Box 2: Education and Labor - Newsletters (1947-1948)
F 1: Education and Labor, Committee on (1947-1948). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Correspondence R - Z and clippings.
F 2: Education and Labor, Committee on (n.d.). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Constituent "A - Ho" form letters.
F 3: Education and Labor, Committee on (n.d.). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Constituent "Hu - Pe" form letters.
F 4: Education and Labor, Committee on (n.d.). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Constituent "Pn - Z" form letters.
F 5: Education and Labor, Committee on (n.d.). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Constituent form letters.
F 6: Education and Labor, Committee on (1947). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Constituent petitions.
F 7: Education and Labor, Committee on (1947). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Postcards A - D.
F 8: Education and Labor, Committee on (1947). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Postcards E - L.
F 9: Education and Labor, Committee on (1947). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Postcards M - Sa..
F 10: Education and Labor, Committee on (1947). Labor: Taft-Hartley Bill.
Postcards Sc - Z.
F 11: Education and Labor, Committee on (1947). Lanham Act.
Correspondence regarding amending of act to provide college housing. S. 971 is mentioned.
F 12: Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Committee on (1947). Unification of the Military: General.
F 13: Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Committee on (1948). Reorganization Plan No.1: General.
F 14: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947). Atomic Bombs: General.
F 15: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1948). China Aid: General.
"The Year of the Rat," by J. Spencer Kennard, Jr.
F 16: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947-1948). Foreign Aid.
Discussion of S.2202; "To promote the general welfare, national interest, and foreign policy of the United States through necessary economic and financial assistance to foreign countries which undertake to cooperate with each other in the establishment and maintenance of economic conditions essential to a peaceful and prosperous world" (Arthur H. Vandenburg - Michigan; Tom Connally - Texas).
F 17: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1946-1948). General Correspondence.
Topics include Communism, world peace, United Nations, etc. "The Peoples Plan to End War," by Ed T. Coleman.
F 18: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947-1948). Greece - Turkey Aid.
Discussion of S.938; "To provide for assistance to Greece and Turkey" (Arthur H. Vandenburg - Michigan). Correspondence and clippings.
F 19: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947). International Refugee Organization.
Discussion of S.J.Res.77; "Providing for membership and participation by the United States and the International Refugee Organization and authorizing an appropriation therefore" (Arthur H. Vandenberg - Michigan).
F 20: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947-1948). Marshall Plan: General.
a. Correspondence A - F and clippings. Correspondents include Schuyler Otis Bland, and Homer E. Capehart.
b. Hearings: "United States Foreign Policy For A Post-War Recovery Program" (H.R.4840, H.R.4579, etc). Excerpts on
shipping. Reprint.
c. "U.S. Decision to Quit Korea," U.S. News and World Report, May 7, 1948.
d. "Between the Lines," the Layman's Information Service.
e. "Mr. Marshall Suffers a Lapse of Memory," Flying, Nov.1947. By William B. Ziff.
F 21: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947-1948). Marshall Plan: General.
a. Correspondence G - Z and clippings. Correspondents include George W. Malone.
b. Congressional Record: "The Marshall Plan." Excerpts from the debates in the Senate of the United States.
c. "The Kiplinger Washington Letter."
F 22: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947-1948). Marshall Plan: Petitions and Form Letters.
F 23: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947). Middle East: General.
Resolution adopted at the Convention of the Southwest Region of the Zionist Organization of America. Shreveport, Louisiana.
F 24: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947-1948). Prisoners of War.
Discussion of H.R.1000; "Creating a commission to examine and render final decisions on all claims by American nationals who were members of the armed forces of the United States and who were prisoners of war of Germany, Italy, or Japan, for payments of its awards, and for other purposes" (James E. Van Zandt - Pennsylvania),S.172; "To provide for a commission to adjudicate claims of American nationals who were prisoners of war of Japan, for payments of its awards, and for other purposes" (Dennis Chavez - New Mexico), and H.R.2823; "To provide for a commission to adjudicate claims of American nationals who were prisoners of war of Japan, for payments of its awards, and for other purposes" (Antonio M. Fernandez - New Mexico).
