 8702: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the income tax treatment of dividends paid by certain corporations which hold the obligations of state and local governments; memorandum from the New York Stock Exchange on the stock transfer tax; Forand Bill re: alcoholic beverages; Technical Amendments Bill; gift tax; resolutions for retiring members of the Finance Committee; savings and loan associations; escape clause tariffs on barbed wire; copy of S. 2647 (amendments): For the relief of Herman E. Tenzler; Report on the Record of the Investigation of the Financial Condition of the United States. Correspondents include: George W. Malone; Independent Petroleum Association of America; Warren G. Magnuson.
F 12: Finance (Jan. - Apr. 1959).
Federal debt; government expenditures; escape clause tariffs on barbed wire; inflation; statement on monetary policy by Seymour E. Harris; duties on wool; taxation of cooperatives; taxation of insurance companies; tariffs on cream of tartar and stainless steel flatware; gift taxes; retail excise taxes; extension of veterans' benefits to American citizens who fought for allied countries in World War II; An Analysis of the Hearings of the Senate Finance Committee on the Financial Condition of the United States, 1957-58 by Seymour E. Harris. Correspondents include: Consumers Cooperative Association; Harry S. Truman; Harry F. Byrd; Robert B. Anderson.
F 13: Finance (May - Nov. 1959).
Taxation of state and municipal obligations; taxation of cooperatives; taxation of insurance companies; reciprocal trade agreements; copy of letter from Strom Thurmond to Harry F. Byrd; employee benefit associations; taxation of telephone service; limitations on national banks; bank reserve accounts; taxation of dividends. Correspondents include: Donald D. Clancy (mayor of Cincinnati).
F 14: Finance (1960-1962).
Life insurance for veterans; national lottery; Small Business Administration grants for research and management counseling; excise taxes on communications; copies of correspondence between Harry F. Byrd and Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Dana Latham re: expenditures in connection with legislative activities; Trade Agreements Extension Act; Freedom Academy Bill; gasoline tax; taxation of interest and dividends; child care deduction; taxation of insurance companies; Set-Aside Program of Small Business Administration; taxation of retirement income; legislation affecting small businesses; Automobile Finance and Insurance Act; disclosure of finance charges; Assignment of Claims Act; Federal Balanced Budget Act. Correspondents include: James L. Maxwell (mayor of Tulsa); Phil Weaver; Oklahoma Retail Merchants Association.
F 15: Food and Drug (1950-1951, 1953-1954, 1957, 1961-1962).
Durham-Humphrey Bill; copy of H.R. 3298 re: dispensation of prescription drugs; Senate Report on H.R. 3298; public law created by H.R. 3298; sale of slop-fed bacon as certified bacon; misleading food packaging; factory inspections; proposed committee on consumer interests; inspection of poultry; Quality Stabilization Bill; food additives; canning industry; oral prescription of certain drugs. Correspondents include: Food and Drug Administration; Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association.
F 16: Food and Raw Material (1953-1955).
Extension of International Wheat Agreement; old age assistance programs; National Food and Fiber Policy Joint Resolution; report from Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; copy of S. Res. 86: creation of International Food and Raw Materials Reserve; creation of World Food Bank; copy of S. 627: Surplus Food Certificate Act. Correspondents include: Paul H. Douglas; James O. Eastland; Russell B. Long; John Sparkman; Stuart Symington; Milton R. Young; Clinton P. Anderson; Olin D. Johnston; Allen J. Ellender; Hubert H. Humphrey; Estes Kefauver.
F 17: Food and Raw Material (1956).
Surplus Food Certificate Act; creation of World Food Bank; creation of International Food and Raw Materials Reserve. Correspondents include: Stuart Symington; J. Allen Frear, Jr., John Sparkman; Allen J. Ellender; Milton R. Young; Lee Metcalf; Olin D. Johnston; William Langer; Martha W. Griffiths; National Institute of Social Welfare; Hubert H. Humphrey.
