Nathan Straus waits while House Committee holds post mortem on Senate debate. Washington, D.C., June 27. Nathan Straus, USHA administrator, after reading 14 pages of a 56 page statement to the House Banking and Currency Committee yesterday, today looked resigned while the Committee held a 20 minute off the record discussion of the Senate debate in stripping the President of some of his monetary powers. Rep. Charles Gifford chortled, 'Oh I loved it. It bears out my contention.' 'If I read Senate debates I'd have no time to be a member of the House. Anyway, they're wrong,' but in Rep. Wright Patman. Finally the committee allowed him to read five sentences
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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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