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Boston, April 20th, 1773. Sir. The efforts made by the legislative of this province in their last session to free themselves from slavery gave us, who are in that deplorable state a high degree of satisfaction. We expect great things from men wh

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Glorious news. Triumph of federal efforts. Our administration have at length yielded to the offers long since made to settle our differences with Great-Britain. The war whoop is silenced ... [June 12? 1812].

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Alvin Bishop to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, July 16, 1860 (Campaign efforts in New York)

Mary E. Raikes to Abraham Lincoln, November 1860 (Little girl from Ohio wants present for her campaign efforts)

David L. Phillips to Jesse K . Dubois, Monday, October 29, 1860 (Efforts in Illinois campaign)

John M. Read to Lyman Trumbull, Tuesday, May 29, 1860 (Campaign efforts in Pennsylvania)

The state of New Hampshire. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. Resolved ... to use all reasonable efforts to procure the assumption, by the general government, of the state and town debts created in aiding to suppr

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Heads new Radio Correspondents Association. Washington, D.C., May 12. Fulton R. Lewis, Jr., was today elected president of the newly formed Radio Correspondents Association composed of radio news reporters, commentators, and correspondents. It was through the efforts of Lewis, a former Washington political writer, that radio news commentators recently gained the same recognition as accorded newspapermen by the White House, Senate, and House press galleries

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Edsal [i.e. Edsel] Ford before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 5. Appearing before the Monopoly Committee today, Edsal [i.e. Edsel] Ford, President of the Ford Motor, described one of the earliest efforts at maintaining a patent monopoly, success of which would have destroyed the Ford Motor Co. in the initial year of its operation

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Labor Secretary and Michigan Governor get together with GMC officials in efforts to settle auto strike. Washington D.C. Shortly following their meeting with labor leaders this afternoon, Secretary of Labor Perkins and the Governor of Michigan Frank Murphy went into a conference with executives of General Motors in efforts to settle the strike of automobile workers. In the photograph, left to right (seated) Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; President General Motors; Secretary Perkins; Governor Frank Murphy; and William S. Knusdes. Back Row: John Thomas Smith; (left) Chairman Finance Committee, General Motors

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Edsal [i.e. Edsel] Ford before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 5. Appearing before the Monopoly Committee today, Edsal [i.e. Edsel] Ford, President of the Ford Motor, described one of the earliest efforts at maintaining a patent monopoly, success of which would have destroyed the Ford Motor Co. in the initial year of its operation

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Dr. Townsend and Representatives. Washington, D.C. Jan. 16. Photo shows Dr. Townsend explaining the new 'General Welfare Bill' which is that name the doctor is trying to have made a law thru the efforts of some of his Congressmen. Left to right: Dr. Francis E. Townsend, Rep. Nan Honeyman of Oregon, and Rep. Ralph O. Brews of Maine

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In spotlight at U.S.-Latin American retailers conference. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. These Latin-American diplomats took an active part in the conference today with United States retailers in efforts to seek means of increasing western hemisphere trade. The U.S. Department of Commerce sponsored the meeting. Left to right: Dr. Cesar D. Andrade, Minister from Ecuador, Eduardo Salazar, Financial Counsel of Ecuador, and Captain Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ambassador of Ecuador. Ambassador Alfaro is holding this rank only for the durations of the boundary negotiations between the governments of Ecuador and Peru

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Cameramen 'shoot' Edsal [i.e. Edsel] Ford. Washington, D.C., Dec. 5. Edsal [i.e. Edsel] Ford, President of the Ford Motor Co., faced a battery of cameramen as he took the stand today before the Monopoly Committee. He told of early efforts of the Ford Motor Co. to maintain a patent monopoly, success of which would have destroyed the company in its first year of operation

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AF of L textile workers gird up loins for battle with CIO organizers. Washington, D.C., May 8. R.J. Watt, American Labor Representative of the International Labor Office at Geneva, and Francis J. Gorman, President of the AF of L United Textile Workers discussing plans of a fight against organizing efforts of the CIO in the textile field. The union met today at a convention with Gorman, once active in the CIO until expelled by the UTW executive board, making the opening blast

