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William Kaplovitz, Assistant General Counsel, F.C.C. Fox Broadcasting Mag.

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Half a victory. W.D. Whitney, Counsel, left, and James Walter Carter, right, President of Carter Coal Co., leave District of Columbia Supreme Court with half a victory in their fight against the Guffey Coal Act. A temporary injunction restraining stockholders of the coal company from complying with the act. At the same time Carter's petition asking for a temporary injunction restraining the government from collecting penalties was denied. The court directed that arguments in the case continue for decision on application for a permanent injunction against enforcement of the act and on its constitutionality, 10/30/35

Half a victory. W.D. Whitney, Counsel, left, and James Walter Carter, ...

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Youthful dynamo, Washington, D.C. August 1. One of the most exacting jobs of the century has been placed in the hands of this Wisconsin legal genius, Samuel Becker, 33, who is now conducting the Federal investigation of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., for the Federal Communications Commission. A former utilities counsel, Becker was appointed to his present post as special counsel to the Communications Commission on the recommendation if the fiery and brilliant Ferdinand Pecora, Hearing on the A.T. and T. investigation will be resumed late in the fall

Youthful dynamo, Washington, D.C. August 1. One of the most exacting j...

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Social security board now full-staffed. Washington, D.C., Nov. 12. With the recent appointment of Mary M. Dewson and George E. Bigge, the Social Security Board is now complete. This new picture made today shows, left to right: (seated) Miss Mary M. Dewson; Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman; and George E. Bigge. Standing are Jack B. Tate, Acting General Counsel and Frank Bane, (right) Executive Director. 11/12/37

Social security board now full-staffed. Washington, D.C., Nov. 12. Wit...

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Senate committee hears NLRB chairman. Washington, D.C., Dec. 13. Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, J. Warren Madden told the Senate Commerce Committee today he was doubtful that principles of the railway labor act could be applied successfully to the Maritime Industry. Chairman Madden (left) is shown with counsel for NLRB, Charles Fahy (right) and Nathan Witt, Secretary of the Board. 12/13/37

Senate committee hears NLRB chairman. Washington, D.C., Dec. 13. Chair...

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Labor strategists confer with heads. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12/37. In a meeting of labor leaders concerned in the automobile strike against General Motors Corporation, the charges that General Motors were hiring professional strikebreakers in an attempt to put an end to it was made. Homer L. Martin stated that the United Automobile Workers would end the strike if they were given collective bargaining. In the picture, from the left are: Sidney Hillman, member of the CIO; Homer L. Martin, President of the U.A.W.; Leo Pressman, CIO General Counsel; John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers; and John Brophy, Director of the CIO

Labor strategists confer with heads. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12/37. In ...

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Prexy of American Cotton Association Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. A new informal picture of J.S. Wannamaker, President of the American Cotton Association. He is also a member of the National Counsel of the National Economic League, 10/3/38

Prexy of American Cotton Association Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. A new i...

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15 percent wage cut for rail employees necessary, Counsel tells fact finding board. Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. Testifying at the initial hearing of President Roosevelt's fact finding committee today J. Carter Fort, Chief Counsel for the Carriers Joint Conference Committee declared that a 15 percent wage cut for 900,000 railroad employees is necessary to save railroads from disaster. Rail employees have threatened a general walkout if the cut if put into effect. Seated are members of the fact-finding committee pictured left to right: Harry A. Millis, Walter P. Stacy, Chairman and James M. Landis, 9/30/38

15 percent wage cut for rail employees necessary, Counsel tells fact f...

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House Legislative Counsel. Washington, D.C., Feb. 18. Middleton Beaman, Legislative Counsel for the House of Representatives, pictured as he attended a recent House hearing, 2/18/38

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Named to monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 11. Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., Assistant General Counsel of the Treasury Department has been named to the Monopoly Committee to succeed the late Herman Oliphant. Oliphant was General Counsel for the Treasury at his death, 2-11-39

Named to monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 11. Joseph J. O'Co...

