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Loans to railroads have my approval--Jesse Jones. Washington, D.C., July 14. Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones today told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that he approved as 'highly desirable' loans to railroads to permit refinancing of their securities with lower interest rates. The loans should be made, Jones said, only if the railroads give bondholders preferred stock equivalent to the difference between the par value of the bonds and the price at which the securities were purchased

Loans to railroads have my approval--Jesse Jones. Washington, D.C., Ju...

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Howard Figg, Food Administrator

Howard Figg, Food Administrator

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Tugwell's successor at White House with boss. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. Secretary of Agriculture Henry a Wallace, (left) and Dr. W. Alexander, successor to Rex Tugwell as Resettlement Administrator leaving the White House following a conference with the President Roosevelt. Wallace told newpapermen the President will issue an executive order transfering the RA to the Agriculture Department as soon as Attorney General Cummings draws up the legal form

Tugwell's successor at White House with boss. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2...

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Crop Insurance Committee meets for first time. Washington, D.C. Sept. 25. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, as chairman called the crop insurance committee appointed by President Roosevelt this week into session today for the first time. The first thing the committee will consider, Wallace said, is on what crops the first "experiment" in crop insurance should be made. n the picture, left to right; (front row) Wayne C. Taylor; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary Wallace; and Ernest G. Draper, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. In the rear, left to right: Roy M. Green, Bureau of Agricultural Economics; Dr. A.G. Black, chief, Bureau of Agricultural Economics; and H.R. Tolley, Administrator, AAA

Crop Insurance Committee meets for first time. Washington, D.C. Sept. ...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Administrator of N.Y. Milk Marketing Agreement. Washington, D.C., Aug. 29. Erske M. Harmon, recently appointed administrator of the New York Milk Marketing agreement, has assumed his new duties as the U.S. Department of Agriculture here, 8/29/38

Administrator of N.Y. Milk Marketing Agreement. Washington, D.C., Aug....

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Appointed to Social Security board. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. Assistant WPA Administrator Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward has been appointed a member of the Social Security Board by President Roosevelt. She will succeed Mary. W. Dewson, 12/22/38

Appointed to Social Security board. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. Assista...

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President gets progress report on Wage-Hour law. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. A thorough report on the progress of the new Wage- Hour Law was given President Roosevelt today by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Andrews, and their assistants today. Reading, left to right. Administrator Elmer Andrews; Secretary Perkins; Richardson Saunders, Assistant to the Secretary of Labor. Gerard D. Reilly, Labor Dept. Solicitor and CA-Vert Magruder,Chief Counsel for Wage-Hour Administration, 10/31/38

President gets progress report on Wage-Hour law. Washington, D.C., Oct...

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Federal Housing Administrator. Washington, D.C., March 9. The Federal Housing Administrator Stewart MacDonald, photographed at his desk today, 3/9/38

Federal Housing Administrator. Washington, D.C., March 9. The Federal ...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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Administering oath. Herbert Emmerich, former Secretary of War Production Board, now Administrator of Defense housing Authority and J.C. Hale, of Bureau of Budget, Assistant Administrator Officer, administering the oath

Administering oath. Herbert Emmerich, former Secretary of War Producti...

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administrationn (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

The First lot of the new "Victory" bicycles to reach Washington receiving the seal of approval from Leon Henderson, administrator of the Office of Price Administration. Miss Betty Barrett, an OPM stenographer, is in the parcel basket. Stratetic i.e. Strategic war materials were eliminated in the manufacture of the bicycle

The First lot of the new "Victory" bicycles to reach Washington receiv...

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Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Legal dodge on Walsh-Healy Act. Washington, D.C., May 13. L. Metcalfe Walling, Administrator of the Public Contracts Division of the Labor Department, told the Senate Labor Committee today that subcontractors had used a 'legal dodge' to avoid compliance with the Walsh-Healy Act. He advocated amendment to the law to prevent 'evasion,' and said that 'the purpose of Congress to promote good labor conditions and equal competition on government contracts has been thwarted'

Legal dodge on Walsh-Healy Act. Washington, D.C., May 13. L. Metcalfe ...

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A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Discuss amendments to housing act. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald (right) discusses with Senator Robert F. Wagner, author of Wagner Housing Act, the recommendations of President Roosevelt for amendments to the act which would provide for a 10 cent down payment as adequate on purchase of home. Appearing before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee later McDonald urged that the Senate enact the proposed amendments so as to make possible large-scale low-cost housing construction. 12/1/37

Discuss amendments to housing act. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Federal H...

