Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s

Polish Minister of Industry talks to press club. Washington, D.C., May 10. Antoni Roman, Polish Minister of Industry and Commerce, was a speaker today before the Washington Press Club. He told members, in an 'on the record' speech, that Poland is quite able to take care of itself. Left to right: Rom

Polish Ambassador thanks president for U.S. aid. Washington, D.C., Nov. 16. Count Jerzy Potocki, Ambassador of the government of defeated Poland, leaving the White House today after thanking President Roosevelt for the assistance America extended to his country

Portrait of veterans' friend presented to House Veterans' Committee. Washington, D.C., June 28. Former representative Royal C. Johnson, who left Congress in 1918 to join the army as a buck private, then upon being reelected to Congress, left the service to resume his seat in the House, was today pre

Popular press conference. Washington, D.C., July 14. Most popular of the press conferences at the Capitol these days are the ones held by Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Pittman can be seen at the head of the table

Possible now to color yolks of eggs "red, white and blue" by feeding hens different feeds. Washington, D.C., April 7. Showing exactly how the yolks of eggs are colored - "Red, white and blue" - by feeding hens different feeds. if you want a deep orange-red color include in the hen's ration ground pi

Possible key metal monopoly committee's study. Washington, D.C., May 8. The temporary National Economic Committee turned its investigation today upon the little known beryllium industry. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Co-chairman of the Committee, is shown here with Andrew Gahagan, President of the Beryl

Post Office, Edna Strain. 4313 Stillen. St. Little Rock,. Looking at Czechoslovakia on mosaic map of Europe on floor of Benjamin Franklin Station

Postmaster General raises flag and officially opens baseball season. Washington, D.C., April 21. The game can't start until the flag is raised over the field, and here are Yankee manager Joe McCarthy, Postmaster General James A. Farley, National's Manager Bucky Harris, and Clark Griffith, owner of t

Robert Patrick Brennan, son of the Minister of Ireland and Mrs. Brennan

Robert Montgomery & Sen. White, Maine, 4/3/39

Pres. birthday ball. Geo. Brent as he enters. Raleigh, Jan. 30, 1939

PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY GREET EGG ROLLERS. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 10.

President and Congressional leaders get-together. Washington, D.C., Jan. 9. President Roosevelt today revived his Monday morning White House conferences with the 'big four' of Congress and read to them the special message he is writing on national defense to be sent to Congress probably tomorrow. Le

Present Louisiana program for federal assistance to President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., May 19. Senator Allen Ellender, left, and Governor Richard W. Leone of Louisiana, leaving the White House today after presenting President Roosevelt with a four phased program for federal assistance for Louisi

President and Hull urge Congress to reconsider action on neutrality legislation. Washington, D.C., July 14. A photographic copy of the message sent to the House and Senate this afternoon by President Roosevelt and State Secretary Cordell Hull. The 11 page statement urged members of the House and Sen

Presentation of Wm. Green award

President calls conference of Senate and State Department on neutrality. Washington, D.C., July 18. It was almost midnight tonight when Senators began emerging from the White House after their conference with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull at which an agreement was reached to allow

President gets Xmas fruit cake. Washington, D.C., Dec. 19. Brig. Gen. Edwin Watson, a Presidential Secretary, accepting for President Roosevelt a fruit cake from Miss Mildred Cook, Secretary to Rep. A.J. Elliott of California. The cake is a gift from W.C. Baker of Ojai, Calif., who has baked cakes f

President of U.S. Attorneys. Washington, D.C., April 27. An informal picture of Benjamin Harrison, U.S. attorney from the Southern California District who was recently elected President of the newly formed U.S. Attorneys Association

President of Railroad Association appears as witness before Interstate Committee. Washington, D.C., May 10. Judge R.V. Fletcher, President of the American Association of Railroads, who was the principal witness today before a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee on a pending railroad bankruptcy b

President of Socony-Vacuum Co. attacks bill to separate production, refining, and transportation of oil products. Washington, D.C., June 21. John A. Brown, President. Socony-Vacuum Co. Inc., told a House Judiciary subcommittee today that a bill by Rep. Vincent. to 'divorce' production, ref

