HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS COLLECTION
Box and Folder Inventory

Box 43

Box 44: 80th and 81st Congresses, General Files: "Be" General - Birmingham Hospital 1947-1951).

F 1a: "Be" General (1946-1948).

a. Correspondence:  re:  obtaining visas; federal aid to education; foreign service jobs; price controls; H. R. 4564; pensions; minimum wage; copy of Agricultural Yearbook.

b. Booklet:  "American Overseas Aid." (May 28, 1948).

c. Periodical:  The Council News:  Vol. 2, No. 8.  (August 1948).

F 1b: "Be" General (1949-1950).

a. Correspondence:  re:  overseas employment; meat prices; request for funds for research; claim pensions.

b. Pamphlet:  "Body - Nerve and Gland Reflexes."  3 copies.

F 2: "Bi" General.

a. Correspondence:  re:  hospital rights for veterans; child care centers; unemployment insurance; Reconstruction Plan for Hawaii.

b. Pamphlet:  "The Brasshat and the Atom."

F 3: "Bl" General.

a. Correspondence:  re:  Helen Gahagan Douglas' address on the Negro Soldier; transportation of psittacine birds.

b. Flyer:  "Keep This Under Your Hat."

c. Federal Register:  re:  Psittacine Birds.

d. Article:  Bruce Bliven:  "A Plan for Peace With Russia."

e. S. 383:  Downey:  "For the relief of William Jennings Bleiler."  81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).  Committee on the Judiciary.

F 4: "Bo" General.

a. Correspondence:  re:  Housing shortage; rent control bill; Civil Service Retirement Act; abolish vivisection; U. S. citizenship; foreign policy; Agriculture Yearbooks; retirement pay; oil leasing procedure; claim.

b. Copy of clippings.

c. Paper:  "Democratic Defender" Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 1949).

F 5a: "Br" General.

a. Correspondence:  re:  TEW bill; taxation on American films in England; affirmative action; passports; Negro Soldier; copy of Agriculture Yearbook.

b. Program of the 1947 Annual Convention of the women's Action Committee for Lasting Peace."

c. Copy of clippings.

F 5b: "Bl" General (1949).

a. Correspondence:  re:  claim for refund; security case; appropriations bill; H. R. 2143; P. L. 886; Society of Independent Motion Picture producers; atomic bomb; H. R. 8452; Taft-Hartley Bill. Correspondents include:  Emanuel Celler - NY.

b. Copy of clippings.

c. Memorandum:  re:  British Film Quotas.

F 6a: "Bu" General (1946-1948).

a. Correspondence:  re:  child care books; claim; Taft-Hartley Act; general.

b. Article:  Laszlo Dobossy:  "Letter to Ferdinand Peroutka."

c. Copies of clippings.

d. Newspaper:  Rail Pension News:  Vol. 1, No. 16; Vol. 2, No. 3.

F 6b: "Bu" General (1949-1950).

a. Correspondence:  re:  employment; Women in Civil service; Marshall Plan; aid to the blind; veterans' training programs; salary increase for teachers.

b. Copy of clippings.

c. Pamphlet:  "Grace Bush."

F 7: Bakersfield.

a. Correspondence:  re:  Labor Unions; housing investigation.

b. Copy of clippings.

c. Pamphlet:  "Is This Home Too Much?"  re:  housing for migratory farm workers.

F 8: Barley Growers.

Correspondence:  re:  price support.

F 9: Bilbo.

Correspondence:  re:  unseating Bilbo in the Senate.

F 10: Birmingham Hospital.

a. Correspondence:  re:  closing of the Birmingham Hospital.

b. Congressional Record:  Helen Gahagan Douglas:  "Veteran's Hospital Facilities in California."  (March 23, 1950).

c. Congressional Record:  Helen Gahagan Douglas:  "Closing of the Van Nuys - Birmingham Hospital."

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