Box 84: 81st Congress, Legislative Files: Colorado River Controversy - Fair Employment Practice Commission (1949-1951).
F 1: Colorado River Controversy: Correspondence and Data (May - June 1949).
a. Correspondence: re: Central Arizona Project; Colorado River Rights.
b. Statement: Pat McCarran - Nevada: re: S. 75. 81st Congress.
F 2: Colorado River Controversy: Correspondence and Data. (June - July 1949).
Correspondence: re: Colorado River Rights.
F 3: Colorado River Controversy: Correspondence and Data. (July 1949-1950).
a. Correspondence: re: Colorado River Rights.
b. Copies of clippings.
c. Flyer: "Another Reason For Opposing S. 75 and H. R. 934." Helen Gahagan Douglas.
d. Booklet: "Arizona An Adventure In Irrigation."
F 4: Colorado River Controversy: Data.
a. H. J. Res. 3: Sheppard: "Granting the consent of Congress to joinder of the United States in suit in the United States Supreme Court for adjudication of claims to water of the Colorado River system." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
b. H. R. 934: Murdock: "Authorizing the Construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Bridge Canyon, together with certain appurtenant dams and canals, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
c. S. 75: "Authorizing the construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Bridge Canyon, together with certain a appurtenant dams and canals, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Public Lands.
d. Congressional Record: Harold A. Patten - Arizona: "California Propaganda Technique Exposed." (March 4, 1949).
e. Article: "Arizona Outsmarts Us in Washington" (June 2, 1949).
f. Release: "Arizona Scheme Threatens Reclamation Appropriations for All Other States."
g. Chart: "How Reclamation Project Money Has Been Spent 1939-1949." *removed to outsized*
h. Article: Carey McWilliams: "The Colorado Is Sovereign." (April 9, 1949).
i. Booklet: "This Is The Truth! About the Central Arizona Project."
j. Booklet: "The Nation's Most Fantastic Project." 23 pages.
k. Report: "The Colorado - River of Controversy." 2 copies.
l. Booklet: "California and the Colorado River." 23 pages.
F 5: Columbia Valley Authority.
General Correspondence.
F 6: Commodity Credit Corporation.
Correspondence: re: amendments to the CCC Bill.
F 7: Copper Tariff.
Correspondence: re: suspension of tariff on importation of copper.
F 8: Defense Production Act of 1950.
a. H. R. 9243: Patman: "To create the Small Defense Plants Corporation and to preserve small business institutions and free, competitive enterprise." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Banking and Currency.
b. H. R. 9176: Spence: "To establish a system of priorities and allocations for materials and facilities, authorize the requisitioning thereof, provide financial assistance for expansion of productive capacity and supply, strengthen controls over credit, regulate speculation in commodity exchanges, and be these measures facilitate the production of goods and services necessary for the national security, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session 91950). Committee on Banking and Currency. 2 copies.
c. House Report 2759 (H. R. 9176): Spence: "Defense Production Act of 1950." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.
d. Provisions of Defense Production Act (September 7, 1950).
e. July Bulletin: Chamber of Commerce. Vol. VII, No. 7 (1950).
F 9: Displaced Persons.
a. Correspondence: re; Celler Displaced Persons Bill, H. R. 4567.
b. House Report No. 2187 (H. R. 4567): Walter: "Amending the Displace Persons Act of 1948." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950).
F 10: Economy Corporation Administration.
a. Correspondence: re: inclusion of Spain in the European Recover Program.
b. House Report No. 329 (H. R. 3830): "Amending The China Aid Act of 1948." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.
c. The Program of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction One Year After The Commission's Organization." (November 1, 1949).
F 11: Economy Expansion Act.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 1770; Economic Expansion Act of 1949. Correspondents include: James E. Murray - Montana.
b. Statement of the National Committee on Unemployment and the Gathering Economic Crisis." (June 17 - 18, 1949).
c. Summary of H. R. 5666: "Economic Expansion Act of 1949." (July 18, 1949).
d. Booklet: "This Is the `Holdridge Plan.'
e. Joint Committee Print: "Employment and Unemployment." 81st Congress, 1st Session.
f. Congressional Record (copy): Wright Patman: "Preliminary Redraft of Bill Assuring an Expanded and Prosperous Economy." (June 6, 1949).
g. H. R. 5796: Woodhouse: "Declaring the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power and setting forth ways means of achieving these objectives." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Banking and Currency.
F 12: Economy in Government.
General Correspondence.
F 13: Equal Rights Amendment.
a. Correspondence: re: equal pay for women, H. R. 2438; Equal Rights Amendment.
b. S. J. Res. 25: "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Judiciary.
c. Remarks of Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: Equal Rights Amendment (March 23, 1950).
d. Remarks of Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: ERA (March 22, 1950).
e. Facts on Women Workers (March 31, 1949).
F 14: European Recovery Program.
a. House Report No. 323 (H. R. 3748): "Extension of the European Recovery Program." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Foreign Affairs.
b. Booklet: "European Recovery Program - Western Germany Country Study." 103 pages.
F 15: Fair Employment Practice Commission.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 2632, race discrimination; Taft-Hartley Bill; H. R. 4453, FEPC.
b. H. R. 4453: "To establish a Fair Employment Practice Commission and to aid in eliminating discrimination in employment because of race, creed, or color." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950).
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