HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS COLLECTION
Box and Folder Inventory

Box 85

Box 86: 81st Congress, Legislative Files: Health Insurance Bill, National - Housing (1949-1951).

F 1: Health Insurance Bill, National:  Correspondence/Data (April 1949-1950).

a. Correspondence:  re:  National Health Insurance.

b. Copies of clippings.

c. Release by AMA; National Health Insurance Handbook.

d. Article:  David M. Heyman:  "Britain's Health Plan:  The Lesson For Us."

e. Article:  Michael M. Davis:  "Take the $ Out of SickNess."

F 2: Health Insurance Bill, National:  Testimony etc.

a. Booklet:  James D. Hilborn:  "The Essentials of An Adequate Health Program."

b. Booklet:  "Better Medical Care That You Can Afford."

c. Booklet:  "Are Blue Shield Plans Satisfactory?"  (June 1949).  23 pages.

d. Article:  "Deductible Health Insurance a Five Percent Plan."  Meyer M. Silverman.

e. Pamphlet:  National Health Insurance - What Does It Mean To You?"

f. Brief Statement on H. R. 4312 on Behalf of the National Economic Council.  (May 25, 1949).

g. Statement:  Dr. R. L. Sensenich - AMA:  re:  H. R. 4312 and H. R. 4313.

h. Statement by Lowell S. Goin, M.D.

i. The American Dental Association Statement on the National Health Insurance and Public Health Act - H. R. 4312 and H. R. 4313.  (May 25, 1949).

j. Statement by William C. Ezell.

k. Statement:  Earl J. McGrath:  "Practical Nurse Training - H. R. 4312, 4313, and 3894.

l. Statement:  Mrs. Eugenia K. Spaulding - American Nurses' Association:  H. R. 3894 (June 9, 1949).

m. Summary of Objectives Concerning Federal Aid for Professional Nursing Education (January 1948).  Exhibit I.

n. Recommended Changes in Bill H. R. 3894.  Exhibit II.

o. Statement:  Dr. Otterbein Dressler:  H. R. 3894 and Title I of H. R. 4312 - 3 relating to Federal Assistance for the Education of Professional Health Personnel.  (June 10, 1949).

p. Draft of the testimony and exhibits on subjects covered by Title I of H. R. 4312 and H. R. 4313. 

q. Testimony on Health Legislation (June 10, 1949).

F 3: Hobbs Bill.

a. Correspondence:  re:  Hobbs Bill.

b. H. R. 10:  "To facilitate the deportation of aliens from the United States, to provide for the supervision and detention pending eventual deportation of aliens whose deportation cannot be readily effectuated because of reasons beyond the control of the United States, and for other purposes."  81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950).  Committee on the Judiciary.

F 4: Hoffman Bill.

Correspondence:  re:  ECA Cargoes.

F 5: Home Rule.

a. Correspondence:  re:  Kefauver Bill, S. 1527; McMillan Bill, H. R. 5968.

b. Congressional Record:  John L. McMillan - South Carolina:  "District of Columbia Home Rule Bill."  (July 22, 1949).

c. Pamphlet:  "United States Citizens Without Votes."  (January 1950).

d. Washington Chapter ADA Statement on the Swimming Pool Controve4sy.

e. Progress in the Movement to Guarantee Equal Rights for All Citizens in the National Capital.

f. Congressional Record:  Estes Kefauver - Tennessee:  "Rebuttal of Board of Trade Arguments Against Home Rule for the District of Columbia."  (March 29, 1950).

F 6: Hoover Commission, Veteran Administration Hospital.

a. Correspondence:  re:  Hospital bed shortage.

b. Release:  Helen Gahagan Douglas:  re:  closing of Birmingham Hospital.

c. Remarks of Helen Gahagan Douglas:  re:  "Veterans' Hospital."

d. Various resolutions:  re:  Birmingham Hospital.

e. Congressional Record (copy):  Helen Gahagan Douglas:  "Veterans' Hospital Facilities in California."  (March 23, 1950).

F 7: Housing (1947-1949).

a. Correspondence:  re:  housing shortage; low income housing; loan.

b. Remarks by F. O. Matthissen (July 15, 1947).

c. Copy of articles.

d. Report:  "Salzburg Seminar in American Studies."  (1948).

e. Article:  Temporary Shelter for the Evicted:  An Immediate Need." 

f. H. R. 198:  Judd:  "To clarify the definition of controlled housing accommodations in the Housing and Rent Act of 1940."  81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).  Committee on Banking and Currency.

g. H. R. 349:  Celler:  "To amend the National Housing Act so as to provide increased limits on cost in the case of federally aided low-rent housing."  81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).  Committee on Banking and Currency.

h. H. R. 348:  Celler:  "To provide increased Federal - aided public housing for families of low income."  (1949).  Committee on Banking and Currency.

i. Memorandum to the President of the United States Concerning Racial Discrimination by the Federal Housing Administration.

j. Speech:  Harry P. Cain:  "Construction of Low-Rent Houses."  (January 31, 1949).

k. Periodical:  Southwest Builder and Contractor:  Vol. 101, No. 25 (June 18, 1948).

l. S. 138:  Pepper:  National Housing:  81st Congress, 1st Session (February 3, 1949).  Committee on Banking and Currency.

F 8: Housing (April - June 8, 1949).

a. Correspondence:  re:  loans; accelerated tax depreciation for rental housing; H. R. 4009.

b. Copy of clipping.

c. Flyer:  "A Program For All Who Work."

d. Periodical:  California Housing:  Vol. 1, No. 3 (February 28, 1949).

F 9: Housing (June 9 - August 1949).

Correspondence:  re:  H. R. 4009, housing bill.

F 10: Housing (1950).

a. Correspondence:  re:  Lanham Act, P. L. 849; S. 2246; H. R. 6070.

b. A Guide to Slum Clearance and Urban Redevelopment (February 1950).

c. S. 2246:  "Amendments of National Housing Act."  81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950).

d. The Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of Officers (January 1950).

e. Statement:  Raymond M. Foley:  "Relationship of the Slum-Clearance and Low-Rent Housing Programs."  (June 29, 1950).

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