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Present Louisiana program for federal assistance to President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., May 19. Senator Allen Ellender, left, and Governor Richard W. Leone of Louisiana, leaving the White House today after presenting President Roosevelt with a four phased program for federal assistance for Louisiana federal projects

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Correct way to bake turkey demonstrated by Uncle Sam's expert cooks. Washington, D.C., Dec. 4. Note to housewives: your turkey- baking troubles will be over and the bird you serve for dinner this yuletide will be tender, juicy and flavorsome if you follow the method used by the expert cooks at the Bureau of Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Continual testing and experimenting with various recipes has taught Uncle Sam's cooks that many a prize bird has become a "ham" when improperly prepared. The best recipe - so far discovered by the Bureau of Economics - is demonstrated in the following set of pictures, made under the supervision of Miss Lucy Alexander, Chief Cooking Specialist. Miss Alexander, a graduate of Vassar and the University of Illinois, has been on her present job for eleven years. Mrs. Jessie Lamb, Assistant Cook, is stuffing the turkey under the watchful eye of Miss Lucy Alexander. The turkeys on the table will go into the ovens at regular intervals, and be tasted and judged by a group of experts who are determining which diet and feeding program will produce the best flavored meat.

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Song-bird pauses at Washington airport. Washington, D.C., July 11. Enroute from California, Lawrence Tibbett, song-bird star of 'The Circle,' well known radio program, stepped out of the flag ship of the American Airlines to take a breath of Washington Air before going on to New York. From there he will continue to Wilton, Conn., for a well earned vacation

Song-bird pauses at Washington airport. Washington, D.C., July 11. Enr...

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Senators hear women's protest on Roosevelt pump-priming program. Washington, D.C., May 13. Fifty women headed by Mrs. Hamilton Wright of New York today invaded the Senate Office Building to protest to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee against President Roosevelt's five billion dollar pump-priming program. The women, who are from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, said they were not an organization. They are shown as they cornered four senators in the office of Senator Burke of Nebraska. The senators in the photograph [...] Truman of Missouri, Adams of Colorado, Burke of Nebraska, and Bridges of New Hampshire

Senators hear women's protest on Roosevelt pump-priming program. Washi...

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Ready for her radio fling. Washington, D.C., May 4. Four year old Nancy Anderson, daughter of Rep. and Mrs. John Z. Anderson, will make her radio debut Saturday on the third annual Congressional Children's Broadcast over a national NBC hook-up, sponsored by the Congressional Club. Children of all ages and playing all types of musical instruments will participate in the program

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Discuss cotton export program. Washington, D.C., July 13. In the spotlight at today's conference of Cotton Trade and Textile Industry Representatives were Will Clayton, left, of Anderson-Clayton Co., Houston Texas; Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, and Rep. Marvin Jones of Texas, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Wallace told the conferees that he believed a cotton export program should be put into effect immediately

Discuss cotton export program. Washington, D.C., July 13. In the spotl...

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Former TVA Chairman challenges fairness of TVA yardstick for power rates. Washington, D.C., Dec. 3. Former TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan today challenged the fairness of the TVA yardstick for power rates before the Joint Congressional Committee Investigating the Government's Power Program. Since he was 'fired' Morgan has conducted a personal study of TVA rates and allocations of costs of constructing the dams, on which the rates are based

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Surgeon General says 500 new U.S. hospitals needed. Washington, D.C., June 2. Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, told a Senate Education and Labor Subcommittee today that at least 500 of the 3,000 counties in the U.S. need new hospitals. Although Chairman Murray said there is little chance of the Wagner Bill's passing this year, Parran defended the hospital building program which is a part of that bill

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Manhattan Mayor praises relief program. Washington, D.C., May 8. Mayor Fiorella La Guardia, Mayor of New York, testified before the House WPA Investigating Committee with gestures. He praised the federal relief program as 'the American way' dealing with unemployment and termed its discontinuance as tragic. He appeared as a representative of the U.S. Conference of Mayors of which he is airman

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Public is 'willing and ready' to accept additional taxes to support defense program; Morgenthau. Washington, D.C., June 12. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau today told the Senate Finance Committee that the public 'is willing and ready' to accept additional taxes to support the defense program, but he opposed 'random reductions' in other federal appropriations. Morgenthau is shown here with Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican member of the committee

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Daughter of Missouri Senator to broadcast with other congressional children. Washington, D.C., May 4. Margaret Truman, daughter of the Senator from Missouri and Mrs. Harry S. Truman, gives her voice a final tuning-up in anticipation of the third annual Congressional Children's Broadcast Saturday over a national NBC hook-up. The Congressional Club is sponsoring the program which include a galaxy[?] of talented congressional youngsters

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Jesse Jones holds first press conference since assuming new post. Washington, D.C., July 17. At his first press conference today after taking the oath as Federal Loan Administrator, Jesse Jones urged that Congress enact the new lending bill before it concludes its current session. Jones told reporters that immediate enactment of the bill was desirable because it would take 'a good time to get the program in operation'

