Private power interest against administration flood control and power bill, Rep. Rankin. Washington D.C. June 28. Appearing before the Senate agriculture today, Rep. John E. Rankin of Mississippi, declared that private power interests are opposing the administration's flood control and power bill because "they don't want to give electricity to the American people at what its worth" He added "they know it would control floods, better than ever before, and improve navigation, but still they are in opposition to the bill". 62837
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A black and white photo of two men shaking hands, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
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 four.
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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