1905-1974
Administrator, Commodity Exchange Authority, 1947-1954
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ALPAHABETICAL FILES: Alphabetical File I
Box 1
- Alfalfa Club - program, June 17, 1939
- American Bar Association - correspondence, 1961-1964
- American Farm Bureau Federation - correspondence, 1925
- American Marketing Association - correspondence, 1963
- Anderson, Clinton - correspondence with E. F. Hatton & Co., 1948
- Argyle Country Club - newsclipping, Washington Daily News, September 1, 1955
- Automobile - general, 1940-1966
- "A" miscellaneous
- Camera Exchange, Penn
- Cate, Henry and John J. Buterin - Commodity Exchange Authority, Docket No.90, 1959
- Chicago Board of Trade - correspondence, 1958
- Civil Service Commission
- Claggett, John W. - correspondence, 1957-1960
- Claims, insurance - Nationwide Insurance - correspondence, 1957
- Commodity Exchange Act, 1960
- Cosmos Club, 1938-1953
- District of Columbia tax file, 1956-1959
- Efficient Business Service, 1961
- "E" miscellaneous, 1958-1969
- Fallout Shelters, 1961
- Federal Bar Association
- Film processing - Asam Products Company, 1958
- Golf - general, 1955-1963
- Government documents
- "G" miscellaneous
- House of Representatives, U.S. - legislation re., Internal Revenue Service, 1961-1962
- Hypnosis - American Weekly, January 1, 1961
Box 2
- Jury service, 1961
- Lapham, Jack
- Longstreet, Abbott & Co., 1957-1964
- Lovre, Harold G., attorney at law - announcement
- Masonic activities
- Medical information - miscellaneous
- Mehl, Joseph M. - address, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 1935
- Mehl, Joseph M. - announcement, January 1, 1956
- Mehl coat of arms
- Miscellaneous advertisements
- "M" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1956
- National Lawyers Club, Inc., 1961-1962
- Newspaper Clippings - miscellaneous
- Notes - miscellaneous
- Onions, trading in, legislation re., 1958-1959
- Paul D. Haynes, Inc. - job ticket, December 16, 1966
- Photography
- "Privileges", legislation re trading - proposed amendment to Commodity Exchange Act
- Records - forms
- Roosevelt Hotel, Washington, D.C.
- "R" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1958-1961
- Scott, Walter R., Kansas City, Missouri Board of Trade - correspondence, 1956
- Sellars and Conner - law firm - correspondence, 1955
- Social Security - information re. Joseph M. Mehl
- Television and radio - miscellaneous
- Trip - tentative itinerary, 1959
- Typewriter - miscellaneous
- "T" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1922-1941
- Volkart Brothers Inc. - Commodity Exchange Authority Docket No. 82
- Woodson, A.P. Company, 1958-1959
- "W" miscellaneous
Box 3
- Agriculture, United States Department of (American bar Association, 1960-1962)
- Association of Commodity Exchange Firms, Inc.
- "B" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1918-1944
- Camera repairs
- Chicago Bar Association
- Chicago Board of Trade
- Claggett, John W., 1953
- Claggett, Strabo V. & Co., 1924-1949
- Cosmos Club - correspondence, 1938-1954
- Davis, John H.
- Duvell, J. W. T. - correspondence, 1930-1940
- "D" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1947-1951
- Electricity - general
- "E" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1947-1951
- Fuel oil bills, 1935-1967
- "F" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1922-1955
- Gasoline rationing, 1943-1944
- Greenleaf Apartment Building Corporation
- Gudiron Club
- "G" miscellaneous
- Hoit, Lowell & Co. - correspondence, 1933-51
- Hutchison's Furniture - statements of account, 1933
- "H" miscellaneous, 1931-1956
Box 4
- Insurance, auto
- Jewell Lutheran College
- "J" miscellaneous, 1932-1956
- "K" miscellaneous, 1935-1955
- Livingston, George
- "L" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1923-1955
- "Mc" miscellaneous - correspondence, 1933-1953
- Manuscript, - Litigation of Interest to Grain Future Administration by Joseph M. Mehl
- Maryland, University of - tuition, costs, etc., 1936-1940
- Mehl, Joseph M. - birth records
- Mehl, Joseph M. - personal, 1909-1960 (3 folders)
- Mehl, Joseph M. - personal, special correspondence, 1943-1944
- Mehl, Joseph M. - service certificates
- Mehl, Joseph M. - service records, 1918-1960
- Mehl family correspondence, 1944-1945
- Miscellaneous interests
- "M" miscellaneous
Box 5
- "N" miscellaneous
- Olson, Francis - application for patent on oil burner
- "O" miscellaneous
- "P" miscellaneous
- Retirement of Joseph M. Mehl - correspondence, 1954-1955
- Radio and television - miscellaneous
- "R" miscellaneous
- Saunders, William H. Company, Inc., 1935-1949
- "S" miscellaneous, 1932-1954
- Taxes, property - District of Columbia and Virginia
- Taxes, United States income (2 folders)
- United States Grain Growers, Inc.