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New Mosquito Boat gets a tryout. Washington, D.C., June 19. The PT-9, first of the new 'Mosquito Boats' to be delivered to the U.S. Navy under the President's $15,000,000 experimental small craft program had a preview for the press today. This is the same type of boat that the government is in process of releasing to the British Navy, causing great unrest and indignation in Capitol circles. Eight other boats will be based at the naval operating base, Norfolk, Virginia, to undergo severe seagoing tests. The squadron will be known as the Mosquito Fleet and the insignia which was designed by Walt Disney consists of a mosquito riding on the top of a high speed torpedo. Shown in the picture is Lieutenant Earl S. Caldwell, USN, Commander of the squadron

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New 'Mosquito Boat' ready for action. Washington, D.C., June 19. The PT-9, first of the American Motor Torpedo Boats to be delivered to the U.S. Navy under the President's $15,000,000 experimental small craft program had a preview showing for the press today. The 'Mosquito Boat' and eight other ones will be based at the naval operating base, Norfolk, Virginia, where they will undergo service tests under various sea conditions to determine their capabilities and limitations. This is the same type of boat that the government is in the process of releasing to the British Navy. Chairman David L. Walsh of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee expressed indignation over the Navy's action in this respect in view of the fact that this government is trying to build up its own sea power

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General Electric head at White House. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Gerard Swope, President of General Electric, with other leading industrialists and business men, and federal officials, met with President Roosevelt today to discuss a housing program that involve the use entirely of private Capital.

General Electric head at White House. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Gerar...

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At farm conference. Washington D.C. Opening a conference with more than 50 Farm leaders to frame a long-term federal farm program, Secretary of Agriculture is shown with Congressional Agricultural leaders, Senator Ellison D. Smith, Democrat of South Carolina, and Rep. Marvin Jones, Democrat of Texas. (right)

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New public works program will not interfere with private industry, Senate Committee told. Washington, D.C., July 13. The new Federal Works Administrator, John M. Carmody, today promised the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that the new $350,000,000 public works program would not interfere with private industry. He pointed out that President Roosevelt's program made no specific provisions for federal loans to municipalities for acquisition of private utilities

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President confers with labor leaders. Washington D.C. President Roosevelt today conferred with John L. Lewis, Head of the CIO, and his two Lieutenants Sidney Hillman and Charles P. Howard. Leaving the meeting Lewis said: "the President invited us to discuss a labor legislative program. We did." In the photo, left to right: Lewis, Hillman, and Howard

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Congressional leaders confer with President on Neutrality Bill. Washington, D.C., July 5. President Roosevelt today called in majority leaders of the House and Senate to urge them to throw out the arms embargo clause of the Neutrality Bill which passed the House last week. The president's new proposal for a 3 billion lending program was also discussed. Leaving the White House and talking to reporters are Rep. Sam Rayburn, majority leader of the House, and Senator Alben Barkley, majority leader of the Senate

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Appears before Senate Unemployment Committee. Washington, D.C., Mar. 14. Contending that the problem of providing for the poverty-stricken workers transcends state lines, Paul S. Taylor of the Univ. of California, outlined a program for federal assistance. The proposed program would provide grants in aid to states for general public assistance. The states would submit to the Social Security Board plans in which adequate provisions for non-residents would be included

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Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. Henry G. Alsberg, Director of the Federal Writers' Project, today told the House Committee Investigating Un- American Activities that he experienced some difficulty with communists on the New York Project, but added that the trouble had been eliminated and the program now was running smoothly

Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. Henry G. Alsberg, Director of the Federal Wr...

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Senate Judiciary Committee considers president's request to increase membership of Supreme Court. Washington D.C. After a meeting today members of the Senate Judiciary Committee reported that opinion in their group was about evenly divided on wisdom of President Roosevelt's request for power to increase the membership of the Supreme Court to possibly 15 members. Senators Borah, Pittman and Connally continued their silence on the administration Program as they left the Committee Room. in the photograph, left to right: (seated) Senator William E. Borah, Idaho; Senator Henry F. Hurst of Arizona, Chairman ; and Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada. Standing left to right: Senator Frederich Van Nuys of Indiana; Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska. Senator Warren Austin of Vermont; Senator Key Pittman of Nevada; Senator George McGill of Kansas; and Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico

Senate Judiciary Committee considers president's request to increase m...

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Fire prevention program gets Hartford Chamber of Commerce plaque. Washington, D.C., May 1. L.G. Purmont, President, Federation of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies from Van Wert, Ohio, presenting a plaque to two representatives of the Hartford, Conn. Fire Department for that city's success in the Chamber of Commerce's 1938 Fire Waste Contest. Left to right: Purmont, Dennis E. Finn and Michael T. Keene. The presentation was made at the opening meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention here today

Fire prevention program gets Hartford Chamber of Commerce plaque. Wash...

