New first Assistant to PWA administrator. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Howard A. Gray, of Chicago, enter former Director of Housing for PWA today was sworn in as Assistant Administrator of Public Works. Floyd Dodson, Chief Clerk of the Interior is on the left, Sec. of the Interior Harold Ickes on the r

Takes oath as first Assistant Interior Secretary. Washington, D.C., April 8. His nomination finally approved by the Senate after three month's consideration of his fitness for the post, Ebert K. Burlew was today sworn in as first Assistant Secretary of Interior to succeed the late Theodore A. Walter

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

New U.S. Commissioner of immigration takes oath. Washington, D.C., Aug. 26. James L. Houghteling, newly appointed U.S. Commissioner of Immigration, today took the oath of office and assumed his duties. In the photograph, left to right: J.C. Watts, Assistant Chief Clerk of Labor Department, who admin

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 w

Former Wall Street broker sworn in as member of Security and Exchange Commission. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. J.W. Hanes, being sworn in as member of the SEC. Hanes is being sworn in by Frank P. Brassor, Secretary to the Commission while William O. Douglas, Chairman of the Commission, center, looks o

Congratulations new U.S. Housing chief. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Secretary Of Interior Harold Ickes (left) congratulates Nathan Straus, New York Housing expert, on his appointment as Head of the new U.S. Housing Administration. Straus will be responsible for carrying out provisions of the $526,000

Jackson successor takes oath. Washington, D.C., March 21. Thurman Arnold, former Yale University Law Professor, was today sworn in as Assistant Attorney General in charge of anti-trust division. He succeeds Robert H. Jackson, who was appointed Solicitor General. In the photograph, left to right: Sol

Morgenthau, greets two new additions to the Treasury Department. Washington, D.C., Oct. 1. Preston Delano, left; newly appointed comptroller of the currency, and a distant cousin of the President, greets his assistant, Cyril B. Upham, newly appointed first deputy comptroller of the currency, while t