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Our prominent political orators in action. The efforts of these men will anchor the floating vote, make converts and win the election

Through the Efforts of Professor Williams

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The earliest efforts for the preservation of the Camp ground, and the earliest suggestion of the Park, were made by Dr. Isaac Anderson Pennypacker, of Phoenixville, Pa. ... These efforts began in 1842, and were continued for several years ... [1

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Aux femmes françaises. La guerre a été déchaînée par l'Allemagne malgré les efforts de la France, de la Russie, de l'Angleterre pour maintenir la paix

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The Garfield. This was built to relieve the congestion of the beet workers in the other schools of Ft. Morgan, and none but beet workers are here. The school opened November 29, and will close early in the spring to accom[m]odate the beet workers. This is one of the efforts that the superintendents are vainly making to adjust themselves to the beet work. Fort Morgan [vicinity], Colorado / L.W. Hine.

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Miss Mildred Glines, chairman Rhode Island, NWP [National Woman's Party]. Through Miss Glines['s] efforts the Rhode Island Legislature has just passed a resolution calling upon Senators to work and vote for amendment.

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Members of the Interallied Medical Commission sent by the League of Red Cross Societies to study the typhus situation in Poland leaving the military hospital at Kowel after a conference with the local military medical authorities. From a population of 30,000 people before the war Kowel is now reduced to 24,000 inhabitants. In the surrounding district approximately one-fourth of the population has died of typhus, entire villages having been wiped out. The local medical authorities realize the seriousness of the present epidemic, but they are terribly handicapped in their efforts by the lack of medicines, supplies, hospital equipment and trained personnel. The Commission has recommended united effort to deal effectively with the situation in Poland and prevent the spread of typhus to Western Europe and America

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Annual American Red Cross convention gets under way. Washington, D.C., April 24. Members of the American Red Cross and Junior Red Cross joined hands today in efforts to make this year's convention, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the organization, an outstanding success. Pictured at the initial session are, left to right: Walter S. Gard, National Director of the Junior Red Cross; Norman Davis, Chairman of the American Red Cross; and Charles W. Daly Jr., of Hartford, Conn., a speaker for the Junior Red Cross

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Radio takes its place in press galleries. Washington, D.C., June 26. Radio, once regarded as a 'poor relative' of the press, now has its own section of the House and Senate galleries reserved for radio news gatherers. Through the efforts of its chairman, Fulton Lewis, Jr., the gallery was created through special legislation. Here are the radio men listening to deliberations in the House gallery, side by side with news and syndicate reporters

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Freezing of Japan's credits may popularize cotton stockings for milady. Washington, D.C., July 26. It appears that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's efforts to improve cotton stockings and thereby popularize the wearing of them as a means of disposing of surplus long-staple cotton, will bear fruit now that Japan's assets have been frozen in the U.S. Japan furnishes most of the silk used in the stockings manufactured in this country and at the present time, according to reports, there is only about two and a half month's supply left. Trade between the U.S. and Japan no doubt will be hard hit because of the difficulty of making payments. Nylon production is also slow so the ladies will probably be wearing cotton stockings by the end of the year or else go barelegged. In this picture, David H. Young, Agriculture Department fabric technician, is shown examining one of the cotton stockings which they are trying to popularize

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If you happen to be commander of a Navy ship you will be happy to know about this new piece of mechanism. It is the result of the combined efforts of various branches of the Navy Dept. It is a theodolite (compass for measuring the horizon) that will be used on Navy ships. Mr. R.L. Currie of the aerological office Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy department is shown with this instrument which will be used to site pilot balloons sent from shipboard for the sake of gathering weather information

