Galvin, Michael J. Papers

1933-1963

Under Secretary of Labor, 1949-1953

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Size: 10 linear feet, 11 linear inches.
Access: Open.
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Processed by: Erwin J. Mueller (1964); Tammy Kelly (2008); Jan Davis and David Clark (2016).

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

MILITARY FILE: World War II Operations - 6th Armored Division (France)

Box 1

  • Reports and Field Orders: G-2 Reports
  • Reports and Field Orders: After action reports
  • Reports and Field Orders: Field orders (1-25, June 1, 1944-April 25, 1945)
  • Reports and Field Orders: Summary of division operations

Box 2

  • Military maps (France) : Loudon-Bressuire
  • Military maps (France) : Chateauroux
  • Military maps (France) : Paris-Reims
  • Military maps (France) : Bourges
  • Military maps (France) : Nevers
  • Military maps (France) : Autun
  • Military maps (France) : Niort
  • Military maps (France) : Poitiers
  • Military maps (France) : Gueret
  • Military maps (France) : St. Avold
  • Military maps (France) : Sarreguemines
  • Military maps (France) : Trier (Germany)
  • Military maps (France) : Verdun to Neustadt (France and Germany)
  • Military maps (France) : Bourmont-Fays Billot
  • Military maps (France) : Chatellerault
  • Military maps (France) : Mons-Luxembourg
  • Military maps (France) : Caen-Paris
  • Military maps (France) : Eastern France - Nomeny
  • Military maps (France) : Eastern France - Metz
  • Military maps (France) : Road map: Chaumont - Strasbourg
  • Military maps (France) : Road map:Strasbourg - Basel
  • Military maps (France) : Road map: Verdun - Wissembourg
  • Military maps (France) : Paris - Fontainbleu
  • Military maps (France ): Meaux - Provins
  • Military maps (France) : Bar - Sur - Seine - Tonnerre
  • Military maps (France) : Pithiviers - Orleans
  • Military maps (France) : Sens - Auxerre

Box 3

  • Military maps (France) : Bar-Le-Duc - Wassy
  • Military maps (France) : Chaumont - Chatillon - Sur - Seine
  • Military maps (France) : Angers Saumur
  • Military maps (France) : Tours - Chinon
  • Military maps (France) : Blois
  • Military maps (France) : Gien
  • Military maps (France) : Cosne
  • Military maps (France) : Overlay of Apolda-Weimar-Jena occupation
  • Military maps (France) : Road map: Paris - Reims
  • Military maps (France) : Chalons-su-Marne-Troyes
  • Military maps (France) : Semur
  • Military maps (France) : Dijon
  • Military maps (France) : Cholet-La Roche-sur-Yon
MILITARY FILE: Personal Military Records
  • G-3 periodic reports (July 1944-May 1945)

Box 4

  • Orders of assignment and transfer in the USAR
  • Military awards and commendations
  • Appointment as Brig.-Gen. in the Reserve Officers Corps
  • Military correspondence re manpower and training projects
  • Military service retirement
  • Efficiency reports (U.S. Army)
  • Military qualification records
  • Medical records - U.S. Army
  • Special and general orders of assignment and promotion, 1942-1943
  • Military papers re promotion and assignment in the USAR, 1945-1953
  • Separation and reassignment from active duty - 1945
  • Special orders and memos re assignment, deferral, active duty, 1939-1941
  • Military papers regarding awards and qualifications
  • Special orders - correspondence re enlistment, promotion, assignment
  • Certificates of training, discharge and appointment in the USAR
  • Field 201 file

Box 5

  • Department of the Army 201 file
  • Military biography
  • Active duty reports - security clearance - assignments, 1958-1963
  • Travel authorization - personnel action (1955-1956)
  • Army reserve 201 file (1947-1960)
  • Orders and certificates of performance (1950-1955)
  • Assignment to command of the 94th Infantry Reserve Division (1960)
  • General orders to Commanding General, 94th Infantry Division (1962-63)
  • Sixth Armored Division Association
  • Combat history - Sixth Armored Division
  • History of the 50th Armored Infantry Battalion
  • Miscellaneous military file
MILITARY FILE: Army Reserve Activities

Box 6

  • Field 201 file - correspondence re 1961 reserve call-up
  • Information program
  • Comments of General's "ready reserve" plan
  • New York Herald Tribune clippings
  • Reserve Officers Association - miscellaneous
  • "Gripe" after President Kennedy's speech by Army reservists mobilized - 1961
  • Reserve Officer's Association - Vice Pres. for the Army
  • Walter Lippman's views on Berlin
  • Reston (Feb. 28,1962, New York Times column on U.S. reserve call-up
  • The danger of fighting - the administration
  • National Guard plan (Arthur Krock, Dec. 23, 1961)
  • Mr. Gilpatrick's (Deputy-Sec. Defense) letter to Gen. Galvin and reply
  • Gilpatrick's statements
  • Letter to the Speaker (U.S. House of Representatives)
  • Galvin reserve plan (2 folders) - miscellaneous

