Box 30: Tariff and Trade (1955) -- Veterans (1952).
F 1: Tariff and Trade, Reciprocal Trade Agreement, Correspondence, Out-of-State (Jan.-Mar. 20, 1955).
Renewal and modification of Trade Agreements Act; memorandum from National Milk Producers Federation on H.R. 1 and GATT; statement by Eugene Holman, chairman of the board of Standard Oil Company. Correspondents include: League of Women Voters of Kentucky; John W. McCormack; National Association of Commission Agents of Foreign Trade (Cuba); Gulf Oil Corporation; Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
F 2: Tariff and Trade, Reciprocal Trade Agreement, Correspondence, Out-of-State (Mar. 21-27, 1955).
Renewal and modification of Trade Agreements Act; pamphlet on coal industry; various statements. Correspondents include: Gulf Oil Corporation; Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Vickers Petroleum Company; Empire State Petroleum Association; Joseph S. Clark, Jr.; Harley-Davidson Motor Company; Independent Tanker Associations; National Oil Jobbers Council.
F 3: Tariff and Trade, Reciprocal Trade Agreement, Correspondence, Out-of-State (Mar. 28-July 1955).
Renewal and modification of Trade Agreements Act; copies of editorial and articles from The Oil and Gas Journal. Correspondents include: League of Women Voters of Louisville; Empire State Petroleum Association; Joseph C. O'Mahoney.
F 4: Tariff and Trade, Tariff Regulations, Court Cases and Testimony (1955).
Documents from case of Morgantown Glassware Guild v. Secretary of Treasury re: duties on imported glassware; information on duties on hardboard, attached to a piece of hardboard; statement of Joseph C. O'Mahoney; statement of Joseph E. Moody, president of Southern Coal Producers' Association; memorandum from Chester Bowles on Asian policy; various other statements.
F 5: Tariff and Trade (1956-1957).
Increase in railroad transportation charges; statement of E. M. Norton, secretary of National Milk Producers Federation, on customs simplification bill (H.R. 6040); duties on imported items; concern that approval of legislation (H.R. 5550) that would provide membership of the U.S. in the Organization for Trade Cooperation would be equivalent to a "back door" entrance to GATT. Correspondents include: George W. Malone; Cleveland M. Bailey.
F 6: Tariff and Trade (1958).
Public Law 85-686 (H.R. 12591): Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1958; copy of H.R. 12591; copies of proposed amendments to H.R. 12591; analyses of proposed amendments; House, Senate, and Conference Reports on H.R. 12591; copies of Trade Agreements Act of 1934, as amended, and Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended; Investigations Under the "Escape Clause" of Trade Agreements (United States Tariff Commission report); various statistics and other information relating to H.R. 12591 and trade agreements; information on H.R. 6006: Antidumping Bill. Correspondents include: Clinton P. Anderson; Stuart Symington.
F 7: Tariff and Trade (1959).
Tariffs on works of art and exhibition materials; equalization of rights in the distribution of merchandise identified by a trademark, brand, or trade name (fair trade bill); importation of lead and zinc products; duties on wood mouldings; duties on automobiles. Correspondents include: Stanley Marcus of Neiman-Marcus; Philbrook Art Center.
F 8: Tariff and Trade (1960).
Tariffs on casein; fair trade bill; ingredient labeling; duties on carpet wool; lead and zinc industry; duties on shrimp and shrimp products; tariff reductions; importation of excess products; tariffs on glass. Correspondents include: Ralston Purina Company; Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association; Oklahoma Gasoline Retailers Association; Oklahoma Hardware and Implement Association; American Soybean Association; National Retail Furniture Association.
F 9: Tariff and Trade (1961).
Stabilization prices for lead and zinc; tariffs on lead and zinc; modification of Trade Agreements Act; Fair Competitive Practices Act; duty-free allowance; draft of a bill to regulate foreign trade and to authorize reciprocal trade agreements; foreign trade; issuance of trading stamps (green stamps) and promotional gifts in the District of Columbia; agricultural exports; fair trade bills; labeling of decorative or imitation hardwood; prohibition of imports from Cuba; duties on sugar used for industrial purposes; duties on business records. Correspondents include: St. Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands) Chamber of Commerce; Oklahoma Oil Jobbers Association; W. J. Holloway; Oklahoma Gasoline Retailers Association.