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President and Hull urge Congress to reconsider action on neutrality legislation. Washington, D.C., July 14. A photographic copy of the message sent to the House and Senate this afternoon by President Roosevelt and State Secretary Cordell Hull. The 11 page statement urged members of the House and Senate to reconsider its action on the neutrality legislation. Hull's 6-point program for keeping the U.S. out of war was reiterated, to which Sen. Nye remarked, 'It's the curtain drop. The message presented no new arguments, and repetition of old arguments invites old answers.' Majority leader Alben Barkley said the message 'is in harmony with our traditional policy and ought to receive the overwhelming approval of the country'

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Invitation and program. Ceremonies in recognition of the completion of the inclosing of the east corner milestone of the District of Columbia also in commemoration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the laying of the first corner

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Sen. McNary tells press that Republican Senators want lending bill amended. Washington, D.C., July 20. Senate minority leader Charles McNary seated at the conference table with reporters as he announced results of a Republican conference this morning on Sen. Alben barkley's lending bill. 'The Republicans will offer amendments calculated to remove some of the unusual powers contained in the program, decrease the appropriations and approve the bill if at all possible', he said. Sen. Barkley announced that he had changed the name of his bill from 'the self-liquidating projects act' to 'works financing act', and chanced the term 'self-liquidating' to 'recoverable assests!' 'There isn't [...]

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Organizing the First Convention of Women Voters Since Suffrage Passed. Officers of the National Woman's Party in active charge of preparations for the convention of their members which will decide the future of the organization, to meet in Washington, February 15-19, 1921, left to right: Miss Mabel Vernon, of Wilmington, Del., chairman of convention delegates; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia, chairman of the suffrage memorial committee; Alice Paul, national chairman of the Party; Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel of Washington, D.C., press chairman; Mrs. Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., political chairman; Miss Anita Pollitzer, program chairman.

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New York Mayor attends National Aviation Forum. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in a speech today before the National Aviation Forum cautioned against 'log rolling' [...] congressional consideration of national defense[?] bases included in the federal airport program. LaGuardia is pictured here with Edgar S. Gorrell, left, president of the Air Transport Association, and Edward J. Noble, chairman of Civil Aeronautics Authority

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Who's going to pitch? Washington, D.C., April 21. Like old line fans that they are, the nation's no.1 baseball fans look over the program first thing upon taking their seats. Senators Charles L. McNary of Oregon, and Carter Glass of Virginia, look over the line-up with Vice President John Garner before the beginning of today's game between the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees

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Washington school childrens' serenade of President and Mrs. Harding, as a feature of the Music Week program, which was to have been held at the Lincoln Memorial, was transferred to the East Room of the White House because of the rain

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Profit sharing program a success, Westinghouse executive tells senate committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. The Senate Finance Subcommittee was told today by W.G. Marshall, Vice President of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., that the profit sharing plan effected by his company has been found mutually satisfactory and beneficial to management and to workers. The Committee is investigating industrial profit sharing systems as a means of reducing economic strife and providing labor with a larger share of national income

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Pres. Coolidge signing the final veterans Bu. Hospital Bldg. bill at the W.H. [i.e., White House] during the garden party to the wounded soldiers. The bill provides for $6,800,000 for completing the hospital program. Center group, left to rt.: General Pershing, Mrs. Coolidge, Commander Andrews, Col. C.O. Sherrill, and Brig. General Frank T. Hines

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Representatives from AMA argue against Wagner health program bill. Washington, D.C., May 25. Dr. Morris Fishbein, President of the American Medical Association, and Sen. Allen Ellender of Louisiana, member of the Senate Committee which is holding hearings on a bill proposed by Sen. Robert Wagner to set into motion a $850,000,000 public health program. Officials of the AMA spent the day testifying in opposition to the bill

Representatives from AMA argue against Wagner health program bill. Was...

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AMA descends upon Wagner hearing today. Washington, D.C., May 25. Probably the most impressive group of physicians ever to appear before a Senate body today occupied the hearings of the Senate Committee holding hearings on the Wagner Health Bill. Armed with statistics and lengthy statements, a group of American Medical Association officers argued against passage of Senator Wagner's $850,000,000 national health program bill. Dr. R.G. Leland, Director of the Bureau of Medical Economics of the AMA, called the bill 'revolutionary' and suggested that public health is rapidly improving without the aid of such a program, as shown by official vital statistics. Left to right. Dr. Edward H. Cary, Chairman of the Legislative Committee, AMA, who introduced the speakers to the committee, and Dr. Leland

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Wisconsin sends giant cheese to Capital. Washington, D.C., April 25. Wisconsin is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee Cheese Week to commemorate the founding of their cheese industry in 1864, and as a part of the program, they sent, through the Department of Agriculture, a cheese weighing 2,200 lbs. 'Goliath' was met by Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin and Mrs. John Nance Garner at the Capitol and with the aid of pretty dairymaid Marjorie Boyd, they tossed samples to the crowds

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Commander-In-Chief of Veterans of Foreign Wars presents legislative program to president. President Coolidge and Lieut. Eugene P. Carver, Jr., of Boston, Massachusetts., Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, photographed at the White House today shortly after Commander Carver presented the legislative program of the veterans to the President

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Commander-In-Chief of Veterans of Foreign Wars presents legislative program to president. President Coolidge and Lieut. Eugene P. Carver, Jr., of Boston, Massachusetts., Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, photographed at the White House today shortly after Commander Carver presented the legislative program of the veterans to the President

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Senate Finance Committee begins work on new defense financing program. Washington, D.C., May 29. The Senate Finance Committee today began work on the new defense financing program. It is expected that a thorough revision of the nation's tax structure will be made in an effort to end deficit financing. In this picture, left to right, are members of the Committee. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman, Senator Robert F. Lafollette, Senator Arthur Capper, and Senator John C. Townsend

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Chief of U.S. Treasury procurement. Washington, D.C., June 29. Donald M. Nelson, Chief of the U.S. Treasury procurement, will have charge of streamlining procurement methods under the defense program as ordered by President Roosevelt. This is a new picture of Mr. Nelson, who is an executive Vice President of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.