Box 7

  • Liquidation of 10 divisions
  • National strategy plan (submitted to President Kennedy)
  • Reserve Officers Association statement - Dec. 21, 1961
  • Lists: ROA and SRCA
  • Army ROA fall meeting - 1961
  • "National Guardsman" - copy of resolutions - 83rd general conference (NGA), 1961
  • Duplicates - Camp Drum Sentinel, 1961-62
  • Reserve Officers Association (1960)
  • National War College - Defense Strategy Seminar - 1961
  • "Plan of Action for a Voice of Liberty"
  • Army Affairs Committee of the ROA - 1961
  • SCRA (Senior Commanders Reserve Association) correspondence, 1961
  • U.S. Army "ready reserve"
  • Promotion to Maj. General (letters) - 1961
  • Programs - publications - press notices (U.S. Army reserve)
  • Background sketch on Gen. Galvin by his daughter - 1961

Box 8

  • Reserve Officers Association folder (1961-62)
  • General Galvin's plan for the USAR - 1961
  • 94th Infantry Division activities - 1960-63
  • Military correspondence - 1958-63
POLITICAL FILE: Under-Secretary of Labor
  • Under Secretary of Labor (personal)
  • Letters of appointment and resignation
  • Admission to bars and boards
  • Report by the Sec. of Labor - "Defense Manpower Activity," Feb. 8, 1951
  • "Manpower Reserves for National Defense Production"
  • Mexican - U.S. News clippings of Under Sec. Galvin's trip to Mexico, 1951 (3 folders)

Box 9

  • Newspaper coverage of "Bracero Pact," Aug. 1952
  • News clippings, 1949-54
POLITICAL FILE: National Politics
  • Letters from President Truman and other dignitaries
  • Political correspondence, 1953
  • Election statistics - 1950
  • "The Real Meaning of 1950 Elections"
  • Michael J. Galvin speech, Lancaster, Ohio - Mar. 29, 1951 [includes 2008 accretion]
  • Delaware elections - 1952
  • Tobin funeral - 1953
  • Community Chest Campaign, 1952-1953 [2008 accretion]
POLITICAL FILE: Massachusetts State Politics
  • Campaign for State Senator, Newton District, Massachusetts, 1962
  • Letters of congratulation upon election to Massachusetts state senate - 1962
  • Letters of appreciation to Senator Galvin - 1963
  • Correspondence re legislative lobbying - 1963
  • Legislative correspondence - 1961-63
  • Invitations

Box 10

  • Political campaign material
  • Massachusetts State Senate and House (organization and membership)
  • Legislation supported by Senator Galvin - 1963
  • Statements of Senator Michael J. Galvin on legislative matters
  • Legislative review and research on bills - 1963
  • Massachusetts Senate matters (1963)
  • Senate salaries: letter from John Quigley
  • Legislative pay among the 50 states
  • Statutory executive reorganization bill
  • Legal aspects of S548 (reorganization of executive)
  • S548 replies - Massachusetts Senate - 1963
  • Bills - Massachusetts State Senate - 1963

Box 11

  • Insurance legislation
  • Public works department legislation (right-of-way)
  • Relocation (eminent domain)
  • Massachusetts Fair Practice Law
  • Massachusetts Consumer Conference
  • Commission Against Discrimination
  • Unemployment and related matters
  • Legislative oversight
  • Department of Justice Legislation (civil rights), Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts Hospital Association
  • Right-of-way division
  • Executive Statutory Reorganization Bill S548
  • Felix Forte law notes
  • COD comments
  • Liberty amendment (eliminate income tax)
  • Pope's "Peace on Earth"
  • Form DF legislative brief
  • Exec. reorganization - other bills filed
  • U.S. Supreme Court decision (on R.I. censorship)
  • Absenteeism in Senate
  • Relocation assistance

Box 12

  • H1320 - 19 "freeze-ins" for Dept. of Public Works
  • Public Works Dept. (right-of-way division)
  • Apportionment in Maine
  • Newton tennis and swim center
  • Benoit and Housing Board bill
  • Memoranda from Sub-Committee on Constitutional Rights
  • Public Service Committee
  • Marinucci - Public Works Dept.
  • School nurses

Box 13

  • Governors Council (2 folders)
  • Seizure of legislative power
  • State housing board
  • City of Boston bills
  • Executive reorganization - U.S. Civil Service Commission letters
  • Reorganization Bill (S548) - M26 Summary forms
  • Massachusetts Council of Churches: questionnaire
  • Sabbatarian issue: letter
  • Legislative oversight
  • Limiting terms to limit of governor's term
  • Sabbatarian issue: temples
  • Sabbatarian: Ecumenical Council
  • Sabbatarian issue: Pilot
  • Sabbatarian - H2761 (Mrs. Koplow) - S347 (Mrs. Weinstein)
  • Sabbatarian issue - blue laws
  • Regional planning in Massachusetts
  • Consumers Council

