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A black and white photo of two men in suits. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Judge Moss, right, giving Adm. Billard his commission as new Commandant of U.S. Coast Guard

Judge Moss, right, giving Adm. Billard his commission as new Commandant of U.S. Coast Guard

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New Asst. Secretary of Labor takes oath. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Charles V. McLaughlin, recently named by President Roosevelt to succeed Edward F. McGrady as Assistant Secretary of Labor, was today sworn in at the Labor Department. McLaughlin is Senior Vice President, Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen. In the photograph, left to right: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Charles V. McLaughlin, and Jesse C. Watts, Acting Chief Clerk of the Labor Department, administering the oath, 12038

New Asst. Secretary of Labor takes oath. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Charles V. McLaughlin, recently named by President Roosevelt to succeed Edward F. McGrady as Assistant Secretary of Labor, was today sworn in at the Labor Department. McLaughlin is Senior Vice President, Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen. In the photograph, left to right: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Charles V. McLaughlin, and Jesse C. Watts, Acting Chief Clerk of the Labor Department, administering the oath, 1/20/38

U.S. Steel heads listen to testimony at monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 6. Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel, and Benjamin F. Fairless, president of the corporation, listen to testimony before the National Monopoly Committee today

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U.S. Steel heads listen to testimony at monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 6. Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel, and Benjamin F. Fairless, president of the corporation, listen to testimony before the National Monopoly Committee today

Attentive listeners. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Nathan L. Miller, General Counsel for U.S. Steel Corp., and Benjamin F. Fairless, President of the U.S. Steel Corp., listen attentively as the first witness testified when the National Monopoly Committee began its study today of the $4,000,000,000 steel industry

Steel magnates take oath before testifying at monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 6. First witness before the National Monopoly Investigating Committee this afternoon were, left to right: H.L. Hughes, U.S. Steel Corp., Benjamin F. Fairless, President of U.S. Steel Corp., and Robert Gregg, President, Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Co., Birmingham, Ala.

Big three of U.S. Steel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Interested spectators at today's session of the Monopoly Committee now investigating the $4,000,000[,000?] steel industry were, left to right: Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel Corp., Benjamin F. Fairless, President, and William Beye, Vice President

Steel magnates take oath before testifying at monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 6. First witness before the National Monopoly Investigating Committee this afternoon were, left to right: H.L. Hughes, U.S. Steel Corp., Benjamin F. Fairless, President of U.S. Steel Corp., and Robert Gregg, President, Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Co., Birmingham, Ala

[Big three of U.S. Steel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Interested spectators at today's session of the Monopoly Committee now investigating the $4,000,000[,000?] steel industry were, left to right: Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel Corp., Benjamin F. Fairless, President, and William Beye, Vice President]

Big three of U.S. Steel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Interested spectators at today's session of the Monopoly Committee now investigating the $4,000,000,000? steel industry were, left to right: Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel Corp., Benjamin F. Fairless, President, and William Beye, Vice President

At Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 8. Pictured in a huddle at today's session of the National Monopoly Committee are Senator Joseph Guffey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, and Eugene Grace, right, President of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The Committee is currently making a study of the steel industry

Big three of U.S. Steel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Interested spectators at today's session of the Monopoly Committee now investigating the $4,000,000,000? steel industry were, left to right: Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel Corp., Benjamin F. Fairless, President, and William Beye, Vice President

U.S. Steel heads listen to testimony at monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 6. Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel, and Benjamin F. Fairless, president of the corporation, listen to testimony before the National Monopoly Committee today

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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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Citation winner. Certificate winner, George Smolarek, employed in the Aircraft Engine Department, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony

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

Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

Ability to recite from memory the constitution wins war veteran a job. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Harry E. Wilhelm, 43, a World War veteran and unemployed huckster of York, PA., won himself a job today on his ability to recite from memory the 6,757 words of the Constitution and Amendments. In his quest for work, Wilhelm called on Rep. Sol Bloom, Chairman of the United States Constitutional Sesquicentennial Commission, to whom he announced he was the only man in the world who could recite from memory the Constitution. Interested but skeptical, Bloom promised Wilhelm a job if he could back up hi claim. With Bloom checking the words, Wilhelm made good on his boast and is now an employee of the U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission mail room. 9/13/37

Informs President SEC ready to proceed with investigation of insurance companies. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. William O. Douglas, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, leaving the White House today after reporting to President Roosevelt that the commission was ready to proceed with its investigation of insurance companies in connection with the present monopoly inquiry. He indicated the SEC would be concerned primarily with the investment and managerial phases of insurance company operation and said approximately $300,000 would be required to carry out the work in this calendar year, 1/24/38

Nelson congratulates a blind worker. For her work in training blind persons for war industries, Miss Helen Hurst, founder of the Helen Hurst Foundation For the Blind, was congratulated by Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board (WPB) chairman. Miss Hurst, herself blind, tries out the various types of jobs to see if they can be done by blind people before she places them in industry

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

Employees of American Bridge Company (Unitied States Steel) waiting for bus. Ambridge, Pennsylvania

F.C.C. Chairman and Senator Wheeler frame legislation to reduce membership of F.C.C. Washington, D.C., Jan. 25. Frank McNinch, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission today met with Senator Burton K. Wheeler to lay plans for new legislation to reorganize the FCC. They decided that the present membership of 7 Commissioners should be reduced to 3. McNinch will write the bill which Wheeler will submit to the Senate next week, 1-25-39

Radio conference, Washington, D.C. Oct. 5. The Federal Communications Commission inaugurated a series of hearings today for the benefit of the broadcasting industry who will meet with federal government officials to consider rearranging the commercial broadcasting band. Here we see Anning S. Prall, chairman of the FCC., and Judge Eugene S. Sykes, member of the commission, as they opened the hearing today

Abraham Lincoln to Edward R. S. Canby, Monday, December 12, 1864 (Cotton trade and political affairs in Louisiana)

Senate Committee questions Pennsy head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Martin W. Clement, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, today told the Senate Rail Inquiry that there had never been any objection from the Interstate Commerce Commission to salaries paid Directors of the road. At the same time, Clement admitted that his own salary had been increased from $60,000 to $100,000 on January 1, 1937. After hearing+F14 Clement, Chairman Wheeler criticized the ICC for their lack of supervision of the railroads and placed the blame for the current rail troubles at their door, 12/15/37

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