Box 84

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials documents her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of papers on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Interesting topics include the...

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H.R.1770; Economic Expansion Act of 1949. Correspondents include: James E. Murray-Montana.

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The National Committee on Unemployment and the Gathering Economic Crisis.

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Economic Expansion Act of 1949. July 18, 1949.

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This Is the `Holdridge Plan.'

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Employment and Unemployment. 81st Congress, 1st Session.

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Wright Patman: "Preliminary Redraft of Bill Assuring an Expanded and Prosperous Economy."

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Woodhouse: "Declaring the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power and setting forth ways means of achieving these objectives." 81st Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Banking and Currency.

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Equal pay for women, H.R.2438; Equal Rights Amendment

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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women. 81st Congress, 2nd Session. Committee on Judiciary.