19 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 19

[John Tower Speech about Community Development Revenue Sharing given to Texas Mayors in Dallas, Texas, October 16, 1972]

Description: Speech describing the failure of federal urban development programs and explaining Senator Tower's proposed community development revenue sharing legislation that should alleviate fiscal and planning problems in urban development and give more oversight to local mayors.
Date: October 16, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Southwestern University

[John Tower Speech to Natl. Petroleum Refiners Assoc. about energy crisis, San Antonio, March 27, 1972]

Description: Speech; energy crisis; National Petroleum Council; petroleum import; petroleum sources; natural gas; coal; petroleum; nuclear power; energy consumption; investment outlays; Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC); Teheran Agreement; Domestic Exploration Investment Tax Credit; Trans-Alaskan pipeline.
Date: March 27, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Southwestern University

[John Tower Speech on Shipbuilding Productivity and Profitability given to the Shipbuilders Council of America at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., July 7, 1972]

Description: Speech declaring the importance of naval and merchant ships to U.S. national interests on the seas and arguing against critics that say that the shipbuilding industry is inefficient, costly, and technologically behind other nations.
Date: July 7, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Southwestern University

[John Tower Speech on Labor Law Reform, 1972?]

Description: Speech arguing for the need to change and update labor legislation because the current legislation is causing an abuse of power on the part of labor organizations, which Tower believes is one of the principal causes of inflation.
Date: 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Southwestern University

[John Tower Speech to AGC Convention about Labor Law Reform, Houston, March 7, 1972]

Description: Speech; Correlation between organized labor and inflation; Labor law reform as domestic priority; Associated General Contractors (AGC); Bill to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931; General Accounting Office (GAO); Federal construction costs; Construction unions; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee.
Date: March 7, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Southwestern University

[John Tower Speech on Legislation Concerning Senior Citizens given to the Senior Citizens Forum in Fort Worth, Texas?, September 23, 1972?]

Description: Speech describing current legislative measures that will impact senior citizens and praising the federal government for giving due attention to the aging. Proposes Joint Congressional Committee on the Aging and primarily discusses Social Security laws.
Date: September 23, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Southwestern University

[John Tower Speech on Legislation Affecting the Mobile Home Industry given to the Mobile Home Manufacturers Association at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., March 23, 1972]

Description: Speech explaining pending and current legislation that impacts the mobile home manufacturing industry and praising the value and usefulness of the mobile home.
Date: March 23, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Southwestern University

[John Tower Speech on the Brock and Tower Housing Bills given to the Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs, June 20, 1972]

Description: Speech supporting the bills introduced by Senator Bill Brock and Senator John Tower (S. 3373 and S. 3654 respectively) to help reduce the costs of residential housing construction. Tower's bill is aimed at revising wage requirements in the Davis-Bacon Act that prevent wages from being depressed by the spending of federal funds on federal projects.
Date: June 20, 1972
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Southwestern University
Back to Top of Screen