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Box 135

 Container

Contains 36 Results:

"Robinson-Patman Act", 1953

 File — Box: 135, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 540) to amend the Robinson-Patman Act which worked to prevent unfair price discrimination in an effort to protect small and independent businesses.

Dates: 1953

"Rubber", 1953

 File — Box: 135, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 2047) to amend the Rubber Act of 1948, as amended to provide for the sale of Government-owned rubber-producing facilities. Senator Maybank opposed the legislation on the basis that a sufficient number of hearings were not held before making the decision.

Dates: 1953

"Scholarship-nurses", 1953

 File — Box: 135, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

A letter from Representative Frances P. Bolton containing a copy of and statement on legislation (H.R. 3850) to provide a program of grants and scholarships for education in the field of nursing.

Dates: 1953

"Selective service", 1953

 File — Box: 135, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning the draft law and the need for fewer deferments and longer terms of service.

Dates: 1953

"Small businesses", 1953

 File — Box: 135, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning small business legislation including the creation of a new Small Business Administration, the Robinson-Patman Act which worked to prevent unfair price discrimination to protect small and independent businesses, and a Joint Resolution to target communist cells in manufacturing plants. Correspondents include Senator A. Willis Robertson of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Dates: 1953

"Social security", 1953

 File — Box: 135, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning social security legislation including compulsory social security insurance, lowering the age for social security benefits, the loss of social security benefits for persons receiving additional earnings, universal social security coverage, abolition of the Federal social security system and transfer to the States, social security and clergy, the inclusion of farm owners under social security, the removal of social security benefits for persons participating in...
Dates: 1953