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Business and industry to have important voice in current monopoly investigation is plan. Washington, D.C., Oct. 6. Plans to give business and industry and important voice in the current New Deal monopoly investigation were formulated today at a meeting of the President's advisory council at the Department of Commerce. In the picture, left to right: W. Averell Harriman, Chairman of the Council; Secretary of Commerce Daniel A. Roper; Willard L. Thorp, Advisor to the Department of Commerce on Economic Studies and a member of the Monopoly Committee; and Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson, also a member of the committee, 10638

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Business and industry to have important voice in current monopoly investigation is plan. Washington, D.C., Oct. 6. Plans to give business and industry and important voice in the current New Deal monopoly investigation were formulated today at a meeting of the President's advisory council at the Department of Commerce. In the picture, left to right: W. Averell Harriman, Chairman of the Council; Secretary of Commerce Daniel A. Roper; Willard L. Thorp, Advisor to the Department of Commerce on Economic Studies and a member of the Monopoly Committee; and Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson, also a member of the committee, 10638

Monopoly Committee told huge corporations control American business. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. Dr. Willard Thorp, Dun and Bradstreet Economist now with the Commerce Department, today by means of charts and graphs pictured to the Temporary National Economic Committee how American business is one of tightly concentrated power and assets in the hands of huge corporations. Thorp said about one fifth of the total business enterprises disappear each year at the rate of 1150 a day

In spotlight as monopoly investigating committee opens public hearings. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. The Temporary Economic Committee, Joint Legislative-Executive Body Created to Study Economic Ills and Recommend Remedial Legislation, opened public hearings at the Capitol today. These members of the Committee got together for an informal conference just before the hearing opened. Left to right - Rep. Hatton W. Sumners, Co-Chairman - Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Co-chairman - Senator William E. Borah, and Senator William H. King

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

Monopoly Committee begins study of steel industry. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Leaders of the nation's steel business were on hand at the Capitol today as the National Monopoly Committee began a study of the $4,000,000,000 industry. Here we see, left to right: Senator William H. King, a member of the committee, Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel Corporation, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, co-chairman of the committee, Nathan L. Miller, General Counsel for U.S. Steel Corp., and Benjamin F. Fairless, President of U.S. Steel Corp.

Monopoly huddle. Washington, D.C., July 1. Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (left) of Wyoming, named Chairman of the Congressional Monopoly Committee at their first meeting today, discusses with Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney, the legal aspects of the Monopoly Investigation which is designed to setermine the effect of concentrated wealth and power on business. Arnold is a member of the committee, 7/1/38

Monopoly Committee begins study of steel industry. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Leaders of the nation's steel business were on hand at the Capitol today as the National Monopoly Committee began a study of the $4,000,000,000 industry. Here we see, left to right: Senator William H. King, a member of the committee, Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel Corporation, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, co-chairman of the committee, Nathan L. Miller, General Counsel for U.S. Steel Corp., and Benjamin F. Fairless, President of U.S. Steel Corp

Congressional monopoly committee holds initial meeting. Washington, D.C., July 1. The Congressional Executive Committee to investigate monopolies held their first meeting today and charted a course designed to determine the efffect of concentrated wealth and power on business. Pictured, left to right: (sitting) Senator William E. Borah, Herman Oliphant, General Counsel for Treasury; Senator William H. King, Utah; Senator Hoseph C. O'Mahoney, of Wyoming and Chairman of the Committee; Rep. Hatton W. Sumners, of Texas and Vice Chairman; Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General; and Rep. Edward C. Eicher of Iowa. Standing left to right: Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Garland S. Ferguson, Chairman of Federal Trade Commission; William O. Douglas, Chairman of S.E.C.; Isador Lubin Chief of Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor; and Rep. Edward H. Rees of Kansas, 7/1/38

Monopoly huddle. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. At this informal conference just before the Monopoly Committee opened today's hearing can be seen, left to right: Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney, S.E.C. Commissioner Jerome Frank, and Hugh B. Cox, Special Assistant to the Attorney General. In opening today's hearing on the glass industry's patent policies, Cox said the Justice Department seeks to disclose the relation between patent laws and enforcement of anti-trust laws, 12/12/38

Business and industry to have important voice in current monopoly investigation is plan. Washington, D.C., Oct. 6. Plans to give business and industry and important voice in the current New Deal monopoly investigation were formulated today at a meeting of the President's advisory council at the Department of Commerce. In the picture, left to right: W. Averell Harriman, Chairman of the Council; Secretary of Commerce Daniel A. Roper; Willard L. Thorp, Advisor to the Department of Commerce on Economic Studies and a member of the Monopoly Committee; and Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson, also a member of the committee, 10/6/38

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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.

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William W. Averell to Henry W. Halleck, Saturday, December 26, 1863 (Telegram concerning military affairs)

Oswego, New York. Willard DiSantis, sixteen-year old high school boy who made seventy-six model planes for the U.S. Navy, and was awarded the honarary rank of admiral

U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce hears Admiral Stark. Washington, D.C., June 20. Speaking before the National Convention of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce today, Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, U.S.N., called for self-sacrifice and strengthening of the 'moral fiber' to prepare the U.S. for what he said may be the last stand against 'the vaunted efficiency and ruthless methods of dictatorship.' Left to right in the picture: Admiral Harold R. Stark; Joe E. Levitt, Vice President of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the morning meeting, and Henry F. Grady, Assistant Secretary of State

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Washington, D.C. Mario Verdi (left), OWI (Office of War Information) radio commentator for Italy, visiting Mr. Leo Crowley, administrator of the Federal Economic Administration

Will represent U.S. at nine power treaty conference in Brussels. Washington, D.C., Oct. 18. The United States Delegates to the Conference of Nine-Power Treaty Signatories ... Brussels held their first meeting at the state ... today to discuss preliminary arrangements. In the photograph, left to right: (Seated) Stanley ..., Advisor; Norman Davis, Chief Delegate; ... P. Moffatt, Advisor. Standing, left to right: ... E. Bohlen, Secretary; and Robert T. Pell, ... Relations Officer, 101837

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P. H. Townsend to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, October 03, 1860 (Economic situation in Kansas)

$119,000,000,000 lost to American wage earners during nine years of unemployment. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Questioned by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, right, Co-chairman of the Joint Monopoly Committee, Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Depart. Of Labor, explains with a special chart how American wage and salary earners have lost $119,000,000,000 during nine years of unemployment. Lubin was the first witness before the Committee, Joint Legislative-Executive Body Created to Study Economic Ills and Recommend Remedial Legislation

Willard Whitmore, editor, Chronicle / Beal's Art Gallery, Minneapolis, Minn.

White House conference on unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Sept. 24. Holding his first press conference today, John D. Biggers, Administrator of the Unemployment Census, announced that he had called a conference at the White House on Monday to formulate plans for the first unemployment census ever conducted in the United States. Included among those invited to the meeting were John L. Lewis, CIO head; William Green, A.F. of L. President; George H. Davis, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council; and Leaders of Farm and Cooperative Groups.

Pan American Union leaders luncheon to Minister of Nicaragua. The Director of the Pan American Union, Dr. Leo S. Rowe gave a luncheon in honor of the Minister from Nicaragua Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, today. In the front row, left to right: Lawrence Richey, secretary to President Hoover; Nicaraguan Minister Dr. Juan B. Sacasa; Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis; Francis White, Assistant Secretary of State

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