Reva Bosone campaign speeches, 1949-1953

Typescript drafts of speeches by Utah Congresswoman Reva Beck Bosone. Includes a speech on the floor of Congress on Aug. 22, 1949, regarding irrigation and water development in the West; statement of Aug. 22, 1949, in favor of admitting Alaska and Hawaii as states; memorial remarks by other members of Congress regarding several Congressmen who died in the year before Memorial Day 1949 [Robert L. Coffey, Jr., who died in April of 1949; memorial remarks on the late Congressman Tom Owens (d. June 1948; Somers, Delaney and Bloom]); remarks on a bill about food aid to India (year unknown); remarks on the cease-fire in the Korean conflict (July 1953); remarks on the honesty of federal public employees in light of the case of Mrs. Helen Mathieson of the Dept. of Commerce who refused a bribe (1951); remarks on the retirement of Walter Cosgrove of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in May of 1951 (including typed copies of Utah newspaper articles about Cosgrove); comments on the Colorado Storage Project and the Echo Park Dam; Statement on her resolution to end "wardship" of the American Indian in 1953; and a statement on the February (1952 or 1953) speech about Korea by General Mathew Ridgway to be placed in the Congressional Record.