Box 37

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Copies of legislation introduced by Senator Maybank in 1946.

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A letter requesting support for legislation (S. 2242) to establish a memorial for Booker T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia, for his lifelong interest in industrial training. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

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Correspondence from Senator Scott W. Lucas, chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control Contingent Expenses of the Senate.

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Correspondence and reports concerning issues brought before the Special Committee to Investigate Senatorial Campaign Expenditures on which Senator Maybank served. Including issues concerning senatorial campaigns in Mississippi, Montana, and Tennessee.

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A letter from Ashley L. Totten, President of the American Virgin Islands Civic Association, requesting support for funding to benefit natives of the American Virgin Islands as part of Senator Maybank's work on the Senate Insular Affairs Committee.

Scope and Contents Memos and correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Committee on Military Affairs including annual physical examinations for military personnel retired due to disability, retirement benefits for military personnel, nomination of Robert McGowan Littlejohn, of South Carolina, for War Assets Administrator, actions of the 36th Division at the Rapido River in January of 1944, increased pay of military personnel and naval forces while on duty outside the continental United States or...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and material concerning the Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources including the Anglo-American Petroleum Treaty, the National Council of Independent Petroleum Associations, and a statement relating to the post-war disposal of government owned oil transportation facilities: pipe lines, barges, tug boats, tow boats, and tank trucks that was prepared by the Committee on Post-War Disposal of Pipe Lines, Refineries and Tanks and presented to the Special Committee...

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A letter from the Atlantic Cotton Association requesting Senator Maybank's support for legislation to provide for agricultural research. The letter is especially interested in efforts to improve farming methods and discover new uses for cotton.

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Correspondence concerning armed services legislation including retirement, the annual physical examination of disabled retirees, and universal military training.

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Correspondence concerning the atomic bomb including atomic bomb testing and civilian control of atomic energy.