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Correspondence concerning the overproduction and falling price of cotton.

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Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1505) to reestablish the Farm Credit Administration as an independent agency. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

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Correspondence especially concerning the wording of a speech given by the Secretary of Agriculture in which he stated that farm parity should only be considered as disaster relief. Senator Maybank spoke out against this statement in the Senate.

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Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Soil Conservation Program. Senator Maybank worked to increase the appropriation.

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A letter from a South Carolina Baptist Church requesting support for legislation to prohibit the advertisement of alcohol through radio and television and the sale of alcoholic beverages in military camps and installations.

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Includes a listing of subcommittee assignments for the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. Also included is a listing of all other Senate Committee assignments and a number of memos and correspondence concerning committee assignments, hearings, and events.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry appropriations including agricultural research, the regional development program of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Agricultural Conservation Program, phony peach and mosaic peach disease control, the Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) program, the Production and Marketing Administration, cotton research, the United States Forest Service, land grant colleges, seed harvesting studies, sweet potato weevil control, Japanese...

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Correspondence concerning appropriations for a federally assisted meal program to provide low-cost or free lunches to school children. Though the program began long before, President Truman officially signed the National School Lunch Act in 1946. Senator Maybank was one of the primary sponsors of the program.

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Correspondence concerning a reduction in appropriations for the Federal Bureau of Apprenticeship of the Department of Labor.

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Correspondence concerning armed services appropriations including restrictions on the use of commissary stores, reduction in naval funds for the naval vessel shipbuilding and conversion program, the promotion of rifle range practice, and general reductions to Marine and Navy appropriations.