Box 97

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Support for H.R.3825, repeal of the excise tax on various items.

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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Helen Gahagan Douglas Proposed Cost of Living Tax Cut With Re-Enactment of Excess Profits Tax.

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McDonough: "To repeal the retailer's excise tax on toilet preparations and on luggage, purses, and similar articles." 81st Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Ways and Means.

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McDonough: "To repeal the tax on certain telegraph, telephone, radio, and cable facilities." 81st Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Ways and Means.

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McDonough: "To repeal the tax on transportation of persons." 81st Congress, 1st Session

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Comparison of Telephone, Telegraph and Transportation Rates For The West With Rates For Other Parts of the Country

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Helen Gahagan Douglas introducing a bill for the Removal of excise taxes on the transportation of persons and property telephone calls and telegrams.

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A. G. Mezerik: "`War' Taxes Cut Employment, Sales; Congress Should Repeal Them,-Now."

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Douglas: "To repeal the excise tax on transportation of property, transportation of persons, and long-distance telephone and telegraph." 81st Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Ways and Means.