Box 97: Legislative Reference Material: Excise Taxes - Inventor's Week.
F 1: Excise Taxes.
a. Correspondence: re: support for H. R. 3825, repeal of the excise tax on various items.
b. Clipping.
F 2: Excise Taxes: H. R. 4946.
a. Release: "Helen Gahagan Douglas Proposed Cost of Living Tax Cut With Re-Enactment of Excess Profits Tax." (December 14, 1947).
b. H. R. 204: McDonough: "To repeal the retailer's excise tax on toilet preparations and on luggage, purses, and similar articles." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
c. H. R. 207: McDonough: "To repeal the tax on certain telegraph, telephone, radio, and cable facilities." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
d. H. R. 208: McDonough: "To repeal the tax on transportation of persons." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
e. Article: "Comparison of Telephone, Telegraph and Transportation Rates For The West With Rates For Other Parts of the Country."
f. Release: re: Helen Gahagan Douglas introducing a bill for the Removal of excise taxes on the transportation of persons and property telephone calls and telegrams. (June 1, 1949).
g. Article: A.G. Mezerik: "`War' Taxes Cut Employment, Sales; Congress Should Repeal Them, - Now."
h. H. R. 4946: Douglas: "To repeal the excise tax on transportation of property, transportation of persons, and long-distance telephone and telegraph." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
F 3: Excise Taxes: H. R. 6151.
a. Correspondence: re: removal of excise taxes.
b. Copies of Clippings.
c. Brief in Support of an Excise Tax Amendment.
d. H. R. 6151: Douglas: "To repeal all Federal excise taxes, except those of a regulatory character." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
e. Draft of bill.
f. Remarks of Helen Gahagan Douglas: "Repeal of Federal Excise Taxes" (August 30, 1949).
F 4: Export - Import Bank Loan Guarantee.
a. Hearings on H. R. 5594, "Export - Import Bank Loan Guaranty Authority." (1949).
b. Critique of Herter Bill.
F 5: Fair Employment Practices.
a. General Correspondence.
b. FEPC Reference Manual 1948 edition. 72 pages.
c. H. R. 21: Powell: "To prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, religion, color, national origin, or ancestry." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
d. H. R. 792: Douglas: "To prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, religion, color, national origin, or ancestry." (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
F 6: Farm Bankruptcy.
a. Correspondence: re: bankruptcy. Correspondents include: William Lemke - North Dakota.
b. H. R. 2154: White - California: "To authorize the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation of Washington, District of Columbia, to make certain disaster or emergency loans, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
c. H. R. 5627: Douglas: "To amend the Act entitle "An Act to Establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, as amended, with respect to farmer - debtor relief." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Judiciary.
d. H. R. 798: Douglas: "To amend the Act entitle "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, as amended, with respect to farmer-debtor relief." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
e. H. R. 3112: Reed-Illinois: "To amend an act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
f. H. R. 3388: Douglas: "To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Judiciary.
g. S. 938: Douglas: "To amend an act entitle "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
F 7: Feed Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 8159.
b. H. R. 8159: Douglas: "To relief distress of farm users of feed and to expand foreign markets for cereal products of the United States." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950).
c. Release: re: H. R. 8159.
d. Copy of clipping.
F 8: G. I. Bill of Rights.
a. General Correspondence. Correspondents include: John E. Rankin - Mississippi.
b. Release: re: G.I. Bill of Rights.
c. H. R. 9465: Douglas: "To extend to personnel on active service with the Armed Forces during the military, naval, air operations against the forces of the Government of North Korea Certain benefits provided by law for veterans of World War II, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
d. Copy of clipping.
e. Committee Print No. 323.
F 9: Hospital Survey and Construction Act.
a. H. R. 2567: Douglas: "To amend the Hospital Survey and Construction Act (title VI of the Public Health Service Act), to extend its duration and provide greater financial assistance in the construction of hospitals, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
b. Draft of a bill.
c. H. R. 4763: Poulson: "To amend Public Law 725, Seventy-ninth Congress, section 624." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
d. Suggested Amendment to Public Law 725 Introduced by Honorable Norris Poulson, H. R. 4763.
e. Testimony on Amendment of Hospital Survey and Construction Act (June 29, 1949).
f. Statement by George Bugbee: re: H. R. 2176.
g. Statement of Hugh H. Murray, Jr.: re: National Health Insurance Legislation (June 30, 1949).
h. Statement by Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: H. R. 2567 (June 29, 1949).
i. Testimony of Reverend John G. Martin.
j. Statement of Robert G. Carter: re: H. R. 3737 (June 30, 1949).
k. Statement of Lloyd C. Halvorson, H. R. 4312-13: re: Hospital Construction (June 29, 1949).
l. List of allotments to States for Public Health Services, Fiscal Year 1950.
F 10: Housing: H. R. 6811.
a. Correspondence: re: housing.
b. Release: "Helen Douglas Seeks Housing For Families of Average Income." (January 12, 1949).
c. Statement: Raymond M. Foley: re: S. 2246 (January 12, 1950).
d. Final Report: re: H. Res. 331 "Cooperative Housing Abroad." (1950).
e. Copies of clippings.
F 11: Housing: Loans and Credit.
a. Correspondence: re: Housing Bill.
b. H. R. 787: Douglas: "To provide that certain mortgages and loans shall not be eligible for insurance or guaranty under the National Housing Act or the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 unless a warranty is provided against structural and other defects in construction of the dwelling involved." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Banking and Currency.
c. H. R. 4009: Spence: "To establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment thereof, to provide Federal aid to assist slum-clearance projects and low-rent public housing projects initiated by local agencies, to provide initiated by local agencies, to provide for financial assistance by the Secretary of Agriculture for farm housing, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Banking and Currency.
d. H. R. 4472: Douglas: "To provide for direct Federal loans to meet the housing needs of moderate income families, to provide liberalized credit to reduce the cost of housing for such families, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Banking and Currency.
e. House Report No. 1269 (H. R. 5987): Spence: "Housing Amendments of 1949." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1940). Committee on Banking and Currency.
f. Analysis of H. R. 2516.
F 12: Housing: National Housing Act of 1949.
a. Release: re: bill for construction of middle income housing.
b. List of Congressmen who voted Right on Every Issue on H. R. 1731 - Rent Control.
c. List of Senate Votes on Rent Control, H. R. 1731.
d. H. R. 2516: Douglas: "To amend the Housing act of 1948." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Banking and Currency.
e. Analysis of H. R. 2516.
f. Congressional Record (copy): Helen Gahagan Douglas: "The Acute Need for Housing in Los Angeles." (June 24, 1949).
g. Congressional Record: Helen Gahagan Douglas: "Housing Act of 1949." (June 7, 1949).
h. Public Law 81-171 (S. 1070): "To establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment thereof, to provide Federal aid 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."
i. Remarks on Housing in Reference to a Local Low-Rent Program.
F 13: Internal Security.
H. R. 9737: Douglas: "To protect the Internal security of the United States, to provide for the detention in time of emergency of persons who may commit acts of espionage or sabotage, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on the Judiciary.
F 14: Inventor's Week.
a. Correspondence: re: request for Congress to proclaim an `Inventor's Week'.
b. H. J. Res. 472: Douglas: "Designating the period beginning July 25 and ending July 31 as National Inventor's Week." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on the Judiciary.
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