Inventory of the Senator Burnet R. Maybank Papers, 1914-1973

Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including the Cotton Insurance Law, Price Control Bill, Farm Credit Act, cooperative agricultural extension work, and Farm Relief Bill.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 4530) for the continued support of 4-H clubs.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 860) to prohibit the sale of alcohol at military camps and reservations.

Correspondence concerning armed services legislation including unification of the Army and Navy Air Forces and increased leave and free transportation for soldiers.

Correspondence concerning a resolution to create a memorial day for Edmund Burke in honor of his support for American Colonists during the American Revolution.

Correspondence concerning legislation to create a postage stamp for cancer awareness.

Correspondence concerning legislation to pay an additional $4,500 to clerks working for Senators and members of Congress.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 6128) to provide three-hundred million additional dollars for defense housing through public buildings, Administration and/or War and Navy Departments.

A letter expressing opposition to the drafting of teenage boys.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 1057) to establish a system of longevity pay for postal employees.

A telegram urging for the override of President Roosevelt's veto of the Defense Highway Bill.

Correspondence concerning legislation to outlaw labor strikes in defense industries. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

Correspondence that expresses concern for railroad strikes. Emphasis is especially placed on their effect on national defense.

Correspondence concerned with national defense including draft extension and a pay increase for military personnel.

A letter concerning legislation to consolidate the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the National Youth Administration (NYA) into a single entity under the Federal Security Agency called the Civilian Youth Administration (CYA).

Correspondence concerning legislation to repeal the Neutrality Acts.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 5984) for the relief of Solomon Brown, a black man who lost his arm in the federal penitentiary.

Correspondence primarily concerning the Emergency Price Control Act.

Correspondence primarily concerning the price of cotton seed oil.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1355) to authorize the improvement of navigation facilities on the Santee, Congaree, and Cooper Rivers in the counties of Berkeley, Clarendon, Calhoun, Richland, and Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Correspondence concerning legislation authorizing the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway so that ocean going vessels could use it as a waterway into the Great Lakes.

Correspondence concerned with amendments to the Social Security Act to extend coverage.

Correspondence concerning tax legislation including the poll tax, excise, telephone, jewelers, and the Federal Revenue Act.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 4) to provide additional assistance to veterans and their widows and orphans.

Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry including farm relief in response to a drought during the previous year, price parity for cotton, the Farm Credit Administration, appropriations for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the Commodity Credit Corporation, research funding for land grant colleges, the distribution of legume seed, and the net weight bill. Correspondents include J. Strom Thurmond, Senator John H. Bankhead (Senate Committee on Appropriations), and Dr. R. F. Poole (President of Clemson Agricultural College).

Correspondence concerning legislation to provide a $100 funeral allowance for persons killed during air raid attacks in the United States and accidents during official black-outs. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

Correspondence concerning legislation, introduced by Senator Maybank, to bar alien employees from working on defense projects.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 860) to prohibit the sale of alcohol at military camps and reservations. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

Telegrams concerning a reduction in appropriations for the Children's Bureau which administers the child labor provisions of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

A letter concerning appropriations to include ten airports for South Carolina.

A letter and telegram concerning the abolition of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps.

Three copies of the supplemental estimate for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943.

Two letters concerning appropriations for the Federal Security Agency (FSA) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943.

A response from Senator John A. Danaher of Connecticut to a South Carolinia constituent regarding the Independent Offices Appropriations Bill.

A copy of a report for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943.

Legislation, correspondence, and meeting memos concerning appropriation bills for various government departments and programs including the Executive Office, National Defense, Navy Department, deficiency appropriations, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Legislative Branch, tobacco insect work, Washington D.C. Housing, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Farm Security Administration.

Correspondence debating the place of a work program like the National Youth Administration (NYA) during wartime and its use on defense projects.

Correspondence primarily concerned with the need for price ceilings to combat inflation.

Correspondence primarily concerned with the elimination of a provision for loans to students beyond the second collegiate year and working under accelerated programs in fields directly connected with national defense.

Correspondence debating the place of a work program like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during wartime.

Correspondence concerning military legislation including appropriations, compulsory insurance for soldiers, and the renegotiation of war contracts.

Includes material primarily concerned with legislation (S. 1603) to permit banks to open branches in military reservations and navy yards and legislation (S.2540) to authorize the creation of the War Distress Finance Corporation to deal with business distress and financial hardship caused by the war.

Copies of legislation introduced by Senator Maybank in 1942.

Correspondence only listing bill numbers including Senate Bill 1481 and House Bill 7243.

A letter requesting support for a resolution to create a memorial day for Edmund Burke in honor of his support for American Colonists during the American Revolution.

Telegrams concerning legislation (S. 2620) to provide benefits and relief for United States civilians that have been injured, killed, or captured as a result of the war.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 3847) to setup a pension plan for congressmen.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 6128) to provide three-hundred million additional dollars for defense housing through public buildings, Administration and/or War and Navy Departments.

Correspondence written in opposition to draft deferments and opposition to the drafting of teenage boys.

Correspondence primarily concerning legislation (S. 1313) to provide federal aid to education.

Correspondence primarily concerned with legislation providing additional compensation for federal employees.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 2629) to provide for additional funds to combat forest fires.

Correspondence concerning immigration legislation including naturalization eligibility, and the detention of persons who are citizens or subjects of, or owe allegiance to, any nation or country at war with the United States. Also included is a report of proceedings on a hearing held before a subcommittee of the Committee on Immigration. Correspondents include Senators Richard B. Russell (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration) and Tom Stewart (Senate Committee on Immigration).

Correspondence primarily concerned with the calculation of parity prices for price ceiling purposes. Included is a letter from Senator Maybank to President Roosevelt.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S.2015 and H.R. 5949) regulating federal jurisdiction to remove trade barriers involving sizes and weights of motor vehicles.

A letter concerning legislation to permit the revocation of the rights of citizenship to Americans of Japanese parentage.

Correspondence concerning judiciary legislation including a provision for official court stenographers in the federal courts and universal finger printing.

Correspondence concerned with labor legislation including strikes (see also Labor-Strikes) and repeal of the 40 hour work week.

Correspondence concerning legislation to outlaw labor strikes in defense industries. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

Correspondence concerning legislation to establish a Pharmacy and Dental Corps in the armed services. As well as military status for dieticians serving the armed forces.

Correspondence and literature detailing Ordnance Department activities.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 5504) for the relief of H.J. Abney who was shot and wounded by a military policeman in Columbia, South Carolina, on February 22, 1941.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 5714) for the relief of William H. Cogswell, Jr., of Charleston, South Carolina, for personal injuries sustained by a collision involving a National Park Service truck operated by an enrollee of the Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.).

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 5468) for the relief of J. Furman Richardson, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, for damages sustained to a tract of land leased to the United States for an emergency landing field on November 1, 1927.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1953) for the relief of James B. Shuler, of McClellanville, South Carolina, for personal injury, including funeral expenses for his wife and son and medical and hospital expenses for himself and his family suffered due to a collision with a truck operated by an employee of the Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.).

A letter concerning a claim for James E. Taylor.

Correspondence concerned with postal legislation including free delivery to rural persons on holidays, an increase in postmaster pay, and the merger of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies.

Correspondence primarily concerning amendments to the Emergency Price Control Act.

Correspondence primarily concerned with the price control placed on the sale of new and used automobiles and trucks.

A letter requesting support for legislation (H.R. 6911) to prevent the use of the brand "Red Cross" as applied to merchandise for commercial purposes.

Material related to legislation (S. 2853) passed to control the rapid inflation of rent in the District of Columbia.

Correspondence concerning rivers and harbors legislation including the Santee River, Beaver-Mahoning Canal, St. Lawrence Seaway, Omnibus Rivers and Harbors Bill, an anchorage and mooring basin for an operating base for cruisers, destroyers, and submarines in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and the Florida Ship Canal.

Correspondence concerning legislation proposed to increase the pay and benefits of military personnel.

Correspondence concerning legislation related to small business including anti-trust laws and de-regulation.

Correspondence primarily concerned with the need for the federalization of South Carolina's unemployment compensation and to freeze social security rates.

Correspondence concerned with opposition from the Baptist Church, to the Social Security Acts, due to the matter of separation of church and state.

A substantial amount of correspondence concerning tax legislation including automobile taxes, oleomargarine, double taxation, withholding tax, tax on eleemosynary hospitals and educational institutions, excess profits, life insurance deductions, Americans living abroad, utility franchises, exemption of mutual church insurance companies from taxation, liquor tax, mutual insurance companies, and victory tax.

Correspondence concerning legislation to increase the tax on gasoline.

Correspondence concerning income tax legislation.

Correspondence concerning legislation to place a tax on municipal bonds.

Correspondence concerning legislation to tax pension funds. Correspondents are especially concerned with the effect this would have on employees of the Southern Bell Telephone Company of South Carolina.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1280) to abolish the use of poll taxes. Senator Maybank opposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax but he stated that he had no problem with South Carolina voluntarily voting to repeal the poll tax.

Correspondence concerning federal sales tax legislation.

Correspondence concerning social security tax rates.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.B. 4) providing for assistance to veterans and their widows and orphans.

Correspondence primarily concerning government advertisements in newspapers for the sale of war bonds.

Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including price parity, deferment for farmers, cotton acreage, production credit, the Farm Security Administration, extension of 4-H clubs, and controls on timber cut on private lands. Correspondents include Senators Clyde M. Reed and John H. Bankhead.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 860) to prohibit the sale of alcohol at military camps and reservations and legislation to bring back prohibition for the duration of the war.