F 25: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947). St.Lawrence Seaway: General.
F 26: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1947). United Nations.
a. H.Con.Res.59. Concurrent Resolution.
b. H.Con.Res.68. Concurrent Resolution.
F 27: Foreign Affairs, Committee on (1945-1947). Universal Military Training.
Discussion of H.Res.73; "Urging an intermediate international agreement to eliminate compulsory military service from the policies and practices of all nations" (Gerald W. Landis - Indiana). Correspondents include Gerald W. Landis. "Resolutions Against Universal Military Training 1945 - 1947."
F 28: General Correspondence (1947-1948). A - F.
F 29: General Correspondence (1947-1948). G - Z.
F 30: General Correspondence (1947-1948). Resolutions.
a. Resolutions recommended by the Resolutions Committee and adopted by the National Reclamation Association.
b. Resolutions adopted by the Thirty-third Annual Convention of Kiwanis International Los Angeles, California.
c. Resolutions recommended for passage by the House of Delegates, Oklahoma Bar Association.
d. Resolutions adopted by the Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs.
F 31: House Administration, Committee on (1948). Gandhi Memorial.
Discussion of H.Res.460; "To erect a monument to the memory of Mohandas K Gandhi" (Emanuel Cellar - New York).
F 32: House Administration, Committee on (1947). General.
Correspondents include Karl M. LeCompte, and Charles B. Deane.
F 33: House Administration, Committee on (1947). Health Workshops Investigation.
Discussion of H.Res.525; "Authorizing the printing of additional copies of House Report No.786, entitled 'Investigation of the Participation of Federal Officials in the Formation and Operation of Health Workshops" (Forest A Harness - Indiana).
F 34: House Administration, Committee on (1948). Leave Reimbursements.
Discussion of H.R.4847; "To reimburse uncompensated leave to Government Printing Office employees earned during the fiscal year 1932" (Herbert A. Meyer - Kansas).
F 35: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on (1948). Admiralty Island National Park.
Discussion of S. 2944; "To establish Admiralty Island National Park in the Territory of Alaska" (Arthur Capper - Kansas).
F 36: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on (1948). Denison Transmission Line.
F 37: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on (1946-1947). Southwestern Power Administration.
a. Constituent correspondence against the S.P.A.
b. Brochure entitled "SPA" Submitted by the Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
c. "Statement of R.K. Lane , President of Public Service Company of Oklahoma protesting the granting by Congress of
Appropriations as requested by the Southwestern Power Administration in its Report of November 1945."
d. Statement from the Public Service Company of Oklahoma entitled "Utility Monopoly.
e. Statement from the Public Service Company of Oklahoma entitled "Electric Generation Costs."
f. "Summary of reasons why the proposal of Southwestern Power Administration to spend over $200,000,000 is: Wasteful,
Unnecessary, Inflationary, Fallacious, UnAmerican, Misleading, and Illegal" from the Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
g. "Co-Ops Get Fat Escaping Taxes" A series of articles on cooperatives vs. private enterprise by L. W. Meredith in the
Hearst Newspapers.
h. Statement from Walter C. Ploeser entitled "Patman Report on Co-op Tax Freedom is Unfair, Misleading, Deceptive,
Political, Damaging to Private Business.
i. Pamphlet entitled "Is This Waste Really Necessary?"
F 38: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on (1948). Wildlife Resources.
F 39: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947-1948). Alcoholic Beverage Advertising.
Discussion of H.R.4983; "To prohibit the transportation in interstate commerce of advertisements of alcoholic beverages, and for other purposes" (John E. Rankin - Mississippi), and S.265; "To prohibit the transportation in interstate commerce of advertisements of alcoholic beverages, and for other purposes" (Arthur Capper - Kansas).
F 40: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947). Alcoholic Beverage Licensing.
F 41: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947). Aviation: Airport Aid.
