Box 87: 81st Congress, Legislative Files: Housing - Miscellaneous (1949-1951).
F 1: Housing: Background Material.
a. P. L. 81-37 (H. R. 1731): "To extend certain provisions of the Housing and Rent act of 1947 as amended, and for other purposes."
b. Senate Document No. 99: "Housing Act of 1949." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
c. P. L. 81-171 (S. 1070): "To establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment thereof, to provide Federal and to assist slum-clearance projects and low-rent public housing projects initiated by local agencies, to provide for financial assistance by the Secretary of Agriculture for farm housing, and for other purposes."
d. Background Information on Title I - Slum Clearance and Urban Redevelopment Housing Act of 1949."
e. 12 Questions and Answers About the Public Low-Rent Housing Program.
f. Background Information Title IV - Housing Research Housing act of 1949. (July 1949).
g. The Housing Act of 1949 - Questions and Answers.
h. Questions and Answers on Rural Housing Act of 1949.
i. Questions and Answers on The Housing act of 1949 (H. R. 4009).
j. Statement on Annual Contributions for Low-Rent Housing Under H. R. 4009 (June 3, 1949).
k. Information for Local Communities Desiring To Submit Requests for Initial Reservations of Federal Capital Grant Monies for Slum Clearance and Urban Redevelopment Projects Under Title I of the Housing Act of 1949." (December 19, 1949).
l. Supplemental Information Sheet.
F 2: Housing: Middle Income.
a. Correspondence: re: middle income housing.
b. H. R. 6618: Spence: "To assist cooperative and other nonprofit corporations in the production of housing for families of moderate income." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950).
c. S. 2246: "Amendments intended to be proposed by Mr. Maybank to the bill (S. 2246) to amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes, viz, as follows..." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). 2 versions.
d. Booklet: "Resolutions adopted at 31st Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation" (December 15, 1949).
e. P. L. 81-475 (S. 2246): "To amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes."
F 3a: Immigration.
a. Correspondence: re: Hobbs Bill; H. R. 3001; H. R. 199; H. R. 1836.
b. Copies of clippings.
F 3b: Immigration: Cases.
Correspondence: re: immigration and naturalization cases.
F 4: Indians.
a. Copies of clippings.
b. S. 3195: Downey: "To extend the personal rights and duties of the Indians of California." 81st Congress, 2nd Session.
c. Article (drafts): "Downey - The Friend of the Indians?"
d. Extension of remarks of Hon. Helen Gahagan Douglas - CA: "Veterans' Hospitals in California."
e. Extension of Remarks of Hon. Helen Gahagan Douglas - CA: "California Indians Are Citizens."
f. Congressional Record (copy): Helen Gahagan Douglas: "California's Indian Fund." (March 23, 1950).
F 5: Indian Problems.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 1354, the bill to provide a per capita payment of $150 to each enrolled Indian of California; deficiency appropriation of $500,000 to Navajo education budget.
b. H. R. 1354: Engle - CA: "To provide for a per capita payment from funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of California." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
c. Article: "The Navajos' Problem...As They See It."
d. Article: "Deficiency Appropriation Bill - H. R. 2632."
F 6: International Trade Commission.
a. Correspondence: re: support for ITO; H. J. Res. 236.
b. Statement in support of United States Approval of the International Trade Organization Charter For Inclusion in the Record of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
c. Statement of Mrs. Katharine Lee Marshall for the U. S. Section, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom on H. J. Res. 236, The International Trade Organization Act to the House Foreign Affairs Committee (May 18, 1950).
F 7: Japanese War Claims.
a. Correspondence: re: War Claims; appropriations.
b. Hearings on "Department of Justice Appropriations for 1951."
c. Copies of clippings.
F 8: Korean Aid Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: proposed bill for aid to Korea.
b. Article: "Education in Korea Under Military Government."
F 9: Labor, Employment, Social Security.
Correspondence: re: application for Social Security benefits and disability payments; claims.
F 10: Labor Extension Bill.