- "U" miscellaneous, 1935-1955
- "V" miscellaneous, 1956
- "W" miscellaneous, 1938-60
- "XYZ" miscellaneous, 1935
Box 6
- Desk Calendars - December 31, 1923 - January 11, 1925
- Desk Calendars - 1937
- Desk Calendars - 1938
- Desk Calendars - 1939
- Desk Calendars - 1940
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1941
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1941
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1942
- Desk Calendars - June-December1942
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1944
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1944
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1945
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1945
Box 7
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1946
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1946
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1947
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1947
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1948
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1948
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1949
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1949
Box 8
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1950
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1950
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1951
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1951
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1952
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1952
- Desk Calendars - January-December 1953
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1953
Box 9
- Desk Calendars - January-May 1954
- Desk Calendars - June-December 1954
- Notes on appointments - 1937-1943
- Notes on appointments - 1944-1947
- Notes on appointments - 1948-1954
- Accounting statements - 1916-1917
- Correspondence, 1919-1921
- Excerpts from Congressional hearings - U.S. House of Representatives and Senate - legislation re regulation of trading in grain future, 1921
Box 10
- Futures Trading - hearings before Committee on Agriculture, United States House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 3rd session, January and February, 1921
- News clippings - 1918-1921
- Pamphlets, 1919-1921
- Report - "The Country Elevator Phase of the Chicago Grain Exchange Investigation of the Iowa and Illinois territory"
- Correspondence, 1909-1929, undated
- Grain Futures Act, amendment to , May 28, 1928
- Illinois, State of - regulation of public exchanges, 1921-1927
- Kansas and Missouri - regulations of trade, 1919-1922
- Mehl, Joseph M. - personal file
Box 11
- Newspaper and magazine articles
- Reports - Grain Futures Administration and Commodity Exchange Administration, 1922-1940
- Correspondence, 1930-1940
- Grain Future Act - amendments - drafts (4 folders)
Box 12
- Grain Futures Bill - Congressional Record, May 25-29, 1936
- Grain Futures Bill - Congressional hearings, 1934-1939
- Grain Futures Bill - court cases re., 1924-1931
- Grain Futures Bill - court case references, 1933-1935
- Grain Futures Bill - legal notes (pencil)
Box 13
- Grain Futures Act - transcript of record, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, No. 5467, Arthur W. Cutlen vs. Henry A. Wallace, et. al, March 16, 1935
- Mehl, Joseph M. - personal file
- Newspaper clippings and magazine articles (2 folders)
- Reports - miscellaneous
Box 14
- Correspondence, 1940-1942
- Commodity Exchange Act - amendments (suggested)
- Commodity Exchange Commission - public hearings, C.E.A. Docket, No. 3, December 1-3, 1937 (3 folders)
- Commodity futures - report, 1929-1935
- Costs of activities and budgets
- Court case - State of Louisiana, Parish of East Baton Rouge - Kohlemeyer, Newburger and Company v. W.A. Cooper, Collector of Revenue, April 13, 1943
- Duvel, Dr. J. N. T. - addresses and articles, 1928-1937
- Luncheon meeting of the National Grain Trade Council, Louisville, Kentucky, October 14, 1940
- Manuscript - preparatory notes
- Mehl, Joseph M. - address - School of Commerce, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, April 24,1935
- Mehl, Joseph M. - address - Chicago Mercantile Exchange, September 10, 1941
- Mehl, Joseph M. - Distinguished Service Award
- Mehl, Joseph M. - personal data
Box 15
- Newspaper clippings and magazine articles, 1935-1941
- Personnel - organizational charts
- Press releases, 1935-1941
- Reports
- Correspondence, 1943-1944
- Manual on Enforcement of Food Orders Administered by Food Distribution Administration, March 16, 1943
- Personnel reports, 1943-1945
- Reports - drafts, 1944
- Reports - printed, 1942-1945
- Correspondence, 1945-1946
- Margins at month - end dates and by date of changes, 1946-1954
- Memoranda and charts, 1943- 1946
- Organization and programs
Box 16
- Correspondence, 1947-1952
- Correspondence, 1953
