Finding Aid for the Estes Kefauver Milk Industry Letter, 1960 January 12
MS-2365University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, July 7, 2006.
Summary Information
Estes Kefauver Milk Industry Letter
Date/Date Range : 1960 January 12
0.1 linear feet
Abstract: The January 12, 1960, letter from Senator Estes Kefauver, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, to Mr. D. Temple in New York refers to the milk industry and selling out-dated milk in stores.
MS-2365
University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Access and Use
G. Allan and Marjorie R. Yeomans gave this collection to the UT Special Collections Library in January 2000.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of Item], Estes Kefauver Milk Industry Letter, MS-2365. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Biography / History
Carey Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) was a U.S. House Representative (1939-1949), U.S. Senator (1950-1963), and 1956 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1924 and Yale Law School in 1927. In 1935 he married Nancy Piggott, a native of Scotland.
During his years in the Senate, he served on the Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, voted for the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, and sponsored the Kefauver-Harris Drug Control Act of 1962. He lost favor among Southerners with his support of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision to desegregate schools and when he and Albert Gore, Sr., were the only southern senators to refuse to sign the Southern Manifesto, intending to block school integration, in 1956.
In 1952, he lost to Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, but in 1956 he was Stevenson's Vice Presidential running mate.
Collection Scope and Content Note
The January 12, 1960, letter from Senator Estes Kefauver, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, to Mr. D. Temple in New York refers to the milk industry and selling out-dated milk in stores.
Subject Terms
- Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.
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Letter to D. Temple from Kefauver about selling out-dated milk in stores, 1960 January 12 Scope Note: Transcription of Letter
Mr. D. Temple
48 Earl Road
Huntington Station, New York
Dear Mr. Temple:
In answer to your letter with respect to the milk industry, the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee has already conducted some studies in this field and obtained some action by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
However, the particular matter to which you refer with respect to the selling of out-dated milk in the stores would be one for handling by the food and drug authorities of the state. I suggest that you write to the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of New York with respect to this subject.
Sincerely,
(signed) Estes Kefauver
Estes Kefauver
Chairman
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