Box 4: Ways and Means (1947-1948) - Armed Services (1949-1950)
F 1: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions.
a. General correspondence "I - La."
b. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 7.
c. Pamphlet; "Laws of Ohio." Governing the Granting of Aid to the Aged.
F 2: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions.
a. General correspondence "Le - Ma."
b. Speech by John Lewis about the National Recovery Plan.
c. Magazine picture of G.W. Landis signing a petition to Ways and Means Committee.
F 3: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions:
General correspondence "Mc - Mo." Correspondents include Mike Monroney, E. H. Moore, and Gerald Landis.
F 4: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions:
General correspondence "Mu - O."
F 5: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions.
General correspondence "P - R."
F 6: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions.
General correspondence "Sa - Ste."
F 7: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions.
General correspondence "Sti - Th."
F 8: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions.
General correspondence "Ti - Weinberg."
F 9: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Old Age Pensions.
General correspondence "Welfare - Z."
F 10: Ways and Means, Committee on (1941-1947). Old Age Pensions: Data.
a. Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives, on Revenue Revision of 1943.
b. State Concurrent Resolution No. 7.
c. Booklet "Economic Security in the Sunset of Life."
d. "Townsend Flash!" A publication by the Washington Legislative Bureau Townsend National Recovery Plan, Inc.
F 11: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Oleomargarine Tax.
Discussion of H.R.2245; "To repeal the tax on oleomargarine" (L. Mendel Rivers - South Carolina); correspondence "A - G."
F 12: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Oleomargarine Tax.
Discussion of H.R.2245; "To repeal the tax on oleomargarine" (L. Mendel Rivers - South Carolina); correspondence "H - O."
F 13: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Oleomargarine Tax.
Discussion of H.R.2245; "To repeal the tax on oleomargarine" (L. Mendel Rivers - South Carolina); correspondence "P - Z"; pamphlet "Why the Federal Oleo Laws Should Be Retained"
F 14: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Pheasants and Game Birds.
Game breeding and tariff on shipping of pheasants into this country for food.
F 15: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Racing Shells.
Discussion of H.R.5933; "To permit the temporary free importation of racing shells" (Herman P. Eberharter - Pennsylvania).
F 16: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Reciprocal Trade Agreements.
Trade Agreements--Bridge to Peace" From the National League of Women Voters.
F 17: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Social Security.
F 18: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Social Security.
Discussion of H.J.Res.296; "To maintain the status quo in respect of certain employment taxes and social security benefits pending action by Congress on extended social security coverage" (Bertand W. Gearhart - California). A: H.J.Res.296.
F 19: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947). Social Security: Professional Benefits.
F 20: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Social Security.
Discussion of H.R.6777; "To extend the coverage of the old-age and survivors insurance system, to increase certain benefits payable under such system, and for other purposes" (Daniel A. Reed - New York).
F 21: Ways and Means, Committee on (1946-1948). Socialized Medicine.
Correspondents include Frederick C. Smith; "Health Can't Wait" by Leon Pritcher and Frank Scully.
F 22: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Tax Reduction.
a. General correspondence and clippings.
b. "A Revised Proposal for a Federal Incentive Income Tax Plan" by Frank Wilbur Main.
c. "The Incentive Income Tax Plan" presented to the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives by
Frank Wilbur Main.
F 23: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Tax Reduction.
Discussion of H.R.4790; "To reduce individual income-tax payments, and for other purposes" (Harold Knutson - Minnesota).
F 24: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947). Tax Revision.
Discussion of H.R.1; "To reduce individual income-tax payments" (Harold Knutson - Minnesota).
F 25: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947). Tax Revision:
H.R.4708; "To increase personal exemptions under the individual income tax, to reduce certain excise tax rates, to equalize Federal income taxes upon married persons, and for other purposes" (John D. Dingell - Michigan).
F 26: Ways and Means, Committee on (1948). Tax Revision.
Discussion of H.R.6712; "To provide for revenue television, to correct tax inequities, and for other purposes" (Harold Knutson - Minnesota). Correspondence and clippings.
F 27: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Theater Excise Tax.
Twenty percent tax on theater admission.
F 28: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947-1948). Tobacco Taxes.
