Smithsonian receives first farm tile. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. C.G. Abbott of the Smithsonian Institute (left) and Professor B.B. Ross (right) Agriculture Engineer of Cornell University who dug up the 190 year old sections from the John Johnston Farm on the shore of Seneca Lake, Seneca County, N

First calculating machine presented to Smithsonian. Washington, D.C., March 31. An old macaroni box filled with an arrangement of wheels, rubber bands, meat skewers and staples which was the forerunner of the modern key-driven, multiple-order calculating machine, was presented to the Smithsonian Ins

Plan Pan American Exposition. Washington, D.C., April 17. Dr. Roscoe R. Hill (left) former economic advisor to Latin-America for the State Dept. has just completed a 17,000 mile air trip to the capitals of the 16 Latin American nations to find out the plans and the participations of the countries at

$24,500,000 savings for government? Washington, D.C. Jan. 14. F.W. Powell, (left) Chairman of the Brookings Institute, non-partisan statistical foundation, submitted today to the Senate Committee on Governmental Reorganization a report of a study made by his organization showing how savings of $24,5

I.C.C. gets new Chairman for 1937. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Carroll Miller (left) is the new Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission for 1937. A new chairman has been elected every year since the order of succession was adopted January 13, 1911. Charles D. Mahaffie, (right) is the retiring

Government experts discover "perpetual" electrical current. Washington, D.C., March 10. Dr. F.B. Silsbee (left) and Dr. F.G. Brickwedge, of the Bureau of Standards, have just concluded experiments which have proved that an electric current, cut off from its original source, will flow eternally round

Arrive for TVA conference with president. Washington, D.C., March 11. Among the first for the Tennessee Valley Authority Conference with President Roosevelt today were members Harcourt A. Morgan (left) and David E. Lillienthal, 3/11/38

Sen. Norris & Rep. Knutson. Washington, D.C., April 7. Two members of Congress who voted against the bill for the World War are shown going over old times. Left to right: Senator George Norris of Neb. and Representative Harold Knutson of Minn., 4/7/1937

First CCC appointed to Civil Service rolls received by Director Fechner. Washington D.C. March 3. Elbert Jackson Lester, the first CCC enrollee to be appointed to the recently created civil service position of junior assistant to technician, was today presented to Robert Fechner, Director of the Civ