Box 59: 80th and 81st Congresses, General Files: Interior Department - Justice Department (1947-1951).
F 1: Interior Department (January 1948 - March 1950).
a. Correspondence: re: public lands; cost of exploration for new oil and gas production; trait leases; claim.
b. Investigation of Administration of the Bureau of Reclamation (October 13, 1949).
c. Booklet: Department of Interior: "Public Lands"
F 2: Interior Department (March - November 1950).
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 6920; applications for homesteads; salt-water purification research program; depletion provision - cost of oil/gas production exploration; Kings River Bill; proposed tramway up Mt. San Jacinto; water rights; mining claims; racial discrimination.
b. Copies of clippings.
c. Release: "Sedimentation Tests Show Reclamation Reservoirs Have Centuries of Usefulness.
F 3: Internal Revenue, Bureau of.
Correspondence: re: refund of income tax alleged to be due.
F 4: International Bank For Reconstruction.
Correspondence and release: re: loans.
F 5: Internal Refugee Organization.
Correspondence and memorandum: re: displaced persons.
F 6: Interstate Commerce Commission.
a. Correspondence: re: proposed reduced rail rates on iron and steel; S. 3237; transportation of fruits.
b. Reply to various petitions seeking suspension of rates on iron and steel articles from Geneva, Utah submitted by the Western States Council (February 1947).
c. Speech: by Kenneth T. Norris.
d. "Will Discrimination Build the West?" *removed to outsized*
e. Release: re: Kaiser Co. request of suspension and investigation of Proposed rail freight rates (February 17, 1947).
f. Article: "A Locality Against Itself."
F 7a: "J" General (October 1946 - June 1948).
a. Correspondence: re: refund of retirement deductions; production of crude oil and gas; Emergency housing; aid to Greece and Turkey; rent control; claim; Petition #6; atomic energy.
b. Booklet: "Variegation A Free Verse Quarterly" (Spring 1948). 19 pages.
F 7b: "J" General (July 1948 - April 1949).
a. Correspondence: re: Civil rights; exemption from Federal income tax; claim; Negro Soldier; housing; refund of retirement deductions. Correspondents include: Lyndon B. Johnson - Texas.
b. Address: James P. Warburg: "The United States and the World Crisis." (April 3, 1948).
c. Memorandum: re: Yugoslav Relief.
d. Article: Senator W. D. Jamieson: "The Window Seat." (August 11, 1948).
F 7c: "J" General.
a. Correspondence: re: refund of income tax alleged to be due; pension funds; loan; P. L. 351, Career Compensation Act of 1949.
b. Address: Louis A. Johnson (May 1949).
c. Gift Catalog.
F 8: Japanese War Claims.
a. Correspondence: re: Japanese War Claims.
b. P. L. 81-17 (S. 29): "To authorize payment of claims based on loss of or damage to property deposited by alien enemies.
F 9: Jefferson - Jackson Day Dinner.
a. Booklet listing sitting arrangement.
b. Program for Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.
F 10: Justice Department.
a. Correspondence: re: rights and requests of prisoners.
b. Copy of clipping.
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