Emergency Management assumed responsibility for the roster in April 1942, but the NRPB continued to act in an advisory capacity with respect to it.) Reports, general correspondence, and records of the Industrial Location and the Land Sections of Division B, which made technical studies on transportation, the location of industry, and land, water, and energy resources. Reports, general and technical correspondence, and records of the State and Local Program Section and the Water Resources Section of Division C, which conducted a Federal public works program, studied Federal financial relief programs, kept informed of and encouraged State and local public works programs, conducted water resource planning activities, and assisted in planning the large-scale and long-range development of capital budget expenditures of railroads, public utilities, and industry. Also records of Frederic A. Delano, Chairman of the NPB and the NRPB. Records of the Office of the Director, including office files of the Executive Officer, and records of the Post-War Agenda, Urban, and Field Service Sections. Records documenting the NRPB's participation in joint investigations and on such joint committees as the Committee for Congested Production Areas and the Committee on Conservation of Cultural Resources, the latter of which was established by the NRPB on March 6, 1941, to study wartime protection of cultural resources, survey cultural materials possessed by the Federal Government, and sponsor establishment of State committees for conservation of cultural resources. Office files of Thomas C. Blaisdell, a member of the Industrial Committee and an assistant director in charge of Division A, and of Lewis Lorwin, a member of the NRPB panel of consultants and economic adviser for Division A, that consist primarily of personal files accumulated by them while they were employed by other agencies. RECORDS OF NRPB REGIONAL In 1934 the National Resources Board set up regional field offices, each with a nontechnical staff to which consultants from a panel on special studies were occasionally assigned. These offices operated throughout the continental United States and, for a time, in Alaska and the Caribbean region. The subject content of the records, which are closely related to central office records, often depends on the social, economic, and geographic conditions in the region under consideration. The records, many of which are from the New England, Northern Lakes-Ohio Valley, and Pacific Northwest regions, are those of the 11 regional offices and include minutes, procedural issuances, correspondence, personnel records, legislative and publicity files, accounting records, technical planning files, and files for special investigations, projects, and studies, chiefly for the 1937-43 period. RECORDS INHERITED BY THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET. 193443. 107 lin. ft. Executive Order 9834 of October 4, 1943, assigned the Bureau of the Budget responsibility for long-range planning and coordination of public works, a function carried out jointly by the Bureau and the NRPB or its predecessors under the Federal Employment Stabilization Act of 1931, as implemented by Executive Order 8455 of June 26, 1940. The records inherited by the Bureau of the Budget consist of legislation, minutes, reports, correspondence, and project records (including some material on the Federal Employment Stabilization Office and the Federal Works Agency) of the NRPB and its predecessors, relating to coordinating and planning Federal public works programs. CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS. 193343. 3,326 items. These consist of general and regional maps of the United States, prepared by the NRPB and its predecessors and showing major drainage basins, population, mineral and water resources, land use, transportation routes and facilities, recreation areas, national defense, war industries, crop production, and military, industrial, and resource locations; maps illustrating progress reports and status of mapping and aerial photography; and maps showing urban areas and transportation routes from 1800 to 1930. See Virgil E. Baugh, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Central Office Records of the National Resources Planning Board, PI 50 (1953); and Baugh, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Regional Offices of the National Resources Planning Board, PI 64 (1954). RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS (RECORD GROUP 44) The Office of Government Reports was created in 1939 as an administrative unit in the Executive Office of the President to succeed the Executive Council, 1933-34, and the National Emergency Council, 1934-39. The general functions of these agencies were to coordinate Federal relief and recovery programs and later the homefront aspects of the defense and war effort, to provide a clearinghouse for Government information, and to serve as a liaison between Federal and State Governments, including assistance in the preparation of State legislation. In 1942 the Office of Government Reports was consolidated with other agencies to form the Office of War Information (OWI). The Office of Government Reports was reestablished in 1946, but reduced appropriations in 1947 restricted its activities to advertising and motion picture liaison and operation of a library. Liquidation of the Office was completed June 30, 1948. There are 698 cubic feet of records (in WNRC except for nontextual records) dated between 1933 and 1947 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE EXECUTIVE The Executive Council was established by an Executive order of July 11, 1933, to provide for the orderly presentation of business to the President and coordinate interagency problems of organization and work of new Government agencies. The Council, which consisted of members of the Cabinet and heads of certain agencies, held weekly or biweekly meetings until it was consolidated with the National Emergency Council on October 29, 1934. Its records consist of agenda prepared by the Executive Secretary, minutes, and related correspondence. RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY COUNCIL. 