Papers, 1941-1956.

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Papers, 1941-1956.

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Papers reflect his political career in Washington, including his service on the War Investigating Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, and consist of correspondence, reports, legislation, special studies, memoranda, speeches, press releases, radio scripts, clippings, and other printed material. Subjects include his political campaigns, libel suits, appropriations, Civil Aeronautics Board, civil rights, Civil Service, communism, displaced persons, education, equal rights, Germany and its postwar problems, health, housing, Jewish affairs, labor, lobbies, postal service, rent control, social security, tariffs, taxes, tidelands oil, veterans, West Virginia state agencies, West Virginia affairs, coal mine problems, and immigration and naturalization.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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United States. War Investigating Committee.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary

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United States. Civil Aeronautics Board

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On November 3, 1958 the six airlines filed an agreement with the Civil Aeronautics Board which provided for certain mutual assistance in the event of a strike against one of them. The carriers still operating would make monthly payments of the increased revenues (less added direct expense) to the carrier which was shut down. Formal objections to the agreement were filed by the International Association of Machinists, the Brotherhood of Hallway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and ...

United States Civil Service Commission

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Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956

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Kilgore, a judge in Raleigh County, West Virginia, was elected to the United States Senate in 1940, serving there until his death in 1956. He was a member of the War Investigating Committee and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. From the description of Papers, 1941-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155523605 ...