Correspondence concerning agricultural appropriations including the training of farm labor, retention of the Cotton Examiners Board, the Soil Conservation Service, the Natural Resources Planning Board, seed and fertilizer, rural electrification, crop insurance, and forest fire control.

A letter concerning an investigation of the Board of Economic Warfare.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Children's Bureau which administers the child labor provisions of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Civilian War Services Branch of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD).

A letter concerning the removal of $2 million from the Customs Service appropriations budget.

A letter concerning legislation to address the exhaustion of regular appropriations for United States Commissioners.

Correspondence concerning education appropriations including legislation (S. 875) for the high school victory corps and aid for specialized training of enlisted men.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Bureau of Employment Security.

A letter from Senator Harry F. Byrd containing two reports from the Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures on Federal Ownership of Real Estate and Federal Personnel.

Correspondence concerning the elimination of funds for the Farm Security Administration.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Federal Security Agency.

Correspondence concerning the elimination of funds for the Field Service of the Department of Commerce

A letter from Senator Elmer Thomas of the Senate Committee on Appropriations concerning an appropriations committee inspection of the construction of the Florida Barge Canal to complete the Intracoastal Waterway System from Texas to New Jersey.

Correspondence concerning a variety of forestry related appropriations. Including additional funding to combat forest fires.

Correspondence concerning general appropriations for the fiscal year and a general budget listing from the Committee on Appropriations of the budget for the fiscal year of 1944.

Correspondence concerning appropriations affecting Home Owners' Loan Corporation mortgages.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 3598) to prohibit the War and Navy Departments from engaging in wholesale insignia and military supplies in competition with civilian owned army supply stores.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for labor including a physician shortage.

Correspondence and reports from the Maritime Commission.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Independent Offices Bill and its effects on funding for the National Resources Planning Board.

Correspondence debating the place of a work program like the National Youth Administration (NYA) during wartime and its use on defense projects.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 983) to provide for the training of nurses for the armed forces, governmental and civilian hospitals, health agencies, and war industries, through grants to institutions providing such training.

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.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for additional funds given to the wives and infants of enlisted men.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Tariff Commission.

A letter from Senator Theodore Francis Green notifying Senator Maybank of a meeting concerning the question of permitting Senators to make official long distance telephone calls at government expense.

A letter requesting support for appropriations for the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for projects funded by the War Department including a number of improvements to areas in Charleston and the rest of South Carolina.

Correspondence concerning banking and currency legislation including an amendment to the National Housing Act, an amendment to the Federal Reserve Act to relieve from deposit insurance assessment and remove reserve requirements from war loan accounts of the Federal Government established in banks throughout the country, the authorization for the use of war purposes of silver held or owned by the United States, the establishment of an additional coinage mint of the United States, the return to policyholders of unused premiums following the cessation of war hostilities, and the creation of a Federal Fidelity Trust Fund. Also included is the legislative calendar for the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. Correspondents include Senator Robert Wagner (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency) and Senator Francis Maloney (Senate Committee on Banking and Currency).

Correspondence only listing bill numbers including Senate Bill 1016 and 1152.

Copies of legislation introduced by Senator Maybank in 1943.

Correspondence concerning legislation to provide for the payment of members of the Army Air Corps Enlisted Reserve who are not on active duty, and who are undergoing training under the supervision of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) War Training Service.

A letter concerning legislation to amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 in which the correspondent felt the amendment would violate states' rights and a letter containing two editorials concerning renegotiation and production.

Bills, reports, and summaries from the Board of Investigation and Research concerning international freight rates and the Transportation Act of 1940.

Correspondence concerning a revision of how freight rates are calculated.

Correspondence and material related to Senator Maybank's committee assignments including a listing of Senate Committee assignments, a letter confirming Senator Maybank's appointment to a number of subcommittees of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, and the nomination of Ernest L. Marbury to be the deputy regional manpower director in the Alabama State office of the War Manpower Commission. Senator Maybank served on the Senate Appropriations, Banking and Currency, Immigration, Mines and Mining, Printing, and Rules Committees.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 2466) to expedite the payment of compensation to persons having any right, title, or interest in property taken by the United States for naval uses during the war and legislation (S. 975) to provide for speedy and summary notice in proceedings to condemn property for war purposes, and to accelerate the distribution of deposits and awards to persons entitled to them.

Correspondence concerning draft legislation including deferments for agricultural workers, compulsory military training, and the drafting women for war work. Senator Maybank stated that he was opposed to group deferments and felt that it should be left up to the local Selective Service Boards according to the merit of individuals.

Correspondence concerning education legislation including teacher's salaries, vocational rehabilitation, and the Federal Aid to Education Bill.

A letter from John M. Rivers, President of WCSC, requesting support for a resolution calling on the FCC to suspend the network rules and regulations until Congress is able to act.

Correspondence concerning federal employee legislation including the regulation of officers in the executive branch, a pay increase for postal workers, equipment maintenance for rural postal carriers, and civil service retirement.

Two letters requesting support for a resolution to send food supplies to starving children in occupied countries.

A report from Senator Pat McCarran to the Committee on the District of Columbia regarding an investigation of conditions at the Gallinger Municipal Hospital. The hospital functioned as a psychopathic ward located in Washington D.C.

Correspondence concerning health and medical legislation including the appointment of graduates of osteopathic colleges as reserve officers in the Public Health Service, relief for the Saunders Memorial Hospital in Florence, South Carolina, and the creation of a Pharmacy Corps in the United States Army.

Correspondence concerning the construction of rural post roads and the regulation of toll bridges.

Correspondence and Senator Maybank's committee working files concerning legislation brought before the Senate Committee on Immigration including immigration restrictions, the temporary stay of refugees transported to the country for the duration of the war, nationality revocation due to the desertion of military or naval forces during wartime, naturalization of non-citizens serving in the United States Military during World War II, detention of Japanese-Americans, and expenses associated with the detention of aliens entering the United States. Also included is the Legislative Calendar for the Senate Committee on Immigration. Senator Maybank served on the committee. Correspondents include Senators Rufus C. Holman, Francis Maloney, Richard B. Russell (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration), Tom Stewart, and W. Warren Barbour.

Correspondence and Senator Maybank's committee working files concerning the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Included are copies of the hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

Correspondence primarily concerned with the Bankhead farm bill to exclude government benefit payments from the calculation of parity prices for price ceiling purposes. The bill was vetoed by President Roosevelt.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1362) to affirm the believed intent of Congress that Federal Anti-Trust Laws are not applicable to insurance.

Correspondence concerning judiciary legislation including the appointment of court reporters for the United States District Courts, the appointment of an additional district judge for the district of North Dakota, the uniform marriage and divorce law, and Federal Corrections Act.

Correspondence concerned with labor legislation including the Railway Labor Act, Equal Rights Amendment, "Company Unions," and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

Correspondence concerning legislation to outlaw labor strikes in defense industries. Senator Maybank vigorously opposed John L. Lewis and strikes in the defense industry during war time.

A letter from Senator Bailey, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, in response to a letter sent by Senator Maybank concerning an investigation of the Lend-Lease Program.

Correspondence and material concerning legislation brought before the Mines and Mining Committee including an amendment to the Federal Explosives Act and the stockpiling of strategic, war essential, minerals. Senator Maybank served on the committee. Correspondents include Senators Joseph F. Guffey (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Mines and Mining) and James G. Scrugham (Senate Committee on Mines and Mining).

Two letters requesting support for legislation (S. 1031) to grant a congressional charter to the Navy Mothers Clubs of America.

Correspondence concerning legislation to provide for the recognition of the services of the civilian officials and employees engaged in and about the construction of the Panama Canal.

Correspondence concerning how the United States should make peace at the conclusion of the war.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1247) for the relief of the Bishopville Milling Company for property damages sustained when a company truck and trailer collided with a United States Army truck.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1246) for the relief of Ervin S. Finley for injuries sustained when he was struck by a Government-owned truck operated by a civilian employee of the Army Air Corps at Shaw Field, South Carolina, on September 15, 1942.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 2880) for the relief of H.G. Tooley for injuries suffered while supervising mosquito control work at the Columbia Air Base.

Correspondence concerning proposed legislation to increase postage rates.

Correspondence primarily concerned with the price control placed on the sale of new and used automobiles and trucks.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1374) to provide promotions for certain prisoners of war.

Two letters requesting support for legislation to provide for the conservation of wildlife on public lands and reservations of the United States.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 653) to protect trade and commerce against interference by violence, threats, coercion, or intimidation.

Correspondence concerning a Joint Resolution (H.J. 91) to provide an eight cent per-hour increase of wages to the non-operating employees of the railroads.

Correspondence concerning rivers and harbors legislation including the suspension for the duration of the war plus 12 months the provisions of the Public Vessel Act, improvements for the Wateree-Catawba River, Florida Ship Canal, and dredging of the Shipyard River in Charleston, South Carolina.

Three letters written in opposition to legislation (S. 702) known as the "Scientific Mobilization Act" to provide for government control over research and scientific developments.

Hearings, reports, and correspondence concerning the Senate Committee on Small Business including the production of strategic and critical minerals for the war effort. Correspondents include Senators James G. Scrugham (Senate Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business), Tom Stewart, and James E. Murray (Chairman of the Senate Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business).

Correspondence concerning legislation proposed by the South Carolina Old Age Association to provide additional funds for the elderly and legislation (S. 1161) to institute National Health Insurance.

Correspondence primarily concerning agricultural subsidies.

Correspondence concerning tax legislation including the excess profits tax, the Ruml Tax Plan, the withholding tax, taxes on religious institutions, $25,000 salary limitation, tax on soft drinks, tax on telephones, increased postage, theater admission tax, and insurance premium deductions.

Legislation (H.R. 2570) to provide for the payment of the individual income tax and the inclusion of a pay-as-you-go measure.