Discussion of H.R.5645; "To assist States in collecting sales and use taxes on cigarettes" (Thomas A. Jenkins - Ohio), H.R.968; "To assist States in collecting sales and use taxes on tobacco" (Dwight L. Rogers - Florida), and H.R.3345; "To assist States in collecting sales and use taxes on tobacco" (Thomas A. Jenkins - Ohio).
F 29: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947). Trailer Coach Excise Tax.
Discussion of H.R.3878; "To amend section 3403 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code" (Robert A. Grant - Indiana). Statement presented by F. W. McKenney, executive secretary, Trailer-coach Dealers National Association on behalf of the Trailer Coach Industry before the Committee on Ways and Means.
F 30: Ways and Means, Committee on (1947). Unemployment Compensation.
Discussion of H.R.4390; "To amend the Social Security Act by providing for a national system of unemployment and temporary disability insurance" (John Dingell - Michigan), and S.1734; "To amend the Social Security act by providing for a national system of unemployment and temporary disability insurance" (James E. Murray - Montana; and Robert F. Wagner - New York).
Eighty-first Congress (1949 - 1950)
F 31: Agriculture, Committee on (1950). Acreage Allotments: General.
F 32: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Acreage Allotments: Cotton.
"1950 Cotton Market Quotas. Questions and Answers"
F 33: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Acreage Allotments: Peanuts.
F 34: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Acreage Allotments: Wheat.
F 35: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Agricultural Extension Service.
Discussion of H.R.3222; "To foster the cooperative agriculture education word of the extension services; to free the extension services from the performance of nongovernmental functions and political activity; and to promote economy in agricultural extension work; and for other purposes" (Walter K. Granger - Utah), and S.1083; "To foster the cooperative agriculture education work of the extension services from the performance of nongovernmental functions and political activity; and to promote economy in the expenditure of public funds for the conduct of cooperative agricultural extension work; and for other purposes" (Elmer Thomas - Oklahoma).
F 36: Agriculture, Committee on (1950). Butter: General.
F 37: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Caddo County: Production and Marketing Administration Funds.
F 38: Agriculture, Committee on (1950). Coffee: General.
F 39: Agriculture, Committee on (1950). Commodity Credit Corporation.
Discussion of S.2826; "To increase the borrowing power of Commodity Credit Corporation" (Elmer Thomas - Oklahoma), H.R.6567; "To increase the borrowing power of Commodity Credit Corporation" (Brent Spence - Kentucky).
F 40: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Commodity Credit Corporation Act.
Discussion of S.900; "To amend the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, the Strategic and Critical Minerals Stock Piling Act, and for other purposes" (Elmer Thomas - Oklahoma; Scott W. Lucas - Illinois; Olin D. Johnston - South Carolina; Guy M. Gillette - Iowa; Spessard L. Holland - Florida; Clinton P. Anderson - New Mexico; Edward J. Thye - Minnesota; Milton R. Young - North Dakota; and Bourke D. Hickenlooper - Iowa), and H.R.2682; "To amend the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, and for other purposes" (Brent Spence - Kentucky).
F 40b: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Commodity Reserve (S.663).
F 41: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Conservation.
F 42: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Cooperative Banks.
Discussion of H.R.848; "To provide for the retirement of the Government capital in the central and regional banks for cooperatives, and for other purposes" (Clifford R. Hope - Kansas).
F 43: Agriculture, Committee on (1950). Cotton.
Discussion of H.J.Res. 398; correspondents include Carl Albert; statement by Carl Albert before the Senate Committee on Agriculture on proposed changes to the cotton quota law.
F 43b: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Crop Insurance (S. 898).
F 44: Agriculture, Committee on (1950). Crop Surplus.
F 45: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Farm Bill.
Discussion of H.R.5345; "To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes" (Stephen Pace - Georgia); Public Law 439 (H.R.5345).
F 46: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Farm Bill.
Discussion of S.2522; "To stabilize prices of agricultural commodities" (Clinton P. Anderson - New Mexico).
F 47: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Farm Loan.
Discussion of H.R.3699; "To amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended, to authorize loans through national farm-loan associations in Puerto Rico; to modify the limitations on Federal land-bank loans to any one borrower; to repeal provisions for subscriptions to paid-in surplus of Federal land banks and cover the entire amount appropriated therefore into the surplus fund of the Treasury; to effect certain economies in reporting and recording and canceling the mortgage and satisfying and discharging the lien of record; and for other purposes" (W.R. Poage - Texas).
