New Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce takes oath of office. Prof. Claudius T. Murchison, of Hickory, North Carolina, who has been named by President Roosevelt to be Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the U.S. Department of Commerce, took the oath of office this morning. In the photograph, left to right: John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce; E.W. Libbey, chief clerk of Commerce Department, who administered the oath; Claudius T. Murchison; and Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, 6/6/34