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Secretary of Treasury Mellon and model of showing new buildings Uncle Sam will erect. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, who is chairman with the responsibility for the new government building Uncle Sam will erect in Washington and which will make the National Capital the finest Capital in the world. [...] is shown with the model for the new building program which he displayed to President Hoover and other high officials of the Government at a meeting at the United States Chamber of Commerce

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Leaders at Jewish congress. Washington, D.C., Nov. 29. Dr. Stephan S. Wise, (left) Rabbi of the Free Synagogue of New York City, and President of the American Jewish Congress being held locally at the Willard Hotel, snapped at yesterday's meeting with Dr. Harry A. Atkinson, Christian minister of Washington. In an address delivered to the Congress yesterday afternoon, Dr. Atkinson outlined a program for Jews and all others to combat anti-Semitism.

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President lights Christmas tree. President Hoover pressed the button which lighted Washington's community Christmas tree just before he began his brief "Merry Christmas" radio address to Americans from coast to coast. Mrs. Hoover accompanied the President to the impressive Christmas program, which included music by the U.S. Marine band. 12/24/30

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Capital slums to go under new low rent housing program. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Now that President Roosevelt has approved the $15,000,000 low rent housing program for the District of Columbia, such slum scenes as this will disappear from the 'city beautiful.' This picture was made within a stone's throw of the U.S. Capitol

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President Roosevelt approves D.C. low rent housing program. Capital slums to go. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. President Roosevelt's approval of the $15,000,000 low rent housing program for the District of Columbia means that slum sections, such as this one showing the House Office Building in the background, will disappear from the nation's Capital

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WPA Head urges expansion of Federal Works Program. Washington, D.C., April 8. In urging an expansion of the Federal Works Program and Social Security Aids, WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins told the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today that about 18,000,000 men, women, and children in 6,000,000 households were receiving public assistance at present as compared to a peak of 27,000,000 persons on the winter of 1933-34. For the reason that some un-employment will always be with us, Hopkins told the committee that the country must plan a permanent security program, 4/8/38

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Money man. J.R. McCarl, Comptroller General of the United States, photographed as he called at the White House to be one of the first to see the president upon his return from an extensive vacation. McCarl has been passing upon applications for funds on the WPA program

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Coal bill authors in Friday confl [...] Sen. Joseph F. Guffey (D. of Pa) at his desk in the Senate office bldg, receives a visit from Rep. Buell J. Snyder (D. of Penn) seen standing, Friday a.m. The Guffey coal bill, which Snyder co-authored to stabilize the bit[...] coal indus. has been lately sidetracked by the Pres. Tax program, but these two gentlemen have no intention of laying down on the job to protect the coal miner and this recent conference may have later significance when the "little NRA" coal bill gets back in the spotlight soon, to avert trouble with some 400,000 miners who are watching its progress in Wash.D.C. with keen and serious interest, 7/19/35

Coal bill authors in Friday confl [...] Sen. Joseph F. Guffey (D. of P...

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ROOSEVELT RETURNS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RETURNS FROM HIS SHORT TRIP TO HYDE PARK APPARENTLY AS FIT AS A FIDDLE AND READY FOR ANY SORT OF BATTLE WITH THE SENATE THAT IS NECESSARY TO BREAK THE DEAD-LOCK ON THIS RELIEF PROGRAM

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Attend youth conference with F.D.R. After conferring with Pres. Roosevelt and other leaders who will direct the new youth program now before the Administration, Asst. Sec. of Treasury and FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] Administration Harry L. Hopkins posed for this picture just before leaving the White House

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BIG STICK MAN. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH MADE TODAY, LOOKS HALE AND HEARTY AS HE COMPLETES HIS 'BIG STICK' ACT WHICH RESULTED IN CONGRESS JUMPING THROUGH THE HOOPS OF HIS MUST LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM WITH BUT MINOR HITCHES

BIG STICK MAN. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH MADE TODAY, LOO...

