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Hopkins gives testimony. Harry Hopkins of FERA, left, is cross examined by Rep. Roy O. Woodruff, R. of Mich. when the FERA Administrator appeared to support the Administration's Social Security program which is being examined by the Ways and Means Committee of the House. 12335

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Inauguration of the Palestine Broadcasting Service. March 30 -1936. Lt. Col. William Hudson, Postmaster General, introducing H.E. (i.e., His Excellency) Ramallah

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Involuntary unemployment dangerous to public health. U.S. Surgeon General. Washington, D.C., March 16. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran declared that involuntary unemployment "breeds pathological political philosophies, subversive to our present democratic institutions". Speaking as a doctor and not as an economist, Dr. Parran urged that employment be provided for all who are willing and able to work. Idle hands are dangerous to public health, Dr. Parran indicated in his statement, 3/16/38

Counting of returns from unemployment questionnaire gets under way. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Tabulation of the returns from the millions of unemployment questionnaires mailed out last week was started today when final instructions were issued by John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Director, to the hundreds of clerks employed to accomplish the huge task. Left to right: Director John D. Biggers; William L. Austin, Director of the Census; and Frederick A. Gosnell, representing the Lost Census Bureau at the Unemployment Census Tabulating, 112437

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

Surgeon General breaks ground for cancer institute. Bethesda, MD. Jan. 11. Surgeon General Thomas Parran, of the U.S. Public Health Service photographed while breaking ground for the erection of three new buildings to be erected for the National Institute of Health, research unit for the U.S. Public Health Service. The proposed building for the National Cancer Institute, also to be a unit of the National Institute of Health, will be erected nearby on the same grant of land, 1/11/38

U.S. opens war on social diseases. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. The first nation-wide effort to combat venereal diseases was launched in Washington today when 300 delegates from 32 states attended the opening session of a three-day conference call by the United States Public Health Service. In the photograph, left to right: Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., State Commissioner of Health of New York state; Dr. Thomas Parran, U.S. Surgeon General; Miss Josephine Roche, Acting Secretary of the Treasury; John H. Stokes; University of Pennsylvania Medical School; and Dr. J.E. Moore, of John Hopkins Hospital

Labor leaders arrive for unemployment census conference. Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. John L. Lewis, Head of the CIO, and A.F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, arriving at the White House today to attend the Unemployment Census Conference called by John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Administrator. Plans for compiling the census were formulated at the meeting which was attended by leading government, business and labor officials. 9/27/37

Senate Committee told medical profession ignored in development of public health programs. Washington, D.C., May 26. Dr. Morris Fishbein, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and opponent of federal grants in aid to the states for public health programs embodied in the Wagner Bill, today complained that the advice and help of the medical profession had been completely ignored in development of the scheme. He was testifying before a Senate and Labor Subcommittee

Hits present unemployment insurance. Washington, D.C., March 17. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, Herman A. Gray, Chairman of the New York Unemployment Insurance State Advisory Council, declared that American system of unemployment insurance is cumbersome, complex and confused. He added, the benefit provisions are so complicated they are not readily understood even by the expert.,3/17/38

Biggers before unemployment committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 21. John D. Biggers, Director of the recent unemployment census, recommended to the Senate unemployment committee today that there be created a National Re-employment Committee to direct itself to finding suitable jobs in industry and agriculture for all willing workers, 1/21/38

Involuntary unemployment dangerous to public health. U.S. Surgeon General. Washington, D.C., March 16. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran declared that involuntary unemployment "breeds pathological political philosophies, subversive to our present democratic institutions". Speaking as a doctor and not as an economist, Dr. Parran urged that employment be provided for all who are willing and able to work. Idle hands are dangerous to public health, Dr. Parran indicated in his statement, 31638

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A black and white photo of a man in a suit, 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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label_outline Explore Surgeon General Thomas Parran, Parran, Senate Unemployment

Speaker signs last minute bills. Washington D.C., Aug 21. Rep. John J. O'Connor New York, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, "shoots" Speaker Bankhead as he signs the last minute bills passed by the House before their adjournment tonight. Others in the picture are Rep. Mary T. Norton (left) of New Jersey; and Mrs. Bankhead, 82137

Autogino hearings at Capitol. Prof. Alexander Klemin Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, Autogino hearings at Capitol, 4/30/38

Sec. of State greets Hughes on his arrival in Washington. Washington, D.C., July 21. Sec. of State Cordell Hull, ranking cabinet member in the Capitol, officially greeted Howard Hughes and his crew upon their arrival in the Capitol, they are shown in the office of the Secretary of State, left to right; Richard Stoddard, Lieut. Thomas Thurlow, Howard Hughes, Sec. of State Hull, Harry Conner, and Ed. Lund, 72138

Senate lobby committee again refuffed. Washington, D.C., April 20. Efforts of the Senate Lobby Committee to obtain records of the National Committee to uphold Constitutional Government hit another snag today when Sumner Gerard, Treasurer of the Organization, testified he did not have in his "control" a list of contributors to the National Committee. Gerard, A brother of James Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany, was questioned by the committee in his investigating of Lobby activities uding congressional consideration of the Government reorganization bill, 4/20/38

Our baby congress - Public domain portrait print

Asst. Sec. of Labor, W.W. Husband (CBS)

HOOVER, HERBERT C - Public domain portrait photograph

[Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]

Rail Labor-Management Committee Meets. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. The president's special Committee of Rail Labor and Management representatives met today to discuss proposed recommendations for legislative aid to the Rail Industry. A spokesman for the Committee said 'they hoped to have recommendations ready for the President before Congress meets in January' left to right. M.W. Clement, Pres. of the Penna. R.R., George Harrison, Chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Assoc., Carl R. Gray, Vice Chairman of the Union Pacific., B.M. Jewell, Pres. of the Railway Employees Department of the A.F. of L., Ernest E. Norris, Pres. of the Southern, R.R., D.B. Robertson Head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive, Firemen, and Enginemen, 11/7/38

Charles Curtis, left - Public domain portrait photograph

Star witness before Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., May 22. Dudley P. Gilbert, New York socialite, who has been financial angel for an undercover nationwide anti-Semitic and anti-communist movement, today told the Dies Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that the American people will 'have to rise under some American officer of the Franco type' if a 'red revolution' is to be averted

Rep. Hamilton Fish on neutrality. Washington, D.C., Oct. 30. After the House Rules Committee Session, Rep. Hamilton Fish was interviewed by the press. He told reporters that he had no disposition to filibuster and hoped that congress would disposed of the matter by Friday night, but he said opponents wanted some rule permitting the House to decide policy on three questions: the arms embargo, loans under the cash and carry provision, and the presidential power to determine combat areas, which Fish said, was equivalent to giving him authority to name an aggressor

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