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[Joseph J. O'Connell, Special Asst. to the General Counsel of the Treasury]

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William Jay Hoff, Attorney in Office of the General Counsel, Production Division; ex-assistant, Corporation Counsel, New York City

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Telford Taylor, new general counsel of Federal Communications Commision to succeed William J. Dempsey, resigned, 5-8-40

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Conference held in the office of the Office of Production Management in Washington, D.C. August 19, 1941. Left to right: John Lord O'Brian, General Counsel, Office of Production Management; Edward R. Stettinius, Director of Priorities, OPM; Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply; William S. Knudsen, Director-General, OPM; W. Averill Harriman, Lend-Lease administrator in London

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[Design drawing for stained glass Tondo window showing Christ Pantocrator with Evangelist symbols on mid grid with text "Rex Sumo Ego" for Our Lady of Good Counsel]

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[Design drawing for stained glass window V with Stations of the Cross: Christ and Simon of Cyrene Bear the Cross, below New and Old Testament symbols on mid grid for Our Lady of Good Counsel]

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Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. Ernest T. Weir, arch-foe of the New Deal and Chairman of the National Steel Corporation, suggested before the National Monopoly Committee that it was 'easier for a company our size to operate and make a profit than a company with the size and ramifications of the U.S. Steel Corporation.' A.F. Feller, Counsel for the Committee and Special Assistant to the Attorney General, termed this statement by Weir the important yet made before the committee

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. Ernest T. Weir, ...

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Chief Counsel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Francis Biddle, Chief Counsel for the Joint Congressional Committee Investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority, pictured as he questioned witnesses today when the public hearings were resumed

Chief Counsel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Francis Biddle, Chief Counse...

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Waymouth Kirkland of Chgo., Counsel for Rep. Natl. Com., before Borah Committee, 10/28/24

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Col. Mitchell & his counsel. [10/25]

Col. Mitchell & his counsel. [10/25]

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On advise of counsel. Howard C. Hopson, left, long missing witness for the House Lobby Investigation Committee, confers with his counsel, William Hill of Boston, when he makes a belated appearance on the "Hill." 8/13/35

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New Public Contracts Board, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6. Members of the new public contracts board of the Department of Labor met today for the first time shortly after they were appointed by the Secretary Perkins. Hearings will be held immediately by the Board to make findings upon questions arrising under the Walsh-Healey law which went into effect last week and requires that manufacturers and dealers who make future contracts in excess of $10,000 with the Government shall comply with certain minimum wage, maximum hour and other labor conditions in the performance of the contract. In the photograph, left to right; Telfair Knight, Counsel for the Textile Labor Relations Division, Frank Healey of the office of the Solicitor of the Labor Department; and Hugh L.Kerwin, Director of Conciliation, Textile Labor Relations Division

New Public Contracts Board, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6. Members of the ne...

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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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Newly appointed special counsel for FCC Investigation into broadcast monopoly. Washington, D.C., June 6. The F.C.C. today appointed William J. Dempsey, now special counsel for the commission and formerly with the Federal Power Commission as Special Counsel for the FCC Investigation into the Broadcast Monopoly. Chairman McNinch, in a statment announcing the appointment, said the FCC will complete the inquiry in time to submit its recomendation to the next session of Congress, 7/6/38

Newly appointed special counsel for FCC Investigation into broadcast m...

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Harry Baltome, General Counsel. Thomas Buckner, Chairman of Board. Arthur Ballentine, Director

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President receives legislative program of American Farm Bureau. Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. The legislative program of the American Farm Bureau, calling for modification of hours and wages of relief labor and suggesting that both industry and labor refrain from advancing prices and wage rates, was presented to President Roosevelt today. In the group, left to right: O.O. Wolf of Kansas; E.A. O'Neal of Alabama, President of the American Farm Bureau; George M. Putnam of New Hampshire; H.J. King of Wyoming; Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel; J.F. Porter of Tennessee; and W.R. Ogg of the Research Division of the Bureau, 1/10/39

President receives legislative program of American Farm Bureau. Washin...