Correspondence concerning opposing plans for how to amend income tax.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 3687 and S. 1426) proposed by Senator Maybank to repeal the tax on oleomargarine.

Correspondence concerning the abolition of poll taxes. Senator Maybank opposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax but he had stated that he had no problem with South Carolina voluntarily voting to repeal the poll tax.

Correspondence concerning the renegotiation of war contracts.

Correspondence concerning legislation to freeze social security tax rates.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1122) to provide for the distribution of motor-vehicle tires solely by independent tire dealers.

Correspondence concerned with the renewal of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934. 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.

Correspondence concerning veterans' legislation including the provision of annuities for the wives of Consuls and General Consuls, Spanish-American War Veterans pensions, the appointment of honorably discharged veterans of the armed forces to positions in the Government service without regard to the civil-service laws, and vocational rehabilitation for disabled World War Veterans. Correspondents include Senator Robert R. Reynolds (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs).

A letter from Representative Howard W. Smith, Chairman of the House Special Committee to Investigate Executive Agencies, containing a report concerning legislation (H.R. 102) to improve the administration of justice by prescribing fair administrative procedures.

Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including the regulation of fertilizer, railroad land grants, Commodity Credit Corporation, agricultural price parity, crop damages, tobacco, the abolishment of the Emergency Crop Loan Office, surplus war machinery and equipment for the Soil Conservation Division of the Department of Agriculture, and timber.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 860) to prohibit the sale of alcohol at military camps and reservations and legislation to bring back prohibition for the duration of the war.

Correspondence primarily concerning the creation of a National Board of Fertilizer Control.

Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry appropriations including the 1945 Census of Agriculture, meat inspection, and reforestation.

Reports and statements from members of the National Archives concerning the need for additional appropriations.

A copy of legislation (S. 1642) to amend the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, to provide that the absorption of exchange and collection charges shall not be deemed the payment of interest on deposits.

Correspondence concerning a proposed appropriation to build an addition to a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland for use in vivisection experiments.

Correspondence concerning the extension of the Civilian Pilot Training Act of 1939.

Reports from the Committee for Congested Production Areas which was established to assist and supplement the work of Federal agencies, and local and State governments, in providing community facilities and services in war-congested production areas.

A letter on behalf of the employees of the Section of Customs Statistics requesting support for appropriations to allow for the collecting and compiling of foreign trade statistics and the compiling of census reports.

A letter requesting support for an increase in appropriations to provide for talking books recorders and for the maintenance and replacement of talking book machines.

Correspondence concerning continued appropriations for the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC). Originally created during wartime to combat racial discrimination in defense industries, the FEPC met strong opposition, particularly in the South, when legislation was proposed after the war to enact a permanent FEPC. Senator Maybank voted for its abolishment. Correspondents include Senator Kenneth McKellar.

Senator Maybank's correspondence and working file detailing the various divisions and activities within the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) including the Radio Intelligence Division and Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Federal Security Agency (FSA).

Correspondence concerning legislation that would require government vehicles to be clearly marked as being on "Official Business" and displaying a sign that designates the agency which operates the vehicle.

Copies of Senator Maybank's responses to a letter requesting support for the appropriation for the Government Printing Office.

A letter requesting support for the early passage of the highway bill.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and wildlife restoration.

A detailed letter from Henry P. Chandler, Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, concerning changes in the appropriation bill for the Judiciary for the fiscal year of 1945.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Department of Labor including the use of domestic wool for foreign consumption, the Working Conditions Service of the Division of Labor Standards, and housing facilities for laborers harvesting the 1944 peach crop.

Correspondence concerning the various activities of the Office of War Information (OWI) including publications, films, and the Domestic Branch.

A letter written in opposition to the abolishment of Production Credit Associations (PCA).

Correspondence concerning legislation to re-establish the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) as an agency independent of the Department of Agriculture.

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.

A letter requesting support for additional appropriations for the Smaller War Plants Corporation.

Correspondence requesting support for appropriations for the Tuberculosis Control Division of the United States Public Health Service.

A letter requesting support for the continuation of the Emergency Maternal and Infant Care program.

Two letters requesting support for legislation (H.R. 5080) to prohibit the use of the words "Army" or "Navy" in the name of mercantile establishments.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1642) introduced by Senator Maybank to amend the Federal Reserve Act to permit banks to absorb exchange charges.

Correspondence only listing bill numbers including H.R. 324, 3984, 4918, 1882, 1744, and the "Wright-Compton Bill."

Copies of legislation introduced by Senator Maybank in 1944.

Correspondence concerning committees including Senator Maybank's desire to be placed on the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and a letter requesting Senator Maybank's presence at a meeting for the Senate Committee on Mines and Mining. Correspondents include Senators Alben W. Barkley, Walter F. George, Millar E. Tydings, Kenneth McKellar, Joseph C. O'Mahoney, John H. Bankhead, and Joseph F. Guffey.

Correspondence concerning the Office of Price Administration's (O.P.A) price ceilings placed on the cotton and textiles industry. Senator Maybank introduced a resolution to investigate the reasons for the decline in cotton consumption.

Correspondence concerning the handover to the States of surplus government property after the war.

Correspondence concerning draft legislation including deferments and the National Service Act.

Correspondence concerning education legislation including teacher's salaries, vocational rehabilitation, and the Federal Aid to Education Bill.

Correspondence concerning the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.

Correspondence concerning federal employee legislation including a pay increase for postal workers, equipment maintenance for rural postal carriers, and civil service retirement.

A letter containing a report from the Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures from Senator Harry F. Byrd and a letter concerning a resolution to investigate bureaucracy introduced by Representative Louis Ludlow.

Correspondence concerning legislation to amend the G.I. Bill of Rights to enable banks in South Carolina to make loans to veterans. Correspondents include Senator Walter F. George, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.

A letter and a postcard requesting support for proposed legislation to provide aid for the feeding of children in allied nations.

Correspondence concerning health legislation including hospitalization for veterans wives and infants, control of the industrial health and hygiene activities of State Health Departments transferred to the Department of Labor, and the appointment of x-ray technicians as commissioned officers of the Army and Medical corps of the Navy.

Correspondence and reports concerning highway finances and the Postwar Federal Highway Bill.

A letter written in opposition to the continued existence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC).

Correspondence and Senator Maybank's committee working files concerning immigration legislation including the naturalization of natives of India, civilian women who lost citizenship through marriage, and the deportation of illegal immigrants and persons refusing service during the war.

Correspondence primarily concerning legislation (H.R. 3270) affecting State and Federal Regulation of insurance companies.

Correspondence primarily concerning legislation (H.R. 4184) to repeal the use of land grant rates on Government traffic.

Correspondence concerning judiciary legislation including appropriations for war agencies, an act to provide a civil government for Puerto Rico, runaway children, executive orders, the appointment of bailiffs, messengers, or court criers, revision to the system of fixing criminal punishment, and an amendment to the Judicial Code in respect to the original jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States in certain cases. Correspondents include Senator Henrik Shipstead.

Correspondence concerning labor legislation including the outlaw of labor strikes in defense industries during wartime, conscription of labor, continuation of the Federal Works Agency Community Facilities Services, scientific research, government control of disability insurance, and minimum wage rates.

A letter requesting support for legislation to establish a "Memorial to Motherhood".

A letter requesting support for a Merchant Marine Bill of Rights and two telegrams requesting support for legislation to assist the readjustment in civilian life of those in the Merchant Marine.

Correspondence concerning military legislation including compulsory military training, the Army Bandmasters Act, restrictions on the appointment of retired commissioned officers to civilian positions, mineral stockpiles, transfer of functions of marine inspection, Navy pilot training, uniforms for patrolmen and guards, commissions for pre-flight instructors, the Navy Dental Corps, Women's Air force Service Pilots (WASPs), and the commissioning of optometrists.

Correspondence from South Carolina constituents voicing their opinions on a number of pieces of legislation including President Roosevelt's "Five Point Program" and the Federal Manufacturers sales tax.

A letter requesting support for legislation to provide for relief for workers that helped construct the Panama Canal.

Correspondence concerning how the United States should make peace at the conclusion of World War II.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1247) for the relief of the Bishopville Milling Company for property damages sustained when a company truck and trailer collided with a United States Army truck.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 1755) for the relief of Broadus D. Boland for injuries sustained as the result of a collision with a United States Army truck.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the relief of Sandy Brown for injuries suffered from being hit by a United States Army truck.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 4105) for the relief of Ira Cannon for injuries sustained when he was accidentally shot by a guard at the Greenville Army Base.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 1062) for the relief of John H. Cathcart for damages to lands and crops resulting from the activities of First Army maneuvers in Fairfield County, South Carolina, in the fall of 1941.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 4458) for the relief of J. G. Power and L. D. Power for funds withheld from them by a conservation program.

Correspondence, reports, and other material concerning Senator Maybank's work on the Senate Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources. Included is a book by Wallace E. Pratt, Vice-President of the Standard Oil Company, entitled Oil in the Earth. Correspondents include Senator Francis Maloney, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources.

Correspondence primarily concerned with the price ceilings placed on commercial rents, pharmacy prices, cotton, oil, and other products.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1374) to provide promotions for certain prisoners of war.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1911) to amend the Railroad Retirement Act to provide annuities for permanently disabled railroad men who have completed fifteen years of service.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 469) to reserve to the Army and Navy sanitary and hospital authorities and the American Red Cross the use of the Red Cross name and emblem.