F 10: Tariff and Trade (1962).
Copy of message from John F. Kennedy relative to the reciprocal trade agreements program; importation of animals for exhibition; taxation of foreign income; Tariff Classification Act; extension of Trade Agreements Act; tariffs on bicycles; duties on electric/electronic watches; Trade Expansion Act; foreign trade policy; duties on cork products; Quality Stabilization Bill (H.R. 11970). Correspondents include: Thomas H. Kuchel; Buford Ellington (governor of Tennessee); Emanuel Celler; B. F. Goodrich Company; Jennings Randolph; E. L. Bartlett; Dierks Forests; Maurine B. Neuberger; Oklahoma State Cotton Exchange; League of Women Voters of Oklahoma; National Cork Company; W. Willard Wirtz.
F 11: Transportation (1949, 1952).
Interstate highways; household goods moving industry; motor carrier industry; freight rates; federal transportation tax on passenger fares; free and reduced-rate transportation for ministers; consolidation of shipments by cooperative organizations; common carrier trucking industry; passenger train service. Correspondents include: Reford Bond, chairman of Oklahoma Corporation Commission; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen of Oklahoma.
F 12: Transportation (1953-1957).
Passenger train service; trip leasing of truck equipment; trucking industry; common carrier provisions relating to natural gas pipelines; regulation of taxi cabs in District of Columbia; bootlegging of automobiles; resolution of American Trucking Associations requesting a Bureau of Motor Carriers; federal transportation tax on passenger fares; federal transportation tax on international travel; freight rates. Correspondents include: Order of Railway Conductors of Oklahoma; Associated Motor Carriers of Oklahoma; Western Gas Producers Association; Oklahoma Malt Beverage Association; Wallace F. Bennett; Mike Monroney.
F 13: Transportation (1958-1960).
Passenger train service; railroad and barge rates; railroad retirement system and unemployment insurance; National Transportation Week; statement of James F. Pinkney of American Trucking Associations; trucking industry; railroad freight cars; safety devices on track motor cars; airman's certificates; review authority of Civil Aeronautics Board over administrator of Federal Aviation Agency. Correspondents include: Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway System; Traffic Club of Tulsa; Enid Traffic Club; Associated Motor Carriers of Oklahoma; Oklahoma Corporation Commission; Warren G. Magnuson; Ralph Watkins.
F 14: Transportation (1961).
Railroad freight cars; public transportation; truck and railroad rates; numerous petitions concerning S. 1089 and S. 1197, dealing with freight rates. Correspondents include: Warren G. Magnuson; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway System.
F 15: Transportation (1962).
Freight rates; correspondence concerning S. 3242, S. 3243, H.R. 11583, and H.R. 11584, dealing with the Interstate Commerce Commission's authority to set minimum rates and other transportation issues; message from JFK on the U.S. transportation system. Correspondents include: American Trucking Associations; Guthrie Chamber of Commerce; Dolese Brothers Company; Tulsa Chamber of Commerce; Dewey (Oklahoma) Chamber of Commerce; Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company; Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company; Ardmore Chamber of Commerce; National Independent Coal Operator's Association; Association of American Railroads.
F 16: Unemployment Compensation and Worker's Compensation (1952, 1954, 1956, 1958-1959).
Federal unemployment compensation benefits for states (S. 2504: Moody Bill; H.R. 6174); unemployment insurance; unemployment compensation legislation (H.R. 9709; S. 791); Longshoremen's and Harbor Worker's Compensation Act. Correspondents include: United Steelworkers of America; Oklahoma Development Council; Dierks Forests; L. D. Melton.
F 17: Unemployment Compensation and Worker's Compensation (1961-1962).
Unemployment compensation legislation; copy of hearings on H.R. 4806, an act providing for temporary unemployment compensation extension, before Senate Finance Committee; legislation to make worker's compensation a federal program (H.R. 7640; S. 2084). Correspondents include: J. Howard Edmondson; George Meany.
F 18: United Nations (1949-1953).
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report on resolutions relative to United Nations Charter revision, Atlantic Union, World Federation, and other proposals; copy of H.R. 5080, a bill to rescind and revoke membership of the United States in the United Nations; Genocide Convention; Japanese peace treaty; United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF); Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Covenant on Human Rights; international organizations; correspondence requesting U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations. Correspondents include: Kiwanis International; Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs.
