Dates: 1946-1953
Under Secretary of the Navy, 1947-1949
See also W. John Kenney oral history.
Size: 3 linear feet.
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APPOINTMENTS FILE, 1949
Box 1
- December-March, 1949
CHRONOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE FILE, 1947-1953
- March 1947
- April-June 1947
Box 2
- October-December 1947
- January-March 1948
- October-December 1948
Box 3
- January-March 1949
- April-November 1949
- January-July 1950
Box 4
- August-September 1950
- October-December 1950
- January-June 1951
Box 5
- July-December 1951
- January-December 1953
- Official Correspondence, 1947
SPEECH FILE, 1946-1949
Box 6
- 1946: May 14: S. 2044 - (Unification of the Armed Forces)
- 1946: May 28: H.R. 6448
- 1946: May 28: H.R. 5911 - (Research and development - National Defense)
- 1946: June 1: Dedication of Harkness Hall, Rochester, New York
- 1946: June 5: H.R. 5940 - (Government-owned patents)
- 1946: June 12: S. 1717 - (development and control of atomic energy)
- 1946: June 21: Air research demonstration - Schenectady, New York
- 1946: July 2: S. 2044 - (Unification of the Armed Forces)
- 1946: July 8: U.S. Navy Intelligence School, Anacostia, D.C.
- 1946: July 11: War-Navy Committee, U.S. Armed Forces Institute, Pentagon
- 1946: October 2: USO campaign, New York
- 1946: October 18: Texas Mid-Continent Oil-Gas Association, Houston, Texas
- 1946: October 27: Commissioning of U.S.S. Toledo, Philadelphia
- 1947: January 16: President's Advisory Board on Universal Military Training
- 1947: January 22: Organization (Navy)
- 1947: January 22: S. 70 (portal to portal pay problems)
- 1947: February 3: H.R. 1366 (procurement)
- 1947: February 23: Senate Committee on Expenditures re San Diego aqueduct
- 1947: March 13: House sub-commitee (ships, stores and supplies); U.S.S. Drum commissioned as a training ship - U.S.
- 1947: March 16: Naval gun factory
- 1947: March 26: Ships' Service Stores
- 1947: May 6: Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy, Washington, D.C. D. 758 (armed forces merger)
- 1947: May 15: Victory Medals
- 1947: May 22: H.R. 3471 (Leasing of real-personal property)
- 1947: May 23: Graduation exercises (Navy Supply Corps School - Bayonne, New Jersey)
- 1947: June 17: Surplus property
- 1947: June 24: H.R. 1366 (procurement) Senate Armed Services Committee, Supplemental statement to H.R. 1366
- 1947: July 1: H.R. 1366 (procurement) Senate Armed Services Committee
- 1947: July 11: S. 1252 (Offices of Chiefs of Naval Operations and Naval Material)
- 1947: July 12: "Our Foreign Policy" (NBC broadcast, Washington, D.C.)
- 1947: July 19: H.R. 3471 (leasing properties)
- 1947: August 15: Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, August 15, 1947, Glen Cove, Long Island
- 1947: October 21: Renegotiation - statement by Kenneth H. Rockey, Chairman, of Navy Price Adjustment Board to the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program
- 1947: October 22: Community Chest, Departmental Auditorium
- 1947: October 23: Community Chest (WWDC broadcast)
- 1947: October 27: Arabian Oil Pipe Line
- 1947: November 14: Tankers (Senate Committee to Study Problems of Small Business)
- 1947: December 5: Honorary Consultants (Office of the Surgeon General of the Navy)
- 1947: December 9: Petroleum supplies (statement of the Secretary of the Navy before the Sub-committee of Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committe)
- 1948: March 31: Graduating class at Pensacola, Florida
- 1948: April 5: S. 2285 (Wages of "blue collar" employees)
- 1948: April 17: Women's Democratic Club, Norfolk, Virginia
- 1948: April 30: Study problems of American small business (Sen. Wherry Committee)
- 1948: May 5: H.R. 6098 (Surplus industrial facilities)
- 1948: May 16: Fiftieth anniversary of Admiral Dewey's victory at Manila Bay, Montpelier, Vermont
- 1948: June 11: H.R. 6772 (appropriations)
- 1948: June 17: Senate Sub-committee on Appropriations
- 1948: September 14: Navy Industrial Association, San Francisco
- 1948: October 22: American Standards Association, New York
- 1948: October 27: Navy Day speech, Washington, D.C.
- 1948: November 12: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York City
- 1949: February 8: Safety Conference dinner, Washington, D.C.
- 1949: February 12: Navy Hour broadcast
- 1949: February 24: Hampton Roads Maritime Association, Norfolk, Virginia
- 1949: March 18: Armed Forces Medical Advisory Committee, Pentagon, Building; H.R. 2498 Code of Military Justice
TELEPHONE CONVERSATION FILE, 1948-1949
Box 7
- November-December 1948
- January-February 1949
- March-April 1949