F 42: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1948). Aviation - Air Markings Systems.
Discussion of H.R.1245; "To provide for the establishment of a national system of air markings for the facilitation, encouragement, and safety of aviation" (Richard F. Harless - Arizona).
F 43: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947-1948). Carriers.
Discussion of H.R.221; "To amend the Interstate Commerce Act with respect to certain carriers" (Alfred L. Bulwinkle - N. Carolina), and S.110; "To amend the Interstate Commerce Act with respect to certain agreements between carriers" (Clyde M. Reed - Kansas).
F 44: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1948). Food and Drug Amendment.
Discussion of H.R.4071; "To amend sections 301 (k) and 304 (a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended" (William J. Miller - Connecticut).
F 45: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947). Natural Gas Act.
Discussion of S.734; "To amend the Natural Gas Act approved June 21, 1938, as amended" (Edward H. Moore - Oklahoma), H.R. 2185; "To amend the Natural Gas Act approved June 21, 1938, as amended" (Ross W. Rizley - Oklahoma),H.R.4051; "To amend the Natural Gas Act approved June 21, 1938, as amended" (Ross Rizley - Oklahoma),and H.R.4099; "To amend the Natural Gas Act approved June 21, 1938, as amended, in order to make clear the exemption of the independent production or gathering of natural gas from the provisions of the Natural Gas Act" (J. Percy Priest - Tennessee).
F 46: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947-1948). National Science Foundation.
Discussion of H.R.6997; "To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes" (Charles A. Wolverton - New Jersey), and S.2385; "To promote the progress of science, to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes" (H.Alexander Smith - New Jersey; Guy Cordon - Oregon; Chapman Revercomb - West Virginia; Leverett Saltonstall - Massachusetts; Elbert Thomas - Utah; Harley M Kilgore - West Virginia; Warren Magnuson - Washington; and J. William Fulbright - Arkansas).
F 47: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1948). Public Health Units.
Discussion of H.R.5644; "To assist the States in the development and maintenance of local public-health units, and for other purposes" (James I. Dolliver - Iowa), S. 2189; "To assist the States in the development and maintenance of local public-health units, and for other purposes" (Leverett Saltonstall - Massachusetts; Guy Cordon - Oregon; and Lister Hill - Alabama), and H.R. 5678; "To assist the States in the development and maintenance of local public-health units, and for other purposes" (J. Percy Priest - Tennessee).
F 48: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1948). Radio Stations.
Discussion of S.1333; "To amend the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and for other purposes" (Wallace H.White - Maine), and S.2231; "To limit the power of radio broadcast stations" (Edwin C. Johnson - Colorado); Memorandum on Johnson Bill, S.2331 from Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Department of Radio Services, Stillwater.
F 49: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947-1948). Railroad Retirement.
Discussion of H.R.5759; "To increase all benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act, as amended" (James E.Van Zandt - Pennsylvania), H.R.3150; "To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, as amended, and for other purposes" (Evan Howell - Illinois), H.R.2169; "To repeal the act entitled 'An act to amend the Railroad Retirement Acts, the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, and subchapter B of Chapter 9 of the Internal Revenue Code; and for other purposes,' approved July 31, 1946, and for other purposes" (Wilson D. Gillette - Pennsylvania),S.670; "To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, as amended, and for other purposes" (Albert W. Hawkes - New Jersey), and H.R.2310; "To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, and for other purposes" (Evan Howell - Illinois). Correspondence and clippings; "Murder on Capitol Hill," a message from the Railway Labor Executives' Association.
F 50: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947). School Health Services.
Discussion of H.R.1980; "To provide for the general welfare by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for the health of school children through development of school health services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of physical and mental defects and conditions" (Evan Howell - Illinois).
F 51: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1947). Standard Time.
Discussion of H.R.2740; "To amend the act of March 19, 1918, so as to provide that standard time shall be the measure of time for all purposes, and or other purposes" (Joseph P. O'Hara).
F 52: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1946-1947). Transportation.