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First picture of Coal Commission. This is the first picture showing all five members of the Bituminous Coal Commission. Chairman Charles F. Hosford, Jr., issued a statement, a few minutes before the picture was made, that the group "deplored" efforts to stampede coal producers into refusing to come under the new Guffey Coal Act." From the left: seated, Walter H. Maloney, Chairman Nosford, and George F. Acret. Standing, C.F. Smith, left, and Percy Tetlow, 10/25/35

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A long filibuster, Wash. D.C. A five and half hour filibuster by Sen. Long of Louisiana, caused the seventy-fourth congress, first session, to give up the ghost, without approval of the last of the President's "must" measures-the-third deficiency bill. Sen. Long, is shown as he left the floor of the Senate, and rested for the moment from his tireless efforts, 8/27/35

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The sun sets on a broken wagon wheel, symbolic of the vain efforts to farm on the dry arid land of central Oregon

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Digging a ditch to catch the water from the melting snow. The aridity of this land and complete absence of water supply make such efforts necessary. Taos land use project, New Mexico

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Rusting and battered combines of more prosperous days show how vain efforts are to grow wheat in the dry central Oregon area

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The United States Biological Survey has cooperated with the Resettlement Administration in its efforts to stop the extensive damage done to crops in central Oregon. A group of Resettlment Administration men are spreading rotted oats mixed with strychnine in a wheat field almost ruined by kangaroo rats

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An abandoned farmhouse in central Oregon representing years of unfruitful efforts to make things grow

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Stop syphilis Support local and state efforts to reduce syphilis.

Poster showing a house, city skyscrapers, and smokestacks. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los More

Listen to maritime troubles. Washington, D.C. Aug. 23. Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy, (left) and Commissioner Emory S. Land listen intently as maritime labor chiefs testify at the initial hearing of the U.S. Maritime Commission today in efforts to determine methods to avoid costly industrial labor disputes which have hampered the American Merchant Marine. 8/23/37

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Labor peace plan sought. Washington, D.C., April 20. Leaders of labor and industry attended a conference today with Secretary of Labor Perkins in efforts to effect a National policy to avert strikes and lockouts. In the photograph, left to right: D.W. Tracy, President of Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Harper Sibley, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; William Green, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Ray Ingersoll, former Arbitrator of the Cloak and Suit Industry; R.C. Whiting, President of Fuller Construction Co.; Secretary Perkins; Clarence Wooley, President of the American Radiator Co.; John L. Lewis, Head of C.I.O.; and J. Warren Madden, Chairman of National Labor Relations Board, 4/20/1937

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Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. The S.R.O sign was hung out today as Secretary of Labor Perkins appeared before the House and Senate Labor Committee Hearing. Mme. Secretary gave her flat endorsement of the Black-Connery Wage. and - Hour Bill which was introduced in congress in efforts to curtail sweatshop conditions and abolition of child labor in American industry. 6/4/37

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Assails plan to consolidate Federal Conservation. Washington, D.C., July 6. Appearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee today, Rep. Andrew J. May of Kentucky, assailed the Administration's proposed Seven-Authority Bill to consolidate Federal Conservation, Flood Control, and Power Efforts, as "a utopian venture into the field of socialistic activities" May added, since the Supreme Court has not ruled directly on the phases of the TVA, he feels the law is unsettled, 7/6/37

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Opens Labor Nonpartisan League Convention. Washington, D.C., March 8. With labor leaders from all sections of the country, Maj. George L. Berry, President of the Labor Nonpartisan League, is shown presiding at the opening session of the League's convention in Washington today. The convention will mark the climax of an intensive campaign by the League to show congress and the country that labor is solidly behind the President in his efforts to modernize the federal Judiciary, 3/8/1937

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A.F. of L. leaders arrive. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. A.F. of L. President William Green with his Chief Lieutenant George M. Harrison, arriving at the Willard Hotel today for the meeting with John L. Lewis at which efforts for a truce or permanent peace will be sought, 12/2/37

