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Refuses to answer. Washington, D.C., Mar. 10. Carl Ross, Executive Secretary of the Young Communist League, was subjected to an intensive questioning on the policies and program of the League today be Senator Josh Lee, Chairman of the Senate Education and Labor Subcommittee. Asked point-blank by Lee whether he would defend the American flag against the Russian flag with arms, Ross flushed deeply but refused to answer the question. Senator Lee then went into a long tirade against members of the League who were in the hearing room at the time. 3/10/38

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building. Board of directors' room, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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

A black and white photo of three men sitting at a table. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Henry L. Stimson, right - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Henry L. Stimson, right] - Public domain portrait photograph

Long Island Lighting Co. Adelphi College

Bainbridge Colby, and Jn. W. Davis

A black and white photo of a group of people sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

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Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

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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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01/01/1945
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Oswego, New York. A Norwegian sailor talking informally with air cadets who are entertaining United Nations heroes at a supper during United nations week.

Oswego, New York. A Canadian flight commander visiting Oswego during United Nations week

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

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

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

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

[Representative Patsy Mink announces the formation of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus at a press conference with (left to right) Representatives Don Edwards and Norman Mineta, Guam Delegate Robert Underwood, and Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Neil Abercrombie]

Minutes by Thomas E. Selfridge, October 1, 1907

Washington, D.C. A lieutenant in the United States Army Air Transport Command calling the airport to check on flight conditions before checking out at the United Nations service center

Standing, left to right: Charles v. McLaughlin, Undersecretary of Labor; Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post; Roger D. Lapham, president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company; Cyrus Ching, Vice President, U.S. Rubber Corporation; Walter C. Teagle, former President, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; George M. Harrison, grand president, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; George Meany, general secretary of the AFL (American Federation of Labor); Philip Murray, CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President; Thomas Kennedy, secretary treasurer, United Mine Workers (UMW). Seated, left to right: Frank P. Graham, University of North Carolina President; Sidney Hillman, Associate Director General representing the Office of Production Management (OPM); Chairman Clarence Dykstra; Daniel Tracy,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - Public domain portrait photograph

Representatives with page Raymond Taylor, 12/19/25

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