Correspondence: re: support for and opposition to Labor Extension Bill.
F 11: Library Demonstration Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: support for Library Demonstration Bill.
b. Brief Analysis - Public Library Service Demonstration Bill.
F 12: Liquor Advertising.
General Correspondence.
F 13: Los Angeles Terminal Annex Post Office.
a. House Report: Kerr: "The Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1950." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
b. Memorandum for Mr. Gore: re: Appropriations for Terminal Annex Post Office in Los Angeles.
F 14: McCarran - Wood Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: McCarran-Wood Bill; H. R. 9737.
b. Excerpts from a speech by Helen Gahagan Douglas (May 26, 1950).
c. House Report 2980: Wood: "Protection of the United States Against Un-American and Subversive Activities." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950).
d. Release: Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: McCarran-Wood Bill (September 22, 1950).
e. Draft of letter to President.
F 15: Merchant Seamen: District.
Correspondence: re: legislation to exempt wartime merchant seamen from the draft; draft status of Merchant Marine Veterans.
F 16: Migrant Labor.
Correspondence: re: problems of migrant workers.
F 17: Military.
Correspondence: re: H. R. 3845.
F 18: Military Aid.
a. Correspondence: re; Atlantic Pact; shipment of supplies.
b. Pamphlet: "Christianity and Communism."
c. Paper: The Sunday Compass (August 14, 1949). *removed to outsized*
d. Copies of clippings.
e. Article: "Military Protection For States Who Are Not Great Powers; 1789-1809."
f. Article: "The Yellow `Peril' Renewed?" (December 12, 1907).
g. H. R. 5895: "To promote the foreign policy and provide for the defense and general welfare of the United States by furnishing military assistance to foreign nations." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
h. Booklet: "England's Policy Toward The Continent Considered From the Stand-Point of American Institutions."
i. Booklet: "Moral Disarmament."
j. Draft of Speech by Helen Gahagan Douglas.
F 19: Mining Compensation.
Correspondence: re: H. R. 834.
F 20: Miscellaneous (November 1948 - February 1949).
a. Correspondence: re: tax on educational records; world peace; Taft-Hartley Act; loans for private health facilities; farm price support program.
b. Resolution Adopted by the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles Approving Legislation for Equality in Naturalization and Immigration.
c. Booklet: "Coordinating Foreign Aid." 22 pages.
d. Booklet: "For All The People." 28 pages.
e. H. R. 167: Farrington: "To provide for the Admission into the United States of persons of the Korean race, to make them racially eligible for naturalization, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Judiciary.
f. H. R. 374: Celler: "To authorize the admission into the United States, under a quota for Koreans, persons of the Korean race, to make them racially eligible for naturalization, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Judiciary.
g. H. J. Res. 27: "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the terms of office of the President." 80th Congress, 1st Session.
h. S. 554: Pepper: "To provide for the admission into the United States of persons of the Korean race, to make them racially eligible for naturalization, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
i. H. R. 1897: Eberharter: "To provide for the admission into the United States of persons of the Korean race, to make them racially eligible for naturalization, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
j. Congressional Record: Walter H. Judd - Minnesota: "End of Oriental Exclusion?" (January 27, 1949). 15 pages.
k. Magazine: The Horseman: Vol. VI, No. 2 (February 2, 1949). 15 pages.
l. Extension of Remarks of Hon. Francis E. Walter - Pennsylvania: "Equality in Naturalization and Immigration." (February 2, 1949).
m. S. 761: Langer: "To provide for the admission into the Korean race, to Make them racially eligible for naturalization, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
n. H. R. 199: Judd: "To provide the privilege of becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States to all immigrants having a legal right to permanent residence, to make immigration quotas available to Asian and Pacific peoples, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
o. House Report No. 65 (H. R. 199): Gossett: "Providing the privilege of becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States to all immigrants having a legal right to permanent residence, to make immigration quotas available to Asian and Pacific peoples." (1949). 81st Congress, 1st Session. Committee on the Judiciary.
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