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Majority Senate leaders press conference. Washington, D.C. Jan. 2. Joe Robinson, the Senator from Arkansas who is the majority leader of the Senate held the first press conference this year. Sen. Robinson said that the principle problems confronting the coming session of Congress are neutrality, budget balancing, and regulation of hours and wages, the latter by constitutional amendment if necessary

Majority Senate leaders press conference. Washington, D.C. Jan. 2. Joe...

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Wash. D.C. Principals. Rep. Martin Dies (D. of N.Y.) front, who was the principle cross-questioner at the House lobby inquiry Friday. Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Texas) who is a principle involved in the hearing, as to whether or not he received "cigars" in a cigar box from a Utility Lobbyist (in rear) and Bonnie Patton, his loyal daughter who testified for her father Friday, photoed at the hearing. 7/2/35

Wash. D.C. Principals. Rep. Martin Dies (D. of N.Y.) front, who was th...

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Reduce taxes on business, GMC executive tells senate committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 9. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Chairman of the General Motors Corp., today told a Senate Finance Subcommittee that the best application of the tax incentive principle appears to be a reduction of general taxes on business. Discussing profit sharing plans, Sloan said General Motors has found that the best plan is the biggest pay envelop that is possible, 12/9/38

Reduce taxes on business, GMC executive tells senate committee. Washin...

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Production. Lead. A shaking table which separates the lead mineral from the ore by the same principle used in "panning" by hand. It is in use at a mill near Creede, Colorado where old lead mines have been reopened. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. A shaking table which separates the lead mineral fro...

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This is another assembled trailer house constructed on the same principle but designed more along the lines of a house than a trailer. It was also reduced in cost somewhat by substitution of a simple wide window for the bay window on the front of the living room

This is another assembled trailer house constructed on the same princi...

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Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demountable method makes use of the stressed skin principle of plywood engineering. In consequnce, the house slices become very much lighter and can be towed on a light undercarriage behind a small truck or ordinary passenger car

Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demou...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. As indigenous to the American scene as the hamburger stand and Mickey Mouse, juke boxes like this, here being tested. From now on, electrical control instruments, based on the principle of the jukebox selection device, will be produced here for use by Uncle Sam's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. As indigenous to the American scene as the ...

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House leaders study president's message. Washington D.C. President Roosevelt's sensational message to Congress today, demanding overhauling of the Judiciary, struck Congressional leaders like a bolt from a clear sky. Copies of the speech were at a premium on Capitol Hill. Here we see Rep. Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Speaker William B. Bankhead, as they went into a huddle with the message. Speaker Bankhead said the message involved a "sound principle" for judicial reform. Rep. Sumners refused to comment

House leaders study president's message. Washington D.C. President Roo...

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Reduce taxes on business, GMC executive tells senate committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 9. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Chairman of the General Motors Corp., today told a Senate Finance Subcommittee that the best application of the tax incentive principle appears to be a reduction of general taxes on business. Discussing profit sharing plans, Sloan said General Motors has found that the best plan is the biggest pay envelope that is possible, 12/9/38

Reduce taxes on business, GMC executive tells senate committee. Washin...

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Demountable employee housing. Group of construction workers' houses, built on demountable principle, on a dam construction project in North Carolina. Some of these houses are on their third location since they were first built in Alabama and hauled approximately 300 miles in sections

Demountable employee housing. Group of construction workers' houses, b...

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Television inventor tells Economic Committee of difficulties in getting patents. Washington, D.C., Jan. 19. Philo T. Farnsworth, who conceived the principle of television when 14 years old came before the Temporary National Economic Committee today and told them that his firm, Farnsworth Television, Inc., has taken out 46 patents, has twice as many pending, and that more than 20 patent suits have resulted in which his firm was cleared in each case. Farnsworth is Vice President in charge of research in the Philadelphia firm. He is shown here with George Everson [?], Secretary of the company on his right, and Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 1/19/39

Television inventor tells Economic Committee of difficulties in gettin...

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Dairy herd in Maricopa County, Arizona. Dairying is one of the principle industries of this country

Dairy herd in Maricopa County, Arizona. Dairying is one of the princip...

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Horses are the principle means of transportation for farmers who live in the hills. Puerto Rico

Horses are the principle means of transportation for farmers who live ...

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Tarrant's effervescent seltzer aperient prepared on an entire new principle, from a late and accurate analysis of the celebrated Seltzer spring in Germany. [New York? c. 1866].

Tarrant's effervescent seltzer aperient prepared on an entire new prin...

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling ... I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve s

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order ...