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Washington, D.C. C.B. Baldwin, assistant administrator, FSA (Farm Security Administration)

Washington, D.C. C.B. Baldwin, assistant administrator, FSA (Farm Secu...

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ATTEND SERVICES AT LINCOLN MEMORIAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 12. MRS. ROOSEVELT, WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT EXPLAINS THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL TO LITTLE DIANE HOPKINS, LEFT, DAUGHTER OF THE WPA ADMINISTRATOR, AND CHANDLER ROOSEVELT, DAUGHTER OF ELLIIOTT ROOSEVELT, WHILE ATTENDING THE CEREMONIES TODAY ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY

ATTEND SERVICES AT LINCOLN MEMORIAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 12. MRS...

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Direct nation's farm policies. Washington, D.C., Sept. 22. The farmers of the Nation look to these men to solve their many problems. Pictured, left to right, are: M.L. Wilson, Undersecretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, and H.R. Tolley, A.A.A. Administrator, 9/22/38

Direct nation's farm policies. Washington, D.C., Sept. 22. The farmers...

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PRESIDENT THROWS OUT FIRST BALL. THE LID OF THE 1938 BASEBALL SEASON IN THE CAPITAL WAS PRIED OFF TODAY BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AS HE TOSSED OUT THE FIRST BALL TO START THE GAME BETWEEN THE WASHINGTON SENATORS AND THE PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: AL KRESS OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., A ROOSEVELT FAMILY FRIEND; WPA ADMINISTRATOR HARRY HOPKINS; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; CONNIE MACK; AND BUCKY HARRIS

PRESIDENT THROWS OUT FIRST BALL. THE LID OF THE 1938 BASEBALL SEASON I...

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W.P.A. Administrator appears before Senate Appropriations Committee. Washington, D.C., May 17. Harry Hopkins, Chief of W.P.A. testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee today that approximately 2,800,000 persons are on relief. Shown with members of the committee, hopkins, left; seated Sen. Carl Hayden, D. of Ariz. right; seated, and in the rear; Aubrey Williams, Asst. W.P.A. Administrator, and Sen. Alva Adams, D. of Colo. Chairman of the committee, 5/17/38

W.P.A. Administrator appears before Senate Appropriations Committee. W...

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WPA workers protest relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. WPA workers from 26 states, head by David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, today protested to Assistant Administrator Aubrey Williams the recent cuts in relief. Their kicks were against the current wage scales, geographical wage differentials, inadequate number of WPA enrollees and the 'unjust and unfair' labor relations setup. Lasser is on the right and Aubrey Williams in center seated, 12/15/38

WPA workers protest relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. WPA worker...

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Veterans Administration appears before house veterans committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. U.S. Veterans Administrator Frank T. Hines today urged the House World War Veterans Committee to refer all bills for veterans hospitals to the Federal Board of Hospitalization so that a scientific plan can be adopted for providing care. He said that board is now studying the entire country in an attempt to equalize veterans hospital facilities and provide the correct proportion of beds for veterans in each area. Hines said present plans call for 82,026 beds by the end of June, 1940.

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Hunter succeeds Aubrey Williams in WPA. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. Howard O. Hunter, appointed Deputy Administrator of WPA by Col. F.C. Harrington today, succeeding Aubrey Williams. He will take up his new duties Feb. 1. He has been serving as a field representative in the middle west, and is here surveying with satisfaction the prospect of 'staying put' in his desk job, 1/18/39

Hunter succeeds Aubrey Williams in WPA. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. How...

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Administering oath. Left to right: John B. Blandford, Administrator of National Housing Agency; Herbert Emmerich, former Secretary of War Production Board, now Administrator of Defense Housing Authority; Donald M. Nelson, Chief, War Production Board and J.C. Hale, of Bureau of Budget, Assistant Administrator Officer, administering the oath

Administering oath. Left to right: John B. Blandford, Administrator of...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Wash...

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Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe box, Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, polishes the shoes of Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe bo...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Photographed by Albert Freeman, Alfred T. Palmer or George Danor. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer;... More

Lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and the Norwegian ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, at luncheon held in observance of second anniversary of lend-lease, on March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C.

