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"Chowderhead" in spotlight. Washington, D.C. Sept. 23. A highlight at today's hearing of the Senate Civil Liberties Committee investigating espionage in labor relations was furnished by S. Cohen, alias "Chowderhead," who testified he had been in the strikebreaking business for 20 years. After admitting that he would work for any agency that would pay his price, Cohen further testified that he "bossed the job during the New York elevator strike and since then has been on the Remington-Rand strike in Connecticut. Cohen's police record, introduced into the proceedings, showed 14 arrests and five convictions including punishment for receiving stolen goods and grand larceny
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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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Harris and Ewing photo.
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Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch seven.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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