A promise of twelve words. Page Order: Multipage 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 1... More

The spirit of the age. To the voters of the United States. 1860. The question is this! Will you vote for yourself and men who will take care of you and the old Washington principle, or will you be played the old blind cow with? - and vote for me

The spirit of the age. To the voters of the United States. 1860. The q...

On verso: Filed Aug 2, 1860. 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 123, Folder 8.

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling ... I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve s

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order ...

A promise of twelve words. Page Order: Multipage 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 1... More

Consumers pledge day. Woodrow Wilson High School. Left to right: Mr. Nelson, principle of Woodrow Wilson; Mrs. E. Roosevelt

Consumers pledge day. Woodrow Wilson High School. Left to right: Mr. N...

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A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling ... I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve s

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order ...

A promise of twelve words. Page Order: Multipage 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 1... More

Plan for terminating the war, by Division of the United State, without concession of principle or right on the part of the North ... J. P.B. [1861?].

Plan for terminating the war, by Division of the United State, without...

Plan for terminating the war. 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 234, Folder 10.

Ickes criticizes housing bill. Washington, D.C. Aug 5. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, today told the House Banking and Currency Committee he was in favor of the Wagner-Steagall Housing and Slum Clearance Bill "in principle" at the same time he criticized the plan of having the Housing Act administered by an independent agency instead of a regular government department, 8/5/37

Ickes criticizes housing bill. Washington, D.C. Aug 5. Secretary of th...

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A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling ... I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve s

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order ...

A promise of twelve words. Page Order: Multipage 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 1... More

Deep sea telegraphy. Comparison between the cable submerged from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1866 by the Telegraph construction and maintenance company, and that proposed on Allan's principle for the same distance and depth ... [n. p. 1866].

Deep sea telegraphy. Comparison between the cable submerged from Irela...

Telegraphy. 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 236, Folder 6.

To the Republican freeholders of the City of Richmond. Fellow-Citizens. On Monday you are called on to elect a member to represent you in the State Legislature, and every principle of duty and of interest, requires you to act with energy and zea

To the Republican freeholders of the City of Richmond. Fellow-Citizens...

Imprint 2.; Political campaign. 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 181, Folder 19.

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling ... I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve s

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order ...

A promise of twelve words. Page Order: Multipage 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 1... More

A promise as to words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling, and to encourage the practise, I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve simplified

A promise as to words. In order to testify my approval of the principl...

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 240, Folder 16.

And now we have the "wool meter." Speaking of taxi-meters, yardsticks, and other measuring devices, the "wool meter" has been introduced by the Bureau of Standards. Described by the forbidding name "eriometer," this new instrument is intended to measure the diameter of wool fibers and thus indicate the relative qualities of the fleece entering into our wool clothes. H.J. McNicholas of the Textile Section is shown with his invention, which employs the principle of diffraction of light

And now we have the "wool meter." Speaking of taxi-meters, yardsticks,...

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To the Republican freeholders of the City of Richmond. Fellow-Citizens. On Monday you are called on to elect a member to represent you in the State Legislature, and every principle of duty and of interest, requires you to act with energy and zea

To the Republican freeholders of the City of Richmond. Fellow-Citizens...

Imprint 2.; Political campaign. 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 181, Folder 19.

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling ... I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve s

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order ...

A promise of twelve words. Page Order: Multipage 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 1... More

Order No. 1. Great democratic rally! The Jeffersonian democrats in principle, and Jacksonian democrats in practice, will meet in convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, on Wednesday, the 28th day of September, 1864 ... Order No. 2. Great Democratic rall

Order No. 1. Great democratic rally! The Jeffersonian democrats in pri...

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling ... I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve s

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order ...

A promise of twelve words. Page Order: Multipage 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 1... More

Constitution of the United States. It is an admitted principle among all enlightened politicians, that forms of government, to be either lasting or usefull, must be adapted to the particular circumstances of the nations for which they are intend

Constitution of the United States. It is an admitted principle among a...

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 30, Folder 6.

Deep sea telegraphy. Comparison between the cable submerged from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1866 by the Telegraph construction and maintenance company, and that proposed on Allan's principle for the same distance and depth ... [n. p. 1866].

Deep sea telegraphy. Comparison between the cable submerged from Irela...

Telegraphy. 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 236, Folder 6.

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order to testify my approval of the principle of a simplification of English spelling ... I agree to adopt for customary use in my own personal correspondence the following twelve s

A declaration of independence. A promise as to twelve words. In order ...

A promise of twelve words. Page Order: Multipage 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 1... More