Correspondence concerning rivers and harbors legislation including a South Carolina River Basin Act (introduced by Senator Maybank), the Broad River project, anchorage project for Charleston, water treaty between the United States and Mexico, Santee-Congaree project, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Beacer-Mahoning River project, Buckingham Landing Dam, repair of the Charleston Navy Yard, the Edisto River, and Yadkin Pee Dee.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the relief of the Saunders Memorial Hospital in Florence, South Carolina, in compensation for losses sustained as a result of the failure of the United States Army Engineer Corps to carry out the terms of an option to lease the hospital to the United States for the duration of the war.

Correspondence concerning legislation to regulate the power of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).

Correspondence concerning small business legislation including the promotion of small business to support the war effort and facilitate their adjustment to civilian and peacetime operations. Correspondents include Senator James E. Murray, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business.

Correspondence primarily concerned with legislation (the Murray-Wagner-Dingle Bill) to institute government health insurance. Constituents on the whole vigorously opposed the measure.

Correspondence concerned with amendments to a Federal ballot for soldiers serving overseas.

Correspondence primarily concerned with subsidies provided to certain industries.

Correspondence concerning tax legislation including a tax on the transportation of food products, deductions for the blind, the requiring labor unions, farm cooperatives, and other non-profits to file financial reports, the tax on cosmetics, sales tax, an extension for filing taxes, exemptions for rural electric cooperatives, the Federal Tax Commission, and a general need for the simplification of income tax returns.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 3687 and S. 1426) proposed by Senator Maybank to repeal the tax on oleomargarine.

Correspondence concerning the abolition of poll taxes. Senator Maybank opposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax but he had stated that he had no problem with South Carolina voluntarily voting to repeal the poll tax.

Correspondence concerning regulations for the renegotiation of war contracts.

Correspondence concerning a proposed increase in social security tax rates.

Correspondence concerning Senator Maybank's participation in the effort to override the President's veto of the 1943 Tax Revenue Bill.

Correspondence concerning legislation to eliminate day-light savings time.

A letter requesting support for legislation (S. 1122) to provide for the distribution of motor-vehicle tires solely by independent tire dealers.

Two letters written in opposition to legislation (H.R. 82) to protect registered trade-marks used in such commerce from interference by state or territorial legislation.

Correspondence concerning veterans legislation including an increase in pensions, the rotation of troops, mustering out pay, government automobiles for veterans medically discharged from the armed services, pension for Spanish-American War veterans, officer's retirement, increased pensions for World War I veterans, a "Bill of Rights" for World War II veterans, and a pay increase for soldiers engaged in combat.

Correspondence concerning a proposal for permanent commission status for members of the Army Nurse Corps.

A letter requesting support for a resolution that would condemn the celebration of a German defeat until the victory over Japan was achieved.

Correspondence concerning proposed legislation to reform the practices of administrative agencies.

Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including restrictions on margarine, appropriations for further development of cooperative agricultural extension work, price parity, the distribution of forest tree nursery stock, and tobacco and cotton prices.

Correspondence concerning the National Fertilizer Policy Bill.

Correspondence concerning aviation legislation including State and Federal control of airport funding and aviation safety. Senator Maybank stated that Federal Control of airports was sufficient and was opposed to handing over that power to the States.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 2082) to prohibit the sale of alcohol at military camps and reservations and to bring back prohibition for the duration of the war.

Two letters urging support for legislation to prohibit the vivisection of dogs in the District of Columbia and a letter protesting legislation to decree wholesale compulsory inoculation against rabies anywhere in the United States.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for agriculture and forestry programs including the Agriculture Extension Service, soil building program, lime and terracing, the Forest Farmers Association Cooperation Research Program, construction of twenty additional forestry experimental stations in the South, and state parks.

Correspondence concerning the eligibility of organized church bodies to apply for loans and grants as part of the government's post-war planning and engineering program.

A list of membership on subcommittees for the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Senator Maybank served on the Department of Agriculture, Independent Offices, Legislative Branch, Treasury and Post Office Departments, and War Department subcommittees. Also included is correspondence concerning the Meade Manpower Appropriations Bill.

Contains a copy of a statement made by Paul A. Porter, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.), before the Senate Appropriations Committee concerning a restitution of funds removed from the Commission's National Defense Appropriations.

Correspondence concerning education appropriations including vocational education training programs.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for health programs including hospitals in rural areas and rapid treatment centers for venereal disease.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for labor programs including those of the War Manpower Commission, War Labor Board, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor.

Correspondence concerning the over-purchase of lime by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and its effects on a plant in Holly Hill, South Carolina.

Correspondence concerning the Lanham Act which provides federal funding to nursery schools. Senator Maybank supported the Lanham Act and voted for increased appropriations for the program.

Correspondence concerning legislation to provide for the training of nurses for the armed forces, governmental and civilian hospitals, health agencies, and war industries, through grants to institutions providing such training.

A report and letter requesting support for appropriations for the Office of War Information (OWI).

Correspondence primarily concerning appropriations for the Federal Works Agency (FWA) and its post-war projects.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Public Works Administration (PWA).

A letter concerning appropriations for guayule rubber.

Correspondence concerning legislation to establish the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) as an agency independent of the Department of Agriculture.

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.

Two letters concerning legislation to increase the amount for the right of securities to be sold without registration.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 5475) to provide a pension after 20 years' service in the Army, the same as the Navy.

Reports, memos, bills, and correspondence concerning the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate.

Correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Banking and Currency Committee including the regulation of government corporations by Congress, the Bretton Woods International Monetary Agreement, Regulation Q, government assistance in financing the college education of children of men and women enlisted in the armed forces of the United States, the establishment of a uniform system of bankruptcy, and the reduction of interest rates on bonds held by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC).

Correspondence only listing bill numbers including Senate Bills 1222 and 236 and House Bill 2232.

Copies of legislation introduced by Senator Maybank in 1945.

A letter requesting support for legislation (H.R. 311) to support the continuation of the Children's Museum of Washington. Senator Maybank supported the museum.

Correspondence concerning Senator Maybank's desire to be placed on the Military Affairs Committee and a letter from Senator Elbert D. Thomas, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, notifying Senator Maybank of his appointment as a member of a subcommittee to investigate the treatment of civilians and prisoners of war held by the Japanese in the Philippines.

Correspondence from the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress requesting Senator Maybank's input for a study to improve congressional operation.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 1587) to require each bale of cotton to be classed and tagged by the federal government. Senator Maybank opposed the legislation.

Correspondence concerning burial rights and insurance records of those killed in the armed services.

Correspondence concerning draft legislation including conscription during peacetime and amendments to the Selective Service Act.

Correspondence and reports concerning Senator Maybank's work as Chairman of the Joint Committee for the Deferment of Legislative Employees.

Correspondence concerning education legislation including teacher's salaries, vocational rehabilitation, and Federal aid to education.

Correspondence concerning employment legislation including full employment and the return of the Employment Service to the States.

Correspondence concerning the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.

Correspondence from constituents proclaiming vigorous opposition to the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC). Originally created during wartime to combat racial discrimination in defense industries, the FEPC met strong opposition, particularly in the South, when legislation was proposed to enact a permanent FEPC. Senator Maybank vigorously opposed the FEPC and voiced his opposition in several speeches.

Correspondence concerning federal employee legislation including a salary increase and civil service retirement.

Correspondence concerning postal legislation including a pay increase for postal workers and equipment maintenance for rural postal carriers.

Correspondence from Senator Harry F. Byrd concerning a report made by the Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures.

A letter concerning the National Food Allotment Bill and a petition to share surplus food with those in liberated countries.

Correspondence concerning amendments to the Public Service Health Act, establishment of a Department of National Health, dental schools, and the creation of a rural health center.

Correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Senate Committee on Immigration including legislation for the naturalization of people from India residing in the United States, naturalization of Filipinos, war-time visa and alien travel control regulations, the facilitation of admission to the United States of husbands, wives ("war brides"), and children of United States citizens that served in the armed forces, and amendments to the Nationality Act of 1940. Correspondents include Senator Richard B. Russell, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration.

Correspondence concerning legislation proposed by Senator Maybank to compel all alien refugees to return to their native countries. Senator Maybank stated that naturalization laws should be tightened rather than loosened.

A letter from the Society for the Preservation of Indian Lore written in opposition to the passage of legislation (S. 1311) because they felt it transgressed upon the rights of the Indian in the United States.

Correspondence concerning insurance legislation including State control of insurance.

Correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Interstate Commerce Committee (ICC) including the shipment of fertilizer, regulation of freight rates, airport construction, issuance of certificates of standards to corporations and trade associations engaged in commerce, the prohibition of mails or instrumentalities of interstate commerce for the sale or delivery of fabrics or materials containing explosive substances, extension of the date within which the Foreign Economics Administration regulates the exportation of commodities, and the regulation of railroads. Correspondents include Dr. R. F. Poole, President of the Clemson Agricultural College, and John M. Rivers, President of WCSC.

Correspondence requesting support for the migration of Jews to Palestine in order to establish a Jewish State.

Correspondence concerning labor legislation including minimum wage and hour law, textile workers, unemployment, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Correspondence requesting for the continued use of German prisoners for labor in the Southern States until the labor shortage ended.

Correspondence concerning legislation to outlaw labor strikes in defense industries.

Correspondence and reports from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the effects of allocating certain short-wave radio frequency bands for high frequency medical equipment such as diathermy apparatus. Also included is a letter in support of the creation of a National Neuropsychiatric Institute.

A letter requesting support for legislation (H.R. 1966) to establish a "Memorial to Motherhood."

Correspondence concerning a proposed merger of the United States Army and Navy into a single entity. Some in Charleston are opposed to the plan due to concern for the effects on the Charleston Navy Yard.