Brochure entitled "Modern Transportation" address by Fred G. Gurley, President of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway System Lines.
F 52b: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1948). War Claims.
H.R. 4044. Includes correspondence as well as House Report 2439 on the "War Claims Act of 1948."
F 53: Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee on (1948). Weather Bureau.
Discussion of H.R.4583; "To direct the Chief of the Weather Bureau to conduct experiments with respect to methods of controlling rainfall" (Sid Simpson - Illinois).
F 54: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947-1948). Administrative Agencies.
Discussion of H.R.3214; "To revise, codify, and enact into law title 28 of the United States Code entitled `Judicial Code and Judiciary'" (John M. Robison - Kentucky), and H.R.2657; "To protect the public with respect to practitioners before administrative agencies" (John W. Gwynne - Iowa); Resolution from A. B. Gosselin and Associates; Resolution from the Oklahoma City Transportation Club.
F 55: Judiciary, Committee on the (1948). American War Bonds.
Discussion of H.R.3041; "To incorporate the American War Dads" (C. Jasper Bell - Missouri).
F 56: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947). Carden - Herd Appeal.
Discussion of H.R.2533; "To provide for an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States from the decision of the Court of Claims in a suit instituted by George A. Carden and Anderson T. Herd" (Everett M. Dirsken - Illinois).
F 57: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947-1948). Citizenship of Foreign-born Seamen.
Discussion of H.R.4156; "To provide citizenship for persons with maritime wartime service, and for other purposes" (Emanuel Cellar - New York). Correspondence and clippings.
F 58: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947). Civil Rights.
F 59: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947). Copyrights.
Discussion of H.R.1269; "To amend the act entitled `An act to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright,' approved March 4, 1909, as amended" (Hugh D. Scott, Jr.- Pennsylvania), and H.R.1270; "To amend the act entitled `An act to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright,' approved March 4, 1909, as amended" (Hugh D.Scott, Jr.- Pennsylvania).
F 60: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947-1948). Displaced People.
Discussion of H.R.6163; "To authorize for a limited period of time the admission of displaced persons into the United States for permanent residence, and for other purposes" (Frank Fellows - Maine), H.R.6396; To authorize for a limited period of time the admission of displaced persons into the United States for permanent residence, and for other purposes" (Frank Fellows - Maine), and H.R.2910; "To authorize the United States during an emergency period to undertake its fair share in the resettlement of displaced persons in Germany, Austria, and Italy including relatives of citizens or members of our armed forces by permitting their admission in the United States in a number equivalent to a part of the total quota numbers unused during the war years" ( William G. Stratton - Illinois); Resolution from the Committee of American Aid to Displaced Persons.
F 61: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947). Employees' Compensation.
Discussion of H.R.3239; "To amend section 4 of the United States Employees' Compensation Act, approved September 7, 1916" (Kenneth B. Keating- New York).
F 62: Judiciary, Committee on the (1946-1947). Employers' Liability Act.
Discussion of H.R.1639; "To amend the Employers' Liability Act so as to limit venue in actions brought in United States district courts or in State courts under such act" (John Jennings, Jr.- Tennessee), and H.R.242; "To amend the Employers' Liability Act so as to limit venue in actions brought in United States district courts or in State courts under such act" (John Jennings, Jr.- Tennessee); Resolution from the Oklahoma Bar Association; Resolution from the Oklahoma County Bar Association; "Jennings Bill Wins Widespread Bar Support," Journal of the American Judicature Society, p.202.
F 63: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947). Equal Rights Amendment.
F 64: Judiciary, Committee on the (1948). Federal Torts Claims Act.
Discussion of H.R.4682; "To amend the Federal Tort Claims Act to increase the time within which claims under such act may be presented to Federal agencies or prosecuted in the United States district courts" (A. Sidney Camp - Georgia).
F 65: Judiciary, Committee on the (1948). Judicial Code Amendment.
Discussion of S.1737; "To amend the Judicial Code, and for other purposes" (E. H. Moore - Oklahoma).
