Description
The collection contains documents describing the laws of various states
regarding credit life insurance and decisions in court cases regarding this
practice. There are also articles from law reviews and newspapers regarding the
small loan business as well as correspondence, testimony, court decisions,
printed pamphlets, articles, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Hearings
before the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee on a tax increase (March
1951). Many items labelled with letters or numbers suggest their use as
documents presented for a hearing or report.
Background
Leland D. Case was a journalist and editor of Rotarian Magazine
(1930-1950) and Together Magazine (1956-63). He was also an amateur historian,
founder of Westerners International and Director of the Pacific Center for
Western Studies at the University of the Pacific from (1965-1967).