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Harry Baltome, General Counsel. Thomas Buckner, Chairman of the Board. Arthur Ballentine, Director. New York Life

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Named to monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 11. Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., Assistant General Counsel of the Treasury Department has been named to the Monopoly Committee to succeed the late Herman Oliphant. Oliphant was General Counsel for the Treasury at his death, 2-11-39

Named to monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 11. Joseph J. O'Co...

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Samuel E. Neel, attorney in Office of the General Counsel, Production Division

Samuel E. Neel, attorney in Office of the General Counsel, Production ...

William Jay Hoff, Attorney in Office of the General Counsel, Production Division; ex-assistant, Corporation Counsel, New York City

William Jay Hoff, Attorney in Office of the General Counsel, Productio...

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Argument. Gentlemen: As counsel of the "original proprietors" of the city of Washington, we submit to the decision of your Committee, composed, as it is, of members of the bar, their case now before you ... Brent & Brent, Att's for the Proprieto

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Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 196, Folder 20.

Missouri--The great Whisky Ring trial--Scene in the United States District Court, St. Louis, Monday, February 7th, at the opening of the case of the United States vs. O.E. Babcock, President Grant's private secretary. Mr. E.A. Storrs, one of General Babcock's counsel, asking that the trial be deferred until Tuesday, February 8th / from sketches by E. Jump and Harry Ogden.

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Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1876 February 26, pp. 400-401.

Monopoly Committee begins study of steel industry. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Leaders of the nation's steel business were on hand at the Capitol today as the National Monopoly Committee began a study of the $4,000,000,000 industry. Here we see, left to right: Senator William H. King, a member of the committee, Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel Corporation, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, co-chairman of the committee, Nathan L. Miller, General Counsel for U.S. Steel Corp., and Benjamin F. Fairless, President of U.S. Steel Corp.

Monopoly Committee begins study of steel industry. Washington, D.C., N...

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R.V. Fletcher, General Counsel of the Assoc. of the Amer. Railroads, before the Senate Finance Committee tax hearing

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In spotlight at U.S.-Latin American retailers conference. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. These Latin-American diplomats took an active part in the conference today with United States retailers in efforts to seek means of increasing western hemisphere trade. The U.S. Department of Commerce sponsored the meeting. Left to right: Dr. Cesar D. Andrade, Minister from Ecuador, Eduardo Salazar, Financial Counsel of Ecuador, and Captain Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ambassador of Ecuador. Ambassador Alfaro is holding this rank only for the durations of the boundary negotiations between the governments of Ecuador and Peru

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Former Van Swerigen counsel appears before senate railroad financing committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. John P. Murphy, General Counsel for the Van Swerigan Brothers during the years in which they expanded modest real estate holdings into a vast railroad empire, was the first witness today as the senate railroad financing committee resumed hearings. Murphy denied the committee's accusation that acquisition of the Missouri Pacific railroad by the Van Swerigans in 1929 was counter to ICC policy.

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Major William Wof. Smith, appt. General Counsel of the U.S. Veteran's Bureau, succeeding C.F. Cramer

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Representatives of League of Amer. Citizens of Ukrainian extraction with Rep. Stephen Porter, Chmn. of the House Foreign Relations Comm. L. to r.: Rep. Porter, [à] J. Hrycey and Dwight N. Lowery, General Counsel for the Delegation

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Weymouth Kirkland, Counsel for Rep. Natl. Com., [10/23/24]

Weymouth Kirkland, Counsel for Rep. Natl. Com., [10/23/24]

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Wash. D.C. To push A.T. & T. quiz. Samuel Becker of Milwaukee, photographed at his desk where he is talking over his duties as special assistant counsel for the Federal Communications Commission where his telephone investigation. His salary is $9,000 a year. 10/4/35

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Son of Mine Workers' Chief learning business. John L. Lewis, Jr., (second from left) son of the president of the United Mine Workers, listens in as his father marshalls followers in defense of the Guffey Coal Bill, now before a subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee. From the left: John L. Lewis, Se., Lewis, Jr.; Henry Warrum, counsel for United Mine Workers, and Philip Murray, vice president of UMW and member of the NRA board. 6/18/35

Son of Mine Workers' Chief learning business. John L. Lewis, Jr., (sec...