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Study plans for new Capitol auditorium. Washington, D.C., April 30. The downpour of rain during the last inaugural ceremonies has resulted in congressional action creating the Capitol Auditorium Commission in efforts to have constructed an auditorium in which to hold indoor inaugurations or great national conventions. Secretary of National Capitol Parks, Secretary. The Commission was formed today at a meeting in the Office of Chairman Tom Connally, of the Senate Public Buildings and Grounds Committee. In the photograph, left to right: Senator Tom Connally, of Texas; Senator Warren R. Austin, of Vermont; Rep. Fritz G. Lanham, of Texas; and Secretary Ickes, 4/30/37

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New York Senator. Washington, D.C., June 11. Strong pressure is being brought to bear on Senator Robert F. Wagner in efforts to have him run against Mayor LaGuardia in the next New York mayorality race, 6/11/37

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At Labor-Industry conference. Washington, D.C., May 4. Alvin MacCauley, President of the Packard Motor Co., and T.G. Graham, vice president of the D.R. Goodrich Rubber Co., were among the prominent business leaders to attend the Labor-Industry conference today [at] the Labor Department. This was the second of a series of conferences called be Secretary of Labor Perkins in efforts to get Labor and Industry to agree on a formula to avert strikes and lockouts, 5/4/37

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In spotlight at Labor-Industry Conference. Washington, D.C., April 20. Prominent labor and industrial leaders from all over the country attended a conference today with Secretary of Labor Perkins in efforts to agree on a national policy to avert strikes. Here we see, left to right: Averill Harriman, new industrial leader and onetime official of the former NRA; Sidney Hillman, of the Labor Non-partisan League; and John L. Lewis, Head of the C.I.O., 4/20/1937

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Opens Labor Nonpartisan League Convention. Washington, D.C., March 8. With labor leaders from all sections of the country, Maj. George L. Berry, President of the Labor Nonpartisan League, is shown presiding at the opening session of the League's convention in Washington today. The convention will mark the climax of an intensive campaign by the League to show Congress and the country that labor is solidly behind the President in his efforts to modernize the Federal Judiciary, 3/8/1937

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Admits "kicking back" part of salary. Washington, D.C., April 22. He "turned back" $75 of his $200 per month salary, Henry M. Lewis former Deputy Sheriff in Harlan County, Ky., told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee as it resumed its investigation of alleged terrorism in connection with Harlan County Coal Operators' efforts to resist union organization drives. The money was returned to Sheriff Theodore R. Middleton each month in 1935 and 1936. Lewis added that many of the men listed as drawing salaries from the Sheriff's office were not regarded as regular employees, and several of them worked for coal companies, 4/22/1937

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Endorses Federal Wage-and-Hour legislation. Washington, D.C., June 3. Appearing before the joint hearing of the House and Senate labor committees today, Robert M. Johnson, president of the Medical Supply firm of Johnson and Johnson of Brunswick, New Jersey, flatly endorsed the pending Black-Connery bill which was introduced in efforts to curtail sweatshop conditions and child labor. He told the committee the proposed legislation did not go far enough and placed himself on record as favoring a six-day week of 30 hours, 6/3/37

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U.S. only country in position to safely use dirigibles. Eckener. Washington, D.C., May 26. Dr. Hugo Eckner, Germany's dirigible expert told the Senate Military Affairs Committee today that in his opinion the United States is the only country that could safely use dirigibles for war purposes. "With the advantage of having the only large supply of Helium to make the ships safe." Eckener added "that the Zeppelins could easily be used for scouting purposes in view of the country's geographic position with open coast and wide oceans separating you from other countries." He appeared before the committee in efforts to have his country make available a supply of Helium to Germany for commercial purposes, 5/26/37

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Windsors American guide. Washington, D.C., Oct. 4. Charles E. Cedaux, of New York, will act as guide for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor on their tour of American Industrial Centers this month. He is shown his first press conference at the Mayflower Hotel at which he resisted the efforts of more than 40 reporters to learn the details of the tour being planned for the former King and his wife. 10/4/37

