Box 13: 79th Congress, Legislative Files: Housing - H. R. 2374 (1945-1946) - Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill (S. 1592).
F 1: Housing - H. R. 2374 (1945-1946).
Correspondence: re: Housing shortage.
F 2: Labor Extension Service Bill - H. R. 7113.
a. Correspondence and documents: re: Request for Labor Extension Program.
b. Statement by William Green (July 1946).
c. Statement by Philip Murray.
d. Draft of Bill. 7 pages.
F 3: Lobbying Act.
a. Extracts from Federal Regulations of Lobbying Act. Formes A, B, and C.
b. Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946.
c. List of Nominees for the Office of United States Senator and for the Office of Representatives in the 80th Congress.
F 4: Military Stock Pile (1946).
a. Report: "The Small Producer of Strategic Minerals and the Stockpiling Act."
b. S. 752: Thomas - Utah: "To amend the Act of June 7, 1939 (53 stat. 811), as amended, relating to the acquisition of stocks of strategic and critical materials for national defense purposes." 79th Congress, 1st Session (1945). Committee on Military Affairs.
F 5: Minimum Wage Bill (1946).
a. Correspondence: re: Need for passage of bill.
b. Pamphlet: "Can We Afford a 65 cents Minimum Wage Now? Yes!"
F 6: National Science Foundation Bill.
Correspondence: re: Protest to exclusion of social science from the benefits of the bill.
F 7: Office of Price Administration: Price Control Act.
a. Correspondence: re: Price Control Act.
b. Report: "Renewal of the Price Control Act."
c. Statement: Chester Bowles: "Proposed Amendments to the Price Control Act" (April 27, 1944).
d. Booklet: "The 8,000,000 Disinherited."
e. Memorandum: "Our Pricing Objectives in the Reconversion Period."
f. Reports by Various Committees.
g. Record on Consumer Issues.
h. Summaries of Committee Hearings.
i. Report: Request for Relief for the Owners of Housing Accommodations Throughout the United States." (March 1945). 37 pages.
F 8: Personal Articles (A).
a. Correspondence: re: Requests for Helen Gahagan Douglas to write articles.
b. Article: Helen Gahagan Douglas: "Waging Peace."
c. Statements by Helen Gahagan Douglas.
d. Various clippings.
e. Magazine: Convention in Print Issue of National News" (November 1945).
f. Various drafts by Helen Gahagan Douglas.
F 9: Personal Articles (B).
a. Correspondence: re: requests for Helen Gahagan Douglas to write articles.
b. Various drafts.
c. Paper: "Hollywood Independent." Vol. 1, No. 2. (September 1945).
d. Various clippings.
e. Article: Leon Pritcher and Frank Scully: "Health Can't Wait."
f. Article: Isaac Rosengarten: "An open Letter to British Government."
g. Newsletter: "Swanson Newsette" (May 1946).
h. Pamphlet: "An Open Letter to President Truman and Members of the United States Congress."
F 10: Railroad Retirement Act Amendment - H. R. 1362.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 1362 - "improvement of benefits"; support of the bill.
b. Statement: Martin H. Miller: re: H. R. 1362. 21 pages.
c. Fact Sheet: "A Few Facts About Railroad Retirement Legislation."
F 11: School Lunch Program - H. R. 3370.
Correspondence: re: Support of H. R. 3370.
F 12: Selective Service - H. R. 6064.
a. Correspondence: re: Extension Draft.
b. Poster, "End the Draft Now." Removed to outsized.
c. Report No. 1923: Extension of Selective Training and Service Act. 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946).
d. H. R. 6064: Mr. May: "To extend the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and for other purposes." 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946).
F 13: Social Security.
a. Correspondence: re: Amendments to the Social security Act.
Correspondents include: Robert L. Doughton - NC; Earl Warren, Governor of California.
b. Memorandum: re: Title X.
c. H. R. 2229: Cannon - Florida: "To provide every adult citizen in the United States with equal basic Federal insurance, permitting retirement with benefits at age sixty, and also covering total disability, from whatever cause, for certain citizens under sixty; to give protection to widows with children; to provide an ever-expanding market for goods and services through the payment and distribution of such benefits in ration to the Nation's steadily increasing ability to produce, with the cost of such benefits to be carried by every citizen in proportion to the income privileges he enjoys." 79th Congress, 1st Session (1945).
d. H. R. 2230: Angell: "To provide every adult citizen in the United state with equal basic Federal insurance, permitting retirement with benefits at age sixty, and also covering total disability, from what ever cause, for certain citizens under sixty; to give protection to widows with children; to provide an ever - expanding market for goods and service through the payment and distribution of such benefits in ration the Nation's steadily increasing ability to produce, with the cost of such benefits to be carried by every citizen in proportion to the income privileges he enjoys." 79th Congress, 1st Session (1945).
e. Public No. 74-271 (H. R. 7260): "to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal oil-age benefits, and by enabling the several states to make more adequate provision for aged person, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes.
F 14: Speiser, Maurice J.: An act to amend and to consolidate the acts.
Correspondence: re: Speiser Bill.
F 15: Taxes (1945).
Correspondence: re: Helen Gahagan Douglas's vote on the tax cut bill.
F 16: Trade Agreement and Tariff.
a. Correspondence: re; H. R. 2652 - Doughton Bill, to revise tariff rates.
b. Pamphlet: "Tariff Reductions Granted by the United States under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements."
F 17: U.S. Employment Service.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 4437.
b. Statement: Omar N. Bradley: H. R. 4437.
c. Report: "Essentials in any Bill to Return the USES to State and Territorial Operations."
d. Testimony: Robert C. Goodwin: S. 1510.
F 18: Veterans.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 6340; H. R. 6143.
b. Information Sheets: "Benefits for dependents of Enlisted Men."; "Marriage of Enlisted Men to Enemy Aliens."
c. H. R. 6143: Price - Illinois: "To incorporate AMVETS, American Veterans of World War II." 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946).
d. Public Law 79-589: "To amend certain provisions of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, and for other purposes."
F 19: Vivisection - H. R. 491.
Correspondence: re: Opposition to the Government project at Bethesda, Maryland.
F 20: Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill - S. 1592.
Correspondence: re: Support for the bill.
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