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FIRST LADY INAUGURATES NEW SERIES OF RADIO TALKS. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 30. IN THE FIRST BROADCAST OPENING HER NEW SERIES OF TWICE-WEEKLY INFORMAL RADIO TALKS FOR A COMMERCIAL SPONSOR, MRS. ROOSEVELT TODAY SAID HER DESIRE TO ESCAPE A 'FEATHER-BED KIND OF EXISTENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE' WAS ONE OF HER REASONS FOR MAKING EXTENSIVE TRIPS AROUND THE COUNTRY

FIRST LADY INAUGURATES NEW SERIES OF RADIO TALKS. WASHINGTON, D.C. APR...

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Townsend bill plan dishonest sponsor tells house committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Rep. Harry Sheppard, left, democrat of California, today told the House Ways and Means Committee he was 'washed up' with the Townsend Old-Age Pension Organization because he did not believe it was functioning on an 'honest basis'. Sheppard, who introduced the Townsend Bill in the last session of Congress, urged approval of a new measure sponsored by the General Welfare Federation of America. He is pictured with Thomas E. Boorde, center, president of the General Welfare Federation, and Arthur L. Johnson, secretary of the organization, 2-2-39

Townsend bill plan dishonest sponsor tells house committee. Washington...

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RESERVE ARMY, U.S. FRONT: MORRIS KLAIF; ANTHONY SCHETTINO; REP. A.P. GARDNER OF MASSACHUSETTS; SPONSOR OF GROUP, ISSEA SOHN; HUGO L. ANDERSON. REAR: CHARLES NEILCERT, MORRIS BORKIN; THOMAS KELLY; JOHN CARAMALI; WILLIAM BORISKIN

RESERVE ARMY, U.S. FRONT: MORRIS KLAIF; ANTHONY SCHETTINO; REP. A.P. G...

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RESERVE ARMY, U.S. FRONT: MORRIS KLAIF; ANTHONY SCHETTINO; REP. A.P. GARDNER OF MASSACHUSETTS; SPONSOR OF GROUP, ISSEA SOHN; HUGO L. ANDERSON. REAR: CHARLES NEILCERT, MORRIS BORKIN; THOMAS KELLY; JOHN CARAMALI; WILLIAM BORISKIN. AS IN 5090, DIFFERENT ORDER

RESERVE ARMY, U.S. FRONT: MORRIS KLAIF; ANTHONY SCHETTINO; REP. A.P. G...

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Townsend bill plan dishonest sponsor tells house committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Rep. Harry Sheppard, left, democrat of California, today told the House Ways and Means Committee he was 'washed up' with the Townsend Old-Age Pension Organization because he did not believe it was functioning on an 'honest basis'. Sheppard, who introduced the Townsend Bill in the last session of Congress, urged approval of a new measure sponsored by the General Welfare Federation of America. He is pictured with Thomas E. Boorde, center, president of the General Welfare Federation, and Arthur L. Johnson, secretary of the organization, 2-2-39

Townsend bill plan dishonest sponsor tells house committee. Washington...

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Rep. Randolph, champion dunker of Congress. Washington, D.C., May 4. Rep. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia today bent an elbow, crooked a doughnut around a finger, dunked a decided dunk into his coffee, and was declared a champ. Rep. Caroline O'Day, runner-up, presented him with the cup while B.V. Little of the Mayflower Doughnut Corp., sponsor of the contest, looks on. Rep. Randolph will be officially presented with the cup this summer at the World's Fair in the Doughnut Company's exhibit

Rep. Randolph, champion dunker of Congress. Washington, D.C., May 4. R...

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Battles a place for radio in press galleries of House and Senate. Washington, D.C., June 26. Fulton Lewis, Jr.--spelled with a small j-- who took up a challenge a few months ago to find a place for radio reporters in the press galleries of the Capitol. After being told that radio would never find a place there, he persuaded Rep. Dempsey of N.M. to sponsor a resolution to create galleries for radio press. The House and Senate Rules Committee soon passed the resolutions, and now radio has its own galleries in the two chambers

Battles a place for radio in press galleries of House and Senate. Wash...

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Author and sponsor of Wagner Labor Relations congratulate each other on Supreme Court decision. Washington, D.C. April 12. Today was a happy one for Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, and Senator David I. Walsh, (right) of Massachusetts, who sponsored the bill in the United States Senate. They were together as they heard the Supreme Court uphold the validity of the act today--unanimously in the cases of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., and the Washington, Virginia and Maryland Coach Co. The decision was hailed by the government as one of its greatest victories in court.

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Against involvement of U.S. in sino-Japanese conflict. Washington, D.C., Nov. 23. Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, (right) Republican of Massachusetts, are the latest to join the block of mandatory neutrality Senators insisting that President Roosevelt invoke the Neutrality Act to Keep the United States out of the Sino-Japanese conflict. Nye has demanded that United States stay out of such conferences as the Brussels Nine-Power Meetings, while Lodge has announced that he will sponsor amendments to [...] Neutrality Act providing for mandatory instead of [...]ent discretionary provisions. 11/23/37

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SIGNED ON THE WING. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 19. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STOPPED LONG ENOUGH ON HIS TOUR OF THE WASHINGTON FLOOD AREA TO SIGN A BILL CREATING A NATIONAL PARK ON THE DANIEL FREEMAN HOMESTEAD IN GAGE COUNTY, NEBRASKA. SEN. GEORGE NORRIS, (R-NE), IS SPONSOR OF THE BILL IN THE SENATE. FROM THE LEFT: SECRETARY GEORGE DERN, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, SEN. NORRIS, AND REP. HENRY C. LUCKEY (D-NE)

SIGNED ON THE WING. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 19. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STO...

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Pres. Harding signing the Edge-Ansorge Resolution for the development of the New York Port along lines proposed by the joint commission of N.Y. and N.J. in the treaty entered into by the two states on April 30, 1921. The treaty looks to general relief from congestion the harbor and was endorsed by the War Department. Rep. Martin C. Ansorge, or New York, sponsor of the resolution is standing (third) from President Harding, with papers under arm

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