F 18: Foreign Relations (1949-1950).
Criticism of Dean Acheson; maintenance of peace in the Near East (Middle East); United Nations police force; Germany; Greece; communism; Arab refugees from Palestine; Foreign Service employment information; teacher exchange program; letter of recommendation for a Fulbright Scholarship; opposition of appointment of George Marshall as secretary of defense; accidental bombing of British troops by American airplanes. Correspondents include: Dean Acheson; American Zionist Council; H. Alexander Smith.
F 19: Foreign Relations, East Asia (1950).
Recognition of Communist China; Korea; communism.
F 20: Foreign Relations, Vatican (1950).
Possible appointment of an ambassador or other representative to Vatican City; loans to Spain. Correspondents include: Southern Baptist Convention.
F 21: Foreign Relations (1951-1952).
Possible appointment of an ambassador or other representative to Vatican City; Voice of America; China policy; aid for Jewish and Arab refugees; communism; deportation in Hungary; use of inland waters by foreign nations; foreign aid; U.S. relations with Spain; U.S. contributions to the United Nations; Review of Bipartisan Foreign Policy Consultations Since World War II; presidential emergency powers; Mutual Security Program; Declaration of Human Rights; Genocide Convention; commercial treaties; amendment of War Claims Act of 1948 to include Americans who were interned in China by the Japanese (H.R. 1774 and S. 901). Correspondents include: Samuel William Yorty.
F 22: Foreign Relations (1953).
Bricker Amendment; food shortages in Europe; Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; communism; foreign aid; reports from Mike Mansfield re the Foreign Operations Administration and on Indochina; correspondence re: businessman from India who wanted to travel to the U.S. Correspondents include: Carl Hayden; Oklahoma Farm Bureau; Theodore Francis Green.
F 23: Foreign Relations (1954).
Cooperation with Mexico and Canada in the control of insects and plant diseases; foreign aid; Bricker Amendment; aid to Korea; Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; Trading with the Enemy Act; Subversive Activities Control Act; protection of American ships in foreign waters; civil liberties; Asia policy. Correspondents include: Stuart Symington; Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association.
F 24: Foreign Relations (1955).
Atlantic Union Resolution; atomic warfare; United Nations Charter; establishment of foreign service school; National Security Council Act; foreign aid; United Nations Technical Assistance Program; Formosa and China policy; India and Pakistan policy; world disarmament.
F 25: Foreign Relations, Bricker Amendment (1955).
Correspondence.
F 26: Foreign Relations (1956-1960).
Cyprus; trade with the Philippines; distribution of surplus food to other countries; foreign aid; Status of Forces Treaty; overseas operations of the U.S. government; copy of S. Res. 163, favoring U.S. trials of members of the Armed Forces for offenses in foreign countries; Development Loan Fund; Executive N; Freedom Commission; Connally Amendment; Yugoslavia; National Economic Council for Security and Progress; National Peace Agency; Cuba; Passport Bill. Correspondents include: Herbert H. Lehman; Stuart Symington; Allen J. Ellender; William E. Jenner; George Smathers; Thomas C. Jennings, Jr.; Frank Church.
F 27: Foreign Relations, Connally Amendment (1959-1961).
Correspondence.
F 28: Foreign Relations (1961).
Connally Amendment; International Cooperative Administration; Peace Corps; foreign aid; Battle Act; creation of House Committee on the Captive Nations; Executive N; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Alliance for Progress; admission of Communist China into United Nations; distribution of surplus food to other countries; Inter-American Social and Economic Cooperation program; exchange of tractors and bulldozers with Cuba for the release of prisoners; admission of Outer Mongolia to the United Nations; Berlin; seizure of property and highjacking of airplanes by Cuba; copy of S. Res. 338: dealing with tenure of office of government officials. Correspondents include J. W. Fulbright.
F 29: Foreign Relations, Aid Appropriations (Jan. - July 1961).
Correspondence re: foreign aid.
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