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Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Johnson blasts Senate NRA bill. General Hugh S. Johnson, first administrator of the NRA, left, tells the House Ways and Means committee that the Senate NRA extension resolution will kill NRA after 10 months. Johnson said it would be a R1174352 "catastrophe to accept only a 9 1/2 months extension as proposed by the Senate." He said he favored a 2 year extension. Johnson is shown here with Chairman Robert L. Doughton. 5/24/35

Johnson blasts Senate NRA bill. General Hugh S. Johnson, first adminis...

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Aide to Rex Turwell, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29. An important figure in the resettlement is Miss Grace E. Falke, Executive Assistant to the Administrator Rex Tugwell. It was Miss Falke who had the final say on the interior furnishins for Greenbelt, the Resettlement Administration's planned city at Berwyn Heights, Md., which has just been completed

Aide to Rex Turwell, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29. An important figure in...

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Resettlement Administrator R.G. Tugwell examines foundations of houses under construction at Greenbelt, Maryland. With him is Wallace Richards, coordinator of the Greenbelt project

Resettlement Administrator R.G. Tugwell examines foundations of houses...

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FHA head out for a canter, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29. Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing Administrator, gets his daily exercise astride his favorite mount. He is shown ready for an early morning canter thru Rock Creek Park

FHA head out for a canter, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29. Stewart McDonald...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control projects, Washington, D.C., August 10. Seeking a decision as to what flood control projects will be started as soon as Congress makes available $330,000,000 authorized in the omnibus flood control ? as well as projects that can be begun with funds now on hand, President Roosevelt called in those administration experts today. Left to right: Frederick A. Doland and Abel Wolman, of National Resources Board; H.H. Bennett, Director of Soil Conservation, Dept. of Agriculture; General Edward M. Markham, Chief of U.S. Army Engineers; and Aubrey Williams, Assistant Administrator of WPA

Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control pro...

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Housing experts confer with U.S. director. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Leaders of housing projects in the country's largest cities today met with Nathan Straus, Director of the U.S. Housing Authority, to exchange ideas and discuss housing plans now under way. This is the meeting Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, of New York declined to attend. In the front row, left to right: George Green, Vice Chairman, Boston Housing Authority; Administrator Nathan Straus; and Ernest J. Bohn, member of Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. Back row, left to right: Mrs. George Green; Walter Wright Alley, Executive Director Los Angeles Municipal Housing Commission; Coleman Woodbury, Director, National Association of Housing Officials and member of the Chicago Housing Authority; George Evans, Chairman, Penna. State Housing Board and Pittsburgh Housing Authority; and Marc J. Grossman, Chairman, Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. 11/22/37

Housing experts confer with U.S. director. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. ...

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W.P.A. Administrator appears before Senate Appropriations Committee. Washington, D.C., May 17. Harry Hopkins, Chief of W.P.A. testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee today that approximately 2,800,000 persons are on relief. Shown with members of the committee, hopkins, left; seated Sen. Carl Hayden, D. of Ariz. right; seated, and in the rear; Aubrey Williams, Asst. W.P.A. Administrator, and Sen. Alva Adams, D. of Colo. Chairman of the committee, 51738

W.P.A. Administrator appears before Senate Appropriations Committee. W...

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PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secretary Ickes today told the House Appropriations Sub-Committee in hearing on President Roosevelt's recovery program that the PWA has 2,714 approved public works projects which could be started within "60 to 90" days. Ickes statement was disclosed to newsmen by Rep. Clifton Woodrum, Chairman of the Sub-Committee. While he refused to make a statement, Ickes did say he had no objections to making PWA permanent as proposed in a bill by Rep. Alfred Beiter. In the group, left to right: (seated) Rep. J. Buell Snyder, Penna., Secretary Ickes, and Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, Chairman. Standing, left to right, are: Howard A. Gray, Asst. WPA Administrator; and Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Secretary of Interior, 4/26/38

PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secreta...

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Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds of letters asking for jobs

Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds ...

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PAYS HOMAGE TO LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 12. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY PAID HOMAGE TO THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, ON THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR. IN THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY, L TO R: DIANE HOPKINS, DAUGHTER OF HARRY HOPKINS, WPA ADMINISTRATOR; MRS. ROOSEVELT; CHANDLER ROOSEVELT, DAUGHTER OF ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT; THE PRESIDENT; THE PRESIDENT'S NAVAL AIDE, CAPTAIN W. B. WOODSON; AND THE MILITARY AIDE, COL. EDWIN WATSON

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PAYS HOMAGE TO LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY ...