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Jaw bone doggling, Wash. D.C. These Democratic party leaders are forming an army of political amazons to go out into the field and fight for the retention of the present administration at the next presidential election. Mrs. Hugh Butler, center, wife of the Commercial Attache at the U.S. Embassy at London, is instructor in a special course of political public speaking. On the left is Mrs. Samuel Herrick, chairman of the Public Speaking program of the Women's division of the National Democratic party, and on the right is Mrs. George M. Eckels, vice president of the Women's National Democratic club, 11/26/35

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New deal for Old Dobbin. Rep. Percy L. Gassaway (cowboy and D. of Okla) isn't letting the Wash. heat wave deter him from getting ready to promote his own scheme for bringing back prosperity. He is giving Congress a week from Monday to perfect a plan. If Congress falls down, Cowboy Gassaway is going to work on a multi-ramified program which in general specifies the return of the horse and fewer automobiles. In one hour his week on a D.C. street is counted 1800 cars. "That's whats wrong!" he suggests. People will buy a gallon of gas when they have no "bread" or likker in the house." Gassaway is enjoying his electric fan while he dictates to his secretary, 7/6/35

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In spotlight at American youth meeting. Washington, D.C. Oct. 12. The American Youth Commission, formulated a year ago by the American Council on Education to prepare a program for the care and education of youth, met at the United States Chamber of Commerce today to hear reports and plan the 1937 program. Here we see Owen D. Young, (right) Vice Chairman of the commission who presented today, and Dr. Homer P. Rainey of the commission

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In spotlight at American youth meeting. Washington, D.C. Oct. 12. The American Youth Commission, formulated a year ago by the American Council on Education to prepare a program for the care and education of youth, met at the United States Chamber of Commerce today to hear reports and plan the 1937 program. Here we see Owen D. Young, (right) Vice Chairman of the commission who presented today, and Dr. Homer P. Rainey of the commission

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... Americanism versus communism Address of Hon. Patrick J. Hurley. Former Secretary of war at the United States Flag association program, July 4, 1935. Printed in the Congressional record of July 10, 1935. [Washington, D.C.] U. S. Government pr

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Leaders in drive to reduce death toll by motor vehicle accidents. Washington, D.C., Aug. 21. To reduce the death toll from motor accidents by adopting uniform traffic regulations throughout the United States was the object of the subcommittee of the Accident Prevention Conference meeting today at the Department of Commerce. Secretary of Commerce Daniel A. Roper, (right) who addressed the meeting today is shown with Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, Massachusetts, whose bill for an appropriation of $50,000 for, a national safety and prevention program, was passed by the last Congress; and Rep. Emmot O'Neal, of Kentucky

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WISCONSIN GIRL RECEIVES GORGAS AWARD FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 5. MISS HELEN MAE COLLENTINE, A SENIOR STUDENT AT MESSMER HIGH SCHOOL, MILWAUKEE, WI, RECEIVING FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY THE FIRST HENRY L. DOHERTY PRIZE OF$500 IN THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GORGAS ESSAY CONTEST. THE SUBJECT ASSIGNED WAS 'GORGAS CONTROL OF TRANSMISSIBLE AND [...] PREVENTABLE DISEASES.' THOUSANDS OF JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENTS REPRESENTING HIGH SCHOOLS IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES PARTICIPATED IN THE CONTEST WHICH IS CONDUCTED BY THE GORGAS MEMORIAL INSTITUTE AS PART OF ITS HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM. THE AWARD ALSO INCLUDED $200 FOR MISS COLLENTINE'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: MISS COLLENTINE, MRS. HENRY DOUHERTY; ADMIRAL CARY GRAYSON, DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS; AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

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Mail order head at White House conference. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Robert E. Wood, President of Sears-Roebuck was in a White House conference today with President Roosevelt, federal officials and other business men to discuss a home building program planned for next year. 11/10/37

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Cotton state Solons present demands for enactment of farm program to president. Washington, D.C., Aug 5. Led by Senator Ellison D. "Cotton Ed" Smith, of South Carolina, a delegation of congressmen from the cotton states called on President Roosevelt today and presented their demands for enactment of a farm program before congressional adjournment. After the conference a spokesman for the group told reporters he felt the president would make stabilization loans under existing discretionary powers, probably through the Commodity Credit Corporation, on all basic commodities if given "definite assurances" that a farm production control program would be enacted early next session. In the picture, left to right: Rep. William R. Poage, Texas; Rep. John J. Sparkman, Ala.; Senator Ellison D. Smith, S.C.; Rep. Rene L. De Rouen, LA.; Rep. Lyndon Johnson, Tex.; Rep. Aaron Lane Ford, Miss. and Rep. Clyde Garrett, Texas, 8/5/37

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Head of Sears-Roebuck approves Roosevelt housing program. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. Robert E. Wood, (left) President of Sears- Roebuck Co., today told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that the proposed New Housing Program "provides for the first time the mechanics to allow a man in the low income group to buy a house". Wood is shown with Senator Robert F. Wagner, author of the Wagner Housing Act. 12/6/37

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Grand jury "killed" union-sponsored program in Harlan County, Ky. Washington, D.C., April 27. Appearing before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee today, former Rep. John Young Brown related how a union-sponsored radio program, designed to give publicity to the conditions in "Bloody Harlan" County, was destroyed because the Harlan grand jury threaten to summon all participants in the program. Brown added, "the man scheduled to make the next speech on the program, which was sponsored by the United Mine Workers, suddenly developed business in Chicago, another lost his way while coming to the studio, and another didn't get there on time," 4271937