F 19: United Nations (1954-1956).
United States contribution to United Nations Technical Assistance Program; United Nations Charter revision; correspondence requesting U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations; Israeli-Arab relations. Correspondents: American Association of University Women; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
F 20: United Nations, World Calendar, Correspondence Against (1955).
Correspondence; Do You Know How the Proposed World Calendar Will Affect Your Life?, a pamphlet published by International Religious Liberty Association.
F 21: United Nations, World Calendar, Correspondence For (1955).
Correspondence primarily from students in a class at Central State College in Edmond.
F 22: United Nations (1960-1962).
Connally Amendment; International Court of Justice; United Nations Charter revision; U.S. contributions to the United Nations; Christian Amendment; correspondence requesting U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations; United Nations bonds; disarmament proposal; "UNESCO-Communism's Trap for Our Youth" by Paul Harvey.
F 23: Veterans, Retirement, Westphal Case (1947, 1950-1958).
Case file of Lieutenant Frederick August Westphal.
F 24: Veterans (1948-1950).
Housing Laws Relating to Veterans (House of Representatives document); copies of S. 1090 and H.R. 3084, a bill to amend certain provisions of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940; copies of various legislation affecting veterans, including H.R. 896, H.R. 901, and H.R. 910; Public Law 81-31: Housing and Rent Act of 1949 (H.R. 1731); copies of H.R. 3821 and H.R. 5965; pensions; Veterans' Administration hospitals; cuts in hospital construction program; Proposed Curtailment of the Veterans Hospital Construction Program (Senate document); proposed hospital at Norman; amount of time veterans can live outside the United States; copies of H.J. Res. 436 and S.J. Res. 160 re: naming the VA hospital in Oklahoma City, the "Will Rogers Hospital." Correspondents include: Claude Pepper; State Veterans Department of Oklahoma.
F 25: Veterans (1951).
Life insurance; medical care for American citizens who served with American allies in World War II; medical care and pensions for veterans who served after World War II; Public Law 82-149 (H.R. 3193), re: pensions; discharge of members of reserves and national guard; copies of S. 84, S. 1138, S. 1823, S.J. Res. 72, H.R. 1, and H.R. 1074.
F 26: Veterans, Appellate Review (1951).
Copies of S. 923 and H.R. 1074, bills to extend the basis for appellate reviews in the Veterans' Administration. Correspondents include: American Legion; Veterans' Administration; Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States; Disabled American Veterans.
F 27: Veterans, G.I. Bill (1951).
Copy of S. 1940, a bill to provide educational and training benefits to veterans who served in the active military, naval, or air service on or after June 27, 1950; copy of hearings on S. 1940 before Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; report of the Missouri Association of School Administrators on Institutional-on-the-Farm Training Program. Correspondents include: R. H. Burton, president of Southwestern State College.
F 28: Veterans (1952).
Home loans; Hoover Commission recommendations affecting veterans; mustering-out pay; Military Personnel Claims Act; benefits for disabled veterans; Veterans' Administration budget; information on private bill for William E. Gillespie, Jr.; assistance in purchasing automobiles; prisoners of war in Korea; lack of Spars (Coast Guard) on postage stamp honoring women in armed forces; monetary allowance in lieu of grave markers or headstones; several resolutions of American Legion of Oklahoma. Correspondents include: Elmer Fraker, department adjutant of American Legion of Oklahoma.
F 29: Veterans, G.I. Bill (1952).
House Report on H.R. 7656; comparison of H.R. 7642 (Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952) and H.R. 7656 (Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1952); Springer Amendment to G.I. Bill. Correspondents include: H. Everett Pope, president of Oklahoma School of Accountancy; R. H. Burton, president of Southwestern State College; Tulsa Welding School; Elmer Fraker, department adjutant of American Legion of Oklahoma; Charles Spencer, president of East Central State College; Jacob Johnson, president of Connors State Agricultural College; C. I. Pontius, president of University of Tulsa; John Rogers, chairman of trustees of University of Tulsa; John Wesley Raley, president of Oklahoma Baptist University; C. Q. Smith, president of Oklahoma City University; Eugene Briggs, president of Phillips University.
Go to Box 31
Robert S. Kerr Collection Box List
Robert S. Kerr Collection Description
Congressional Archives Home | | Carl Albert Center Home | | About the Center | | Contact Us |