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).