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Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, March 7, 1939
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    • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
    • Description: Topics include Germany, Russia, Europe, and Asia; occupation of Denmark and Norway by the Germans; Senator Burke's (NE) primary defeat.
    • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


    Mary Harvey to Ruth Fletcher\, 1883 February 22
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      • Creator: Harvey, Mary.
      • Description: Topics include details of Mary's work on their farm and house, her son Clark's work in school, her daughter Lizzie's and her son-in-law Frank's land in Beloit, Kansas,and their home, family, and material goods, her brother Cyrus Cornelius' money making schemes and how he left his wife for another woman, and her desire to visit Ruth in Vermont.
      • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
      Part of: Fletcher Family


      Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, March 18, 1940
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        • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
        • Description: Letter to wife. Topics include inauguration of President Zachary Taylor; appointment of Collamer as Postmaster General.
        • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress



        Oleomargarine: bills to repeal tax, 1949
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          • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
          • Date Created: 1949
          • Description: Topics include proposed bills to repeal tax on oleomargarine; Aiken's opposition to oleomargarine being passed off as butter; text of proposed bills to repeal tax on margarine (S. 60, S. 117, S. 254, S. 332, H.R. 2023).
          • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress


          Statement on Senate floor on Ford's Oil Import Tax
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            • Creator: Leahy, Patrick J.
            • Date Created: 1975-02-07
            • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


            Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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              • Creator: Veazey, Wheelock G., 1835-1898.
              • Date Created: 1862-07-26
              • Description: Writing from camp near Harrison's Landing Veazey expresses his opinions about the high cost of fruit and vegetables, government controlled transportation and difficulty of getting around, the poor health of Veazey‚Äôs father-in-law, and his poor impression of President Lincoln of being an "Old Betty." On the bright side, his camp and men are clean and doing well.
              • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence


              Warren R. Austin letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, September 26, 1940
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                • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
                • Description: Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include different rules and protocols in the House of Representatives and the Senate such as the one hour rule; President Tyler and the Whigs in Congress; Apportionment Bill; Locofoco (Democrat) opposition to districting of States; Tariff being considered in the House of Representatives; duty on wool; Distribution Act; rumor of a Cabinet break-up by President Tyler.
                • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress



                Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, April 15, 1935
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                  • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
                  • Description: Topics include Iowa Primary results, indications of declining popularity of President Roosevelt, and Roosevelt's continued hold over the Senate through the actions of Senator Norris (NE); Roosevelt and the upcoming elections.
                  • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress