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Box 4

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Contains 18 Results:

1956 Campaign

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes: Photocopies of state and national newspaper articles; Copy of letter from Eisenhower to Revercomb; Original October 1956 Harper’s Magazine; Timeline titled “Where was Revercomb during his 1956 campaign”; Copy of Charleston Daily Mail “Voter’s Guide”

1942-1948 Speeches

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes: Copy of bill Revercomb introduced on anti-lynching; Transcript of Radio Talk to West Virginia no 21, September 17, 1947; Copies of various other bills; “Subversive Agents via United Nations” speech 13 August 1948; Statement on establishing a Negro veterans hospital at Booker T Washington’s birthplace; Various undated speeches detailing threat of communists infiltrating the US

Civil Rights Bill

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes: Revercomb’s statement on right of trial by jury; Letter from Eisenhower disagreeing with Revercomb’s position on jury system; Copy of “Senate Rules and the Civil Rights Bill: A Case Study” by Howard Shuman; Miscellaneous newspaper articles

Displaced Persons

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes: Letter from The Catholic Review; Senate votes on key issues; Revercomb’s speeches on subversives within the US and its government; 1946 Report to The Senate Republican Steering Committee on The Possible Admission of Displaced Persons to the United States; “Displaced Persons in Europe” Report of the Committee on the Judiciary: A Resolution to make an investigation of the immigration system; Manuscript of chapter with handwritten notes

Miscellaneous

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes: Original senate gallery tickets for 1956 and 1957 for Stephen Jones (includes 1 signed by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson); Copies of newspaper articles covering party politics; “The Threat to America” propaganda against “Communists and other subversives”; Documents related to Republican National Committee includes Organizational analysis and vote history; Copy of Joseph Raymond McCarthy’s Memorial Services

Miscellaneous Publications

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes: Republican Review of the First Session, 85th Congress; Current Biography Who’s News and Why June 1958; Infant Care 1955; Meade Alcorn and the 1958 Election by Philip S Wilder, Jr.; Policy Review Summer 1989 (global warming, NRA and international politics); Policy Review Fall 1989 (Republicans in Congress, Central America policies)