Correspondence and reports concerning meetings and legislation brought before the Senate Military Affairs Committee including the induction of nurses into the armed forces by the Selective Service, the military government of occupied Germany, American prisoners of war in Germany, war plants disposal, surplus property, reorganization of the military medical services and their coordination into civilian medicine, and strategic stockpiling. Also included is a catalog of courses for the Army Education Program for after the war produced by the European Theater of Operations Information and Education Division of the Education Branch. Correspondents include Senator Elbert D. Thomas, (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs), Senator Edwin C. Johnson (Senate Committee on Military Affairs), Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Senate Committee on Military Affairs), and Senator Sheridan Downey (Senate Committee on Military Affairs).

A substantial amount of constituent correspondence concerning military training legislation including the National War Service Act, nurse training, peace-time conscription, military training for all youth, the point system for demobilizing troops, and insufficient training for newly drafted combat soldiers.

Correspondence and reports concerning mines and mining including legislation related to magnesium and the stockpiling of strategic mineral resources.

Correspondence from South Carolina constituents voicing their opinions on a number of pieces of legislation including the reciprocal trade agreement pact, the United Nations, anti-strike legislation, price control, full employment, federal aid to education, the Federal Works Administration (FWA), atomic bomb, and peace-time conscription.

Correspondence protesting legislation to expand and create additional National Cemeteries. Constituents reasoned that there was already sufficient space because most families preferred burial in family, church, community, or privately owned plots.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1699) to create an Optometry Corps in the Medical Department of the United States Army and provide optometrists with commissions.

A letter requesting support for legislation (H.R. 84) to lower the eligibility requirement for retirement annuities for Panama Canal workers.

A letter requesting support for legislation (H.R. 97) affecting the United States patent system.

Correspondence concerning the charter for the creation of the United Nations which was supported by Senator Maybank.

A booklet on the Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations for the charter to create the United Nations and the Report to the President on the Results of the San Francisco Conference.

Three booklets covering the Senate proceedings of the charter for the creation of the United Nations covering July 10-12th, 1945.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 2186) for the relief of Mrs. Glenn T. Boylston, of North Charleston, South Carolina, for compensation on account of the death of her husband, who died as a result of injuries sustained by him when he was struck by a United States Army truck in Charleston, South Carolina, on July 2, 1944.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 1218) for the relief of F. Louis Riddle, for damages to his dairy farm when the nearby Greenville Army Air Base emptied its sewage into the nearby creek, which supplied his dairy with fresh water for his cattle.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the relief of William M. Sanders, a former lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve, for an extension of time to file an application for benefits under the World War Adjusted Compensation Act.

Two letters opposing the actions of James Caesar Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians. Petrillo was best known for banning all commercial recordings by union members from 1942-1944 to pressure record companies to give better royalty deals to musicians. One piece of correspondence refers to a letter sent by Mrs. G.F. Patton, Chairman of Legislation of the South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs.

Correspondence, reports, and hearings concerning the Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources on which Senator Maybank served.

A book titled Oil in the Earth by Wallace E. Pratt, the Vice-President of the Standard Oil Company. A symposium conducted by the Research Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists titled "Possible Future Oil Provinces of the United States and Canada" edited by A.I. Levorsen. A statement of M.G. Cheney before the Senate Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Reserves in June of 1945.

A letter from Senator Millard E. Tydings requesting Senator Maybank's presence for a report to the Senate on conditions and problems in the Philippines. It is answered by Senator Maybank's secretary informing Senator Tydlings that Maybank would be in the European theater of war with the Senate Committee on Military Affairs.

Correspondence concerning legislation affecting postal rates on books and catalogs.

Correspondence concerned with price control legislation including tent control on commercial buildings and the continuation of the present price control legislation and price ceilings.

A letter from Senator Theodore Francis Green, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, notifying Senator Maybank of a meeting to consider a communication by Osceola McKaine, of South Carolina, who desired to present charges to the Committee in connection with the election of a United States Senator from South Carolina. Senator Maybank was requested to be present and give comment. The Progressive Democratic party of South Carolina sponsored Osceola McKaine, an African-American, as a candidate for the United States Senate against Democrat Senator Olin Johnston.

A letter, from Mr. J. Albaues of Puerto Rico, regarding legislation for Puerto Rican independence.

Correspondence concerning a Joint Resolution (72) to posthumously award a special medal of honor to Ernie Pyle.

A letter requesting support for legislation (S. 1957) to prohibit interference with the broadcasting of noncommercial cultural or educational programs.

Correspondence concerning legislation amending Railroad Retirement and Unemployment Insurance Acts.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 5) known as the Community Recreation Service Act which would establish an Office of Community Recreation Services in the office of the Federal Security Administration (FSA) and turn over government controlled recreation facilities to municipalities.

Correspondence primarily concerned with the federal government's involvement with the Vatican. Particularly the presence of a representative there and violation of the separation of church and state. Also included is a letter favoring legislation to bring leaders together to pray for divine guidance.

Correspondence and reports on the proposed reorganization of government agencies. Primarily concerning the impact on the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors including the Buckingham Landing Dam, Santee-Congaree Rivers, Cooper River, Missouri River Valley Authority, Yadkin-Pee Dee River, Clarks Hill, the establishment of the Savannah Valley Authority, Savannah River, Cape Fear River, Edisto River, and pollution.

Correspondence, hearings, and reports concerning a water treaty between the United States and Mexico for the division of waters of the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers.

Correspondence concerning an amendment to the Federal-Air Road Act to authorize appropriations for the post-war construction of highways and bridges, to eliminate hazards at railroad-grade crossings, and to provide for the immediate preparation of plans.

A letter from Senator Pat McCarran of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding two pieces of legislation that would be considered by the Senate Rules Committee on which Senator Maybank served. S. Res. 40 would adjust the rules of the Senate to empower standing committees of the Senate to make their own investigations and conduct studies without the need of special or select committees and S. Res. 41 would provide estimated expenses for the standing committees.

Correspondence from college and university faculty in support of legislation to provide federal aid for scientific research and education.

A letter from Senator Charles O. Andrews, Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, requesting that Senator Maybank, as a member of the Committee on Audit and Control, support funding of an investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee on the activities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Post Office Department and their interference with the Municipal Bankruptcy Act or undermining the credit of taxing units in Florida.

A letter from a constituent asking for Senator Maybank's support of small business legislation and a letter from Senator James E. Murray, Chairman of the Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business, inviting Senator Maybank to be present for a public hearing concerning the post-war expansion and development of the construction industry.

Correspondence primarily concerned with legislation (the Murray-Wagner-Dingle Bill) to institute government health insurance. Constituents on the whole vigorously opposed the measure.

A letter requesting support for legislation (H.R. 2788) to extend the statute of limitation that an employee would have the right to bring action against an employer for alleged back wages due under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

A letter from Fred D. Marshall, Mayor of Columbia, requesting Senator Maybank's support of a Resolution on the Restoration of Coastwise and Inter-coastal Steamship Services.

Correspondence concerning subsidies on wheat and government subsidization of air transportation.

Correspondence concerning the handover to the States of surplus government property after the war.

Correspondence concerning assorted tax legislation including cosmetics, toiletries, jewelry, inheritance, income, and the Federal Revenue Act.

Correspondence concerning legislation to repeal the tax exemption applied to cooperatives.

Correspondence concerning legislation to increase the exemption from excess profits tax of $10,000 to $25,000 for small corporations.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the repeal of a tax placed on oleomargarine.

Correspondence concerning the abolition of poll taxes. Included is an article quoting statements made by Senator Maybank concerning his opposition to a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax and his proposal that South Carolina voluntarily repeal the poll tax.

A letter of protest from a stockholder of the Spindale Mills, company of Spindale, North Carolina. Attached is a letter from the president of the company to the Price Adjustment District Office in Greeneville, South Carolina. The letter protests wartime demands placed upon the company as part of its contract.

Correspondence concerning legislation to maintain a 1% tax rate for social security and not raise it. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

A letter from a constituent asking for support of legislation introduced by Senator Olin D. Johnston to repeal the $5.00 automobile use stamp tax.

Correspondence concerning legislation to create a Rural Telephone Administration.

Correspondence concerning daylight savings time legislation including its effects on radio networks.

Correspondence concerned with the abolishment of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934. 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.

A letter written in opposition to legislation (H.R. 1654) known as the "Lanham Trademark Bill."

Correspondence concerning legislation regulating unemployment compensation at $25 per week and the Full Employment Bill.

A letter requesting support for an amendment to the United States Constitution to permit 18 year olds the right to vote.

Correspondence concerning veterans legislation including an honorary retired list for the reserve components of the Army, National Service Life Insurance Act, Merchant Marine "Bill of Rights," promotion of officers on the retired list for duty in actual combat, the points system of demobilization, and the Veterans Employment Service.

Correspondence concerning wildlife and fish legislation including the pollution of fishing streams and Federal encroachment on the State management of wildlife lands.

Correspondence concerning the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), an important federal statute governing the way in which administrative agencies of the Federal Government propose and establish regulations. The statute also set up a procedure for the United States federal courts to directly review agency decisions.

Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including the Plant Quarantine Act, federal aid to sportsmen, the Soil Conservation Service, Production and Marketing Administration, farm parity, farm credit bill, cotton, tobacco, pulpwood, state parks, free fertilizer, food for other nations, wildlife restoration, and Angora rabbit wool.

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.

A letter from Senator Pat McCarran urging Senator Maybank to support legislation to provide for the transfer of certain federally owned aircraft, available as surplus, to State aviation authorities. The bill was brought before the Surplus Property subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, of which Senator Maybank was a member.

Correspondence concerning legislation to prohibit the sale of alcohol at military camps and reservations.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Agriculture and Forestry Department including appropriations for tree planting in Southern States, fire protection, forest service research (including a field research laboratory in South Carolina), and control of insects and pests. Also included is a detailed memorandum on amendments submitted to H.R. 5605, the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Bill, 1947, for use of the subcommittee.

