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![Congressman gives up dreams as Congress goes on. Rep. Walter Pierce (D. of Ore), Nat'l Committeeman and Member of the Agri. Com. of the House, gives up dreaming of the cool weather on his eastern Oregon farm in the Pacific coast area as he admits there is little chance of congress buttoning up for another month. In shirt sleeves and gallouses he goes back to his desk on Capitol Hill. Pierce gained national attention early in the session when he sponsored the birth control bill for Margaret Sanger [...] and lost his battle, 7/23/34](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzQvMDEvMDEvY29uZ3Jlc3NtYW4tZ2l2ZXMtdXAtZHJlYW1zLWFzLWNvbmdyZXNzLWdvZXMtb24tcmVwLXdhbHRlci1waWVyY2UtZC1vZi1vcmUtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "Congressman gives up dreams as Congress goes on. Rep. Walter Pierce (D. of Ore), Nat'l Committeeman and Member of the Agri. Com. of the House, gives up dreaming of the cool weather on his eastern Oregon farm in the Pacific coast area as he admits there is little chance of congress buttoning up for another month. In shirt sleeves and gallouses he goes back to his desk on Capitol Hill. Pierce gained national attention early in the session when he sponsored the birth control bill for Margaret Sanger [...] and lost his battle, 7/23/34")
Watchdog of senate folding room has 'crop control' of own. Washington, D.C., Dec. 3. Since 1900 John W. 'Happy' Deards has been foreman of the Senate folding room which carries with it the responsibility of guarding thousands of volumes of Senate records including congressional records, agriculture yearbooks, senatorial eulogies, I.C.C. reports and books on horses and cattle. He is now wrestling with the problem of finding space for the harvest of 1938 agricultural yearbooks--35,000 volumes--shown under his feet and all around him. Deards says the books on horses and cattle which the government published in 1892 are still the most in demand of any others in the huge collection
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1900
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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