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General Motors Executive testifies before SEC. Washington, D.C., Aug. 12. Charles F. Kettering, (left,) Vice President at General Motors, talks to Robert E. Healy, member of the Securities Exchange Commission, before taking the stand today at the S.E.C. hearing investigating investment trusts. Questioned by SEC attorneys Kettering told how he unwittingly became a member of the board of directors of the Yosemite Holding Corporation in 1930 following a purchase of $260,000 of Yosemite stock. Kettering also related how he bought 40,000 shares of stock in the company and lost $240,000 in the investments

[Rep. J.] Parnell Thomas - Public domain portrait photograph

William J. Smith, President, Standard Oil Co., of Kentucky, & W.T. Holliday, President, Standard Oil of Ohio

William J. Smith, President, Standard Oil Co., of Kentucky, & W.T. Holliday, President, Standard Oil of Ohio

Miss Rose Schneiderman, Pres. of Nat Women's Trade Union League. Frank Morrison, Sec. of A.F. of L.

Perfect harmony. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Seems that Rep. James W. Wadsworth, Republican of New York, is getting a bit of confidential arms information from Rep. Luther A. Johnson, Democrat of Texas and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, just before he--Wadsworth--addressed the House today in favor of the administration's bill. Rep. Johnson, who preceded Wadsworth on the floor also spoke for repeal of the arms embargo ...

Vice President and Mrs. Garner pose for s. Washington, D.C., April 20. Seymour M. Stone, American artist, puts the finishing touches on the s of Vice President and Mrs. John N. Garner which he has recently completed. Artist Stone painted the two s in two weeks

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Perfect harmony. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Seems that Rep. James W. Wadsworth, Republican of New York, is getting a bit of confidential arms information from Rep. Luther A. Johnson, Democrat of Texas and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, just before he--Wadsworth--addressed the House today in favor of the administration's bill. Rep. Johnson, who preceded Wadsworth on the floor also spoke for repeal of the arms embargo ...

Take opposing stands in house debate. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. Rep. James A. Shanley, Dem., of Connecticut, and Rep. Luther A. Johnson, Dem., of Texas, today fired verbal broadsides for and against the Neutrality Bill. Shanley pled for retention of the arms embargo and Johnson asked for its repeal

Take opposing stands in house debate. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. Rep. James A. Shanley, Dem., of Connecticut, and Rep. Luther A. Johnson, Dem., of Texas, today fired verbal broadsides for and against the Neutrality Bill. Shanley pled for retention of the arms embargo and Johnson asked for its repeal

Discuss America's foreign policy. Washington, D.C., April 15. In an effort to give impetus to the movement for revision of the Neutrality Act, an emergency conference of one hundred today assembled in Washington for a two-day discussion of American Foreign Policy. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the American Union for Concerted Pace Efforts. In the picture, left to right. James T. Shotwell, President, League of Nations Association - Reverend Roy M. Houghton, Congregational Church of New Haven, Conn., and Ernest Wilkins, President of Oberlin College, 4-15-39

Discuss Repubican Party problems. Washington, D.C., Dec. 7. Snapped in a huddle just before the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee convened today were, left to right: John Hamilton, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr., House Republican Leader; Henry P. Fletcher, General Counsel; and Mrs. Paul Fitzsimons, member of the Executive Committee from Rhode Island. Presidential campaign problems and an embarrassing deficit were discussed at the meeting

Making way for Roosevelt bills. Speaker Joe Byrns, seated, tells a group of newspaper men that everything will be set aside in the House to make way for the president's four point temporary legislative program made necessary by the Supreme Court's NRA decision. The Speaker said that the Congress will NOT instigate a constitutional amendment to circumvent the court's ruling. Bill Donaldson, superintendent of the House Press Gallery, is shown beside the Speaker, 6/6/35

House members put more flexibility in neutrality. These veteran House members of the Foreign Affairs Committee have worked out a compromise neutrality bill which may be passed before the end of the session. The Senate bill allowed virtually [...] latitude in certain of its provisions. From the left: Rep. Sol. Bloom, D. of N.Y., ranking Democrat of the committee; Rep. Sam D. McReynolds, chairman, and Rep. Luther A. Johnson, D. of Texas. 8/22/35

Crowd jams Senate hearing room to hear former Secretary of State criticize Neutrality Act. Washington, D.C., April 5. Before a well packed hearing room today former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the present Neutrality Act is an instrument which may make the United States the next victim of attack. He was the first witness on a half a dozen proposals to revise or repeal the present Neutrality Act. 4-5-39

Congressional Secretaries "Unionize." Washington, D.C. May 27. Secretaries to members of Congress have organized a new "Congressional Guild" and at their first meeting yesterday voted 21 to 1 to apply for a charter in the John L. Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization. John E. Kennedy, Chairman of the group. In the photograph; left to right: Robert Greenburg, Secretary to Rep. Henry Teigan, farmer-laborite of Minnesota; Anthony Stefano, Secretary to Rep. John T. Bernard of Minnesota; John E. Kennedy; Harold Hagen, Secretary to Rep. R.T. Buckler of Minnesota; and William O. Skeels, Secretary to Rep. William Lemke of North Dakota, 5/27/37

Perfect harmony. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Seems that Rep. James W. Wadsworth, Republican of New York, is getting a bit of confidential arms information from Rep. Luther A. Johnson, Democrat of Texas and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, just before he--Wadsworth--addressed the House today in favor of the administration's bill. Rep. Johnson, who preceded Wadsworth on the floor also spoke for repeal of the arms embargo [...]

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Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieutenant of the late Huey Long, is snapped by news cameramen as he rests in his office after leading the victorious fight for the compromise in the wage-hour bill. The compromise is expected to make wage differentials possible for many southern industries. He has threatened a filibuster unless the south got what it wanted in the measure, 6/13/38

Mentioned for Supreme Court vacancy. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. Rep. Hatton Sumner, Democrat of Texas and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is being mentioned prominently as the successor to Justice George Sutherland when he retires from the Supreme Court bench on January 18, 1/7/38

Sen. W.Wadsworth & Chas. D. Hilles, 4/14/25

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

Mississippi Senator. Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. A new informal picture of Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, Democrat of Mississippi. He is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, 10/3/38

Lend-lease hearings. The House Foreign Affairs Committee considers phases of the lend-lease act before an interested audience. The committee later recommended to the House that the act be continued in force as a valuable factor in the fighting of the war

Informal photo of Rep. Joe Hendricks, Democrat from Fla., 2-26-40

MULLER, DR. LAURO. MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF BRAZIL. ENVOY FROM BRAZIL TO RETURN VISIT OF SECRETARY ROOT

Kentucky Senator. Washington, D.C., May 11. U.S. Senator Alben W. Barkley, Democrat from Kentucky, pictured at the Capitol today, 5/11/37

Senator from Wyoming. Washington, D.C., April 4. Senator H.H. Schwartz, democrat of Wyoming, from a new informal picture made today at the Capitol. 4-4-39

Louisiana Senator. Washington, D.C., March 31. A new pose of Senator Allen J. Ellender, democrat of Louisiana, who is chairman of the Special Senate Committee investigating charges of favoritism in promotion of women workers in the government service. 3-31-39

Mrs. Anne Rogers [...] of Sterling, Colo. and J.S. Loomis of Limerick, N.Y., are presented with diploma by Pres. Harding. Mrs. Rogers for writing the best safety lesson and Mr. Loomis for writing the Best on Grange. Left to rt.: Sen. Wadsworth, J.S. Loomis, Mrs. Rogers and Sen. Phipp of Colo. [White House, Washington, D.C.]

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