Box 73

A letter from Senator John H. Overton requesting support for legislation to provide that Standard Time should be used at all places of business engaged in interstate commerce and by all Federal Government officials.

Correspondence concerning the extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for another three years. The act provided for the negotiation of tariff agreements between the United States and separate nations. The act served as an institutional reform intended to authorize the president to negotiate with foreign nations to reduce tariffs in return for reciprocal reductions in tariffs in the United States. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

Correspondence concerning the "Mundt-Nixon Bill" which would require the registration of all Communist organizations in the United States.