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A black and white photo of two men sitting at a desk, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of two men sitting at a desk. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

New assistant Secretary of State. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. High R. Wilson, American Minister to Switzerland since 1927, today assumed his new post as Assistant Secretary of State. He succeeds Sumner Welles, who was promoted to be Undersecretary. A State Department career man, Wilson is a native of Illinois. 8/24/37

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

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Federal Housing executive promoted. Washington, D.C., May 12. Frederick M. Babcock has been named Director of the newly established Underwriting Division of the Federal Housing Administration. Babcock, Chief of the Underwriting Section until it was reorganized into a division, has been with the Federal Housing since 1934. Under his direction the Babcock System of Appraisal was established and the Babcock Manual on this subject has now become accepted as standard generally throughout the United States. He is a native of Illinois and a graduate of Northwestern University, 5121937

Congratulations new U.S. Housing chief. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Secretary Of Interior Harold Ickes (left) congratulates Nathan Straus, New York Housing expert, on his appointment as Head of the new U.S. Housing Administration. Straus will be responsible for carrying out provisions of the $526,000,000 Wagner Act whereby the new deal hopes to clear city slums and make low cost housing available. Ickes and Straus are shown as they left the White house following a conference with President Roosevelt. 10/20/37

Housing Administrator asks for funds to continue building low-rent homes. Washington, D.C., April 7. U.S.H.A. Administrator Nathan Straus appeared before a Senate Education and Labor Sub-committee today to urge and additional authorization of $845,000,000 to continue his agency's program of low-rent dwellings. He said that, in addition to providing homes of good quality, work would be provided, directly and indirectly(?), for 355,000 persons. 4-7-39 Sen. Allen Ellender, La., Nathan Straus, Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio

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. 11/22/37

Housing Administrator asks for funds to continue building low-rent homes. Washington, D.C., April 7. U.S.H.A. Administrator Nathan Straus appeared before a Senate Education and Labor Sub-committee today to urge and additional authorization of $845,000,000 to continue his agency's program of low-rent dwellings. He said that, in addition to providing homes of good quality, work would be provided, directly and [indirectly](?), for 355,000 persons. 4-7-39 Sen. Allen Ellender, La., Nathan Straus, Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio.

Congratulations new U.S. Housing chief. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Secretary Of Interior Harold Ickes (left) congratulates Nathan Straus, New York Housing expert, on his appointment as Head of the new U.S. Housing Administration. Straus will be responsible for carrying out provisions of the $526,000,000 Wagner Act whereby the new deal hopes to clear city slums and make low cost housing available. Ickes and Straus are shown as they left the White house following a conference with President Roosevelt. 102037

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

Housing heads at White House conference Washington D.C., July 14. At the White House yesterday President Roosevelt announced that the government was going to study the possibility of forming limited dividend corporations on the same theory as building and loan associations which would construct apartments for people who rent instead of purchase. Left to right: Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Statistics Dept. of Labor, Secretary of Labor Perkins, and Stewart McDonald Federal Housing Administrator, 71437

Big talk on little houses. These high officials of the New Deal's housing family photographed as they concluded a conference with President Roosevelt. From the left: Stewart McDonald, head of the [FHA?]; Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Morris L. Coske, head of Rural Electrification, and Peter Grimm, housing expert working in the Treasury Department. Grimm and his associates from New York are concluding a report on housing conditions east of the Mississippi which is expected to show only from 2 to 4 percent vacancies. His report to the President is expected to have a bearing on the future policy of both Federal Housing, Works Progress Administration, the Rural Electrification program and Rural Resettlement, 10/29/35

Federal Housing executive promoted. Washington, D.C., May 12. Frederick M. Babcock has been named Director of the newly established Underwriting Division of the Federal Housing Administration. Babcock, Chief of the Underwriting Section until it was reorganized into a division, has been with the Federal Housing since 1934. Under his direction the Babcock System of Appraisal was established and the Babcock Manual on this subject has now become accepted as standard generally throughout the United States. He is a native of Illinois and a graduate of Northwestern University, 5/12/1937

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Johnson & Johnson, executive offices, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Foyer carpet, detail

Graduate register nurse, above, receives instruction in technique of anesthesia from doctor. There is a great demand for more well qualified anesthetists at present

Increased business volume key to recovery. Hopkins new Executive Assistant. Washington, D.C., April 13. In his first Press Conference today, Edward J. Noble, newly appointed Assistant to Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, told newsmen that he thought the key to recovery was to increase business volume. He said that if volume could be increased to a sufficiently high level, tax rates could be lowered without disturbing the government's revenue. 4-13-39

Seamen's Bank, 30 Wall St., New York, New York. Director's dining room II

Closed old court; will open in? Frank J. Wideman, Assistant Attorney General in the Tax Division, will represent the government in the first case to go before the Supreme Court in the new building, and he holds the honor of arguing the last case to be heard in the old Supreme Court quarters. He has won 10 out of his last 11 cases. He represented the government, and won, in the Sandy-Fox case last session, which involved the Five Civilized Indian Tribes vis the United States. He will defend the government in the Douglas-Willicutts case, in which Edward B. Douglas seeks a return of tax money from Levi M. Willicutts, Collector of Internal Revenue, 10/4/35

FIRST DIVISION, A.E.F. AMERICAN EXPIDITIONARY FORCES. PERSHING AND BAKER AT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk writing, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

Mr. Eugene R. Guinter. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Chinese technical experts inspect reference material in University of Maryland library where they are attending UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) training center. From left: Miss Ing (from Far Eastern Division, China branch, UNRRA Washington D.C. office); C.C. Chen, N.F. Chang, Miss Eleanor Hindler (special consultatnt, ILO office, Montreal, acting as coordinator of the course for Chinese technical experts at UNRRA training center); Chuan-Kwang Lin; W.T. Chang

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve center of civilian defense communications. A message center keeps constantly in touch with developments throughout the city by telephone and radio. A vital part of civilian defense work is the proper handling of trouble calls, assignment of crews to troubled areas and the passing on of orders for prompt action. One operator is connected with the first aid center, one with the decontamination squad, one with the disaster unit and another with the emergency service division. Girls shown at work in the message center of central alarm system, Washington, D.C.

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district of columbia washington dc glass negatives federal executive frederick frederick m babcock director division administration chief section direction system babcock system appraisal graduate northwestern university northwestern university united states history library of congress