President of American Can Co. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. H.A. Baker, President of American Can Co., was an interested spectator at today's session of the National Monopoly Committee which is making a study of the steel industry

President of Haiti a luncheon guest of President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. President Roosevelt entertained at luncheon today in honor of President Stenio Vincent of Haiti, who is shown leaving the White House with Rep. Sol Bloom, left, Acting Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committ

President of firm under investigation today. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. J.P. Ripley, President of the Harriman, Ripley, & Co. currently under investigation by the Monopoly Committee which today began a study of banking practices

President of AF of L Mine Workers Union testifies before Labor hearings. Washington, D.C., Dec. 13. Joe Ozanic, President of the Progressive Mine Workers of America, an AF of L union, testified this morning before the Smith Committee to Investigate the National Labor Relations Board. He is shown her

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 pr

President takes dig at Vice President. Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. Dr. George Calvert, official physician for members of congress, holds a picture with two treasured autographs. Vice President Garner wrote "To Doc. Calvert--for making me try to behave." President Roosevelt added "To Doc. Calvert--kee

President Roosevelt's sees doom of trailer families in this country. Washington, D.C., March 29. Scenes like this at the Washington trailer camp, within a stone's throw of the Washington Monument, will soon be a thing of the past, was the belief President Roosevelt expressed to reporters at his pres

President Samoza leaves Capitol after tour. Washington, D.C., May 8. Rep. Hamilton Fish, President Anastasia Somoza of Nicaragua, and Sol Bloom, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, passing through lines of saluting police as they came down the house steps of the Capitol after Somoza

President's youngest son attends businessmen's forum. Washington, D.C., May 22. John Roosevelt, youngest son of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, who is now connected with a large department store in Boston, is here attending the Retailer's National Forum at the Mayflower. He is pictured with W.F. Carte

President's Cup Regatta Association Certificate *John A Remon (left) *Harry Summerville right

President's committee for civil service improvements open public hearings. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. The committee which president recently appointed to study possible reforms in recruiting governmental legal help, began open hearings today at the United States Supreme Court Building. This first pho

Press with radio(?) equipment at White House, Washington, D.C.

Princeton professor says tax program would cost more than it would yield. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. Harley L. Lutz, Professor of Public Finance at Princeton University, told a Special Tax Committee on Senators that the administrations proposed Reciprocal Tax Program would cost more than it would tak

Prexy of Canadian Chamber of Commerce speaks at annual meeting of U.S. Chamber. Washington, D.C., May 2. J. Stanley McLean, President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, was a speaker today at the 27th annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce

Principals at Bal Boheme. Washington, D.C., April 10. Principal guests at the Bal Boheme tonight were Mrs. Frank Steele, the French Ambassador, Count De Saint-Quentin and Frank Steele, President of the Arts Club which sponsored the costume ball. The theme of the affair was Paris in the spring, 4-10

Probable new President of U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Washington, D.C., May 2. W. Gibson Jr., left, President of the Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co. of New York, is the leading candidate to succeed George H. Davis, right, as President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. If elected, Carey

Principals in coal dispute at White House. Washington, D.C., May 9. A conference marking the first time the president has intervened in a labor dispute since he called together the CIO and the AF of L in an attempt to mediate their fight, met today at the White House to try to settle differences bet

Principals at Monopoly hearing this morning. Washington, D.C., May 23. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, chairman of the Temporary National Economic Committee, Peter Nehemkis, conductor of the examination of the S.E.C., and William R. White, superintendent of banks, New York State, talking together before t

Principals in today's NLRB Committee hearing. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. While Edmund Toland, Counsel for the Smith Committee Investigating the NLRB, was questioning William M. Leiserson, Board member, concerning the National Labor Relations Board, Charles Fahy, Counsel for the Board engaged in a ti

Prof. Kossleth M. Williamson of Wesleyan Univ., Middletown Conn., before Senate Tax Committee, 2-15-39

Proposes Air Defense Cabinet separate from Army and Navy. Washington, D.C., Jan. 31. Kern Dodge, President of the Air Defense League, appearing before the House Military Affairs Committee today proposed the establishment of an Air Defense Cabinet, separate from the Army and Navy and with an Assistan

