Box 35: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Air Safety, Service and Regulation, 1937 Jan. - Dec. - Judiciary, Committee on the, Equal Rights Amendments, 1937 July, 1938 Jan. - May.
F 1-3: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Air Safety, Service and Regulation, 1937 Jan. - Dec.
Topics include aeronautics safety measures, airports in Oklahoma, airships, and McCarran-Lea Bill.
F 4-5: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Alcoholic Beverage Advertising, n.d., 1937 May.
Correspondents include Oklahoma School for the Blind.
F 6-7: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Automobile Sales and Manufacturers Investigation, 1937 July, 1938 Feb.
Topics include Gardner R. Withrow and automobile industry and trade. Correspondents include Automobile Manufacturers Association.
F 8-11: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Block Booking and Blind Selling of Motion Pictures, 1938 Mar. - May.
Topics include distribution of motion pictures and the Neely-Pettengill Motion Picture Bill. Correspondents include James Cagney, Harry Cohn, Clark Gable, Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, Spencer Tracy, Darryl Francis Zanuck, Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitions, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
F 12: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Business Research and Training,1938 May.
F 13-14: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Coal, 1937 Mar. - 1938 Mar.
Topics include bituminous coal industry and Guffey-Vinson Coal Bill. Correspondents include J.G. Puterbaugh.
F 15: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Engineering and Industrial Research, 1937 Apr. - May.
Topics include Lanham Bill.
F 16: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Federal Trade Commission, 1937 Apr., 1938 Mar.
F 17-18: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Bill and Food Labels, 1937 Feb. - Dec., 1938 June.
Topics include food labeling law and legislation. Correspondents include the Griffin Grocery Company.
F19-26: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Freight Rates, 1937 Jan. - 1938 Oct.
Topics include freights and freightage rates, railroads rates, shipping, trucking, railroad employees, labor unions, long haul, short haul, Interstate Commerce Act, and the Pettengill Bill. Correspondents include the American Trucking Associations, Mississippi Valley Association, Oklahoma State Federation of Labor, Maritime Association of the Port of New York, Oklahoma State Grange, and Western Conference Committee of the Standard Railroad Labor Organizations.
F 27: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Import Advertising, 1937 Apr.
F 28: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Taxes, Sales and Licenses, 1937 Feb. - Mar.
Topics include the Colmer Bill and the Lord Bill.
F 29: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Commodities Clause, 1938 Feb. - Mar.
Topics include Interstate Commerce Act.
F 30: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Legislative Suggestions, 1937 Apr.- June, 1938 Feb. - May, 1938 Nov., 1939 Feb.
Topics include United States politics and government. Correspondents include the National Association of Tobacco Distributors.
F 31: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Bus and Truck Licenses, 1937 Nov.- Dec., 1938 Mar.
Topics include registration and transfer of buses, registration and transfer of trucks, and Motor Carriers Act.
F 32: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Passes on Carriers, 1937 July.
Topics include transportation passes and railroad passes.
F 33-35: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Natural Gas and Petroleum, 1937 Apr. - 1937 Sept., 1938 Feb.
Topics include petroleum industry and trade, petroleum reserves, and the Connally Hot Oil Act. Correspondents include the United States Bureau of Mines.
F 36: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Peyote, 1937 Feb.
F 37-38: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Railroads, 1937 Feb. - Nov., 1938 May, 1938 Oct., 1939 Jan.
Topics include the railroad law. Correspondents include the Maritime Association of the Port of New York and the Transportation Conference.
F 39-40: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Railroad Retirement, 1937 Mar. - Nov., 1938 Mar.
Topics include railroad employees pensions.
F 41: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Railroad Tariff Rates, 1937 Mar. - Apr.
Topics include railroads rates. Correspondents include the Oklahoma Railway Company.
F 42-45: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Train Limit, 1937 Apr. - 1938 Mar.
Topics include railroad cars, railroad finance, railroad freight-cars, railroads passenger-cars, railroads rates, railroad safety regulations, and railroads and state. Correspondents include J. G. Puterbaugh, National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.), Oklahoma Railway Company, Oklahoma State Federation of Labor, Grain Dealers Association of Oklahoma, and the Oklahoma Millers Association.
F 46-47: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Railroad Unemployment Insurance,1938 Apr. - June.
Topics include unemployment insurance and railroad employees. Correspondents include the Railway Labor Executives' Association.
F 48: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Retail Sales by Manufacturers, 1937 Jan. - Mar., 1938 Feb.
Topics include outlet stores, retail stores, and the Robinson-Patman Bill.
F 49-51: Interstate Commerce, Committee on, Six Hour Day, Tire Manufacture, and Wool Labeling, 1938 Feb. - June.
Topics include hours of labor and the tire industry. Correspondents include the Truth in Fabric Committee.
F 52-53: Irrigation and Reclamation, Committee on, Cimarron River, Washita River, and North Canadian River, 1937 July - Aug.
Topics include reclamation of land in Oklahoma. Correspondents include John H. Bankhead and Charles West.
F 54: Irrigation and Reclamation, Committee on, General, 1938 Jan. - Mar.
Topics include the reclamation of land. Correspondents include the National Reclamation Association and the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
F 55-57: Irrigation and Reclamation, Committee on, Grand Lake - Big Thompson Project, Lugert Project, and Yellowstone, 1937 June, 1938 Feb. - June.
Topics include protection of the national parks and reserves, reclamation of land, and water diversion. Correspondents include the American Forestry Association.
F 58: Judiciary, Committee on the, Court of Appeals, 1938 June.
Topics include administrative courts. Correspondents include Marvel M. Logan.
F 59-62: Judiciary, Committee on the, Anti-Lynching, 1937 Mar. - 1938 Apr.
Topics include Afro-American civil rights, lynching, race discrimination in the United States, and United States race relations. Correspondents include Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the American Society for Race Tolerance.
F 63: Judiciary, Committee on the, Armistice Day, 1937 Nov.
Topics include Armistice Day in United States, holidays in United States, and Veterans Day.
F 64-69: Judiciary, Committee on the, Bankruptcy, 1937 Jan. - Aug., 1938 Feb. - Mar.
F 70: Judiciary, Committee on the, Communism in Ohio, 1938 Jan.
Correspondents include Martin L. Davey.
F 71: Judiciary, Committee on the, Court Recordings, 1938 Mar. - Apr.
Topics include law reporting and sound recordings.
F 72: Judiciary, Committee on the, Death Penalty, 1937 Jan.
Topics include capital punishment.
F 73: Judiciary, Committee on the, Equal Rights Amendments, 1937 July, 1938 Jan. - May.
Topics include equality before the law. Correspondents include the National Woman's Party and Sarah Pell.
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