F 65b: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947-1948). Morris, Thomas J.
Includes correspondence and legislation regarding Morris's claim against the government.
F 66: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947). Popular Election of President.
F 67: Judiciary, Committee on the (1947). Railroad Reorganization.
Discussion of H.R.3237; "To enable debtor railroad corporations expeditiously to effectuate reorganizations of their financial structures without any further proceedings under the Bankruptcy Act, as amended; to alter or modify their financial obligations; and for other purposes" (Chauncey W. Reed - Illinois), and H.R.3980; "To enable debtor railroad corporations expeditiously to effectuate reorganizations of their financial structure; and for other purposes" (Chauncey W. Reed).
F 68: Judiciary, Committee on the (1948). Southern Education Compact.
Discussion of S.J.Res.191; "Giving the consent of Congress to the compact on regional education entered into between the Southern States at Tallahassee, Florida, on February, 8, 1948" (Spessard L. Holland Florida; Claude Pepper - Florida; Lister Hill Alabama; John J. Sparkman - Alabama; John L. McClellan - Arkansas; J. William Fulbright - Arkansas; Burnet R. Maybank - South Carolina; Olin D. Johnston - South Carolina; Walter F. George - Georgia; Richard B. Russell Georgia; Millard E. Tydings - Maryland; Herbert R. O`Conor - Maryland; James O. Eastland - Mississippi; John C. Stennis - Mississippi; Kenneth McKellar - Tennessee; Tom Stewart - Tennessee; Tom Connally - Texas; W. Lee O'Daniel - Texas; Harry F.Byrd - Virginia; A. Willis Robertson - Virginia; Clyde R. Hoey - North Carolina; William B. Umstead - North Carolina; Alben W. Barkley - Kentucky; John Sherman Cooper - Kentucky; Elmer Thomas - Oklahoma; Edward H. Moore - Oklahoma; John Overton - Louisiana; Allen J. Ellender - Louisiana; and Harley M. Kilgore - West Virginia).
F 69: Judiciary, Committee on the (1948). Submerged Lands.
Discussion of S.1988; "To confirm and establish the titles of the States to lands and resources in and beneath navigable waters within State boundaries and to provide for the use and control of said lands and resources" (Edward H. Moore - Oklahoma; Pat McCarran - Nevada; William F. Knowland - California; John W. Bricker - Ohio; Albert W. Hawkes - New Jersey; Hugh A. Butler - Nebraska; Spessard L. Holland - Florida; James O. Eastland - Mississippi; Edward Martin - Pennsylvania; Allen J. Ellender - Louisiana; Leverett Saltonstall - Massachusetts; Herbert R. O'Conor - Maryland; W. Lee O'Daniel - Texas; Sheridan Downey - California; Tom Connally - Texas; Harry Flood Byrd - Virginia; John H. Overton - Louisiana; Bourke B. Hickenlooper - Iowa; C. Wayland Brooks - Illinois; and Arthur Capper - Kansas), and H.R.5992; "To confirm and establish the titles of the States to lands beneath navigable waters within State boundaries and natural resources within such lands and waters and to provide for the use and control of said lands and resources" (E. Wallace Chadwick - Pennsylvania).
F 70: Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Committee on (1948). Duck Stamps.
Discussion of S.2482; "To amend sections 2, 3, and 8 of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 451; 16 U.S.C. 718b), as amended, and section 5 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929 (45 Stat. 1222; 16 U.S.C.715), as amended" (A Willis Robertson - Virginia).
F 71: Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Committee on (1947). Merchant Marine.
Resolution from the Maritime Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor.
F 72: Newsletters: Prentice - Hall: What's Happening (April 28, 1947)
Concerns labor bill H.R.3020 and tax laws.
F 73: Newsletters: U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Governmental Affairs: (March 19, 1947 - April 24, 1947).
F 74: Newsletters: U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Governmental Affairs: (April 28, 1947 - June 23, 1947).
F 75: Newsletters: U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Governmental Affairs: (June 24, 1947 - December 27, 1947).
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