Reva Bosone campaign speeches, 1949-1953

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Title Reva Bosone campaign speeches, 1949-1953
Creator Bosone, Reva Beck
Date 1949; 1951; 1952; 1953
Spatial Coverage Korea; India; Utah, United States
Subject Bosone, Reva Beck--Archives; Bosone, Reva Beck; Women legislators; Women--Political activity; Colorado River Storage project (U.S.); Water resources development--United States; Korean War, 1950-1953--United States
Description 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.
Collection Number and Name Ms0127 Reva Beck Bosone papers
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
Rights
ARK ark:/87278/s66jrxff
Relation is Part of Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive
Finding Aid https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv79031
Setname uum_rbbp
ID 2433022
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66jrxff