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Labor and industrial leaders get together. Washington, D.C., May 4. Leaders of labor and industry pictured as they met today at the Labor Department shortly before the conference called by Secretary Perkins convened. prominent figures in labor and industry attended the meeting in efforts to develop a formula for averting strikes and lockouts. Left to right: George H. Davis, new President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Harper Sibley, past President of the Chamber; Frank Morrison, Secretary of the American Federation of Labor; and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, 5/4/1937

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Senate lobby committee again refuffed. Washington, D.C., April 20. Efforts of the Senate Lobby Committee to obtain records of the National Committee to uphold Constitutional Government hit another snag today when Sumner Gerard, Treasurer of the Organization, testified he did not have in his "control" a list of contributors to the National Committee. Gerard, A brother of James Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany, was questioned by the committee in his investigating of Lobby activities uding congressional consideration of the Government reorganization bill, 4/20/38

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Refuses to supply records for Senate committee. Washington, D.C., March 23. Elisha Hanson, counsel for Dr. Edward A. Rumely Executive Sec. of the National Committee to uphold constitutional government, today refused to allow Rumely to comply with a subpoena by the Senate Lobby Committee asking for records of efforts to control, directly or indirectly, the sources of mediums of information, Hanson is shown as he directed his remarks to the committee, he told the committee the subpoena which is beyond the power of this committee to direct, 3/23/38

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President organizes $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. Washington, D.C., April 11. President Roosevelt met with his Relief and Congressional Aides today to the personal command of a new administration fight to check business recession with a $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. The president subordinated all other White House business to efforts to hammer his lending and spending program into shape as a major New Deal offensive against recession and unemployment, left to right: Director of the Budget Daniel Bell, Sen. James F. Byrnes, SC. Sen. Carter Glass of Virginia, Majority Leader of the House Sen. Sam Rayburn of Tex., Sen Kenneth McKeller of Tenn., Sec. of Treasury Henry Morenthau, and in the rear, Rep. Edward Johnson, of Colo., April 11, 1938

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Attempt to settle UAW fight. Washington, D.C., Aug. 24. Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Workers Union, pictured with John L. Lewis just before they went into conference with other C.I.O. officials in efforts to settle the factional fight now being waged within the UAWU. The meeting took place at C.I.O. headquarters here today, 8/24/38

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Tells House Committee he is a member of American Legion and Communist Party. Washington, D.C., Oct. 26. Appearing before the House Committee investigating Un-American activities. Joseph F. Hannon, San Francisco, testified he is a member of the American Legion and of the Communist Party. He said he joined the Communists to learn of their efforts at infiltration. Hannon supported the charge of Harper Knowles, Chairman of the Radical Research Committee of the Legion, that Communists support was sought by Democratic candidates in California, 10/26/38

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Railroad parley at White House. Washington, D.C., March 15. Representatives of Railroad Management, Labor and Government officials and Congress met with President Roosevelt today in efforts to find a remedy to aid the Nation's financially distressed railroads. In the front row, left to right: ICC Commissioner Joseph D. Eastman; ICC Commissioner Charles D. Maraffie; Carl Gray, President of Union Pacific R.R.; Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau; George Harrison; William O. Douglas, Chairman of the SEC. In the rear, left to right: Ernest G. Draper, Asst. Sec. of Commerce; Dr. W.W. Alexander, FSA; Rep. Clarence F. Lea; Sen. Burton K. Wheeler; and Sen. Harry Truman, 3/15/38

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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman studies testimony of NLRB aide. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Royal Copeland studies further the testimony of Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, New York Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board, who told the committee today that threats against her life were made while she was making efforts to settle the Maritime Labor dispute last fall. She also denied charges that she collaborated with communists and falsified NLRB elections in the Maritime industry, 2/2/38

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Life threatened NLRB aide tells senate committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Efforts to settle the maritime labor dispute last brought threats against her life, Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, New York Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board, told the Senate Commerce Committee today. She appeared to deny charges that she collaborated with communists and falsified NLRB elections in the Maritime Industry, 2/2/38