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Philippine President broadcasts to home folks. Washington, D.C., April 5. President Manuel Quezon of Philippine Commonwealth broadcast from Washington today to his fellow-countrymen in Manila. For the 25 minutes he was on the air, President Quezon discussed woman suffrage and urged the 10-year independence program be limited to a shorter period, 4/5/1937

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Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28. A huge photographic map which when completed will have cost $3,000,000, is being put together by the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, Department of Agriculture, in Washington. Approximately one-thrid of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air from a distance of three to five miles up. The idea behind this gigantic job is to determine compliance in the Agricultural Conservation Program, plan soil conservation or Public Works projects, lay out roads, forests and public parks, drainage ditches, dams and lakes and also to seek to improve National Defense. (1) C.E. Kowalczyk, AAA worker, is shown making a stereoscopic examination of the finished photographic prints to determine the relief or elevation of land surface. 7/28/37

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Declares farmers against Roosevelt judiciary reorganization plan. Washington, D.C., March 24. Louis J. Taber, Master of the National Grange, clenches his fists to emphasize a point today as he appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to express his organization's opposition to the president's court reorganization plan. Taber declared the "grass roots" of America opposed the program because it threatened to result in Supreme Court that would be "supreme in it's political guess work," 3/24/1937

Declares farmers against Roosevelt judiciary reorganization plan. Wash...

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U.S. Forest Service could be scuttled if government reorganization plan goes thru, senate committee told. Washington, D.C., Aug 3. Appearing before the Senate Committee considering President Roosevelt's Government Reorganization Program, Col. W.B. Greely former Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, gave warning today that powers granted in the bill might mean the Forest Service "would be dismembered like Poland, scattered to the four winds or abolished altogether". He also charged that the proposal to change the name of the Interior Department to the Department of Conservation was a plan to transfer the Forest Service out of the Department of Agriculture to the Interior Department, 8/3/37

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House ways and means chairman confers with president. Washington, D.C., Nov. 27. Rep. Robert L. Doughton, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, leaving the White House today after discussing with President Roosevelt the program now before Congress. 11/27/37

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Wallace endorses new AAA. Washington, D.C., May 28. Appearing before the House Agricultural Committee today, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace flatly endorsed the proposed act "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1937" which was recently drawn up. It has been estimated that the new program would cost between $250,000,000 and $750,000,000 annually. Wallace said the bill had two fundamental purposes: "safegaurding of nation's food and protection of the farm income", 5/28/37

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Head of congressional bloc to help butter, cheese and egg producers. Washington, D.C., Nov. 8. Dairy State Legislators opened a drive today to force the House Agricultural Committee to include in the new Farm Bill a program of benefits for the nation's butter, cheese and milk producers. Headed by Rep. August H. Anderson, R. of Minn. a bloc of Congressmen plan to meet with representatives of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation to work out details for a proposed three point program for dairy farmers. The program includes: increased tariff on dairy imports as well as vegetable oils, regulation of imports so that the incoming products will have to meet the same sanitary requirements as the domestic - a provision that could amount to embargo in some cases, bloc members said. Limitation on the use of cotton and tobacco acreage for dairying purposes. 11/8/37

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Before Senate Judiciary Committee. Washington, D.C., March 20. Irving Grant, St. Louis editor, told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that "it is disastrous to leave the destinies of the United States" in the hands of five Supreme Court Justices "who have usurped the policy making functions of the government" while supporting the president's judiciary program. Grant added that he believed the proposed bill was "faulty" because it provided for a permanent increase in court membership up to 15, 3/20/1937

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Middleweight champion expert rope skipper. Washington D.C. July 16. Rope skipping plays an important part in the training program of middleweight champion Freddied Steele, as he prepares for his coming battle on July 20 with Hobo Williams at Griffith Stadium. The championship will be at stake in the fight which is being sponsored by the Variety Club of Washington. 7/16/37

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Judiciary Committee hears N.Y. Supreme Justice on proposed Court reform plan. Washington, D.C., March 20. Ferdinand Pecora (left) New York Supreme Court Justice and former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that he favored the president's plan for reorganization of the Judiciary. Pecora drew upon his experience as an investigator for the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to outline a broad situation which he said required the President's program as a solution. He is shown with Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, 3/20/1937

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Supreme Court "rock of ages" says Rabbi. Washington, D.C., April 21. Rabbi William F. Rosenblum of New York urged the Senate Judiciary Committee today to reject president's court program and "keep America safe from crackpots and the lunatic fringe." That the supreme judiciary is the rock of ages against which demagoguery and dictatorship alike will be dashed to pieces, 4/21/1937

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Head of congressional bloc to help butter, cheese and egg producers. Washington, D.C., Nov. 8. Dairy State Legislators opened a drive today to force the House Agricultural Committee to include in the new Farm Bill a program of benefits for the nation's butter, cheese and milk producers. Headed by Rep. August H. Anderson, R. of Minn. a bloc of Congressmen plan to meet with representatives of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation to work out details for a proposed three point program for dairy farmers. The program includes: increased tariff on dairy imports as well as vegetable oils, regulation of imports so that the incoming products will have to meet the same sanitary requirements as the domestic - a provision that could amount to embargo in some cases, bloc members said. Limitation on the use of cotton and tobacco acreage for dairying purposes. 11837