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New and retiring tax experts. Washington, D.C., June 10. Lovell H. Parker, (left) Chief of Staff of the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation who resigned today, is pictured with is successor C.F. Stam. Stam has served the Committee since 1927, and, recently as counsel. Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, in announcing Parker's resignation, praised him as "one of the greatest tax experts in America," 6/10/38

New and retiring tax experts. Washington, D.C., June 10. Lovell H. Par...

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A sharp questioner. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Hugh L. Cox, who as Special Assistant to the Attorney General is acting as one of the counsel for Joint Monopoly Committee, is proving a shrewd questioner at the daily hearings. Cox, left, is pictured quizzing J.H. McNash of Hazel-Atlas Glass Container Co. regarding a statement that the Ball Fruit Jar Co. wished to make some agreement to restrict the Hazel-Atlas production of fruit jars, 12/15/38

A sharp questioner. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Hugh L. Cox, who as Spe...

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Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau lauds administration's new lending bill before senate committee. Washington, D.C., July 18. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, seated, listens attentively while Edward H. Foley, treasury General Counsel, answers a question by the Senate Banking and Currency concerning the Administration's new lending bill. Morgenthau told the committee the bill was a "realistic approach to our economic problem." He urged prompt approval of it, 7/18/39

Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau lauds administration's new lending bi...

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Washington, D.C., July 20. A new informal picture of Max Lowenthal, counsel to the Senate interstate commerce sub-committee 'which' is investigating railroads, 7/20/39

Washington, D.C., July 20. A new informal picture of Max Lowenthal, co...

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GMC Head signs on the dotted line. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. William S. Knudsen, President of the General Motors Corp., signs a subpoena before appearing before the Monopoly Committee. George C. Arvedson, Counsel for the Automobile Manufacturers Association, looks on

GMC Head signs on the dotted line. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. William S...

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Rail inquiry chairman's statement is unfair charge of M.P. bondholder's counsel. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Replying to the statement of Chairman Truman of the Senate Rail Inquiry that the proposed reorganization plan for the Missouri Pacific Railroad by the Alleghany Corporation would result in the M.P. being run in the same old way, W. Lloyd Kitchel, Counsel for the Stedman Committee, representing M.P. Bondholders, challenged the statement as being unfair and added, that he believed that questioning had not brought out the true facts of the reorganization. On the left is Eugene J. Conroy, Secretary to the Stedman Committee.

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Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. A new informal picture of Edmund M. Toland, Counsel for the Special House Committee now investigating the National Labor Relations Board

Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. A new informal picture of Edmund M. Toland,...

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General Counsel of Civil Aeronautics Authority. Washington, D.C., Aug. 22. Charles Guthrie, recently named General Counsel of the new Civil Aeronautics Authority, photographed at his desk today shortly after taking the oath of office

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The General faces his questioner. Washington, D.C., May 31. Major General George Van Horn Moseley, U.S.A. retired, who appeared before the Dies Committee today to deny any connection with any organizations opposed to Jewry, asserted in his testimony that America is faced with danger of destruction by communists, and that rightists here would fight the menace. When the Committee broke up for an hour's luncheon recess, Moseley and Rhea Whitley, counsel and questioner for the Committee faced each other and had a short heated discussion

The General faces his questioner. Washington, D.C., May 31. Major Gene...

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At Split-Coin hearing. Testifying before the House Coinage Committee are C.M. Hester, Assistant General Counsel of the Treasury Department, and Miss Mary O'Reilly, assistant director of the U.S. Mint, as congress propares to consider the plea of several states that they be allowed to issue coins in fractional cents for sales tax purposes. Miss O'Rielly has been with the Mint for 32 years. 8/8/35

At Split-Coin hearing. Testifying before the House Coinage Committee a...

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Plotting for lobbies. Rep. Sol Bloom, D. of N.Y., left, and Rep. Wright Patman, D. of Tex., going into a hasty conference as they sit in a Special House Committee investigating "super lobbies" and come out with a [subpena?] for Robert W. Lyons, Counsel for several chain stor [...] 8/9/35

Plotting for lobbies. Rep. Sol Bloom, D. of N.Y., left, and Rep. Wrigh...