1933-40. 337 lin. ft. The National Emergency Council was established by an Executive order of November 17, 1933, to coordinate and make more efficient the work of Government field agencies. On October 29, 1934, the Executive Council and the Industrial Emergency Committee were merged with it, and on July 1, 1939, it was replaced by the Office of Government Reports. There were an Executive Director for the Council and a number of divisions and other administrative units, some short lived. State directors were appointed to maintain coordinating, reporting, and information services. General correspondence and other records of the Council are interfiled with the records of the Office of Government Reports. Segregated records of the Council include proceedings and minutes, reports, correspondence, and other records of the Office of the Executive Director, the Administrative Division, and the Division of Field Operations, which supervised the work of field offices in the States and Alaska. There are also some press clippings of the Division of Press Intelligence, 1938, records of the Better Housing Division, 1934, correspondence of the Consumers' Division, 1934-35, and a U.S. Government Manual Service collection of organizational charts of Federal agencies, 1934. Some records of the Assistant Director of the Film Service, 1937-40, are with the records of the Council. Included also are records of the Council's Division of Applications and Information, established in 1935 to process applications for funds for projects to be undertaken by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (later Public Works Administration, PWA) and the Works Progress Administration (later Work Projects Administration, WPA), and to furnish information concerning the projects. The Division was abolished in 1935, but later records were incorporated into the files during 1936. The records of the Division include detailed reports on the status of work relief applications, other reports, summaries of WPA and PWA projects, resolutions and digests of proceedings of the Advisory Committee on Allotments, correspondence, tables, charts, graphs, and press releases. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS. 1933-47. 466 lin. ft. These include general correspondence of the Office and of the National Emergency Council; correspondence and other records of the Executive Division of the Office, including radio scripts of the radio consultant; records of the Administrative Division, concerning the history of the Office; records of the Divi sion of Press Intelligence, including summaries and digests of press and radio comments and press clippings; records of the Division of Field Operations, including special reports by State directors, reports on surveys of public opinion and on Federal expenditures in the States, correspondence, directories of Federal agencies in the States, and records concerning State legislation; and records, 1941-42, of the Office of the Coordinator of Government Films. Records of the U.S. Information Service to 1942 include reports on relief operations and contracts and expenditures under the national defense program, correspondence, and records concerning participation in the New York World's Fair. In 1942 the Service became the Division of Public Inquiries of the Bureau of Special Services, Domestic Operations Branch, OWI. It was reconstituted in the Office of Government Reports following the termination of the OWI. There are reports, correspondence, memorandums, processed materials for distribution, background material, and other records of the Bureau of Special Services; of its Divisions of Public Inquiries, Educational Services, Research, and Surveys; and of the OWI Bureau of Intelligence. AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1939-45. 14,198 items. Still pictures, 1942-45 (14,150 items), include photographs of posters and posters assembled and distributed by the Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, relating to all campaigns and programs; photographs of newsmaps indicating the progress of the war; and posters produced for distribution in this country by foreign information offices and U.S. war relief associations. Sound recordings, 1939-40 (48 items), consist of recordings of weekly broadcasts known as the Cabinet Series, the Agency Series, and the National Defense Series, sponsored by the Office NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES of Government Reports, containing the See H. Stephen Helton, comp., Preliminary Microfilm Publications: Records of the Office of Government Reports: Minutes of the Executive Council, July 11, 1933-November 13, 1934, T37, 1 roll; and Records of the Office of Government Reports: Proceedings of the National Emergency Council, December 19, 1933-April 28, 1936, T38,1 roll. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER (RECORD GROUP 20) The Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Trade was created by an Executive order of March 23, 1934, under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act. The functions of this Office were to coordinate information concerning U.S. foreign trade and to negotiate specific trade transactions with any individual or group desiring Federal assistance in financing or bartering. The Office also studied trade resources of foreign countries and the amount of blocked American funds abroad. It was represented on several interdepartmental committees, including the Committee for Reciprocity Information (which conducted hearings on proposed executive trade agreements), and cooperated with other agencies interested in foreign trade. George N. Peek, the only person appointed Special Adviser, was also president and trustee of the Export-Import Bank of Washington; the Office's personnel performed many functions of that bank (see RG 275). The legislation under which the Office was created provided that the agency should cease to exist on June 16, 1935. An Executive order of June 15, 1935, continued the Office until April 1, 1936, but a ruling of the Comptroller General limited appropriated funds to June 30, 1935. On that date employees of the Office were transferred to the ExportImport Bank. The Special Adviser did not resign, however, until November 26, 1935, and the records of the Office were not closed until the following year. See Laurence F. Schmecke bier, New Federal Organizations (1934). There are 57 cubic feet of records dated between 1934 and 1936 in this record group. RECORDS. 1934-36. 330 lin. ft. Because the Office of the Special Adviser was primarily a coordinating agency, much of the material in its files was assembled from or based on records and compilations of other agencies concerned with foreign trade. These include files arranged by country, commodity, or other subject, consisting of studies, reports, and statistical data and containing consular reports and cablegrams received from the Department of State on foreign trade and economic conditions abroad; analyses of U.S. foreign trade prepared by the U.S. Tariff Commission; returned questionnaires and other records obtained by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and the Export-Import Bank in 1935 while determining for the Office of the Special Adviser the amount of foreign currency owned by Americans and kept abroad as a result of exchange controls and other devices; reports and other records concerning executive trade agreements prepared by the Committee for Reciprocity Information; and integrated economic reports prepared by the Office. There are also records of administrative units and officials of the Office, consisting of correspondence, procedural issuances, publicity material, and facilitative records relating to the work of the administrative officer, the Division of Research and Statistics, and the special representative on the Committee for Reciprocity Information; tabulations, worksheets, and accounting records and international drafts relating to an RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence was established by Executive Order 11412 of June 10, 1968, to investigate and make recommendations concerning the causes and prevention of lawless acts of violence in the United States, including assassination, murder, and assault; of disrespect for law and order and public officials; of violent disruptions of public order by individuals and groups; and any other matters the President might place before it. Milton Eisenhower was appointed Chairman. The Commission was terminated after its report, To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility, was submitted to the President on December 10, 1969. There are 131 cubic feet of records dated between 1968 and 1969 in this record group. RECORDS. 1968-69. 157 lin. ft. and 10 rolls of microfilm. Included are records relating to functions of the Executive Director and other staff officers and background information and records relating to the Commission's eight task forces and their publications, including data submitted to the Commission by interested parties and opinions and comments relating to the study of violence. Also included are the final report, transcripts of executive session proceedings and Commission hearings, correspondence, interview reports, witness statements, microfilm (10 rolls) of doctoral dissertations relating to violence, newsclippings, and published and private source material; the Chicago study team's report, Rights in Conflict, on violence in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and records used in its compilation, including interview reports, witness statements, injury and arrest records, Chicago Police Department and Illinois National Guard material, research material relating to the convention, and newsclippings; and the Miami study team's "Miami Report," concerning violence in Miami during the 1968 Republican National Convention, and records used in its compilation, including police reports, interview transcripts, and newsclippings. AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1968-69. 1,663 items. Audiovisual materials include photographs relating to disorders at the Chicago and Miami conventions, disturbances in Cleveland, and disorders in Washington during the 1969 presidential inauguration; of persons outside the Post Office Building in Richmond, Va., during the trial of H. "Rap" Brown in 1968; and of miscellaneous subjects. There are sound recordings (18 items) of a talk by Tom Anderson, publisher of agricultural periodicals, called BiPartisan Treason; of the songs "Wallace |