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Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control projects, Washington, D.C., August 10. Seeking a decision as to what flood control projects will be started as soon as Congress makes available $330,000,000 authorized in the omnibus flood control ? as well as projects that can be begun with funds now on hand, President Roosevelt called in those administration experts today. Left to right: Frederick A. Doland and Abel Wolman, of National Resources Board; H.H. Bennett, Director of Soil Conservation, Dept. of Agriculture; General Edward M. Markham, Chief of U.S. Army Engineers; and Aubrey Williams, Assistant Administrator of WPA
Private power interest against administration flood control and power bill, Rep. Rankin. Washington D.C. June 28. Appearing before the Senate agriculture today, Rep. John E. Rankin of Mississippi, declared that private power interests are opposing the administration's flood control and power bill because "they don't want to give electricity to the American people at what its worth" He added "they know it would control floods, better than ever before, and improve navigation, but still they are in opposition to the bill". 6/28/37
Secretary of Agriculture and governor of Wyoming before house rivers and harbors comm. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, (right) and Governor Leslie Miller, of Wyoming, meet just before they appeared before the House Rivers and Harbors Committee. Wallace proposed to the committee that the regional planning bill be amended to make the Planning Authority more advisory. Gov. Miller charged that the bill in its present form would wipe out state lines and destroy state sovereignties. 11/30/37
Former New York Mayor and Mrs. Walker, callers at White House. Washington, D.C., July 19. "I wouldn't accept the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City for anything", former Mayor Jimmy Walker, told newsmen today as he emerged from a conference with President Roosevelt. Accompanied by Mrs. Walker the former Mayor said he did not talk politics with the president but discussed a Hudson River Bridge project--a $150,000,000 railroad freight project across the Hudson River at 57th Street combined with low-rent housing project along Ninth and Tenth Avenues, 71937
Vice President gets report of rivers and harbors congress. Washington, D.C., April 5. A Committee of Senators and Congressmen today presented to Vice President Garner the resolutions and projects adopted by the Annual Meeting of the Rivers and Harbors Congress. Vice President Garner has gone on record as approving the work of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, which adopted 51 projects involving expenditures of $6,689,946, which the Federal Congress will be asked in the petitions to make immediately available. In the photo, left to right - Vice President Garner - Senator John E. Miller of Arkansas - and Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri, newly elected President of the Rivers and Harbors Congress. 4-5-39
Congressional group asks $80,000,000 for flood control. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. President Roosevelt today canvassed proposals for flood control measures with a house delegation placing emphasis on need for a program in the Ohio River Valley. The House Delegates asked the president to support and $80,000,000 program for flood control in the Ohio Valley. They are shown as they left the White House, left to right, front: Joseph A. Dixon, Ohio; James G. Folk, Ohio; Eugene P. Crowe, Ind.; G.W. Johnson, West Virginia; Lawrence E. Imhoff, Ohio. In the rear: Peter J. De Muth, PA.; Kent Keller, Ill.; Brent Spencer, KY, 3/7/38
Secretary of Agriculture and governor of Wyoming before house rivers and harbors comm. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, (right) and Governor Leslie Miller, of Wyoming, meet just before they appeared before the House Rivers and Harbors Committee. Wallace proposed to the committee that the regional planning bill be amended to make the Planning Authority more advisory. Gov. Miller charged that the bill in its present form would wipe out state lines and destroy state sovereignties. 113037
Housing experts confer with U.S. director. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Leaders of housing projects in the country's largest cities today met with Nathan Straus, Director of the U.S. Housing Authority, to exchange ideas and discuss housing plans now under way. This is the meeting Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, of New York declined to attend. In the front row, left to right: George Green, Vice Chairman, Boston Housing Authority; Administrator Nathan Straus; and Ernest J. Bohn, member of Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. Back row, left to right: Mrs. George Green; Walter Wright Alley, Executive Director Los Angeles Municipal Housing Commission; Coleman Woodbury, Director, National Association of Housing Officials and member of the Chicago Housing Authority; George Evans, Chairman, Penna. State Housing Board and Pittsburgh Housing Authority; and Marc J. Grossman, Chairman, Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. 112237
Old Bureau ready to do work of proposed economics agency. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. Alexander V. Dye, Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, which has had its appropriation reduced to less than half what it was in 1932, today said his Bureau is ready and able to advise the administration on dangerous economic measures. He made this answer when asked whether his agency could perform the functions which President Roosevelt, in his recent message to Congress on the dangers of monopoly, suggested be given a new agency, to be known as the Bureau of Industrial Economics, 5638
Appear before house rivers and harbors committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 23. Stuart Chase, (left) New York economist, and L.C. Sabine, of Cleveland, Vice-President of the Lake Carriers Association, were the first witnesses called today as the House Rivers and Harbors Committee began hearings on a bill to create seven Regional Planning Authorities. Chase told the committee "that free competition no longer is operating over a broad part of the economic front." He predicted further dislocation of man and his natural resources unless there is planned economics and conservation. 11/23/37
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