Proposed war referendum brings three witnesses to support people's vote on war. Washington, D.C., May 11. Retired Major General W.C. Rivers; Randolph Leigh, writers of McLean, Va., and Dr. Charles Tansill, Fordham professor and once professor at Washington's American University, who were supporting

Proposed House bill would ruin small oil companies, Kentucky oil executive tells House Committee. Washington, D.C., June 23. Testifying against a proposed House bill that would divorce production, refining and marketing processes in the oil industry, Paul G. Blazer, President of the Ashland Oil and

Public views Magna Carta after deposited in Congressional Library. Washington, D.C., Nov. 28. Shortly after the historical Magna Carta was placed in the Congressional Library for safekeeping by British Ambassador Lord Lothian today the public was allowed to view it under the watchful eyes of library

Puts finishing touches on 30 pound cherry pie for president. Washington, D.C., July 6. Nineteen year old Jean Halmond, Queen of Michigan's National Cherry Festival to be held in Traverse City, gives a final once-over to the 30 pound cherry pie which she later presented to President Roosevelt at Whit

Purdue professor urges tax exemption for gasoline mixed with grain alcohol. Washington, D.C., May 23. Harold M. Jacklin, Professor of Automotive Engineering at Purdue University, and working in collaboration with the Chicago Moto Club, told a Senate Finance Subcommittee today that he favored adoptio

Questioned by monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 16. David F. Houston, President of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, today told the Monopoly Investigating Committee that interlocking directorates influenced deposits of the company in banks. He defended the action on the contention that int

R to L: Charles Edward Judson, Asst. Secty. of N.Y. Life & Hubert S. Smith, Mutual Life lawyer, monopoly witnesses

R to L: Ernest Howe of S.E.C. & Gerhard Gesell, S.E.C. Counsel. Monopoly

Quizzed by Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. Herbert G. Shimp, President of the American Conservation Co., detailed to the National Monopoly Committee today the deal he made with Hugh T. Martin, President of the Illinois Bankers Life Assurance Co., whereby $430,000 paid to his--Shimp--c

RADM Ross T McIntire

Rail Co.-trustee protests Amlie nomination. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. Luther M. Walter, Co-Trustee of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, appearing as a private lawyer against the nomination of Thomas R. Amlie to membership in the ICC by the President. He read excerpts from Amlie's book, 'the Forgot

Radio takes its place in press galleries. Washington, D.C., June 26. Radio, once regarded as a 'poor relative' of the press, now has its own section of the House and Senate galleries reserved for radio news gatherers. Through the efforts of its chairman, Fulton Lewis, Jr., the gallery was created th

Radio news gatherers in new quarters at Capitol. Washington, D.C., June 26. A group of radio news reporters at work in their new quarters across the hall from the House Chamber in the Capitol. The room was made over for radio press after its leader, Fulton Lewis, Jr., had almost single-handedly carr

Rail head questioned on president's lending program. Washington, D.C., July 19. John J. Pelley, President of the Association of American Railroads, today made a brief appearance before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee now hearing witnesses on the President's lending program, 7/19/39

Radio press gallery given official send-off by speaker of House. Washington, D.C., July 22. Although the radio press galleries have been functioning as a news-gathering agency at Capitol Hill for several weeks, formal dedication was withheld until tonight when the Speaker of the House turned over th

Railroads in tip-top shape essential to national defense, house committee told. Washington, D.C., Jan. 31. The man responsible for operation of the American Railroads during the World War, Carl R. Gray, now Vice-Chairman of the Union Pacific, today told the House Interstate Commerce Committee that a

Rain fails to mar Army Day parade in Capitol. Washington, D.C., April 6. With the United States rearming and rumors of war in the air thousands braved a heavy rain today to witness the Army Day parade pass the U.S. Capitol. The parade marked the 22nd anniversary of America's entrance into the World

Ralph P. Tittsler, Associate Bacteriologist Bureau of Dairy Industry. Method for preserving cream. 5. The Department of Agriculture is experimenting and testing daily to determine the bacteria contained in cream that has been preserved by means of salt. In the photo is Ralph P. Tittsler, Associate B