Correspondence protesting legislation to permit the Civil Aeronautics Administration to do all repairs on CAA owned aircraft except those where the costs of parts not in surplus stocks would be over $100. The general feeling was that this would lead to the Federal Government harming small business.

Correspondence concerning the need to reduce federal expenditures and balance the budget.

A memorandum from Senator Joseph F. Guffey requesting Senator Maybank work to eliminate items appropriating funds for the Eagle Creek Reservoir and the Shenange Reservoir that are "pork barrel" projects for the Youngstown Sheet and Tool Company of Ohio and a letter written in opposition to appropriations of federal funds for use in the construction of hydroelectric plants.

Material listing subcommittee assignments for Senators serving on the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Senator Maybank is listed on the Department of Agriculture, Independent Offices, Legislative Branch, Treasury and Post Office, and War Department subcommittees. Also included is a letter notifying Senator Maybank that Senator McKellar appointed Senator Maybank as a member of a subcommittee to consider Senate Joint Resolution 8 which proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to fiscal matters.

A letter requesting support for legislation (S. 2430) to provide money for the printing of new books to be used by the blind and the supplying of talking book machines and records for use by the blind.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the construction of a government operated Superphosphate Plant in Mobile, Alabama. The feeling is generally opposed due to the effect it would have on privately run fertilizer businesses.

A letter concerning the need for an increase in appropriations for flood control projects allotted to Los Angeles County.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Federal Government to match funds with the state of South Carolina to erect hospitals or health centers for several counties in South Carolina. Including funds appropriated to the Medical College in Charleston. Also included is correspondence concerning general hospital construction, science education, and the creation of a National Medical Library.

Correspondence concerning increased appropriations for public libraries in South Carolina under the Public Library Demonstration Bill.

A letter from Senator James. E. Murray concerning appropriations for the Library of Congress to set up an Education Reference section in the Reference Department to acquire basic educational materials and make them widely available to Educational Institutions, Government Agencies, and members of Congress. Senator Murray requests that Senator Maybank support the appropriation when it comes before the subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations of which Senator Maybank was a member.

Correspondence concerning legislation to appropriate a loan to support British industry. Senator Maybank opposed the loan as he felt it would be primarily supporting Britain's interests over the United States.

A letter from Maude Massey Rogers, chairman of the Division of Mental Hygiene for the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, requesting Senator Maybank's support for the Mental Health Bill amending the Public Health Services law to make its provisions regarding public health, venereal disease, and cancer, also applicable to mental health.

Memorandum concerning the elimination of $22,210 for ten positions from the budget of the National Gallery of Art.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Charleston Naval Yard and legislation to provide for the liquidation of the Office of Defense Transportation.

Correspondence concerning legislation for price controls placed by the Office of Price Administration (OPA).

Correspondence concerning legislation to provide emergency appropriations to combat "Newcastle" poultry disease.

A report from the Bureau of the Budget to the Special Committee to study problems of American Small Business.

An extract from Hearings before the subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations in the House of Representatives on the Department of State Appropriation Bill for 1947 and a letter concerning the proposed organization within the Department of State of an Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs.

Correspondence concerning legislation safeguarding employment rights of United States Employment Service (USES) personnel when the USES was to be transferred from the Federal Government to State Governments.

A telegram from Dr. Ben F. Wyman, a State Health Officer on the South Carolina State Board of Health, requesting Senator Maybank support funds for venereal disease rapid treatment hospital centers.

A letter from Jess J. Bullard, Department Adjutant for the American Legion of South Carolina, requesting increased funding of the Veterans Employment Service and United States Employment Service in order to better serve returning veterans seeking employment.

Correspondence from the South Carolina Department of Game and Fish requesting an increase in appropriations to support wildlife projects including Belmont Place and those centered around the Santee-Cooper area.

Correspondence concerning armed services legislation including retirement, the annual physical examination of disabled retirees, and universal military training.

Correspondence concerning the atomic bomb including atomic bomb testing and civilian control of atomic energy.

Correspondence primarily concerning legislation (S. 1508) to authorize the use by industry of silver held by the United States.

Correspondence only listing bill numbers including House Resolution 2536, 4982, 4873, 4991, 1458, 7037, 5686, 6777, 5059, 5452, and 4779 and Senate Bill 962, 1507, 2033, 1974, and 1253.

Copies of legislation introduced by Senator Maybank in 1946.

A letter requesting support for legislation (S. 2242) to establish a memorial for Booker T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia, for his lifelong interest in industrial training. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

Correspondence from Senator Scott W. Lucas, chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control Contingent Expenses of the Senate.

Correspondence and reports concerning issues brought before the Special Committee to Investigate Senatorial Campaign Expenditures on which Senator Maybank served. Including issues concerning senatorial campaigns in Mississippi, Montana, and Tennessee.

A letter from Ashley L. Totten, President of the American Virgin Islands Civic Association, requesting support for funding to benefit natives of the American Virgin Islands as part of Senator Maybank's work on the Senate Insular Affairs Committee.

Memos and correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Committee on Military Affairs including annual physical examinations for military personnel retired due to disability, retirement benefits for military personnel, nomination of Robert McGowan Littlejohn, of South Carolina, for War Assets Administrator, actions of the 36th Division at the Rapido River in January of 1944, increased pay of military personnel and naval forces while on duty outside the continental United States or in Alaska, prohibiting payment to members of the armed services serving overseas in currency other than legal tender of the United States, and the establishment of a National Science Foundation.

Correspondence and material concerning the Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources including the Anglo-American Petroleum Treaty, the National Council of Independent Petroleum Associations, and a statement relating to the post-war disposal of government owned oil transportation facilities: pipe lines, barges, tug boats, tow boats, and tank trucks that was prepared by the Committee on Post-War Disposal of Pipe Lines, Refineries and Tanks and presented to the Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources.

A letter from the Atlantic Cotton Association requesting Senator Maybank's support for legislation to provide for agricultural research. The letter is especially interested in efforts to improve farming methods and discover new uses for cotton.

Correspondence concerning the extension of the draft. Senator Maybank supported the extension of the draft in order to bring home servicemen already stationed overseas.

Correspondence concerning education including nursery schools, vocational education, federal aid for education, and Navajo Reservation schools.

Correspondence concerning the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. Senator Maybank opposed the amendment.

Correspondence from constituents proclaiming vigorous opposition to the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC). Originally created during wartime to combat racial discrimination in defense industries, the FEPC met strong opposition, particularly in the South, when legislation was proposed to establish a permanent FEPC. Senator Maybank vigorously opposed the FEPC and voiced his opposition in several speeches.

Correspondence concerning legislation related to federal employees including a pay increase and civil service retirement.

Correspondence written in opposition to legislation (S. 1678) to require the registration of all firearms over .25 caliber.

Correspondence concerning Senate Resolution 82 to provide aid to Greece. Senator Maybank supported the resolution.

Correspondence concerning housing legislation including increased federal controls and increased insuring authorization of the Federal Housing Administration on Title 6 Loans.

Correspondence concerning immigration legislation including the recovery of American citizenship by former citizens of the United States who lost citizenship through voting in a political election in a country not at war with the United States during World War II, provisions for the entry of fiancees of armed service personnel under a visitors via non-quota status from countries whose immigration quotas are oversubscribed, for the purpose of marriage, an increase in immigration quotas for displaced persons (particularly Jews), the relief of Ann Maureen Bell, Filipino naturalization in the United States, the suspension of all immigration for a period of five years, and the authorization of admission into the United States of persons of races indigenous to India, to make them racially eligible for naturalization. Also included is the Annual Report of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States Department of Justice and Immigration and Nationality Laws and Regulations Supplement II. Senator Maybank was a member of the Senate Committee on Immigration. Correspondents include Senator J. W. Fulbright and Senator Richard B. Russell (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration).

Correspondence primarily concerned with legislation to amend the Interstate Commerce Act with respect to certain agreements between carriers.

Correspondence concerning legislation to increase the salaries of federal judges and an anti-racketeering bill.

Correspondence concerning labor legislation including labor union regulation and automotive workers for General Motors.

Correspondence requesting for the continued use of German prisoners for labor in the Southern States until the labor shortage ends.

A large volume of correspondence concerning anti-strike legislation. In the wake of World War II the largest series of strikes in United States history occurred including oil, steel, automotive, coal, electric, meatpackers, and railroad workers. Senator Maybank was not opposed to strikes in private industry but he was against any form of strikes against the United States Government. He felt if individual groups or industry could strike against the government, then members of the armed services could do so as well.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 4908) known as the "Case Bill." An Act to provide additional facilities for the mediation of labor disputes. The bill also included a variety of other aspects related to labor law. Senator Maybank supported the legislation. President Truman vetoed the bill.

Correspondence concerning wage and hour legislation including an increase in minimum wage and overtime exemptions.

A letter concerning legislation (S. 1250) to compensate claimants who suffered losses and sustained damages as the result of the campaign carried out by the Federal Government for the eradication of the Mediterranean fruit fly in the State of Florida.

Correspondence concerning a proposed merger of the United States Army and Navy into a single entity.

A Brief History of the War Minerals Relief Commission and correspondence concerning an amendment related to the War Minerals Relief Act.

Correspondence from South Carolina constituents voicing their opinions on a number of pieces of legislation including labor, the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), minimum wage, housing, price control, federal aid to education, liquor advertising, the national lottery, the school lunch program, compulsory military training, the Case Bill, loan to Great Britain, the Office of Price Administration (OPA), labor strikes, government expenditures, and veterans legislation.