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Scene of Black broadcast. Washington, D.C., Oct. 1. From this house, the home of Claude E. Hamilton, Jr., at 3122 Tennyson Street, Justice Hugo L. Black will tonight by radio give the nation the answer to the charges that he is or was a Klu Klux Klansman. Hamilton, Counsel for the RFC, is a close friend of Justice Black. 10/1/37

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Congressional monopoly committee holds initial meeting. Washington, D.C., July 1. The Congressional Executive Committee to investigate monopolies held their first meeting today and charted a course designed to determine the efffect of concentrated wealth and power on business. Pictured, left to right: (sitting) Senator William E. Borah, Herman Oliphant, General Counsel for Treasury; Senator William H. King, Utah; Senator Hoseph C. O'Mahoney, of Wyoming and Chairman of the Committee; Rep. Hatton W. Sumners, of Texas and Vice Chairman; Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General; and Rep. Edward C. Eicher of Iowa. Standing left to right: Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Garland S. Ferguson, Chairman of Federal Trade Commission; William O. Douglas, Chairman of S.E.C.; Isador Lubin Chief of Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor; and Rep. Edward H. Rees of Kansas, 7/1/38

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Whispered advice. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman (right) of Missouri, who today opposed the proposed rail wage cut before the President's fact finding board, gets a bit of last minute information from Max Lowenthal, counsel for the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In contending the cut will not save the situation, Truman told the board that railroad labor is the most efficient in the country and expressed the belief that the men are not overpaid, 10/14/38

Whispered advice. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman (rig...

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Senate Committee told railroads should spend 3 billion in the next five years for habilitation. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. Appearing before the Senate Finance Subcommittee today, R.V. Fletcher, General Counsel for the Association of American Railroads, asserted that railroads should spend approximately $3,000,000,000 during the next five or six years for plant and equipment rehabilitation. He urged that business and industry be given the benefit of incentive taxation in a drive to meet obsolescence, 12/12/38

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Counsel for Frankfurter talks with Chairman of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. Waiting to appear before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today as counsel for Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Dean Acheson, left, former Undersecretary of the Treasury and a personal friend of the Harvard professor, chatted informally with Chairman M.M. Neely of West Virginia, 1/10/39

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Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April, 1859 : together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court /

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"The cases of the prisoners taken on board the brig Echo, charged with the crime of piracy, for a violation of the laws of the United States in suppression of the foreign slave trade, came on for trial in the C... More

Trial of Ossawattamie [sic] Brown View of the court-room during the trial, with accurate portraits of the presiding judge, the twelve ... men, the counsel for the prisoner and prosecution, and Brown, as he reclined on his couch / / from a drawing taken by our special artist.

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Discuss Repubican Party problems. Washington, D.C., Dec. 7. Snapped in a huddle just before the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee convened today were, left to right: John Hamilton, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr., House Republican Leader; Henry P. Fletcher, General Counsel; and Mrs. Paul Fitzsimons, member of the Executive Committee from Rhode Island. Presidential campaign problems and an embarrassing deficit were discussed at the meeting

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Testimony at NLRB hearings reveal memos which label them 'amateur detectives.' Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. During the rummaging about in the stack of board correspondence which Committee Counsel Edmund Toland had before him, inter-office communications were produced which revealed that Leiserson had repeatedly demanded the discharge of Nathan Witt, Board Secretary and 'other amateur detectives.' Fred Krivonos, left in photo, was later named as one of the 'detectives' referred to. He is an Investigator for the Board. Left to right: Krivonos and Witt

Testimony at NLRB hearings reveal memos which label them 'amateur dete...

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Ickes commissions new general counsel of FEA. Washington, D.C., May 1. Administrator Harold Ickes presenting Abe Fortas, newly appointed General Counsel of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works with his commission after Fortas was sworn into office today

Ickes commissions new general counsel of FEA. Washington, D.C., May 1....

