Box 54

Correspondence and reports concerning the Senate Banking and Currency Committee's investigation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation's (RFC) loans to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.

Correspondence concerning legislation to temporarily extend federal rent control.

Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency on rent control.

A letter from Senator Joseph R. McCarthy concerning proposed legislation to eliminate sugar rationing, and a response from James H. Marshall, Director of the Sugar Branch of the Production and Marketing Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture, and a report by the Food Industry Council Sugar Committee entitled Analysis of World Situation on Sugar and United States Supplies and Requirements.

A letter from Senator Charles W. Tobey and material concerning a study to be conducted by each standing committee concerning temporary and permanent wartime legislation with the purpose of determining if the legislation should be repealed, permitted to lapse, or made permanent.

Correspondence only listing bill numbers including H.R. 6345, S. 866, S. 332, S. 670, and S.J. 150 and H.J. 239.

Copies of legislation introduced by Senator Maybank in 1947.

Correspondence concerning the Special Committee to Investigate Senatorial Campaign Expenditures including a copy of the minutes for the December 31st meeting, issues surrounding the publication of the book, The Plot Against America, and copies of Federal Government expenditure material prepared by the staff of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments for possible use in the preparation of speeches.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for cancer research. Including a letter from South Carolina Governor J. Strom Thurmond requesting for support on behalf of the President of the National Cancer Foundation.

Correspondence concerning legislation to amend a bill to provide for the legal right of Christian Scientists to decline to number their memberships on government censuses and the creation of a permanent Census Office.