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Pres. Hoover and American delegates to London Naval Conference, 1730 White House, Washington, D.C.

AMBASSADOR MICHEL IS HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE

[Assignment: OS_2005_1201_263] Office of the Secretary - United States / Vietnam Signing Ceremony [40_CFD_OS_2005_1201_263_222.JPG]

Navon visits us (cropped), Israel

The Honorable Paul D. Wolfowitz (left), U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, attends a meeting with Royal Navy Admiral Sir Michael Decil Boyce (center, rear), United Kingdom CHIEF of Defense, at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2002. U.S. Air Force GEN. Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of STAFF, is sitting to the right. OSD Package No. A07D-00701 (DoD photo by Robert D. Ward) (Released)

LBJ with Diosdado Macapagal

[Assignment: TA_2003_8688_2] Technology Administration - SIGNING CEREMONY WITH CHINESE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [40_CFD_TA_2003_8688_2_DSC_0697.JPG]

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

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Quizzed by Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. Herbert G. Shimp, President of the American Conservation Co., detailed to the National Monopoly Committee today the deal he made with Hugh T. Martin, President of the Illinois Bankers Life Assurance Co., whereby $430,000 paid to his--Shimp--company to reinsure the Illinois Bankers Life Association was 'kicked back' to Martin and two of his associates. Martin told the committee that he and his associates used the money to buy stock in the Life Assurance Co., which succeeded the association

Called to testify before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. Called to testify late this afternoon before the Monopoly Committee were George Bovenzier of Kuhn, Loeb, & Co.; Charles Glore, of Glore, Forgan, & Co.; Edward N. Jesup of Lee Higginson Corp.; and Henry S. Sturgis, of the First National Bank of New York. All firms are of New York City

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. William H. Woods, former President of the Illinois Bankers Life Assurance Co., and Head of the Illinois Bankers Life Association, today outlined to a Monopoly Subcommittee the circumstances surrounding organization of the company in 1929 when it reinsured and took over the Illinois Bankers Life Association. Woods testified he had received $100,000 in cash and $60,000 on notes when the reinsurance deal went through

Senior Morgan Partner appears before National Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. George Whitney, Senior Partner of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., was questioned by the National Monopoly Committee today regarding the relationship of the Morgan firm with the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The Morgan Co. underwrite almost $2,000,000,000 of bonds for the A.T. & T. during the last 33 years. Whitney described the investment banking business as 'competitive as the dickens'

Scheduled to tell Monopoly Committee of iron firm's financing. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. B.A. Tomkins on the Bankers Trust Co. of New York City, photographed with Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney, Chairman of the Monopoly Committee, is scheduled to tell the committee sometime today of the financing of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. Left to right: Sen. O'Mahoney and Tomkins

Quizzed by Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. Herbert G. Shimp, President of the American Conservation Co., detailed to the National Monopoly Committee today the deal he made with Hugh T. Martin, President of the Illinois Bankers Life Assurance Co., whereby $430,000 paid to his--Shimp--company to reinsure the Illinois Bankers Life Association was 'kicked back' to Martin and two of his associates. Martin told the committee that he and his associates used the money to buy stock in the Life Assurance Co., which succeeded the association

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. Ernest T. Weir, arch-foe of the New Deal and Chairman of the National Steel Corporation, suggested before the National Monopoly Committee that it was 'easier for a company our size to operate and make a profit than a company with the size and ramifications of the U.S. Steel Corporation.' A.F. Feller, Counsel for the Committee and Special Assistant to the Attorney General, termed this statement by Weir the important yet made before the committee

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. William H. Woods, former President of the Illinois Bankers Life Assurance Co., and Head of the Illinois Bankers Life Association, today outlined to a Monopoly Subcommittee the circumstances surrounding organization of the company in 1929 when it reinsured and took over the Illinois Bankers Life Association. Woods testified he had received $100,000 in cash and $60,000 on notes when the reinsurance deal went through

In spotlight at Monopoly Committee hearing. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Snapped in an informal conversation at today's session of the National Monopoly Committee were, left to right: Harold Stanley, President of Morgan, Stanley & Co., George Whitney, of J.P. Morgan & Co., and Russell Leffingwell of J.P. Morgan & Co. Leffingwell was an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Wilson Administration

Denies that helping Richard Whitney got him business. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. Charles E. Mitchell, Chairman of the Board of Blyth and Co. Inc., and former Chairman of the National City Bank of New York, testified before the Federal Monopoly Committee today that he was influential in having George Whitney appointed to the Board of Trustees of the consolidated Edison Co., but denied that this helped him obtain a $33,750,000 piece of consolidated financing. 'Like a lot of other people of the street, I claim a lot of things that are the bunk,' he said. 'Put those claims aside and base my getting the business on my long relationship with consolidated

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J A Ranch Headquarters, Bunk House / Mess Hall, Paloduro, Armstrong County, TX

Discuss government reorganization with President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Sept. 23. Charles E. Merriam, (left) and Louis Brownlow, members of the President's Reorganization Committee, leaving the White House today after discussing government reorganization with President Roosevelt, 9/23/38

Ability to recite from memory the constitution wins war veteran a job. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Harry E. Wilhelm, 43, a World War veteran and unemployed huckster of York, PA., won himself a job today on his ability to recite from memory the 6,757 words of the Constitution and Amendments. In his quest for work, Wilhelm called on Rep. Sol Bloom, Chairman of the United States Constitutional Sesquicentennial Commission, to whom he announced he was the only man in the world who could recite from memory the Constitution. Interested but skeptical, Bloom promised Wilhelm a job if he could back up hi claim. With Bloom checking the words, Wilhelm made good on his boast and is now an employee of the U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission mail room. 9/13/37

A drawing of The Adams Seat in Quincy, 1828

Lot en de twee engelen - Public domain drawing

[Assignment: 48-DPA-04-11-08_SOI_K_Af-Am_Exp] Fundraising gala for the National Park Foundation's African American Experience Fund (AAEF) at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center, New York City, New York, where Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [joined former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and civil rights leader Andrew Young, former Assistant Secretary of Labor and Little Rock school integration pioneer Ernest Green, Coca-Cola Company Vice President Ingrid Saunders Jones, public television news correspondent and moderator Gwen Ifill, and AAEF Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Harris among the dignitaries on hand] [48-DPA-04-11-08_SOI_K_Af-Am_Exp_IOD_3363.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Sykes] Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides [meeting at Main Interior] with delegation including Tom Kiernan, [President of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)]; Gene Sykes [of NPCA's Board of Trustees]; John Bridgeland, [Director of USA Freedom Corps]; and Randal Teague, [Washington, D.C. attorney, partner in Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP] [48-DPA-SOI_K_Sykes_DOI_1962.JPG]

LeRoy H. Whitney - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Mrs. T.A. Edison & J.J. Jusserand

Inaugural Parade. PO1 Wendy Seuss, flips through bus number location cards, to hand out to the next bus coming through the entry control at the staging area North Pentagon Parking Lot

Country music singer Larry Gatlin visited the Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One-Thirty-Three (NMCB-133) to do a special Christmas Day performance at a former Russian Army base scud missile magazine now converted to a 200-man bunk room in support of Operation Joint Endeavor, a peace keeping mission to Croatia

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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