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Col. Mitchell & his counsel, 10/28/25

Col. Mitchell & his counsel, 10/28/25

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Jan. 21. A committee from the Atlantic States Shipping Advis[...] Board, headed by Emil P. Albrecht, President, called at the White House today to invite President Coolidge to address the next meeting of the organization which will be held in Philadelphiadelphia, April, 9th. Left to right, front row; S.B. Crowell, Pres. George B. Newton, Coal Co., Frank A. Bedford, American Bridge Co., Emil Albrecht, Pres. Philadelphia. Bourse, W.J.L. Banham, Chairman Atlantic States Shipper's Board, A.P. Thom, General Counsel, Association Railway Executives, William A. Lockyer, Sec. Philadelphia. Bourse. Back row; R.H. Aishton, President American Railway Association, Chas. H. Ewing, Vice Pres. Reading Railroad, Archibald Fries, vice pres. Baltimore and Ohio R.R., P.E. Crowle [...] President New York Central System and C.S. Krick, Vice Pres. Pe [...] C.R.

Jan. 21. A committee from the Atlantic States Shipping Advis[...] Boar...

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New legal light of SEC. Robert H. Jackson, now Special Counsel for Securities and Exchange Commission, left, photographed with James M. Landis, chairman of the SEC. Jackson formerly was Assistant General Counsel for the Treasury Department. 11/27/35

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Congressional defiant served with subpoena. Wash. D.C. Robert W. Lyons, Counsel for several chain store organizations, is served with a subpoena by Deputy Sargeant-at-Arms William A. Weber to force testimony before the Special House committee investigating "super lobbies." Myron Cohen, counsel for Lyons, is in the center, 8/9/35

Congressional defiant served with subpoena. Wash. D.C. Robert W. Lyons...

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Heads in huddle as senate committee resumes railroad financing hearing. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, (left) acting Chairman, and Max Lowenthal, Counsel and Chief Investigator, go into a huddle as the Senate Committee investigating railroad financing resumed its open hearings today. Senator Truman is presiding during the absence of senator Burton K. Wheeler who has not yet returned to the Capital. 10/20/37

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May get post of Comptroller General. Washington, D.C. Aug. 18. Charles M. Galloway, now Counsel of the General Accounting Office, is believed to have the inside track for the post of Comptroller General recently vacated by John R. McCarl, whose 15-year term expired. Galloway, a former newspaperman of Columbia, S.C., was a member of the United States Civil Service Commission 1913-19 under President Woodrow Wilson

May get post of Comptroller General. Washington, D.C. Aug. 18. Charles...

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Down to business. Washington, D.C., Aug. 8. Shortly after taking the Oath of Office today, Edward J. Noble, Chairman of the newly created Civil Aeronautics Authority, and Clin[...] M. Hester, Administrator of the Authority, went into an immediate huddle to discuss plans for putting the[?] act into effect on August 22. Administrator Hester assisted in drawing up the Civil Aeronautics Act. He was formerly Assistant General counsel of the Treasury Department, 8/8/38

Down to business. Washington, D.C., Aug. 8. Shortly after taking the O...

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C.I.O. Head attempts to settle automobile union fight. Washington, D.C., Aug. 24. C.I.O. Head John L. Lewis with three of his aides today met with Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Workers Union, to attempt an immediate settlement of the Union's factional fight. Martin's ouster has been demanded by other officials of the UAWA. Pictured, left to right are: Philip Murray, Chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee; Lee Pressman, Counsel for C.I.O.; R.J. Thomas, Vice President of UAWU; Homer Martin, John L. Lewis, and John Brophy, C.I.O. Director, 8/24/38

C.I.O. Head attempts to settle automobile union fight. Washington, D.C...

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Preparing material on Life Insurance Co. set for presentation to monopoly study comm[...]Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. A preliminary investigation by the S.E.C. of Life Insurance Co. Corporate [...] ups now completed, Gerhard Gesell, who served as the SEC's Chief Counsel in the investigation; Richard Whitney Case, is preparing the material gathered for presentation to the monopoly [...] committee in January. He is being assisted [...] J. Howe, Chief Financial Adviser, 11/4/38

Preparing material on Life Insurance Co. set for presentation to monop...