A substantial volume of correspondence primarily concerning the dissolution of the Office of Price Administration (OPA).

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 3755) to establish a United States Army Corps of Optometrists.

Two letters requesting support for legislation (S.R. 219) to propose world-wide disarmament.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the relief of T. Brooks Alford, of Charleston, South Carolina, for reimbursement of extraordinary expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties as a consular officer of the Department of State in Russia during World War I, and for reimbursement of medical, hospital, and other expenses incurred by him because of disabilities resulting from injuries sustained or illness contracted in the performance of such duties. Correspondence dates back to 1943 and continues to 1946 with bills being introduced each year.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 1878) for the relief of William H. Massey, of Greenville, South Carolina, for personal injuries sustained while engaged in giving flight instruction to a naval aviation cadet at Auburn, Alabama, and while in the employ of the Alabama Air Service which was under contract with the Civil Aeronautics Administration to train navy personnel for flying.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 4832) for the relief of Stanley B. Reeves and his wife, for personal injuries, hospital bills, and property damage, suffered when they were struck, in the town of Heath Springs, South Carolina, by an Army truck driven by an employee of the Columbia, South Carolina, Army air base.

A letter concerning a claim for the relief of Charles Marvin Smith.

Correspondence concerning legislation to curb the power of James Caesar Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians. Petrillo was best known for banning all commercial recordings by union members from 1942-1944 to pressure record companies to give better royalty deals to musicians. Correspondents include John M. Rivers, the President of WCSC.

A letter from Lieutenant John V. Cathcart, requesting support for a Philippine Relief Bill and to urge a delay in independence due to the serious damage inflicted upon the country by the war. He fears that the country needs time to rebuild and stabilize before independence is to be considered.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 2252) for the relief of the Plymouth Manufacturing Company, of McColl, South Carolina, for reimbursement of moneys lost due to representatives of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps incorrectly determining that its looms were suitable for the manufacture of certain cotton cloth to be used by the military and naval forces.

Extensive correspondence concerning the removal of surplus rails from the Port of Embarkation in North Charleston by the Army Corps of Engineers for construction of an access railroad at the Clarks Hill Flood Control Project.

Correspondence concerning postal legislation primarily related to a reduction in domestic air mail postage.

Correspondence concerning the filling of postmaster in Charleston, Dalzell, Andrews, Sellars, Pelion, Kingstree, Wagner, Fort Motte, and Yonges Island, South Carolina.

Correspondence concerning the use of ice for South Carolina potato shipments.

Correspondence containing reports on South Carolina projects approved by the Federal Works Agency.

Two letters concerning the political status of Puerto Rico.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 1362) to increase the railroad retirement pension. Some constituents expressed concern that this would also lead to an increase in freight rates.

Correspondence concerning the President's Reorganization Plans including the creation of a National Housing Agency.

Correspondence concerning legislation to provide for the retirement of National Guard and Reserve members.

Correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors including the Bear River Dam, Winyah Bay Project, Shem Creek, Congaree River Navigation Project, Edisto River, Buckingham Landing Dam, National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Yadkin Pee Dee flood control, Jefferys Creek, boat basin in Beaufort, Santee-Congaree project, Cooper River improvements, Kennewick Irrigation Project, Murrell's Inlet, Savannah River Soil Conservation District, Neches River (Texas), North Concho River (Texas), St. Johns River project, and Whittier Narrows Dam (Los Angeles, CA).

Senate hearings concerning the Santee-Congaree, War Department Civil Functions Appropriations Bill 1947, and the Shipyard River.

Correspondence concerning rural electrification and the creation of transmission lines.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1850) to establish a National Science Foundation.

Correspondence primarily concerned with legislation (the Murray-Wagner-Dingle Bill) to institute government health insurance. Constituents on the whole vigorously opposed the measure.

Correspondence concerning legislation that would provide for a Federal two-year statute of limitations on suits.

Correspondence concerning surplus federal property legislation including army equipment to support the school lunch program, the designation of the State Department as the disposal agency for surplus property outside the continental United States, reclamation of land, equipment for the coast guard, and providing veterans with the highest priority for the purchase of surplus properties.

Correspondence concerning assorted tax legislation including tariffs, life insurance premiums, exemptions, oleomargarine, co-operatives, income tax, and annuities.

Correspondence concerning legislation to repeal the poll tax.

Correspondence concerning legislation to maintain a 1% tax rate for social security. Senator Maybank supported the legislation.

Correspondence concerning veterans legislation including the retirement program, veteran's income tax, veteran's unemployment compensation, subsistence allowance for veterans, terminal pay bill, veteran's re-enlistment allowance, comrades and widows pension bill for the Spanish-American War, and the merchant marine "bill of rights".

Correspondence concerning legislation to provide benefits for leave accumulated by enlisted members who served during World War II. Constituents were opposed to the payment of bonds in place of cash payment.

A letter requesting support for legislation to create a new world calendar.

Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including livestock, the creation of a game refuge in Francis Marion National Forest, the Soil Conservation Service, cotton, the management of state lands, the Plant Quarantine Act, and appropriations for the development and operation of state parks. Correspondents include Dr. R. F. Poole (President of the Clemson Agricultural College) and James G. Patton (President of the National Farmers Union).

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.

Correspondence concerning airport and aviation legislation including funding for the Army Air Reserve Unit at the Columbia Army Air Base, the inclusion of enlisted pilots for full pilot status, and government control of the control tower in Charleston, South Carolina. Also included is a report to require federal departments and agencies to operate through duly-constituted state aviation agencies and a report from Allen M. Shinn, Commander of the United States Navy Carrier Air Groups in Hampton Roads, Virginia, entitled A Discussion of Some Important Factors which make an All-Inclusive United States Air Force a Necessity to National Security.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 265) to prohibit interstate transportation of advertisements of alcoholic beverages by newspapers, radio, television, film, periodical, or other means.

Correspondence concerning reductions in appropriations for the Agriculture and Forestry Department including forest products research, Farmers Home Administration, Division of Insect Identification of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, the Soil Conservation Service, and forest surveys.

Correspondence concerning a proposed budget cut to federal appropriations for the Armed Services. Senator Maybank assured constituents that he would not "vote for one single dime cut to the Armed Forces."

Correspondence concerning appropriations for a field office in Raleigh, North Carolina, serving Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The office was engaged in exploring the mineral resources of the district and conducting research studies and experiments for commercial possibilities of those resources.

A letter requesting support for legislation (S. 554) to provide for a Census of Business.

Correspondence, from Greenville, South Carolina, requesting support for similar appropriations for foster care that match the existing funding provided for dependent children.

Two letters expressing concern for the possible dissolution of the Corps of Army Engineers including a letter from Dr. R. F. Poole, President of the Clemson Agricultural College.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for education programs including support for additional federal aid to schools, vocational rehabilitation programs, Indian education, and laboratory equipment in classrooms.

A letter from a constituent requesting support for appropriations for the manufacture of audio-books and books written in Braille for the blind.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for health related programs including automobiles for amputees, the National Mental Health Act, and the Public Health Service.

A letter written in opposition to reductions in appropriations for the Bureau of Internal Revenue and a letter requesting support for an extension of the Public Works Administration (PWA) to complete unfinished projects for that agency.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for labor programs including the Division of Labor Standards, the National Labor Relations Board, and Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor.

Correspondence concerning naval and maritime legislation including the retention of women in Naval Service, maritime and navy training appropriations, and navy procurement.

A letter concerning the reduction in appropriations for land reclamation projects in the Western United States.

Correspondence concerning cuts in appropriations to the Rural Electrification Authority (REA).

A substantial amount of correspondence, memos, and reports concerning the Committee on Armed Services, on which Senator Maybank served. Including government owned pipe lines, the Second War Powers Act, promotion of retired officers, the 30th Infantry Division investigation, navy cruise demonstration on the USS Randolph, the harbor facility at Port Hueneme (California), inspection of military establishments in the Pacific, the Officers Retirement Bill, Annapolis Airbase, unification of the armed services, fleet maneuvers, stockpiling of resources, army doctor compensation, the Navy Nurse Corps, a schedule for Senator Maybank and Representative Robert Hale to conduct a bi-partisan speaking tour for the United Nations Association, and a transcript of a radio talk given by Senator Maybank and Representative Robert Hale at Boston in August of 1943. Correspondents include Senator Chan Gurney and Admiral C.W. Nimitz.

Senator Maybank's index of legislation reported by the Senate Committee on armed services for the first session of the 80th Congress containing copies of a number of armed services bills.

Lists of Navy Department real estate projects and disposals submitted to the Armed Services Committee for approval.

Assorted clippings from a variety of South Carolina newspapers concerning military matters.

Lists of armed services members nominated for promotion referred to the Senate Committee on Armed Services of which Senator Maybank was a member. Correspondents include Senator Chan Gurney.

Reports including Government-Owned Pipe Lines, a report of the War Assets Administration to Congress, a special report from the Military Governor of Germany entitled Economic Data on Potsdam, Germany, a report written by German naval officers after the war entitled Aspects of the German Naval War, a report concerning the newly created British Central Organization for Defense that paralleled a plan for National Security proposed by the United States Navy Department, an address delivered during the graduation ceremony of the United States Naval Submarine Base in New London, Connecticut, on December 20, 1946 by Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, and a report compiled by the Office of Naval Intelligence entitled Documents Related to the Resignation of the German Commander in Chief, Navy, Grand Admiral Raeder, and to the Decommissioning of the German High Seas Fleet.

Correspondence and reports from Senator Elbert D. Thomas concerning efforts in the United Nations Security Council to promote disarmament and the control of atomic energy. In particular the differences between the United States and Soviet Union.

Correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, of which Senator Maybank was a member, including the nomination of Harley Hise, an amendment to the Federal Reserve Act, legislation to control the creation and expansion of Bank Holding Companies, and Savings and Loan bills. Senator Maybank served on the Currency and Coinage and Small Business subcommittees.

A transcript of hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency on the coinage of commemorative coins, a number of reports and correspondence concerning assorted bills to create commemorative coins, and the weight regulation of silver coins.

Correspondence concerning legislation proposing the end of the regulation of consumer credit by the Federal Reserve System.

A report to Congress on the operations of the Export-Import Bank and correspondence concerning the bank's action on credits to Italy, legislation for the reincorporation of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and the Export Insurance Act.

The annual report for 1946 from the National Capital Housing Authority, and correspondence concerning housing legislation brought before the Committee of Banking and Currency, of which Senator Maybank was a member, including the Federal Public Housing Authority, Federal Savings and Loan Association, disposition of federally-owned permanent war housing, and low income housing projects.

Correspondence primarily concerning legislation to reinstate the Reconstruction Finance Corporation's (RFC) power to purchase G.I. Loans.

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.

A letter from Dr. Louis Long, a Naturopathic Physician, requesting that Senator Maybank oppose legislation for government-operated Chemical Fertilizer plants.

A letter from a Democratic South Carolina State Senator R. M. Kennedy Jr. opposing a report of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights that advocates a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) Bill, removal of all segregation between races, an anti-poll tax law, and other provisions. In the letter, he expressed his opinion that the South was being abandoned by the Democratic party.

Correspondence concerning United States Coast Guard legislation including retirement and veterans' preference.

Correspondence urging Senator Maybank's support of a Community Property Tax Law permitting husbands and wives to divide their income for tax purposes in all states. Senator Maybank helped to introduce the legislation and spoke on the floor.

Correspondence concerning legislation to remedy the nation's copper shortage.

Correspondence concerning legislation to establish the Cowpens Battleground National Military Park introduced by Senator Maybank. Also included is a prospectus of the proposed Cowpens Battleground National Military Park.

Correspondence requesting support for the separation of the Army Dental Corps from the Medical Corps.

Correspondence concerning emergency legislation to temporarily adjust the United States immigration laws to allow for the influx of displaced persons as a result of the war. Correspondents include Governor J. Strom Thurmond.

A five page letter requesting the introduction of draft legislation in preparation for a future war with the Soviet Union.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 472) to authorize the appropriation of funds to assist the States and Territories in financing a minimum foundation education program of public elementary and secondary schools, and in reducing the inequalities of educational opportunities through public elementary and secondary schools, for the general welfare. Senator Maybank indicated that he supported funds for education but would "not vote for any law where there would be an intermingling of races."

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 1639) to amend the Employees Liability Act. The bill would amend the law relating to the liability of common carriers by rail so that suits could only be brought to court in the State in which the accident occurred.

A letter and postcard requesting support for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.

A letter from a constituent regarding newspaper clippings sent to Senator Maybank in opposition to the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) and a letter from the Beth Israel Sisterhood requesting support for the National Act Against Discrimination in Employment. Originally created during wartime to combat racial discrimination in defense industries, the FEPC met strong opposition, particularly in the South, when legislation was proposed to regulate the private sector. Senator Maybank vigorously opposed the FEPC and voiced his opposition in several speeches.

Correspondence concerning legislation to increase retirement annuities for Federal Employees.

A letter from the Retail Merchants Association of Folly Beach requesting Senator Maybank support appropriations for repairs to breaks in jetties causing the washing of areas around Folly Beach.

A letter containing a preliminary report of the Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Needs, Limits, and Sources of American Aid to Foreign Countries; Supplementary Sources from Self-Help and Other Countries.

A letter from Senator Elbert D. Thomas, of the Committee on Foreign Relations, containing a proposed disarmament agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Correspondence concerning legislation to transfer Fort Sumter from the War Department to the Interior Department as a National Monument. Senator Maybank supported this effort. Also included is a report of work accomplished at Fort Moultrie by the Civil Works Administration.

Correspondence concerning legislation to authorizes the creation of a game refuge in the Francis Marion National Forest in the State of South Carolina. The bill was proposed by Senator Maybank with the desire for the forest to serve as a refuge for wild turkeys.

A copy of the resolutions adopted at the Sectional Meeting of Southern Commissioners of Agriculture in Columbia, South Carolina, September 17-18, 1947, concerning the increase in railroad freight rates.

Correspondence concerning legislation to provide for a loan to Greece and Turkey to combat the influence of communism in those countries. Correspondents include Senator Ralph E. Flanders.

Correspondence concerning legislation and appropriations related to the Home Owners Loan Act.

Correspondence concerning legislation, introduced by Senator Maybank, for the relief of the Columbia Hospital of Richland County, South Carolina, in settlement of claims against the United States for hospital care provided to Halsford V. Sharpe. Mr. Sharpe was shot during a struggle with police and taken to the hospital for recovery and his care was given over to the Department of Justice.

Correspondence primarily concerning legislation including the National Housing Commission Bill and the National Veteran Housing Program.

Copies of the Legislative Daily Government Affairs, for December and November, a newsletter providing information on bills and actions taken in congress.

Correspondence concerning legislation to amend the existing law to provide privileges of renewing the expiring five year level premium term insurance of United States Government life insurance policies for another five years and Federal insurance placed on housing projects.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 110) to amend the Interstate Commerce Act with respect to certain agreements between carriers. Senator Maybank was opposed to the bill due to his view that it would perpetuate the unfair freight rates long suffered by the South.

Correspondence, primarily from Jewish groups in Charleston, South Carolina, concerning the United Nations' efforts to divide Palestine and the creation of a Jewish State.

A letter requesting support for legislation for the improvement of the jury system in Federal Courts.

Correspondence primarily concerning the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill. The Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947) was a law to restrict the activities and power of labor unions. Senator Maybank voted for the final passage of the Labor Bill.

Unanswered correspondence, from outside South Carolina, opposing the override of the President's veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill.

Unanswered correspondence, from outside South Carolina, supporting the override of the President's veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill.

Correspondence from constituents expressing their congratulations on Senator Maybank's vote to override the President's veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill.

Letter from South Carolina Governor, J. Strom Thurmond, concerning a resolution passed at the Governors' Conference, July 16, 1947, in Salt Lake City to support Congressional action recognizing State ownership of lands beneath navigable waters within their respective boundaries.

Correspondence concerning increased appropriations for public libraries in South Carolina.

Correspondence concerning legislation to promote the general welfare, national interest, and foreign policy of the United States by providing supplies to certain European countries on an emergency basis.

Correspondence concerning legislation to unify the Armed Forces of the United States under a single command. In particular there is concern for the elimination of the Marine Corps.

A letter from the M. H. McKnight Company requesting support for a claim for the payment of fair compensation for furnishing strategic or critical minerals and metals for the prosecution of the war and a letter from the Dixie Clay Company of Bath, South Carolina, requesting support for legislation to include china clay among the minerals subject to percentage depletion.

Correspondence concerning legislation to implement compulsory universal military training in the United States including a letter and petition by Governor J. Strom Thurmond urging Senator Maybank's support. Senator Maybank, however, opposed Universal Military Training and instead advocated more appropriations to funding the development of the Armed Services instead.

Correspondence from South Carolina constituents voicing their opinions on a number of pieces of legislation including taxation, federal aid to education, federal expenditures, old age assistance, vocational rehabilitation, Universal Military Training, displaced persons, liquor advertising, European Aid, the tax on oleomargarine, and taxing of cooperatives.

Correspondence concerning Office of Price Administration (OPA) legislation including the continuation of appropriations for the OPA and controls on lumber, rent, sugar, cotton, and paper.

A letter requesting support for legislation to provide for retired civilian workers, who helped construct the Panama Canal, previously overlooked by a bill to provide recompense for their services and a letter to Senator Chan Gurney requesting support for legislation to amend the Canal Zone Code to provide for a minimum wage.

Correspondence from South Carolina state congressmen, urging support for legislation to validate all partnerships that were formed between December 31, 1940 and January 1, 1946 and which complied with the laws of the State in which the partnership was organized.

A letter from Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, offering to provide an advanced copy of the Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations concerning peace treaties with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the relief of T. Brooks Alford, of Charleston, South Carolina, for reimbursement of extraordinary expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties as a consular officer of the Department of State in Russia during World War I, and for reimbursement of medical, hospital, and other expenses incurred by him because of disabilities resulting from injuries sustained or illness contracted in the performance of such duties.

Extended correspondence with W. S. Brown, of Greenville, South Carolina, regarding a claim for monetary compensation from the Federal Government. The correspondence covers the years 1945 to 1947.

A copy of a bill (H.R. 769) for the relief of the estate of Ruth Horton Hunter of Lancaster County, South Carolina, for settlement of claims against the United States on account of the death of Ruth Horton Hunter from injuries sustained by her when she was struck in Heath Springs, by an Army truck, driven by an employee of the Columbia, South Carolina, Army air base.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the relief of Margaret J. Johnson, who suffered the loss of her left leg due to cancer of her foot induced by an accidental injury incurred in the course of her employment at the Charleston Ordnance Depot. Mrs. Johnson filed a claim for compensation under the United States Employees Liability Act but her compensation was disallowed for the reason that no record was made of her injuries by the medical department at the Charleston Ordinance Depot (changed to the Charleston Port of Embarkation).

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 116) for the relief of Mabel Jones and Mildred Wells of Camden, South Carolina, for personal injuries and property damage sustained as a result of a collision with a United States Army truck on United States Highway 521 about eight miles south of Camden, South Carolina.