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[Main Entrance Wamsutta Mills. Young workers also indolescent [i.e., adolescent] and young girls running the gauntlet of vile-speaking men and boys. The remarks are sometimes beyond belief. ]. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Main Entrance Wamsutta Mills. Young workers also indolescent [i.e., adolescent] and young girls running the gauntlet of vile-speaking men and boys. The remarks are sometimes beyond belief. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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The Carabinieri of Rome are dressed in clothes designed in the time of Napoleon. These men travel in pairs and seldom have anything to do as their appearance alone is enough to calm the wildest ruffians The Treve fountain in Rome where one throws a coin to insure his return to Rome according to popular belief. At night naked Roman boys dive in to rescue the coins ; Two generations of Romans proud of their heritage.

Photographs show an Italian police officer, the Trevi Fountain and two women in Rome, Italy. On page: no. 1536 (top image), no. 1537 (middle image), no. 1538 (bottom image). In album: European pictures (1923 More

Many of the mosques of Constantinople were formerly Christian churches. There is a belief among the Christians that when the old frescoes of Saint Sophia appear again through their coating of Turkish paint, the city will fall to Christian hands In the late afternoon the setting sun silhouettes these giant toothpicks or minarets against the eastern sky making the city from the sea fairyland of beauty.

Photographs show pedestrians on the Galata Bridge and boats on the Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1396 (top image) and no. 1397 (bottom image). Text More

Government scientist cools water to -6ʺ without freezing it. Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. The belief that water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit has been blasted by Dr. N. Ernest Dorsey, scientist of the National Bureau of Standards. Neither does all water freeze at the same temperature. These discoveries have been made by Dr. Dorsey after experimenting with 37 specimens of water taken from lakes, canals, and other sources. He has cooled water until it was minus 6 degrees fahrenheit that is, 38 degrees colder that the so called freezing point of 32 degrees. Yet it remained liquid, 8/9/38

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A congressman's day. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. The general belief of many voters that a congressman's life is a continual round of tea parties and social events was dispelled by Rep. Albert Thomas, Democrat of Texas, as he allowed the inquisitive photograph to record his days' activities during a Congressional session, 12/31/37 7:30 A.M. No barber or valet for Rep. Thomas. He shaves himself in the only bathroom of his modest apartment

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Whispered advice. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman (right) of Missouri, who today opposed the proposed rail wage cut before the President's fact finding board, gets a bit of last minute information from Max Lowenthal, counsel for the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In contending the cut will not save the situation, Truman told the board that railroad labor is the most efficient in the country and expressed the belief that the men are not overpaid, 10/14/38

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Believes in high wages. Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. Admitting his belief in high wages and the increased buying power therefrom, Lammot Du Pont, President of Du Pont De Nemours & Co., told the Senate Unemployment Committee today that America can be prosperous only by serving better and diversified industries which use our products, 1/10/38

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Believes in high wages. Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. Admitting his belief in high wages and the increased buying power therefrom, Lammot Du Pont, President of Du Pont De Nemours & Co., told the Senate Unemployment Committee today that America can be prosperous only by serving better and diversified industries which use our products, 1/10/38

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Wage-Hour Administrator reports to President. Washington, D.C., Oct. 25. Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews leaving the White House today after making a report to President Roosevelt. At a press conference today, Andrews expressed belief that employees thrown out of work by closing of low wage industries would be re-employed by 'decent' employers when the chiselling minority quits the business, 10/25/38

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Maritime head still insists new method for handling maritime labor problems is necessary Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. Appearing before the Senate Labor and Commerce Committees today, U.S. Maritime Commissioner Joseph P. Kennedy declared that union opposition had failed to shake his belief that a new method for handling maritime problems is necessary. Federal Assistance will be necessary to any new development in American Shipbuilding, Kennedy also told the committee. He is shown with Senator Hiram W. Johnson, Republican of California and a member of the committee, 1/26/38

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Seek means of restoring farm prosperity as stimulus to business and labor. Washington, D.C., June 2. Agriculture, business and labor leaders met in Washington today to discuss means of restoring farm proseperity as a stimulus to general business and labor, belief that increased agricultural income would be followed by increased industrial empolyment, greater comsumption and general property, keynoted the conference. In the photograph, left to right: (front)row) Edward E. Kennedy, (Illinois) of Farmers Washington Service; J.E. McDonald, texas Commissionoer of Agriculture; and John D. Miller, President of the National Cooperative Council. Back Row, Left to right: Ralph Moore, master of Texas Grange; R.J. Goode, Alabama Agriculture Commissioner, 6/2/38

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President Roosevelt's sees doom of trailer families in this country. Washington, D.C., March 29. Scenes like this at the Washington trailer camp, within a stone's throw of the Washington Monument, will soon be a thing of the past, was the belief President Roosevelt expressed to reporters at his press conference yesterday. He said sooner or later the government is going to demand and require that everybody in the bounds of the United States have a home address somewhere - and that there be an end of the trailer type of families, gypsies, hoboes and migratory drifters who flock by the thousands to such sunny climes as Florida and California without the slightest idea as how they are going to live when they arrive. 3-29-39

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ICC Commissioner optimistic on rail outlook. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. First witness before the House Interstate Commerce Committee as it began hearings today on proposed legislation to aid the ailing railroad industry, Walter M.W. Splawn, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, expressed the belief that business recovery since last may 'offers hope' for considerable lightening of rail difficulties, 1/24/39

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10 per cent railroad rate increase benefits motor carriers--ICC Commissioner Eastman. Washington, D.C., April 13. ICC Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman today told a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee that he believed the 10 per cent rate increase granted the railroads last summer has been "Of more benefit to the motor carriers than to the railroads." Advocating a balanced system of transportation charges between rail, motor and water carriers, Eastman said that contrary to popular belief, rate wars between the three do not benefit the public, 4-13-39

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ICC nominee Amlie denies extremist leanings. Washington, D.C., Feb. 6. Former Rep. Thomas R. Amlie, appearing before a Senate Committee investigation his fitness for the office of membership in the ICC upon the Presidents nomination, denied his belief in any dictatorship, 'whether it leans to the right or left'. Regarding communism, 'I have strongly opposed communist aims and program,' 2-6-39

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Lame Deer (vicinity), Montana. Skull in front of Indian steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation to keep evil spirits away, a belief which is part of their "medicine"

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Bell in the town of Volcano, California, named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley that early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief

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Old building in the town of Volcano, California, named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley that early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief

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Tree stump bear sculpture in the town of Volcano, California, named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley that early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief

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The St. George Wine room located in the town of Volcano, California, named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley that early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief

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The town of Volcano, California, is named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley that early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief

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A process in the Transilvania presbytery, &c. : Containing: 1st. The charges, depositions and defence in which the defendent is led occasionally to handle the much debated subject of psalmody. 2d. His reasons for declining, any farther connections with the body to which he belonged. 3d. His present plan of proceeding, with the pastoral charge. 4th. His belief, and that of his people, concerning the articles of faith, contended between the Reformed associate sinod; and the Sinod of New York and Philadelphia. 5th. An appendix on a late performance of the Rev. John Black of Marsh Creek, Pennsylvania

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