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Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April, 1859 : together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court /

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"The cases of the prisoners taken on board the brig Echo, charged with the crime of piracy, for a violation of the laws of the United States in suppression of the foreign slave trade, came on for trial in the C... More

H.B. Terrell, Counsel for Ku Klux Klan

H.B. Terrell, Counsel for Ku Klux Klan

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Imigration Education Counsel, 12/1/23

Imigration Education Counsel, 12/1/23

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Harry F. Sinclair, multimillionaire oil magnate (left) and his counsel Martin W. Littleton. Teapot Dome hearing

Harry F. Sinclair, multimillionaire oil magnate (left) and his counsel...

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Col. Mitchell & his counsel, 10/30/25

Col. Mitchell & his counsel, 10/30/25

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Last-Minute Advice. Washington, D.C., Aug. 1. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs (right) of Monroe, Mich., gets last-minute advice from E.J. McCormick, legal counsel for city of Monroe, before taking the stand today at the Senate Civil Liberties Hearing. Knaggs told the Committee that special police sworn in for strike duty at the Newton Steel Plant were armed with baseball bats because there were not enough billies to go around, 8/1/38

Last-Minute Advice. Washington, D.C., Aug. 1. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs (...

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Crowd hears Frankfurter before Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12. The S.R.O sign was hung out today as Prof. Felix Frankfurter appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee considering his nomination to the Supreme Court. Frankfurter and his counsel, Dean Acheson, are shown in center of picture, 1/12/39

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Attentive listeners. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Nathan L. Miller, General Counsel for U.S. Steel Corp., and Benjamin F. Fairless, President of the U.S. Steel Corp., listen attentively as the first witness testified when the National Monopoly Committee began its study today of the $4,000,000,000 steel industry

Attentive listeners. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Nathan L. Miller, Gener...

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CIO 'pet baby' of NLRB, Padway charges. Washington, D.C., May 3. Joseph A. Padway, AF of L General Counsel, told the Senate Labor Committee that the CIO is the 'pet baby' of the NLRB. He pointed out that the Board had once said that foremen could not vote in collective bargaining elections, then in a similar case, reversed itself on this point. The AF of L lost an important election, said Padway, to the 'pet baby.' He denied that the AF of L sought an advantage over the CIO through amendments to the Wagner Act

CIO 'pet baby' of NLRB, Padway charges. Washington, D.C., May 3. Josep...

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Last picture of Senator Borah made before present illness. Washington, D.C., July 11. The condition of Senator William E. Borah, veteran Republican from Idaho who has been ill for the last ten days, was "about the same" today, his office announced. This picture of the Senator, made at the first meeting of the Senate Monopoly Committee with Herman Oliphant, Treasury Department General Counsel, is the last on to be mode of the legislator before he became ill, 7/11/38

Last picture of Senator Borah made before present illness. Washington,...

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NLRB general counsel defends board before House Labor Committee. Washington, D.C., May 31. Charles Fahy, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, told a House Committee on labor today that the Wagner Act procedure in labor trouble is 'fair, full, and sound.' He said, 'It is so temperate that were it to be changed at all in material respects, means for strengthening it should be sought.' Before Fahy read his 100 page statement, Chairman of the Board J. Warren Madden, said that to make a strict definition of areas for bargaining units would be a 'step backward'

NLRB general counsel defends board before House Labor Committee. Washi...

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Panoramic view of the city. General view of the city, from the hill of Evil Counsel / McDonald, Sergt. R.E. photo.

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View of Jerusalem. Illus. in: Ordnance survey of Jerusalem, made with the sanction of the Right Hon. Earl de Grey and Ripon, Secretary of State for war, by Captain Charles W. Wilson, R.E., under the direction o... More

Michael Cleary, right, Pres. of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., with his counsel, G.M. Swanstrom, at Monopoly Comm. Hearing

Michael Cleary, right, Pres. of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...

