Box 82: Finance, Committee on, Veterans Affairs, Pension Requirements Liberalization, Correspondence and Legislation, 1949-1950 - Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Property Title Condemnation Jurisdiction, 1949 May - June
F 1-3: Finance, Committee on, Veterans Affairs, Pension Requirements Liberalization, Correspondence and Legislation, 1949 - 1950.
Folder 2 contains post cards sent to Thomas by members of Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW in McAlester. Topics include military pensions in the United States and survivors' benefits in the United States.
F 4-5: Finance, Committee on, Veterans Affairs, Servicemen's Indemnity Act of 1950 and Social Security Credit for Military Service, 1949 Jan., 1950 Apr. - Dec.
Topics include war risk insurance and survivors' benefits. Correspondents include John E. Rankin.
F 6: Finance, Committee on, Veterans Affairs, Spanish - American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion Veterans, 1949 Sept., 1950 Apr. - Dec.
Topics include military pensions and the Spanish - American War, 1898 and Spanish - American War Veterans.
F 7-8: Finance, Committee on, Veterans Affairs, Survivors' Indemnity and Tuberculosis Disability Time Limit, 1950 Feb. - Oct.
Topics include war risk insurance and National Service Life Insurance.
F 9-11: Finance, Committee on, Veterans Affairs, World Wars I and II Pensions, 1949 Jan. - Apr.
Topics include military pension and World War I and military pensions and World War II. Correspondents include John Elliott Rankin.
F 12-15: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Arab - Israel Relations, Argentine Newsletter, Armament Reduction, and Board of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Service School, n.d., 1949 Oct., 1950 Jan. - Aug.
Topics include Arab-Israeli Conflict and disarmament. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Clarence H. Poe, American Zionist Council, United States Dept. of State, and the Zionist Organization of America.
F 16: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Calendars, Fixed and Perpetual, 1949 June - Sept.
F 17-18: Foreign Relations, Committee on, China and United States Foreign Policy, Correspondence and Information, 1949 - 1950.
Topics include Chiang Kai-shek, communism in China, and United States foreign relations with China. Correspondents include Walter H. Judd, Pat McCarran, H. Alexander Smith, Robert A. Taft, Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, William J. Goodwin, American China Policy Association, Free China Labor League, and United Catholic Organizations for the Freeing of Cardinal Mindszenthy.
F 19: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Chinese Student Emergency Aid, 1949 Aug. - Oct.
Topics include Chinese students in the United States and student exchange programs. Correspondents include the China Institute in America.
F 20: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Committee Materials, 1950 June.
Topics include United States Dept. of State and security measures. Correspondents include Theodore F. Green and Henry Cabot Lodge.
F 21: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc. (CARE), 1948 Oct. - Nov., 1949 May - Dec.
Topics include CARE Inc. and international relief.
F 22-25: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Economic Cooperation Act, 1949 - 1950.
Topics include Marshall Plan, American economic assistance to Europe, reconstruction of Europe, and American surplus agricultural commodities. Correspondents include William Green, Leonard Irvine, American Farm Bureau Federation, American Federation of Labor, Citizens' Protective League, New York, Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.), National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.), National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Seafarers' International Union of North America, United States Economic Cooperation Administration, American Corn Millers' Federation, and American Federation of Grain Millers.
F 26-29: Foreign Relations, Committee on, French Merci Car, Genocide Convention, Great Britain, and Korea, 1949 Apr. - Dec., 1950 Mar. - Nov.
Topics include American economic assistance to Great Britain, Korean War, Reconstruction (1939 - 1951) in Great Britain, Ireland, and United States foreign relations with Great Britain. Correspondents include Wilburn Cartwright, Cecil B. De Mille, Earnest Hoberecht, John Chang (Korean ambassador), and the Motion Picture Industry Council.
F 30-32: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Legislative Suggestions, 1949 - 1950.
Topics include Karl E. Mundt, Greece, and United States foreign relations. Correspondents include Earnest Hoberecht, Adolph Joachim Sabath, American Council of Christian Churches, American Zionist Council, National Economic Council (U.S.), Zionist Organization of America, Committee on National Affairs, and the National Council for Public Enlightenment.
F 33-34: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Cardinal Mindszenty and Migration to Liberia, 1949.
Topics include Jozsef Mindszenty, Catholic Church in Hungary, church and state in Hungary, United States foreign relations with Liberia, American Hungarian Federation, and the Universal African Nationalist Movement.
F 35: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Missionaries in Italy, 1949 Dec. - 1950 Mar.
Topics include the Churches of Christ and the Frascati Orphans' Home.
F 36: Foreign Relations, Committee on, North Atlantic Pact, 1948 Nov., 1949 Feb. - Oct., 1950 Apr. - Sept.
Topics include the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, North Atlantic Treaty (1949), alliances, international relations, Ireland, and North Atlantic Pact. Correspondents include Estes Kefauver, Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.), National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.), Reuel W. Little, and the Committee on National Affairs.
F 37-39: Foreign Relations, Committee on, United Nations, 1949 Jan. - 1950 May.
Topics include international organization, international relations, United States foreign relations, and World Federation (resolution). Correspondents include Wirt Franklin, Brooks Hays, American Association for the United Nations, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Nation Associates, New York, United States Mission to the United Nations, United World Federalists (Okla.), Commission on World Peace of the Methodist Church, and the Spanish Refugee Appeal of the Joint Anti - Fascist Refugee Committee.
