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Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, August 5, 1940
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    • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
    • Description: Topics include newspaper coverage of Congress; length and slowness of current session.
    • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


    Dairy, 1953
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1953
      • Description: Topics include cost of feed; door-to-door delivery of milk and automatic dispensers; price support for dairy; decline in livestock values; surplus butter and the armed services; dairy industry advisory committee called by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson; oleomargarine; large purchases of butter by the Commodity Credit Corporation; President Dwight Eisenhower; Milk Producers Federation banquet; two-price system; price of Class I milk; low fat content butter; shipment of unregulated milk into the New York-New Jersey marketing area; milk surplus.
      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress


      Letter to William Collamer, January 19, 1859
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        • Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865.
        • Description: Topics include sub-committee hearings on nomination of Robert Jackson for the post of Solicitor General.
        • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


        Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, January 10, 1938
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          • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
          • Description: Topics include bill for regulation of transportation; Railroad Reorganization; Court Bill.
          • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


          Dairy -- H.R. 12030 Correspondence, 1960
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            • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
            • Date Created: 1960
            • Description: Topics include statement of the National Milk Producers Federation before the House Ways and Means Committee at a cooperative tax hearing; text of House bill 12030 for an appropriation for the special milk program for children; quotas on imported cheeses; analysis of quota plans to restrict farm marketing of milk and cream; milk prices; S. 3897, a bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for judicial review of orders of the Secretary of Agriculture.
            • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress


            Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, August 13, 1940
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              • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
              • Description: Letter to son. Topics include date of adjournment; appropriations for different departments of government; federal revenue.
              • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


              Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, August 27, 1940
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                • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
                • Description: Letter to wife. Topics include bill for encouragement of domestic manufactures.
                • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


                Warren R. Austin letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 18, 1940
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                  • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
                  • Description: Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include Tariff Bill passed by Senate and sent to the President; efforts by Locofocos (Democrats) to oppose the Tariff Bill; Senate split on Tariff bill with twenty-five Whigs for, twenty Locofocos (Democrats) against, and five southern Whigs against, but Senator John Henderson (MS) was absent and Senator John Berrien (GA) did not vote; discussions about whether President Tyler will sign the bill what will happen if it is vetoed; treaty between Great Britain and the United States; Government band which plays in front of the Capitol every Thursday and at the Presidents on Saturday evenings; theatre performances; public gardens; Locofocos (Democrats) in Vermont.
                  • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


                  Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, April 4, 1939
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                    • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
                    • Description: Topics include radio address by Austin, "Munitions, Men and Morale"; dedication of Howard Chandler Christy's mural of the signing of the Constitution in the Capitol.
                    • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


                    Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, September 23 - December 21, 1864
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                      • Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
                      • Date Created: 1864
                      • Description: The Italian ministry dissolves and reforms in this diary amid countrywide protests against the September Convention treaty and debates over proposed bills for the suppression of monasteries and tax hikes on salt and other goods. The Marshes acquire the lower floors of the Casa d’Angennes during this period and the offices of the American Legation move into those rooms shortly after. Caroline Crane Marsh continues collecting items for the U.S. Sanitary Fairs and has an audience with the Duchess of Genoa. Topics in this diary include Italian law enforcement, slavery in the United States, differences between Turin and Florence, Italian art, Italian grief and funerary practices, convents, Italian medicine, relations between the Italian social classes, crime in Italy, political relations between Italy, France, and Rome; Catholicism, marriage, traveling and tourism in Russia, the Greek War of Independence, and the royal family of Savoy.
                      • Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries
                      Part of: Diaries