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Philippine president broadcasts to home folks. Washington, D.C., April 5. President Manuel Quezon of Philippine Commonwealth broadcast from Washington today to his fellow-countrymen in Manila. For the 25 minutes he was on the air, President Quezon discussed woman suffrage and urged the 10-year independence program be limited to a shorter period, 4/5/1937

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Senate Committee hears noted woman columnist and author on president's court reform plan. Washington, D.C., March 31. Dorothy Thompson, noted newspaperwoman and author, told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that as "a researcher into the mortality of republics" she feared that under President Roosevelt's Judiciary program America would go the way of European Democracies fallen under Dictatorship. "You say it couldn't happen here, but it has happened here," added the writer as she cited past infringement on the rights of minorities which have been frustrated by the Supreme Court, 3/31/1937

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New dust bowl program for southwest. Washington, D.C., June 2. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace today appointed Roy I. Kimmel, of Amarillo, Texas to coordinate a broad federal proram to rehabilitate the soil conservation, resettlement and AAA wind erosion program in 100 counties, comprimising 140,000 sq miles, in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. Kimbel has been in charge of the RA Rehabilitation Program in the southwest, his appointment is effective for an indefinite term, 6/2/37

New dust bowl program for southwest. Washington, D.C., June 2. Secreta...

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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan St...

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Discuss low-cost housing problems. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. John H. Fahey, Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, discuss the many problems confronting them in putting into operation the $500,000,000 Wagner Housing Act. Housing experts from all parts of the country met with Ickes and Fahey today to promulgate a program of low-rent housing construction and slum clearance under the newly created United States Housing Authority. 9/20/37

Discuss low-cost housing problems. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. John H....

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Grand jury "killed" union-sponsored program in Harlan County, Ky. Washington, D.C., April 27. Appearing before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee today, former Rep. John Young Brown related how a union-sponsored radio program, designed to give publicity to the conditions in "Bloody Harlan" County, was destroyed because the Harlan grand jury threaten to summon all participants in the program. Brown added, "the man scheduled to make the next speech on the program, which was sponsored by the United Mine Workers, suddenly developed business in Chicago, another lost his way while coming to the studio, and another didn't get there on time," 4/27/1937

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Pennsy VP before Senate Rail Inquiry. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. After hearing Chairman Wheeler of the Senate Inquiry charge the Pennsylvania Railroad with violating ICC decisions and concealing facts from stockholders in purchasing railroad stocks from 1925 to 1928, [...]County Financial Vice President of the Road, testified the purchases were made to protect the interests of the stockholders. He added this was in line with a program then being considered to divide the Railroads of the East into four great systems. 12/21/37

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Senatorial headache. Washington, D.C., March 19. A veteran of many Senate investigations and hearings, Senator George W. Norris, of Nebraska, has discovered the present hearing on the President's Judiciary program just another headache. [...]askans was snapped as he attended today's session [...] Senate Judiciary Committee, 3/19/1937

Senatorial headache. Washington, D.C., March 19. A veteran of many Sen...

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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan St...

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New dust bowl program for southwest. Washington, D.C., June 2. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace today appointed Roy I. Kimmel, of Amarillo, Texas to coordinate a broad federal proram to rehabilitate the soil conservation, resettlement and AAA wind erosion program in 100 counties, comprimising 140,000 sq miles, in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. Kimbel has been in charge of the RA Rehabilitation Program in the southwest, his appointment is effective for an indefinite term. Shown left to right in the picture are; Wallace, Kimmel, and Asst. Sec. of Agriculture M.L. Wilson [...] 6/2/37

New dust bowl program for southwest. Washington, D.C., June 2. Secreta...

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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan St...

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Head of Sears-Roebuck approves Roosevelt housing program. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. Robert E. Wood, (left) President of Sears- Roebuck Co., today told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that the proposed New Housing Program "provides for the first time the mechanics to allow a man in the low income group to buy a house". Wood is shown with Senator Robert F. Wagner, author of the Wagner Housing Act. 12637

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Agriculture secretary gives views on housing to senate committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 3. Members of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee hear Secretary of Agriculture detail the steps he is taking to bring farmers within the scope of the New Housing Program proposed by President Roosevelt. In the photograph, left to right: official Senate reporter; Senator John G. Townsend; Senator Robert F. Wagner; Majority Leader Alvin Barkley; and Secretary Wallace. 12/3/37

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In spotlight at hearing on Government Reorganization Program. Washington, D.C., Aug 4. Luther Gulick, (right) member of the President's Reorganization Advisory Committee, is informally questioned by Senator [...] F. Byrd, preceding his (Gulick) appearance before the Senate Committee studying the Robinson Government Reorganization Bill. After cross-examining Gulick, Senator Byrd attacked the power given the Presdient in the Robinson Bill as a "Sud[...] on the part of Congress, 8/4/37

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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan St...

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Urges strong U.S. Navy. Washington, D.C., Feb. 26. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison today told the House Naval Affairs Committee that the future peace of the United States is "directly dependent" on maintaining a navy so strong that no nation will risk war with this country. He is testifying on President Roosevelt's billion dollar Naval Expansion program, 2/26/38

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Select Star American Farmer. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. A committee met in the Office of Education, Department Interior today to select the Star American Farmer of this year. Contestants for the honor are students of vocational agriculture in highschools throughout the United States. They are judged for thier demonstrated ability to farm by having conducted and outstanding program of supervised farming in connection with agricultural school work, their ability to work with others in agricultural enterprises, and scholastic achievement. First prize in $500 in cash awarded by the Kansas City Star. In the photograph, left to right: (Front Row) Dr. George F. Zook, President of the American Council on Education; Sherman E. Johnson, Chief, Division of Farm Management, Dept. of Agriculture; and S.G. McAllister, President of the International Harvester Corp. Back row, left to right: J.A. Linke, Chief of the Agricultural Education Service, Office of Education; Lester Poucher, President of the Future Farmers of America; and W.A. Ross, also of Agricultural Education Service. The winner of the award will not be announced until October 15 in Kansas City at the annual convention of the F.A.A., 10/7/38

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Rail executive confers with president. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. Following a conference with President Roosevelt today on the carriers wage controversy, J.J. Pelley, President of the Association of American Railroads, announced that the President seeks settlement of the dispute without trouble on a peaceful basis. Pelley said the president assured him the Administration would support a constructive rail rehabilitation program in the next Congress, 10/31/38

Rail executive confers with president. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. Foll...

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Speaker of House discusses legislative program with President. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead arriving at the White House today for a conference with President Roosevelt. Upon leaving, Bankhead told newsmen he had discussed with President Roosevelt this session's legislative program and also made arrangements for the message the Chief Executive will deliver to Congress on January 4, 122238

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Boston merchant before senate committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. Louis E. Kirstein, Boston merchant, appearing before the senate unemployment committee, said "that developments have reached the stage in this country where no one group of agencies can deal adequately with the totality of community needs." "Neither the federal, state, nor local city or town units meet these needs. In other words," he said, "what we need is a program in which every agency, public or private, federal, state, or local will play its part without sacrificing any of the values and special contributions which each type or agency can make," 1/13/38

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Describes value of subsidy for creative work. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. The value of federal "subsidy" for creative work was described to the House Patents Committee today by Mrs. Ellen S. Wooward, Assistant WPA Administrator in charge of the Government Creative Work Program. Without mentioning a resolution under consideration to establish a permanent Federal Arts Department, Miss Woodward gave it approval and told of the work relief theater, arts, music, writers and historical survey projects, 3/7/38

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What next? Unborn baby's heartbeat broadcast from Washington hospital. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. As part of an educational program, the heartbeats of an unborn baby were broadcast today from Georgetown University Hospital. This was made possible by the use of a specially designed microphone placed on the chest of the expectant mother, the mother Addie Gonyea, is shown with left to right; Dr. J.G. Burd, Dr. John Cavanagh, announcer Bill Coyle of the N.B.C. and Dr. Henry B. Gwynn, 9/13/38

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Ready for the gong. Washington, D.C., Dec. 23. A conference between Vice President Garner and Speaker of the House Bankhead today set the machinery in motion for the opening of Congress on January 3. Neither would commit himself on the legislative program planned, 12/23/38

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President organizes $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. Washington, D.C., April 11. President Roosevelt met with his Relief and Congressional Aides today to the personal command of a new administration fight to check business recession with a $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. The president subordinated all other White House business to efforts to hammer his lending and spending program into shape as a major New Deal offensive against recession and unemployment, left to right: Director of the Budget Daniel Bell, Sen. James F. Byrnes, SC. Sen. Carter Glass of Virginia, Majority Leader of the House Sen. Sam Rayburn of Tex., Sen Kenneth McKeller of Tenn., Sec. of Treasury Henry Morenthau, and in the rear, Rep. Edward Johnson, of Colo., April 11, 1938

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Drawing plans for the new building program. Washington, D.C., June 6. A general view of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division showing architects at work drawing plans for the new building program under the recently approved Relief-Recovery Act. Blueprints at the rate of 30,000 a day are being made from the designs drafted by the federal architects, 7/6/38

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President Roosevelt approves D.C. low rent housing program. Capital slums to go. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. President Roosevelt's approval of the $15,000,000 low rent housing program for the District of Columbia means that slum sections, such as this one showing the House Office Building in the background, will disappear from the nation's Capital

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Low rent housing may be expanded. Washington, D.C., April 11. A White House conference with officials of Government Housing today brought a suggestion that the Low Rent, Housing and Slum Clearance Program may be expanded, the conferences discussed what they characterized as the "General Program" presumed to refer to proposals for new PWA expenditures, left to right: Nathan Straus, Chief of U.S. Housing Authority, Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Sec. of the Interior, Sec. of the Interior Harold Ickes, and Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing Administrator, 4/11/38

Low rent housing may be expanded. Washington, D.C., April 11. A White ...

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