General, 1959

Correspondence concerning a variety of armed services legislation and issues including retirement pay for Reserve Officers, a posthumous commission for George Washington as General of the Army, quartering allowances for members of the armed services, the procurement of judge advocates and law specialist officers, relief for survivors of the United States Navy Band members who died in an airplane crash in Brazil, the construction of a United States Ship memorial for the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, crediting service for female members of telephone operating units in the United States Signal Corps, increased allowances for armed services members transporting house trailers, discharges for members of the Russian Railway Service Corps, and the employment of retired commissioned officers by contractors of the Department of Defense and Armed Forces.