Box 33: 80th Congress, Legislative Files: Foreign Affairs - Housing 1947-1949).
F 1: Foreign Affairs.
a. News Release: "Chinese Students Blame Plight on U.S. Policy (May 15, 1947).
b. News Release: "Chinese Students Demand Peace, Food and Freedom; are arrested and Shot down." (June 10, 1047).
c. Statement: John Kee: re: European Reconstruction program.
d. Correspondents include: Emanuel Cellar - New York.
e. Summary of European Alliance (March 17, 1948). 13 pages.
f. H. R. 6159: Buck: "To amend section 3 of the act of June 18, 1934, relating to the establishment of foreign - trade zones." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Ways and Means.
g. H. R. 6159: Celler: "to amend section 3 of the act of June 19, 1934, relating to the establishment of foreign - trade zones." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Ways and Means.
F 2: Greece and Turkey Loan.
a. Correspondence: re: Greek - Turkish loan.
b. Draft of letters.
c. Copy of Congressional Record: George H. Bender: "The House Should Defeat the Greek-Turkish Military Bill."
d. Periodical: Greek Outlook: Vol. 3, No. 2 (March 1948).
e. Memorandum: re: "The Legality, Under the United Nations Charter, of the bills (S. 938; H.R. 2616) to Provide For Assistance to Greece and Turkey." (April 25, 1947). 19 pages.
g. Article: The New York Times: "Eight Reasons Why Universal Training of Doubtful Military Worth." (May 4, 1947).
F 3a: Hartley Labor Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: Opposition to H. R. 3020 - Hartley Bill.
b. Article: T. H. McGregor: "Don't Shoot The Piano Player."
F 3b: Hartley Labor Bill: Data.
a. Summary of Important Provisions of National Labor Relations Act as Amended.
b. Conference Report: "Labor-Management Relations act, 1947 (H.R. 3020)." Hartley. 80th Congress, 1st Session.
c. Report: "Campaign Expenditures Committee" (H. Res. 645). 79th Congress, 2nd Session.
d. Fact Sheet: "The Hartley Bill - A New Guarantee of Industrial Slavery."
e. Press Release: re: CIO Political Action Committee and the National Citizens Political Action Committee." (September 25, 1944).
f. Press Release: "Explanation of New National Labor Policy in H. R. 3020 by Fred A. Hartley, Jr." (April 15, 1947).
g. Press Release: Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: H. R. 3020. (April 17, 1947).
h. Press Release: Fred A. Hartley: re: H. R. 3020. (April 27, 1947).
i. Copy of clippings.
j. Periodical: Monthly Outlook: Vol. 5, No. 8. (June 1947).
F 4a: Health Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: S. 545, Taft-Ball-Smith-Donnell Health Bill. Correspondents include: James E. Murray - Montana.
b. Pamphlet: Committee for the Nation's Health.
c. Press Release: Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: Health Care (June 6, 1947).
F 4b: Health Bill: Data.
a. S. 545: Taft: "To coordinate the health functions of the Federal Government in a single agency; to amend the Public Heath Service Act for the following purposes: To expand the activities of the Public Health Service; to promote and encourage medical and dental research in the National Institute of Health and through grants-in-aid to the States; to construct in the National Institute of Health a dental research institute; and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
b. S. 1320: Murray: "To provide a national Health insurance and public health program." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
c. S. 2711: Morse: "To amend the Public Health Service Act, 79th Congress, chapter 538, 2nd Session, to establish a Federal Bureau of Asylums for inspections of all institutions which obtain Federal grants of money, and which are caring for mental patients." 80th Congress, 2nd Session. (1948). Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
d. News Release: C. J. Haggerty: re: Denouncing the manner in which the senate hearings on pending health legislation is being conducted." (June 5, 1947).
e. Highlight No. 1 of Congress and National Health Legislation.
f. Hearing Highlights No. 1 (May 19-23): re: S. 545.
g. Review and Summary of Health Legislation.
h. Notes of I. S. Falk: Blueprint for the Nationalization of Medicine.
i. Statement: HGD: re: S. 545 and S. 1320. (June 6, 1947).
j. Report: "Health - Everybody's Business." (June 1948).
k. Some Statements and Misstatements About National Health Insurance. (September 1, 1947).
l. Five Important Provisions of the National Health Insurance and Public Health Act (S. 1320).
m. S. 1320 verses S. 545.
n. Facts about the National Health Insurance and Public Health Insurance and Public Health Act (S. 1320).
o. More Detailed Answers to Questions on National Health Insurance and Public Health Act (S. 1320).
p. Twenty Questions on the Health of the United States and the Need for National Health Insurance.
q. More Information on National Health Insurance and Public Health Act.
r. Fact Sheet: "The Health of the Nation."
s. Article: "Do the People of the U.S. Need a National Health Insurance Program."
t. Fact Sheet: "The Need for a National Health Program."
u. Booklet: "National Health Insurance Handbook A Practical Guide for Leaders." (December 1950). 80 pages.
F 5: Housing: Clippings (copies).
F 6a: Housing: miscellaneous.
Correspondence: re: Housing shortage; rent control; Wagner- Ellender-Taft Housing Bill.
F 6b: Housing: Miscellaneous.
a. The Republican Record on Housing -- Four "Investigations," but No Houses!
b. List of hearing dates.
c. Copy of clippings.
d. Pamphlet: "Briefly So Do You Believe In Rent Control?" by F. Orval Watts.
e. Booklet: Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler: "Roofs and Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem."
f. Booklet: Douglas Rosenbaum: "The Housing Needs of the Nonwhite Population in Non-farm Areas."
g. Article: Margaret Kand: "Opportunities in a Neglected Market."
h. H. R. 2523: Javits: "To establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment thereof, to facilitate sustained progress in the attainment of such objectives and to provide for the coordinated execution of such policy through a National Housing Commission, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Banking and Currency.
i. H. R. 3203: Wolcott: "Relative to maximum rents on housing accommodations; to repeal certain provisions of Public Law 388, 79th Congress, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Banking and Currency.
j. H. R. 6959: "To amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948).
k. H. Res. 236: Douglas: re: H. R. 2523. 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Rules.
l. S. 701: Taylor: "To assist in the immediate alleviation of the critical shortage of moderate - rental housing for veterans, to expedite the orderly demobilization of the war effort, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Banking and Currency.
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