Box 38: 80th Congress, Legislative Files: Rent Control - Straus-Boke Rider (1947-1949).
F 1: Rent Control.
a. Correspondence: re: rent control
b. H. R. 5823: Douglas: "To continue rent control until June 30, 1950, and for other Purposes." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Banking and Currency.
c. Testimony on Extension of Rent Control Senate Banking and Currency Subcommittee (Donald Montgomery, UAW-CIO). January 24, 1948).
d. Appeal: re: Woods versus Miller (October 1947).
e. P. L. 80-129 (H. R. 3203): "Relative to maximum rents on housing accommodations; to repeal certain provisions of P. L. 388, 79th Congress, and for other purposes."
f. P. l. 80464 (S. 2182): "to extend certain provisions of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, to provide for the termination of controls on maximum rents in areas and on housing accommodations where conditions justify such controls no longer exist, and for other purposes."
g. Report (S. 2182): "Housing and Rent Act of 1948." 80th Congress, 2nd Session.
h. Statement: John W. Edelman: "Urging Enactment of Rent Control Legislation." (February 10, 1948).
i. Analysis of H. R. 1948.
j. Report: Senator Robert F. Wagner: "Slum Clearance." (March 1, 1948).
k. Remarks of Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: Support of Anti-Segregation Amendment to the 70 Group Air Forces Bill, April 15, 1948."
l. Press Release: re: rent controls (March 15, 1948).
m. Flyer: "Hold That Rent Line! Rent Control Protects You."
n. Press Release: Mike Monroney: "Proposed Rent Bill Unconstitutional."
o. Analysis of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947 as amended by the 1948 Act. (April 2, 1948).
p. Report (H. Con. Res. 104): "Slum Clearance." 80th Congress, 2nd Session.
F 2a: Rent Control Bill - H. R. 3100 (1947).
a. Correspondence: re: price and rent control; Wolcott Bill, H. R. 2549.
b. Copies of clippings.
F 2b: Rent Control Bill - H. R. 3100 (1948).
a. Correspondence: re: rent control.
b. Copy of Clippings.
F 3: Rent Control Bill - H. R. 3100.
a. Correspondence: re: rent control legislation and Municipal Court Figures for January 1947.
b. Memorandum: re: rent control legislation.
c. News Release: Mike Monroney: "Proposed Rent Bill Unconstitutional." 2 copies.
d. Provisions for s. 2182.
e. Analysis of H. R. 5823.
f. Information: "Effective Rent Control."
g. Minority Report on Rent Control for 1940.
h. Press Release: "CIO Housing Group Offers Rent Control Suggestions." (March 10, 1948).
i. H. R. 5823: Douglas: "To continue rent control until June 30, 1950, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Banking and Currency.
j. Report 1543 (H. R. 5470): Wolcott: "Repeating Section 3 (b) of Public Law 395, Eightieth Congress.
k. S. 2182: "To extend certain provisions of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, to provide for the termination of controls on maximum rents in areas and on housing accommodations where conditions justifying such controls no longer exist, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948).
F 4a: Rent Control (1947).
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 3203, Wolcott Bill; rent control
b. Draft of speech.
c. Report 317 (H. R. 3203): "Housing and Rent Controls." 80th Congress, 1st Session.
d. Analysis of Rent Control Provisions of H. R. 3203 as Passed by the House of Representatives May 1, 1947.
e. H. R. 3100: Douglas: "To continue rent control until June 30, 1948." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Banking and Currency. 2 copies.
F 4b: Rent Control (1948).
a. Correspondence: re: rent control.
b. Copy of clippings.
F 5: Robertson Wool Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: Robertson Wool Bill. Correspondents include: A. J. Sabath - Illinois; Clair Engle.
b. Thank You letters from: Toby Morris - OK; Estes Kefauver - Tennessee: Franck R. Havenner - CA; mary T. Norton - NJ; Frank M. Karsten - MO; Sam Hobbs - Alabama; Robert L. Doughton - NC; John H. Folger - NC; Edward J. Hart - NJ; Hamilton C. Jones - NC; Clair Engle - CA; Pete Jarman - Alabama.
c. Report: 257 (S. 814): Hope: "Providing Support for Wool." 80th Congress, 1st Session. Committee on the Whole House on the State of the Union.
d. S. 814: "To provide support for wool, and for other purpose." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Agriculture.
e. Statement: Sylvia Wubrug: "Wool Bills."
f. Drafts of speeches (?).
g. Address: Leroy D. Stinebower: "The Economic and Social Task of the United Nations."
h. Press Release: "The Foreign Economic Policy of the United States." (November 12, 1946).
i. Press Release (March 4, 1947).
j. Copy of clippings.
k. Address by the President: "Peace, Freedom and World Trade."
l. Memorandum on Amendments to S. 814, Robertson Wool Bill. 2 copies.
F 6: School Health Bill.
Correspondence: National School Health Services Bill, H. R. 1980.
F 7: School Lunch Program.
General Correspondence.
F 8a: Social Security (January - May 1947).
a. Correspondence: re: Townsend Plan.
b. A Series of Memos for Members of Congress on H. R. 16 - The Townsend Plan.
c. H. R. 16: Angell: "To provide every adult citizens 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 five 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 National'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." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Ways and Means.
d. H. R. 3459: Celler: "To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide disability insurance benefits and to reduce the age requirement for old-age and survivors insurance benefits from sixty-five to sixty in the case of men, and from sixty-five to fifty-five in the case of women." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Ways and Means.
e. Flyer: "Clifton's Food For Thought."
f. Copies of clippings.
F 8b: Social Security.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 16. Correspondents include: Clyde Doyle - CA.
b. Report 1319 (H. J. Res. 296): Gearhart: "Maintaining the Status Quo in Respect of Certain Employment Taxes and Social Security Benefits Pending Action by Congress on Extended Social Security Coverage." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948).
c. Extension of Remarks by Helen Gahagan Douglas (December 4, 1947).
d. State Concurrent Resolution No. 49: "Relative to Budget Allowance for Recipients of aid to the aged.
F 9: Status of Women (ERA).
a. Correspondence: re: Equal Rights Amendment.
b. Copy of clippings.
c. Article: Alice Hamilton, M.D.: "Why I Am Against The Equal Rights Amendment."
d. Flyer: "These Lawyers and Legal Scholars Say..."
e. Pamphlets (2): "To Road To Equality."
f. Brief for Action - League of Women Voters.
g. Replies to the ECOSOC Questionnaire on the Legal Status and Treatment of Women. (July 25, 1947).
h. Address: Frieda S. Miller: "Who Works, Where and Why?"
i. Statement Frieda S. Miller: "In Support of the Women's Status Bill (H. R. 2007).
j. Statement of CIO: "Support of Women's Status Bill" (March 1948).
k. Statement of William S. Roach: "In Support of the Women`s Status Bill (H. R. 2007) and in Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment."
l. Statement by Dr. Louise Young. "(June 17, 1948).
m. Pamphlet: "Your Job Future After College."
n. Press Release: Frieda S. Miller: "Labor Day Statement."
o. Article: The Washington Post: "Illusory Women's Rights" (July 19. 1945).
F 10: Straus - Boke Rider.
a. General Correspondence.
b. Article by Doris Fleeson: re: "Straus and Boke Case."
c. List of bills introduced by Helen Gahagan Douglas.
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