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Rookie Senator belives in signs. Washington, D.C., Jan. 5. Rookie Senator Ed. C. Johnson, Democrat of Colorado, signals the Capitol elevator on way to attend the opening session of the 75th Congress which convened today

John Barrymore - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

John Barrymore - Public domain portrait photograph

War wagon trailer. It's better than standing! Government girls accustomed to crowded buses in the nation's capitol try out the "stand-sit" seat--a space saving feature of the new war wagon trailer

War wagon trailer. It's better than standing! Government girls accustomed to crowded buses in the nation's capitol try out the "stand-sit" seat--a space saving feature of the new war wagon trailer

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Rookie Senator belives in signs. Washington, D.C., Jan. 5. Rookie Senator Ed. C. Johnson, Democrat of Colorado, signals the Capitol elevator on way to attend the opening session of the 75th Congress which convened today

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Virginia Senator hikes to opening Washington, D.C., Jan. 5. The veteran Virginia Senator Carter Glass, who celebrated his 79th birthday yesterday, snapped as he walked thru the Capitol subway to attend the opening session of the 75th Congress

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Rookie Senator belives in signs. Washington, D.C., Jan. 5. Rookie Senator Ed. C. Johnson, Democrat of Colorado, signals the Capitol elevator on way to attend the opening session of the 75th Congress which convened today

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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

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

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Michigan Congressman tries hand again. Washington D.C. A former telegrapher, Rep. John Lueke, new Democratic member of the House from Michigan, just couldn't resist tapping out a few words as he passes through the House press gallery today

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

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

In last minute huddle. Washington, D.C., Nov. 21. Senator Clyde Herring, left, Democrat of Michigan and Chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee which began hearings today on profit sharing plans, holds a last minute with a republican member of the committee, Senator Arthur M. Vandenberg of Michigan

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

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. GOVERNOR JAMES COX OF OHIO; REP. J.J. FITZGERALD OF NEW YORK

Cotton state Solons present demands for enactment of farm program to president. Washington, D.C., Aug 5. Led by Senator Ellison D. "Cotton Ed" Smith, of South Carolina, a delegation of congressmen from the cotton states called on President Roosevelt today and presented their demands for enactment of a farm program before congressional adjournment. After the conference a spokesman for the group told reporters he felt the president would make stabilization loans under existing discretionary powers, probably through the Commodity Credit Corporation, on all basic commodities if given "definite assurances" that a farm production control program would be enacted early next session. In the picture, left to right: Rep. William R. Poage, Texas; Rep. John J. Sparkman, Ala.; Senator Ellison D. Smith, S.C.; Rep. Rene L. De Rouen, LA.; Rep. Lyndon Johnson, Tex.; Rep. Aaron Lane Ford, Miss. and Rep. Clyde Garrett, Texas, 8/5/37

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