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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

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Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 1939 harvest. Their house represents one of many similar structures, which they are attempting to construct by their own efforts on poor land, for which they are paying a few dollars a month out of the WPA budget. Their light bill is two dollars a month. Water bill one dollar a month, kerosene for cooking five dollars per month, approximately. They own a 1929 Ford. "The cheapest thing for the government to do would be to put people like me on enough land to make a living on. You can't tell me anything about running around with the fruit, I know that deal. You are lucky if you make enough to get home. I'm not a kickin', I'm being tuk care of, but if I should live to be hundred this way I'm not getting ahead noways."

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Smelt Continue to have their day at the Capitol. Washington, D.C., April 1. Little Beulah, Michigan, has succeeded admirably lately in getting itself on the map by reason of its location in the heart of Michigan's smelt industry. Today, the Mayor of Beulah, Arthur Finch, called upon Vice President John Garner and presented him with a box of the pint-size fish in recognition of the Vice President's efforts to have smelt transplanted to Texas waters. The V.P. remarked that they are just the right size for bass bait, and the Mayor still maintains that they are best for human consumption. 4-7-39

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Veteran Polish weather expert joins staff of Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C. March 14. With home, laboratory, and invaluable records of years presumably lost in the recent Polish War, Dr. Henryk Arctowski, of the University of Lvov, one of Poland's foremost scientists and former Antarctic explorer, has started at the Smithsonian Institution the monumental job of determining direct effects of changes in the Sun's radiation on weather conditions on Earth. Recognized in all countries as one of the greatest living authorities on world weather, Dr. Arctowski is continuing his studies in efforts to find relationships between solar conditions and rainfall, barometric pressure, etc., at various places on Earth. His earliest meteorlogical observation began as a young geologist on the Antarctic exploring ship Belgica in 1897-99. For release morning papers of March 18 - 40

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

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Service on the home front There's a job for every Pennsylvanian in these civilian defense efforts.

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Lumber manufacture. Building stockpiles for national defense. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked at the Emmet, Idaho sawmills of the Boise Payette Lumber Company. Efforts are being made (June 1941) to create a stockpile of lumber to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

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Lumber manufacture. Building stockpiles for national defense. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked at the Emmet, Idaho sawmills of the Boise Payette Lumber Company. Efforts are being made (June 1941) to create a stockpile of lumber to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

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Lumber manufacture. Building stockpiles for national defense. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked at the Emmet, Idaho sawmills of the Boise Payette Lumber Company. Efforts are being made (June 1941) to create a stockpile of lumber to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

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Building stockpiles. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked in a western sawmill. Efforts are being made (June 1941) to create a stockpile of lumber to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

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Lumber manufacture. Building stockpiles for war contracts. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked at a western sawmill. Efforts to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

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Transformer manufacture. It's a formidable task, but Jack Hassel can wind one of these asbestos insulated low volts coils in a day. Essential to America's war efforts, these asbestos coils are used in air cooled transformers which are explosion-proof, hence advantageous for use in ships, mines and large buildings. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversion of this automobile factory to production of airplane engines, the gigantic task of remodelling old machinery, removal of old and installation of new equipment, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself was formidable--but speedy. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herulean efforts of management and labor reduced this to early spring of this year. Carloads of scrap material torn out of the plant are shown here at a siding back of the factory. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

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Americans all. "She's a beautiful ship," and it took the combined efforts of these three Americans to help build her. Marcell Webb, Negro; Henry Bennett; and Phillip Leung, Chinese, watch the test flight of a P-47 pursuit ship they helped build. Republic Aircraft Corporation

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many airplane engines as Carter does pills," employees of a converted automobile factory told OEM (Office of Emergency Management) photographer. Now undergoing one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, this factory employs thousands of workers who are familiarizing themselves with the newly installed tools and machines. Two workers here lathe the cylinder of an airplane motor. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herculean efforts of management and labor completed the conversion this spring. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