F 40: Foreign Relations, Committee on, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Loan, 1949 Aug.
Topics include the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Buildings.
F 41: Foreign Relations, Committee on, Union of Socialist Republics, n.d., 1950 Apr. - Dec.
F 42A-B: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Alaskan Statehood and Alaskan Settlement by Veterans, 1949 - 1950.
Topics include public health in Alaska. Correspondents include Edward L. Bartlett, Thomas A. Jenkins, Preston Peden, Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.), Indian Rights Association, and National Education Association of the United States.
F 43: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Arkansas River Compact, 1949 Mar., 1950.
Correspondents include Harry S. Truman.
F 44: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Bass, H. B., 1949 Aug.
Topics include Henry B. Bass.
F 45: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Bridge Canyon Project, 1948, 1949 Apr. - July, 1950 Jan. - Mar.
Topics include the Colorado River Compact, water in Arizona, water in California, Colorado River (Colo. - Mexico), Boulder Canyon Project Act, and Central Arizona Project Act. Correspondents include Sheridan Downey, Carl T. Hayden, William F. Knowland, Ernest W. McFarland, James Roosevelt, American Public Power Association, and the Colorado River Association.
F 46-47: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Canadian River Compact and Cobb Creek Reclamation Project, 1949 May - Dec., 1950 June.
Topics include water in New Mexico, water in Oklahoma, water in Texas, Fort Cobb Reservoir (Okla.), Washita River (Tex. and Okla.), and the United States Dept. of the Army.
F 48: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Committee Materials, 1949 Feb.
F 49: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Drummond, Alfred A. and Addie G., 1948 May - Nov., 1949 Feb. - Aug.
Topics include Alfred A. Drummond, mineral rights in Oklahoma, and Denison Dam (Tex.). Correspondents include Addie G. Drummond, William Howard Payne, and the United States Dept. of the Army.
F 50-52: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Engineering Services for Public Works, Everglades National Park, and Fort Reno Military Reservation Lands Transfer to Attorney General, 1949 Jan. - Sept., 1950 Feb. - July.
Topics include the United States Bureau of Prisons. Correspondents include Stanley C. Draper, Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and United States Civil Service Commission.
F 53: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Hawaiian Statehood, 1949 Jan. - 1950 Nov.
Topics include Hawaii. Correspondents include Joseph R. Farrington and the Hawaii Statehood Commission.
F 54: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Alaskan Settlement Claims, 1949 May - June.
Topics include Indians of North America in Alaska.
F 55-56: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1948 Dec. - 1949 Sept., 1950 Jan. - Aug.
Topics include the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian termination policy, Indians of North America government relations, and the National American Indian League.
F 57: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Cherokee Chief, 1949 June.
Topics include William W. Keeler.
F 58-60: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Choctaw Appropriation, 1949 Sept., 1950 May - Sept.
Topics include Choctaw Indians finance and Choctaw Indians government relations. Correspondents include Harry J. W. Belvin, Oscar L. Chapman, Joseph C. O'Mahoney, William G. Stigler, and United States Dept. of the Interior.
F 61: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Choctaw - Chickasaw Coal and Asphalt Land Payment, 1949 June.
F 62-64: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Appointment, Competency Decrees, and Emancipation in Certain Cases, 1949 Mar. - Oct.
Topics include, Indians of North America government policy, Indians of North America government relations, Indians of North America land tenure, and Conn Linn. Correspondents include Hugh A. Butler.
F 65-66: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Five Civilized Tribes, Rehabilitation and Restrictions Act Amendment, 1949 - 1950.
Topics include the Inter - Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, Five Civilized Tribes government relations, and Five Civilized Tribes land tenure. Correspondents include William G. Stigler, Earl Welch, and United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee Area Office.
F 67: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Five Civilized Tribes and Osage Tribe Enrollment Hearings by Indian Claims Commission, 1949 July, 1950 Feb.
Topics include Five Civilized Tribes tribal citizenship and Osage Indians tribal citizenship. Correspondents include Osage Tribal Council.
F 68: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Fort Berthold Reservation Indians, 1950 Apr. - July.
F 69-70: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Fort Reno Military Reservation Return to Cheyenne and Arapahos, Correspondence and Legislation, 1949 - 1950.
Topics include Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, agriculture research, Arapaho Indians government relations, Arapaho Indians land tenure, Cheyenne Indians government relations, Cheyenne Indians land tenure, El Reno (Okla.), and Fort Reno (Okla.). Correspondents include Charles F. Brannan, Hugh A. Butler, Ferdie J. Deering, Toby Morris, Joseph C. O'Mahoney, William Howard Payne, Roy J. Turner, Victor E. Wickersham, American Legion, Dept. of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Farmers Union, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States Dept. of Justice, Kish Hawkins, and Preston J. Moore.
F 71-72: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Funds Transfer to Indian Tribes and Indian Intoxicating Beverages Discrimination Repeal, 1949 Apr., 1950 Aug.
Topics include alcohol use of Indians of North America.
F 73: Interior and Insular Affairs, Committee on, Indian Affairs, Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Property Title Condemnation Jurisdiction, 1949 May - June.
Topics include Apache Indians land tenure, Comanche Indians land tenure, Kiowa Indians land tenure, Lawton (Okla.), and the United States Dept. of the Interior.
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