- Correspondence, 1954
- Commodity Exchange Act - legislation, 1929-1954
- Commodity Exchange Commission - Hearing Docket CE-P9 - fats and oils
- Commodity Exchange Commission - regulations of and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-1954 (2 folders)
Box 17
- Corn Products Refining Company and related matters
- Grain Futures Act, 1936-1949, undated
- "List of Technical Workers and Outline of Department Functions, 1933-1937" (binder 1)
- "List of Technical Workers and Outline of Department Functions, 1938-1947" (binder 2)
Box 18
- List of traders - requested by Congress, 1947-1948 (4 folders)
- Futures Trading - hearings before Committees on Agriculture - miscellaneous - (bound volume)
Box 19
- Futures trading - hearings before committees on Agriculture, 1926-1949 (5 folders)
- Newspaper clippings and press releases, 1947-1953
- Notes - general
- Pioneers in Agricultural Marketing, October 23, 1953
Box 20
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1931-1938
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1939
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1940
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1941
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1942 (2 folders)
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1943
Box 21
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1944
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1945
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1946
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1947 (2 folders)
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1948 (2 folders)
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1949
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1950
Box 22
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1951
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1952 (2 folders)
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1953 (3 folders)
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1954 (2 folders)
Box 23
- Reports - miscellaneous, 1955
- Reports - miscellaneous, undated (2 folders)
- Research project
- Retirement of Joseph M. Mehl as Administrator of Commodity Exchange Authority, December 31, 1954
- Statements, addresses and articles - Brannan Plan, 1949
- Statements, addresses and articles - Joseph M. Mehl, 1928-1954
- Statements, addresses and articles - miscellaneous, 1933-1952
- Statements, addresses and articles - unidentified drafts
- Telephone directory - U.S. Department of Agriculture - January 1951
- Telephone directory - U.S. Department of Agriculture - July 1952
- Telephone directory - U.S. Department of Agriculture - September 1954
Box 24
- Docket number 72 - (In re: Continental Grain Company 5 folders)
- Docket number 73 - (In re: Vincent W. Kosuga, Sam S. Siegel and National Produce Distributors, Inc.
Box 25
- Docket number 82 - (In re: Volkory Brothers, Inc.)
- Docket number 84 - (In re: Continental Grain Company)
- Docket number 90 - (In re: Henry H. Cate et al)
- Docket number 91 - (In re: Berkshire Foods, Inc. and Harold Fox)
- Docket number 102 - (In re: the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago)
- Docket number 165 - (In re: Sy B. Gaiber & Co. and Michael R. Henpel)
- Docket number 166 - (In re: Louis Romoff)
- Docket number 167 - (In re: Arthur N. Economow & Co., Inc.)
- Docket number 176 - (In re: Kermit W. Quaintance, "Q" Commodities Co., and Earl B. Hoglund)
- Docket number 181 - (In re: William E. Henner)
- Docket number 185 - (In re: American Commodity Brokers, Inc.)
- Docket number 186 - (In re: Novak & Novak Trading Co., Inc.)
- Docket number 187 - (In re: J. Moroni Stoof and M - 5 Commodities, Inc.)
- Docket number 189 - (In re: Elliot Alkov)
- Docket number 190 - (In re: A.E. Mooers Co., Inc. and Frank H. Totman, Sr.)
- Docket number 191 - (In re: Frontier Commodities, Inc.)
- Docket number 192 - (In re: Edward A. Cox, Jr. and George F. Frey, Jr.)
- Docket number 193 - (In re: Professional Commodity Service, Inc.)
- Docket number 194 - (In re: Harry Schlecter, also known as Harry Kay and Aaron D. Schlecter)
- Docket number 195 - (In re: George Rex Andrews)
- Docket number 196 - (In re: Mark J. Gamber)
- Docket number 197 - (In re: Dean Witter & Co., Inc.)
- Docket number 198 - (In re: Jon F. Freeman & Company)
- Docket number 199 - (In re: Richard D. Kohn, et al)
- Docket number 200 - (In re: P. J. Toggares Co., et al)
- Docket number 201 - (In re: Walker & Co.)
- Docket number 202 - (In re: Tyson Foods, Inc., et al)
- Docket number 203 - (In re: Andco, Inc. and Glen H. Andersen)
- Docket number 204 - (In re: Patrick C. Donovan, United Commodity Trader)
- Docket number 205 - (In re: John S. Morris and Co., Inc.)
- Docket number 206 - (In re: Stovall & Stovall, Inc.)
- Docket number 207 - (In re: Laird, Bissell & Meeds, Inc.)