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Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second from left) explains to Brooklyn housewives, whom she has enlisted in tin can salvage drive, how to prepare collected tin cans for the Department of Sanitation trucks. Since March 15th, she has organized twenty-five large apartment houses in the Borough Park section into units for salvage work. In each house a squad of three women, tenants in the apartment, collect once weekly from every housewife, tin cans accumulated during the previous week. In the cellar, each squad processes the cans, removes labels and bottoms, flattens them and deposits them into ashcans and barrels for pickup by department of sanitation trucks. Today twenty-five tons of empty processed cans have been collected through the efforts of Mrs. Kaplitt and other housewives in the territory across the East River. Left to right: Mrs. T. Cohen, Mrs. B. Kaplitt, Mrs. H. Mars, Mrs. T. Rubins

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America's success in World War I are vital to our efforts in World War II. This Negro riveter is a veteran employee in a large Eastern shipyard. Another Negro broke the world record for riveting in World War I. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. This modern "spinning wheel" would astound our grandmothers, and so would the young woman who operates it. One of America's thousands of skilled women war workers, this young Midwesterner twirls the wheel that controls the drilling of holes in machine gun parts. A skilled machine operator, she formerly processed spark plugs on a similar machine, but turned her efforts to war work when the factory was converted to the manufacture of machine guns. A.C. Spark Plugs

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America's success in World War I are vital to our efforts in World War II. This Negro riveter is a veteran employee in a large Eastern shipyard. Another Negro broke the world record for riveting in World War I. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

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A poster comes to life. A couple of groundhogs get a liberal education from a Navy pilot as Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (left) escorts welder George Woolslayer and Sergeant French L. Vineyard (right) through his navy post. The three colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster learned how the war can be won only by the united efforts of soldier, sailor and worker, during their introductions to one another's spheres of activity. Allegheny- Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Manpower, junior size. A treat for the junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia! Ensign Andrew Blair, U.S. Navy Reserves extends congratulations to the youngsters at their scrap rally for their whole-hearted efforts to collect material for Uncle Sam's armed forces

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Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can get behind his government's efforts to conserve fuel whether he heats his home with oil or coal, and both are strategically important. Fuel savings can be effected by keeping temperatures at reasonable levels, closing off unused rooms, and insulating in various ways. Windows can be weather stripped. Conservation of fuel will help release railroad and other transportation facilities for the movement of fighting materials

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Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can get behind his government's efforts to conserve fuel whether he heats his home with oil or coal, and both are strategically important. Fuel savings can be effected by keeping temperatures at reasonable levels, closing off unused rooms, and insulating in various ways. Windows can be weather stripped. Conservation of fuel will help release railroad and other transportation facilities for the movement of fighting materials

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A poster comes to life. A couple of groundhogs get a liberal education from a Navy pilot as Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (left) escorts welder George Woolslayer and Sergeant French L. Vineyard (right) through his navy post. The three colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster learned how the war can be won only by the united efforts of soldier, sailor and worker, during their introductions to one another's spheres of activity. Allegheny- Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Axis propaganda. The cover of this pamphlet says, "I am not crazy enough to want a war"--Hitler. The text quotes Hitler's statements to prove his systematic use of lies in conduct of his efforts to rule the world. This pamphlet was produced to combat Axis propaganda in neutral countries, and it was one of many displayed ny Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, in explaining how the OWI is fighting the propaganda war

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Efforts

Boston, April 20th, 1773. Sir. The efforts made by the legislative of this province in their last session to free themselves from slavery gave us, who are in that deplorable state a high degree of satisfaction. We expect great things from men wh

Glorious news. Triumph of federal efforts. Our administration have at length yielded to the offers long since made to settle our differences with Great-Britain. The war whoop is silenced ... [June 12? 1812].

