Box 26: Social Security (1947) -- Social Security (1954).
F 1: Social Security (1947-1948).
Pamphlet on social security; report of the North Carolina Commission for the Blind; compilation of the social security laws.
F 2: Social Security (1949).
Miscellaneous correspondence concerning various legislation on social security; testimony of A. Fernos-Isern, the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico; social security for Indians. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System.
F 3: Social Security, H.R. 6000 (n.d., 1949).
"An Open Letter to Congressmen" from Francis E. Townsend; inclusion of Virgin Islands under social security; report of the Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System. Correspondents include: Oklahoma State Nurses' Association.
F 4: Social Security, H.R. 6000 (1950).
Miscellaneous booklets from Committee on Finance comparing H.R. 6000 to other social security legislation; transcript of radio interview between Arthur Altmeyer and Kerr; Oklahoma's Welfare Problem, a booklet issued by the Oklahoma Public Expenditures Council; memo from Brookings Institute on cost; pamphlet from Social Security Administration; memo on the blind.
F 5: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Child Welfare (1950).
Statement by Mildred Arnold of the Children's Bureau; drafts of amendments; statement and memo from Katharine Lenroot of the Children's Bureau.
F 6: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence (Jan. 1950).
"Correspondence consensus" drafted by Kerr's staff on analysis of all correspondence on H.R. 6000. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System.
F 7: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence (Feb. 1-15, 1950).
Correspondents include: Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System; Oklahoma City Council; Oklahoma Education Association; Petroleum Retailers' Association; Oklahoma Public Expenditures Council; Toby Morris; Oklahoma Municipal League.
F 8: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence (Feb. 16-20, 1950).
Correspondents include: Henry C. Hitch.
F 9: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence (Mar. 1-15, 1950).
Correspondents include: Tulsa Chamber of Commerce.
F 10: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence (Mar. 16-31, 1950).
Correspondents include: Morris F. de Castro (acting governor of the Virgin Islands); Associated Blind; General Federation of Women's Clubs; American Council on Education.
F 11: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence (Apr. 1-15, 1950).
Correspondents include: Oklahoma State Medical Association; Oklahoma Osteopathic Association; Oklahoma State Nurses Association; Oklahoma Commission for Crippled Children; Walter F. George.
F 12: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence, (Apr. 16-30, 1950).
Correspondents include: American Federation of Musicians; Robert Ramspeck; Oklahoma Association of the Blind.
F 13: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence (May 1950).
Correspondents include: Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System; William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers; National Jewish Welfare Board; American Baptist Foreign Mission Society; Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway, and Motor Coach Employes of America.
F 14: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence (June - Oct. 1950).
Correspondents include: George Lynn Cross; Oklahoma Publishing Company; F. E. Townsend; Oklahoma State Medical Association; International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Oklahoma State Federation of Labor; AMVETS; Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System.
F 15: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Correspondence, Farmers (1950).
Correspondents include: Oklahoma Farm Bureau; National Grange; National Farm Labor Union.
F 16: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Statements (1950).
Persons and groups making statements include: Joseph Molnar; National Association of Magazine Publishers; National Grange; Dairy Industry Committee; National Catholic Welfare Conference.
F 17: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Statements, Insurance (1950).
Groups making statements include: National Association of Life Underwriters; Life Insurance Association of America.
F 18: Social Security, H.R. 6000, Statements, Labor (1950).
Persons and groups making statements include: Emil Rieve, chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organizations Social Security Committee and president of the Textile Workers Union of America; American Pension Committee; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; American Federation of Labor; Congress of Industrial Organizations.
F 19: Social Security (1951).
Copy of "Compilation of the Social Security Laws."
F 20: Social Security (1952).
Drafts of "Old Age and Survivors Hospitalization Insurance Act"; social security for Puerto Rico; miscellaneous correspondence on eligibility and increased rates. Correspondents include: Hubert H. Humphrey; A. Sidney Camp.
F 21: Social Security, H.R. 7800 (1952).
Copy of H.R. 7800; reports on H.R. 7800; public law created from H.R. 7800. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Municipal League; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; Walter F. George; Congress of Industrial Organizations; Oklahoma Association of the Blind; Board of Hospitals and Homes of the Methodist Church.
F 22: Social Security (1953).
Copies of miscellaneous legislation. Correspondents include: George Lynn Cross; National Coal Association.
F 23: Social Security (Jan. - June 1954).
Correspondence especially concerning H.R. 9366, the Social Security Act of 1954; pamphlet for clergymen; statement on social security from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; copy of S. 3092, the Surplus Food Certificate Act of 1954; copy of S. 3278, re: providing social security to ministers; questionnaire distributed by Thomas E. Martin; report on H.R. 9366; booklet on major differences between the present social security law and H.R. 9366. Correspondents include: American Municipal Association; James O. Eastland; Cotton Ginners' Association; Oklahoma Association of Tobacco Distributors; Southern Baptist Convention; Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.
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Robert S. Kerr Collection Box List
Robert S. Kerr Collection Description
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