Opening of new trans continental phone line, 1/17/27. *The conclusion seems to be that John W. O’Leary, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce at Washington, DC, is on the phone. To the left is Samuel M. Greer, Vice-President of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company.

John W. O'Leary, Pres. of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, talking on new telephone line with John W. Spangler, Pres. of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Opening of new phone line, 1/17/27

Telephone communication to Austria from United States is established. Telephone communication between the United States and Austria was inaugurated today when the Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg talked to the American Minister in Vienna Albert Henry Washb. and high Austrian officials. In the

Telephone service from land to ships at sea inaugurated from U.S. Capitol. The first commercial wireless telephone service between land and ships at sea was inaugurated today from the United States Capitol by Rep. Fred A. Britten, (R) Illinois, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, Rep. Bri

Calvin Coolidge and group on telephones

Officers of the Nat'l Federation of Post Office employees called on Pres. Coolidge, June 5, to urge the passage of a bill raising the pay of 350,000 Post Office Clerks before Congress adjourns. Left to rt.: Leo. E. George, Thos. F. Flaherty, and Louis C. Woolf

New solicitor for Department of Commerce is sworn in. Ephriam F. Morgan of Charleston, West Virginia, former Governor of the state of West Virginia, being sworn in as solicitor of the United States Department of Commerce to succeed Judge Stephen B. Davis, resigned. In the photograph, left to right

The Governor of Maryland, Albert Ritchie, was the principal speaker at today's session of the annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce in Washington. In this photograph the governor is being welcomed by John O'Leary, (right) President of the Organization. On the left is L.C. Pierson