- Docket number 208 - (In re: Harold Goldstein)
- Docket number 209 - (In re: Miles J. Kerigan)
- Docket number 210 - (In re: Jeffrey L. Silverman)
- Docket number 211 - (In re: Henry S. Shatkin)
- Docket number 212 - (In re: Eugene C. Cashman)
- Docket number 213 - (In re: Rice Commodities, Inc.)
- Docket number 214 - (In re: Continental Grain Company)
- Docket number 215 - (In re: Louis Dreyfus Corporation)
- Chicago Board of Trade - agreements, 1952-1957
- Chicago Board of Trade - Senate Bill 2571 - multiple deliveries
- Chicago Board of Trade - Senate Bill 2684 - warehouse bill
- Chicago Board of Trade - rules and regulations
- Chicago Board of Trade - miscellaneous (2 folders)
Box 27
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange, 1956-1958
- Howard Ellis, 1953-1956
- Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane, 1955-1956
- Frederick Mayer, 1956-1958
- New York Cotton Exchange, 1957
- Volkart Brothers, Inc. 1958-1959
- Commodity Exchange Act - regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, August 1963
- Commodity Exchange Act - rules of practice, June 1964
- Federal Register, Volume 24, Number 84, April 30, 1959
- United States Circuit Court of Appeals, G.H. Miller and Company, et al., Petitioners v. United States of America and Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture, Respondents, September 23, 1958
- Miscellaneous Notes
Box 28
- Auto Record at-a-glance - notebook
- Biographical sketch
- Educational records - Jewell Lutheran College
- Educational records - Georgetown University Law School
- Educational records - "The Extempore Speech Plan", excerpts
- Educational records - Notes on public speaking by Grenville
- Educational records - Kleiser, 1910
- Financial and business records, 1907-1913
- Financial and business books by Frank Fayout, 1913
- House Improvements and repairs-miscellaneous (2 folders)
- Household-furniture, rugs, machines, etc.
- Medical, dental and drugs-miscellaneous contributions
- Political file - correspondence, 1937-1945
- Political file - Jefferson-Jackson Day programs, 1937-1952
Box 29
- Political file - the President's Birthday Ball, January 30, 1939-program
- Political file - Inaugural program, 1949
- Publications file - American Bar Association Journal, 1974
- Publications file - American Bar Association News, 1972-1973
- Publications file - American Law Institute Review, 1972-1973
- Publications file - Federal Bar Association Journal, 1941
- Publications file - Group Health Association News, 1966-1973
- Publications file - Luther Place Memorial Church-Newsletters, 1944-1973
- Publications file - Organization of Professional Employees of U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1972-1974
- Publications file - miscellaneous, 1955-1973
- Real estate file - properties in Texas and Virginia, 1911-1952
- Retirement file
Box 30
- Speeches and writings of Joseph M. Mehl, 1919-1954
- Tax file - miscellaneous
- Wills - Last will and testament of Joseph M. Mehl and documents re his death, October 8, 1973
- American Institute of Agriculture - pamphlets, 1922 (2 folders)
- Chicago Board of Trade - correspondence, 1958-1960
- Chicago Board of Trade - form letters
- Chicago Board of Trade - lists of numbers, 1955-1956
Box 31
- Chicago Board of Trade - notes by Joseph M. Mehl, 1955-1958
- Chicago Board of Trade - report, annual - 1954 (bound)
- Chicago Board of Trade - rules and regulations, 1955 (3 folders)
- Chicago Board of Trade - rules and regulations, index, 1958
- Chicago Board of Trade - rules and regulations, 1960 codification
- Chicago Board of Trade - rules and regulations-various years (partial)
- Chicago Board of Trade - rulings and resolutions
Box 32
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange, rules of the (2 folders)
- Herbert Hoover address - "The Protection of Freedom", West Branch, Iowa, August 10, 1954
- New York Cotton Exchange - charter by-laws and rules (2 folders)
- Scrapbook - stories and anecdotes
- United States Grain Growers, Inc. - correspondence with Bernard M. Baruch, 1923
- United States Grain Growers, Inc. - correspondence - general, 1917-1927
- United States Grain Growers, Inc. - financial and legal agreements
- United States Grain Growers, Inc. - reports-general
Box 33
- United States Grain Growers, Inc. - reports - executive committee, 1923-1924 (bound copy)
- United States Grain Growers, Inc. - speeches and articles, 1921-1927
- Miscellaneous materials (2 folders)
- News clippings (folders 1-3)
Box 34
- News clippings (folders 4-10)
Box 35
- News clippings (folders 11-16)
- Cross reference sheets
- Certificates