F 48: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Farm Policy.
General correspondence and clippings.
F 49: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Farm Policy: Aiken Plan.
F 50: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Farm Policy: Brannan Plan.
F 51: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Farmers Home Administration.
F 52: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Fats and Oils.
Discussion of H.R.4538; "To amend the Agricultural Act of 1948 by adding thereto a new section to establish an average parity price for fats and oils and to aid in maintaining such parity price to producers" (Walter K. Granger - Utah).
F 52b: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Field Stations.
F 53: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Forestry.
Discussion of H.R.2001; "To amend section 9 of the act of May 22, 1928, as amended, authorizing and directing a national survey of forest resources" (Robert L. F. Sikes - Florida), and H.R.2296; "To amend and supplement the act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 653), and for other purposes" (Walter K. Granger - Utah).
F 54: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Fort Sill Indian School Lands.
Discussion of H.R.6133; "Transferring management of certain public lands from the Agriculture Department to the Fort Sill Indian School in Oklahoma for agriculture uses" (Toby Morris - Oklahoma), and S. 2086; "Transferring management of certain public lands from the Agriculture Department to the Fort Sill Indian School in Oklahoma for agriculture uses" (Elmer Thomas - Oklahoma); Senate Report No. 610 to accompany S.2086; Public Law 612 (S.2086).
F 55: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Mineral Rights.
Discussion of H.R.2500; "To amend section 9 of the Farmers' Home Administration Act of 1946" (George Howard Wilson - Oklahoma), and H.R.395; "To require the Administrator of the Farmers' Home Administration to execute and deliver to present owners of real property quitclaim deeds to the interest in the minerals in or under such property reserved by the United States pursuant to the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act in those cases in which such interest has only a nominal value" (E. C. Gathings - Arkansas). Correspondents include George Howard Wilson.
F 56: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Oleomargarine Tax.
a. Discussion of H.R.1703; "To regulate oleomargarine, to repeal certain taxes relating to oleomargarine, and for other
purposes" (August H. Anderson - Minnesota), H.R.3; "To repeal the tax on oleomargarine, to amend the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act so as to complete the requirements for the positive identification of yellow oleomargarine, and for
other purposes" (W.R. Poage - Texas), and H.R.2023; "To regulate oleomargarine, to repeal certain taxes relating to
oleomargarine, and for other purposes" (Walter K. Granger - Utah). Correspondence and clippings.
b. Cartoons from various newspapers about the oleomargarine tax.
c. Pamphlet "When Do We Get Yellow Margarine?"
F 56b: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Oleomargarine tax. (H.R. 3/ H.R. 1703/H.R. 2023).
F 57: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Peanuts.
Discussion of H.R.7044; "To amend the peanut-marketing-quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended" (Watkins M. Abbitt - Virginia).
F 58: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Perishable Commodities.
Discussion of H.R.5382; "To amend the provision of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, relating to practices in the marketing of perishable agricultural commodities" (Lloyd M. Bensten, Jr. - Texas).
F 58b: Agriculture, Committee on (1949).
S. 969. "To transfer the Pomona station of the Agriculture Remount Service, Department of Agriculture, at Pomona California."
F 59: Agriculture, Committee on (1950). Potatoes.
Surplus potatoes. Correspondence and clippings.
F 60: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Reclamation.
Discussion of H.R.1770; "To amend the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, and for other purposes" (John R. Murdock - Arizona).
F 61: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Resolutions.
a: Resolution from the Oklahoma Pecan Growers' Association.
b. Resolution from the Comanche County ACA Committee.
c: Resolution from Duncan Farmers Group Meeting.
d: Resolution from the State Soil Conservation Board.
F 62: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Resolutions.
a: Resolution from Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
b. Preamble of Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
F 62b: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). H.R. 113/H.R. 2960).
F 63: Agriculture, Committee on (1949). Rural Telephones.
Discussion of H.R.2960; "To amend the Rural Electrification Act to provide for rural telephones, and for other purposes" (W.R. Poage - Texas).
F 64: Agriculture, Committee on (1950). Soil Conservation.
Discussion of H.R.8188; "To amend section 13 of the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944" (Tom Pickett - Texas). Correspondents include Tom Pickett.
F 65: Agriculture, Committee on (1949-1950). Tung Nuts and Honey.