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Wage-Hour Administrator and assistants. Washington, D.C., Sept. 14. Probably the busiest government agency in the Capitol these days is The Wage-Hour Administration. The Wage-Hour Administrator, Elmer F. Andrews, is pictured for the first time with the newly appointed assistant administrators, Col. Arthur L. Fletcher (left) Paul Sifton. Fletcher was formerly Administrator of Labor for North Carolina while Sifton served with Administrator Andrews when he administrated New York's Labor laws, 9/14/38

Wage-Hour Administrator and assistants. Washington, D.C., Sept. 14. Pr...

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Last minute huddle. Washington, D.C., April 20. Loaded down with facts and figures on President Roosevelt's $4,512,000,000 Recovery Drive, WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins (left) and his First Assistant Chief Aubrey Williams, await the opening of The House Appropriations Committee Hearing today where they made public plans for the Administration's new drive against The Depression, 4/20/38

Last minute huddle. Washington, D.C., April 20. Loaded down with facts...

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Federal Housing Administrator. Washington, D.C., March 9. The Federal Housing Administrator Stewart MacDonald, photographed at his desk today, 3938

Federal Housing Administrator. Washington, D.C., March 9. The Federal ...

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Transamerican Counsel institute court action in effort to restrict S.E.C. inquiry. Washington, D.C., Jan. 16. Just before appearing at a Securities and Exchange Commission hearing today, counsel for the Transamerican Corporation, headed by former NRA Administrator Donald Richberg and William Stanley, former Assistant Attorney General, announced they had instituted Federal court action in an effort to restrict an SEC inquiry into the affairs of the corporation. Left to right: Donald Richberg; A.P. Giannini, chairman of the board, Transamerican Corp.; L.M Giannini, president of the Transamerican Corp.; and William Stanley, 1/16/39

Transamerican Counsel institute court action in effort to restrict S.E...

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Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing Administrator, 3-6-39

Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing Administrator, 3-6-39

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New Assistant WPA Administrator. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. Mrs. Florence S. Kerr, recently appointed Assistant Administrator of the Works Progress Administration, assumed her duties today at WPA headquarters. She succeeds Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward who resigned to become a member of the Social Security Board. Mrs. Kerr is a native of Harriman, Tenn., and a graduate of Grinnell College, Iowa, 1/6/39

New Assistant WPA Administrator. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. Mrs. Floren...

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administrationn (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPM), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

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Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe box, Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, polishes the shoes of Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe bo...

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Lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and guests at luncheon marking second anniversary of lend-lease, held March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., look on as Representative Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, inspects an egg. Dehydrated food, later rehydrated, was served

Lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and guests at lunc...

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Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

White House conference on unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Sept. 24. Holding his first press conference today, John D. Biggers, Administrator of the Unemployment Census, announced that he had called a conference at the White House on Monday to formulate plans for the first unemployment census ever conducted in the United States. Included among those invited to the meeting were John L. Lewis, CIO head; William Green, A.F. of L. President; George H. Davis, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council; and Leaders of Farm and Cooperative Groups.

White House conference on unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Sept....

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ADMINISTRATOR ICKES LAYS CORNERSTONE OF NEW INTERIOR BUILDING. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 16. ADMINISTRATOR HAROLD ICKES LAYING CORNERSTONE OF THE NEW $12,000,000 INTERIOR BUILDING TODAY WHILE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LOOKS ON SMILING. ICKES USED THE SAME TROWEL WITH WHICH GEORGE WASHINGTON EMPLOYED WHEN THE CORNERSTONE OF THE U.S. CAPITOL WAS PLACED IN 1793

ADMINISTRATOR ICKES LAYS CORNERSTONE OF NEW INTERIOR BUILDING. WASHING...

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Resettlement Administrator R.G. Tugwell with his aides at the Greenbelt project, Maryland

Resettlement Administrator R.G. Tugwell with his aides at the Greenbel...

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PWA Administrator. Washington D.C., July 14. Harry Hopkins, WPA Administrator, arriving at the White House for a conference with President Roosevelt on housing, 7/14/37

PWA Administrator. Washington D.C., July 14. Harry Hopkins, WPA Admini...

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Named to WPA post. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Capt. G.E. Textor, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, has been named Executive Assistant to Maj. B.M. Harlee, another Engineer Officer recently appointed Assistant WPA Administrator and Chief of WPA Engineers, 12/29/38

Named to WPA post. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Capt. G.E. Textor, Corps...

