Box 157

Correspondence concerning the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) regulation of the lumber industry.

Correspondence concerning the appointment of the State Director of the War Manpower Commission for South Carolina.

Correspondence concerning the milk shortage and price ceilings placed by the Office of Price Administration (OPA).

Correspondence to and from E. W. Montgomery, President of E. W. Montgomery Company Inc., a cotton merchant and broker in Greenville, South Carolina, concerning a wide range of legislation and issues.

Correspondence concerning a controversy over the legality of the seizure of Montgomery Ward's business property and offices by the Roosevelt Administration due to a general strike during the war.

Correspondence concerning Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, including the construction of a Veterans Hospital, additional lock boxes at the post office, development of Myrtle Beach waterway facilities, timber within the Myrtle Beach bombing range, the acquisition of Myrtle Beach State Park land by the Army Airbase.

Correspondence concerning segregation in the Army, the Progressive Democratic Party (a political party in South Carolina created in 1944 to help galvanize blacks to register and vote), opposition to the appointment of a black man as the Recorder of Deeds in Washington D.C., the poll tax, and the appropriation for the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC).

Correspondence concerning an application for the construction of a Government Hospital in Newberry, South Carolina.

A brief of conditions pertaining to the inadequacy of veterans hospital facilities in Orangeburg, South Carolina, with special reference to the lack of facilities for black people.

Correspondence concerning requests for autographed photographs of Senator Maybank.