Box 14

  • Crime Commission
  • Senator Powers racing revenue bill
  • 77,000,000 poor
  • U.C.S. - Public Policy Committee
  • Reorganization bill - authorities
  • American Jewish Congress bills
  • Reorganization of Attorney General's office (Nov. 1962)
  • Democratic Party (Mass.) - 1962
  • A6 - Civil Rights Division
  • Civil Rights (Colangelo brief)
  • State budget - 1962
  • List of legislative committees and rooms
  • Administrative Procedure Act
  • Massachusetts Turnpike Authority

Box 15

  • Section analysis of S548
  • Newton swimming pool
  • Restraint of trade bill
  • Directory of Massachusetts legislators
  • Massachusetts Legislative Association
  • Turnpike - MDL light on Charles River - 1963
  • Attack on Personnel Division by Finnegan
  • Reorganization bills filed- 1962
  • Report of Committee on Salaries - income for General Court
  • Civil Service - temporary employees
  • Search and seizure
  • Senate committee report forms
  • Aid to education
  • Reorganization Bill - summary - statutory changes suggested
  • Summary report of committee on administration and finance
  • Council for Constitutional Reform in Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts Purchasing Bureau (1961 report)
  • Boston Bar Association
  • Sabbatarian issue
  • Judiciary
  • Federal Administrative Practice Act
  • Information reports to state
  • Reorganization bill (S548) - MJ6 summary
  • Peabody inaugural address - 1963
  • Reorganization bill - press release
  • Reorganization bill - Massachusetts Taxpayers Association - organization of exec. government in Mass.
  • "Air rights" bill
  • Constitutional amendments
  • Court of the Union
  • Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations, Inc.
  • Maine constitutional law changes

Box 16

  • COD material
  • Parking at Brookline High School
  • Brookline schools
  • Silvano's labor record
  • Commission to study advisability of combining Departments of Welfare, Health, and Mental Health into a single department
  • Brookline Community Council
  • Americans for Democratic Action
  • Senate voting record (1962)
  • Legislative oversight
  • Mobilization - civil defense (speech - Boston State House, Nov. 21, 1961)
  • Charles River lands taken by turnpike
  • Sales tax
  • Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
  • Senate bills filed by Michael J. Galvin
  • Comptroller's reports
  • Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations (financing state government)

Box 17

  • Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations (reference material for studying government in Mass.)
  • Reports of Assistant Attorney General Berlin to Attorney General on civil rights
  • Reorganization amendment to state constitution - 1963 (2 folders)
  • Miscellaneous folder
  • Boston Community Fund campaign - 1939
  • Condolences received by the family of Michael J. Galvin after his death - 1963
PAMPLET FILE

Box 18

  • A Dept. of Labor
  • B Periodicals

Box 19

  • C Army Field Manuals - regulations (4 folders)
  • D 94th Inf. Division
  • E Dept. of Army pamphlets
  • F Sixth Armored Division (3 folders)

Box 20

  • G Army Reserve booklets (2 folders)
  • H The Flintock (1924)

Box 21

  • I Binders (3)
  • J Democratic Party events
  • K Special events - organizations (2 folders)
  • L Massachusetts public documents

Box 22

  • M Legal booklets
  • N U.S. Congressional documents
  • O Massachusetts Senate bills (3 folders)
  • P General Court of Massachusetts

Box 23

  • Q Misc. booklets and pamphlets
  • R Executive budget recommendations of Governor Volpe
  • S Folders with cross references
  • T Scrapbooks (over-size material): (a) Legal career and World War II
  • T Scrapbooks (over-size material): (b) Early days of law practice, 1933-41
  • T Scrapbooks (over-size material): (c) Under Sec. of Labor, 1949-53
  • T Scrapbooks (over-size material): (d) Army reserve officer and Boston community activities, 1941
  • T Scrapbooks (over-size material): (e) Campaign for the Democratic nomination for Gov. of Mass
  • T Scrapbooks (over-size material): (f) Campaign for the Democratic nomination for Congress
  • T Scrapbooks (over-size material): (g) Army reserve activities, 1953-62 (3 books)

Box 24

  • Newspaper clippings (military and political activities)

Box 25

  • Newspaper clippings (military and political activities)
  • Certificates
  • Plan for Presidential Reception, May 29, 1961
  • Scrapbook, 1932, June-1939, February
  • Scrapbook, 1932, September-1945, June
  • Scrapbook, 1940, October-1942, October
  • Scrapbook, 1945, January-1960, September
  • Scrapbook, 1949, March-1952, December
  • Scrapbook, 1953, September-1954, June
  • Scrapbook, 1954, February-1961, September
  • Scrapbook, 1956, February-1961, July
  • Scrapbook, 1961, September-November
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