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Administration agrees to allow RFC to guarantee loans to small business. Washington, D.C., July 19. Following a conference at the White House today with the above, left to right: Senator James M. Mead, New York; Senator Robert F. Wagner, New York; Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator; Emil Schram, RFC Chairman. President Roosevelt announced a revised measure was agreed upon to utilize resources of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to gaurantee loans to small business. Senator Mead, sponser of a pending Senate bill to provide direct insurance for private loans to business, said the new plan would be attached to President Roosevelt's $3,460,000,000 lending, 7/19/39

Administration agrees to allow RFC to guarantee loans to small busines...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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McNutt registers for draft. Paul V. McNutt, (FSA) Federal Security Administrator and recently-appointed chairman of the Manpower Commission, registers under the Selective Service Act at the Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, D.C., April 25. Assisting him is Dr. William A. Killgore, draft registrar

McNutt registers for draft. Paul V. McNutt, (FSA) Federal Security Adm...

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A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Washington DC. Farm Securi...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense: Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Nesbitt, took the "Consumer Pledge for Total Defense" drafted by Miss Harriet Elliott. The pledge reads: "As a consumer, in the total defense of democracy, my country ready, efficient, and strong; I will buy carefully. I will take good care of the things I have. I will waste nothing"

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. R...

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Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and President Roosevelt. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., lend-lease Administrator, discusses the Seventh lend-lease Report which he has just handed to the President for transmittal to congress. The report showed that lend-lease aid had increased more than a third in the last three months and was now being provided at the rate of $10,000,000,000 a year

Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and President Roosevelt. Edward R. Stettiniu...

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The Mexican Ambassador Senor Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera; Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones; Norwegian foreign minister Trygze Lie; Russian ambassador Maxim Litvinov; Vice-President Henry A. Wallace; lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.; Chinese foreign minister T.V. Soong; British ambassador Lord Halifax; and the Belgium ambassador Count Robert van der Straten-Ponthoz, on the dais at luncheon held in observance of the second anniversary of lend-lease, on March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C.

The Mexican Ambassador Senor Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera; Secret...

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Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones; Norwegian foreign minister Trygze Lie; Russian ambassador Maxim Litvinov; Vice-President Henry A. Wallace and lend-lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., at luncheon in observance of second anniversary of lend- lease, on March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C.

Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones; Norwegian foreign minister Trygze L...

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Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

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Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9914". Forms part of: Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Photochrom pri... More

Wage-Hour Unit prepares to put act into effect. Washington, D.C., Oct. 22. The Wage-Hour Administration rushed work today on last minute explanations of how industry should comply with the most far reaching attempt since the NRA days to put a floor under wages and a ceiling over hours. Wage-hour Administrator Elmer Andrews, extreme right seated, telling the press he hopes to announce by nightfall the kind of records employers should keep to show conformity with the new law which becomes effective 12:01 A.M. Monday

Wage-Hour Unit prepares to put act into effect. Washington, D.C., Oct....

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C.B. Baldwin, Administrator, Farm Security Administration

C.B. Baldwin, Administrator, Farm Security Administration

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Protest WPA relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec .15. David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, and Mary Gorman, research worker for the same organization, led WPA workers from 28 states in protesting to Asst. WPA Administrator Aubry Williams the recent relief cuts, 12/15/38

Protest WPA relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec .15. David Lasser, Pres...

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Administration leaders explain works financing bill in radio round table. Washington, D.C., July 24. Leaders of the administration fight to pass intact the so-called 'spend-lend' bill under the Federal Works Agency, tonight went on the air to explain the bill. The round table on the 'Works Financing Act', was participated in by, left to right - Emil Schram, Chairman of the RFC, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee through which the bill must be reported to the Senate Sen. Robert Wagner, Sponser of the Bill and Majority Leader Sen. Alben Barkley, and John Carmody, Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, 7/24/39

Administration leaders explain works financing bill in radio round tab...

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Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board

Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): d...

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administrationn (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

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Dr. Edgar G. Brown, Director of the National Negro Council, shown with Leon Henderson, Office of Price Administration Administrator (OPA), and Donald Gordon, Chairman of the Canadian Wartime Prices and Trade Board, at the announcement of the price control order. Dr. Brown is working with OPA on the price regulation as it affects the Negro race in America

Dr. Edgar G. Brown, Director of the National Negro Council, shown with...

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The following members and alternates attended the first meeting of the War Production Board (WPB), held January 20th, 1942, in the conference room of the new Social Security building. Seated, left to right: Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator; Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy; Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the Board; Henry A. Wallace, Chairman of the Board of Economic Welfare

The following members and alternates attended the first meeting of the...

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Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, April 1921

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

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