Alvin Bishop to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, July 16, 1860 (Campaign efforts in New York)

Mary E. Raikes to Abraham Lincoln, November 1860 (Little girl from Ohio wants present for her campaign efforts)

David L. Phillips to Jesse K . Dubois, Monday, October 29, 1860 (Efforts in Illinois campaign)

John M. Read to Lyman Trumbull, Tuesday, May 29, 1860 (Campaign efforts in Pennsylvania)

The state of New Hampshire. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. Resolved ... to use all reasonable efforts to procure the assumption, by the general government, of the state and town debts created in aiding to suppr

Our prominent political orators in action. The efforts of these men will anchor the floating vote, make converts and win the election

Through the Efforts of Professor Williams

The earliest efforts for the preservation of the Camp ground, and the earliest suggestion of the Park, were made by Dr. Isaac Anderson Pennypacker, of Phoenixville, Pa. ... These efforts began in 1842, and were continued for several years ... [1

Aux femmes françaises. La guerre a été déchaînée par l'Allemagne malgré les efforts de la France, de la Russie, de l'Angleterre pour maintenir la paix

Miss Mildred Glines, chairman Rhode Island, NWP [National Woman's Party]. Through Miss Glines['s] efforts the Rhode Island Legislature has just passed a resolution calling upon Senators to work and vote for amendment.

The sun sets on a broken wagon wheel, symbolic of the vain efforts to farm on the dry arid land of central Oregon

Digging a ditch to catch the water from the melting snow. The aridity of this land and complete absence of water supply make such efforts necessary. Taos land use project, New Mexico

Rusting and battered combines of more prosperous days show how vain efforts are to grow wheat in the dry central Oregon area

An abandoned farmhouse in central Oregon representing years of unfruitful efforts to make things grow

Stop syphilis Support local and state efforts to reduce syphilis.

A.F. of L. leaders arrive. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. A.F. of L. President William Green with his Chief Lieutenant George M. Harrison, arriving at the Willard Hotel today for the meeting with John L. Lewis at which efforts for a truce or permanent peace will be sought, 12/2/37

New York Senator. Washington, D.C., June 11. Strong pressure is being brought to bear on Senator Robert F. Wagner in efforts to have him run against Mayor LaGuardia in the next New York mayorality race, 6/11/37

Service on the home front There's a job for every Pennsylvanian in these civilian defense efforts.

Building stockpiles. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked in a western sawmill. Efforts are being made (June 1941) to create a stockpile of lumber to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

Lumber manufacture. Building stockpiles for war contracts. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked at a western sawmill. Efforts to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

Americans all. "She's a beautiful ship," and it took the combined efforts of these three Americans to help build her. Marcell Webb, Negro; Henry Bennett; and Phillip Leung, Chinese, watch the test flight of a P-47 pursuit ship they helped build. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Manpower, junior size. A treat for the junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia! Ensign Andrew Blair, U.S. Navy Reserves extends congratulations to the youngsters at their scrap rally for their whole-hearted efforts to collect material for Uncle Sam's armed forces

George Sumner to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 16, 1860 (Campaign efforts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey)

George Sumner to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 16, 1860 (Campaign efforts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey)

George Sumner to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 16, 1860 (Campaign efforts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey)

Norman B. Judd to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, August 01, 1860 (Campaign efforts)

Norman B. Judd to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, August 01, 1860 (Campaign efforts)

Norman B. Judd to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, August 01, 1860 (Campaign efforts)

John P. Usher to Jesse L. Williams, Tuesday, September 18, 1860 (Campaign efforts in Indiana)

John P. Usher to Jesse L. Williams, Tuesday, September 18, 1860 (Campaign efforts in Indiana)

Thurlow Weed to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, October 18, 1860 (Campaign efforts)

Thurlow Weed to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, October 18, 1860 (Campaign efforts)

Thurlow Weed to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, October 18, 1860 (Campaign efforts)

Alexander K. McClure to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, July 07, 1860 (Democratic efforts in Pennsylvania)