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Corp. Counsel Taggert - Public domain dedication image

Corp. Counsel Taggert - Public domain dedication image

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Weymouth Kirkland, Counsel [for] Rep. Natl. Con., 10/23/24

Weymouth Kirkland, Counsel [for] Rep. Natl. Con., 10/23/24

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Newly nominated treasury general counsel. Washington, D.C., May 8. A new informal photograph of Edward H. Foley, Jr., of New York, was nominated by the president for the position of General Counsel for the Treasury Department. He will be 34 this month

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Hackers' feeling hurt. William A. Roberts, seated in center, peoples Counsel in Washington D.C., warned Shriners in convention here against being overcharged, taxi drivers declare, and it hurt the hackers' feelings. So, they struck for higher rates and goot them. This conference between the People Counsel and cab operators was photographed as a compromise increase was agreed upon. 6/20/35

Hackers' feeling hurt. William A. Roberts, seated in center, peoples C...

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Mine workers cite sick chicken case to aid coal bill. Henry Warrum, left, United Mine Workers' General Counsel, cites the Supreme Court's decision on the famous NRA sick-chicken case as supporting the constitutionality of the Guffey Coal bill. He testified before a sub-committee of the House Ways and Means committee. Others in the picture are John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers, and Rep. J. Buell Snyder, D. of Pennsylvania, who heads the sub-committee

Mine workers cite sick chicken case to aid coal bill. Henry Warrum, le...

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Investigating presidential campaign expenses, Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. The campaign expenses of the presidential candidates are being carefully scrutinized by this special Senate Committee of which Senator Augustine Longergan, Democrat, is chairman. In the photograph made at the first meeting of the committee today are left to right: (seated) Sen. Louis B. Swellenbach, Democrat of Washington, Senator Augustine Longergan, Connecticut, and Senator Sherman Minton, Democrat of Indiana. Standing, left to right, Walter Meyers, counsel to the committee, and Senator Lynn J. Frazier, Farmer-Labor from North Dakota

Investigating presidential campaign expenses, Washington, D.C., Sept. ...

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Senate Committee hears Van Swerigan official. Washington, D.C., May 11. known for many years as the closest business associate of the late Van Swerigan brothers, Herbert Fitzpatrick, Vice President and General council for two major units in vast Van Swerigan rail empire, was quizzed today by the Senate Committee investigating railroad financing. Chairman Wheeler charged that the late O.P. Van Swerigan acted "directly in defiance" of ICC orders by having the Van Swerigan-controlled Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad purchase in 1930 an option for stock of the Chicago and Illinois Railroad. Fitzpatrick answered by declaring the C&O voted to buy the option because "it was their judgement the O.&E. I[?] should properly be grouped with the C&O" roger brennan, counsel for Fitzpatrick, is shown on left, 5/11/1937

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Luis Q. Sariento, General Counsel, the Philippine League, Inc., before Senate Comm. on Territories & Insular Affairs

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T. Munford Boyd, Assistant Legal Counsel, Priorities Division. Attorney in Charlottesville, Virginia

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King Farouk's birthday celebrations in J'lem. [i.e., Jerusalem]. Group in the reception room, with Egyptian Counsel Gen[eral] Moh. Khayrat Bey

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[Design drawing for stained glass typical Nave window with tall, narrow, and stylized composition with the Blessed Virgin Showing the Rosary to St. Dominic for Our Lady of Good Counsel in Detroit, Michigan]

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The Borden murder trial--A scene in the court-room before the acquittal - Lizzie Borden, the accused, and her counsel, Ex-Governor Robinson / drawn on the spot by B. West Clinedinst.

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At Civil Liberties hearing. Washington, D.C. Jan. 14. Borden Burr, Counsel for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad, testifying before the Senate Civil Liberties hearing into labor disputes and flogging cases in Alabama, charged that failure of law enforcement in their district made it imperative for his company to bring in special deputies to protect life and property. Karl L. Landgrebe, Vice President of the Toi, is shown seated

At Civil Liberties hearing. Washington, D.C. Jan. 14. Borden Burr, Cou...

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