Discussion of H.R.29; "To provide price support for tung nuts and honey, and for other purposes" (William M. Colmer - Mississippi).
F 66: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). General.
Discussion of H.R.3997; "Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other purposes" (Jamie L. Whitten - Mississippi).
F 67: Appropriations, Committee on (1949-1950). Agriculture and Conservation Work.
General soil conservation.
F 68: Appropriations, Committee on (1949-1950). Agriculture Department: Bureau of Entomology.
Control of black fly.
F 69: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Agriculture: Farm Loans.
F 70: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Bureau of American Ethnology Budget Cut.
F 71: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Civil Service Leave Amendment.
F 72: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Executive Offices.
Discussion of H.R.4177; "Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other purposes" (Albert Thomas - Texas).
F 73: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Forestry: Emergency funds.
F 74: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). General.
Soil conservation and discussion of H.R.7786; "Making appropriations for the support of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes" (Clarence Cannon - Missouri).
F 75: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). General Correspondence.
F 76: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Hospital Survey Construction Act.
F 77: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Housing: Educational Institutions.
Public Law 475 (S.2246); "To amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes" (John Sparkman - Alabama).
F 78: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Interior: Indian Credit Associations.
F 78b: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Interior. (H.R. 3898).
F 78c: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Interior: Archaeological Funds.
F 79: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Interior: Pittman - Robertson Fund.
F 80: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Interior: Rural Electric Systems.
F 81: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Interior: S.P.A. bill.
a. Resolution from the Board of Trustees of the Choctaw Electric Cooperative, Inc.
b. Resolution from The Cotton County Electric Cooperative at Walters, Oklahoma.
F 82: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Military.
Discussion of H.R.4146; "Making appropriations for the National Security Council, the National Security Resources Board, and for military functions administered by the National Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other purposes" (George H. Mahon - Texas).
F 83: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice.
F 84: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). National Institute of Mental Health.
F 85: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Public Health Amendment.
a. Discussion of S.2591; "To amend the Public Health Service Act to support research and training in arthritis and
rheumatism, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and blindness, and other diseases, and for other purposes" (Claude
Pepper - Florida; Elbert D. Thomas - Utah; James E. Murray - Montana; Lister Hill - Alabama; Mathew M. Neely - West
Virginia; Paul H. Douglas - Illinois; Hubert H. Humphrey - Minnesota; Garret L. Withers - Kentucky; Warren G. Magnuson
- Washington; Robert O. Taft - Ohio; H. Alexander Smith - New Jersey; Forrest C. Donnell - Missouri; George D. Aiken -
Vermont; Wayne Morse - Oregon; Charles W. Tobey - New Hampshire; and William Langer - North Dakota).
b. Public Law 692 (S.2591).
c. Request for grant to The Children's Rehabilitation Institute, Inc., Cockeysville - Baltimore, Maryland.
d. A Presentation in the Interest of The Children's Rehabilitation Institute in Cockeysville, Maryland.
F 86: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Supplemental Appropriations .
Discussion of H.R.9526; "Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes" (John H. Kerr - North Carolina).
F 87: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Surplus Property for Education.
F 88: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Unitary Wind Tunnel Act.
F 89: Appropriations, Committee on (1949). Veterans.
F 90: Appropriations, Committee on (1950). Water Projects.
General. Correspondents include Harry S. Truman.
F 91: Armed Services, Committee on (1949). Air Force: General.
F 92: Armed Services, Committee on (1949). Air Force Academy.
Discussion of H.R.2793; "To establish a United States Air Academy" (George Howard Wilson - Oklahoma). Correspondents include George Howard Wilson; H. R. 3451: "To establish the United States Air Force Academy at Altus and Frederick, Oklahoma. (Victor Wickersham - Oklahoma). First Session (1949); S. 1190: "To establish a United States Air Academy." (Elmer Thomas and Robert S. Kerr - Oklahoma). First Session (1949). State Concurrent Resolution No. 13.
F 93: Armed Services, Committee on (1950). Armed Forces.
Discussion of H.R.1437; "To authorize the composition of the Army of the United States and the Air Force of the United States, and for other purposes" (Carl Vinson - Georgia).
F 93b: Armed Services, Committee on (1949). Armed Forces Investigation Board (H.R. 4785). Correspondence.
F 94: Armed Services, Committee on (1950). Armory Construction Program.
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