Box 13

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Correspondence concerning federal employee legislation including the regulation of officers in the executive branch, a pay increase for postal workers, equipment maintenance for rural postal carriers, and civil service retirement.

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Two letters requesting support for a resolution to send food supplies to starving children in occupied countries.

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A report from Senator Pat McCarran to the Committee on the District of Columbia regarding an investigation of conditions at the Gallinger Municipal Hospital. The hospital functioned as a psychopathic ward located in Washington D.C.

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Correspondence concerning health and medical legislation including the appointment of graduates of osteopathic colleges as reserve officers in the Public Health Service, relief for the Saunders Memorial Hospital in Florence, South Carolina, and the creation of a Pharmacy Corps in the United States Army.

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Correspondence concerning the construction of rural post roads and the regulation of toll bridges.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and Senator Maybank's committee working files concerning legislation brought before the Senate Committee on Immigration including immigration restrictions, the temporary stay of refugees transported to the country for the duration of the war, nationality revocation due to the desertion of military or naval forces during wartime, naturalization of non-citizens serving in the United States Military during World War II, detention of Japanese-Americans, and expenses associated...

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Correspondence and Senator Maybank's committee working files concerning the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Included are copies of the hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

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Correspondence primarily concerned with the Bankhead farm bill to exclude government benefit payments from the calculation of parity prices for price ceiling purposes. The bill was vetoed by President Roosevelt.