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NLRB general counsel defends board before House Labor Committee. Washington, D.C., May 31. Charles Fahy, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, told a House Committee on labor today that the Wagner Act procedure in labor trouble is 'fair, full, and sound.' He said, 'It is so temperate that were it to be changed at all in material respects, means for strengthening it should be sought.' Before Fahy read his 100 page statement, Chairman of the Board J. Warren Madden, said that to make a strict definition of areas for bargaining units would be a 'step backward'

Daughter of late Chief Justice urges isolation of U.S. from foreign conflicts. Washington, D.C., April 21. Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, daughter of the late Chief Justice Taft, today urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to isolate the United States from foreign conflicts. She said she felt that provisions of the present Neutrality Act should be made mandatory, and that Congress should share with the president the responsibility of deciding whether there is or is not a state of war in any part of the world

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Daughter of late Chief Justice urges isolation of U.S. from foreign conflicts. Washington, D.C., April 21. Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, daughter of the late Chief Justice Taft, today urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to isolate the United States from foreign conflicts. She said she felt that provisions of the present Neutrality Act should be made mandatory, and that Congress should share with the president the responsibility of deciding whether there is or is not a state of war in any part of the world

Woman columnist advocates repeal of Neutrality Act to allow U.S. freedom of policy. Washington, D.C., April 26. Staging her second appearance before Senate Committees within a week, Dorothy Thompson, columnist, sat down before Foreign Affairs Chairman Key Pittman and told him and members that neutrality laws should be repealed to allow the country to be free in forming policies in foreign affairs. 'I don't think that the existing neutrality legislation is neutral,' she said, and added that she doesn't believe that existing legislation would have kept us out of the last war, a war which she termed as still being fought

Woman columnist advocates repeal of Neutrality Act to allow U.S. freedom of policy. Washington, D.C., April 26. Staging her second appearance before Senate Committees within a week, Dorothy Thompson, columnist, sat down before Foreign Affairs Chairman Key Pittman and told him and members that neutrality laws should be repealed to allow the country to be free in forming policies in foreign affairs. 'I don't think that the existing neutrality legislation is neutral,' she said, and added that she doesn't believe that existing legislation would have kept us out of the last war, a war which she termed as still being fought

Discuss America's foreign policy. Washington, D.C., April 15. In an effort to give impetus to the movement for revision of the Neutrality Act, an emergency conference of one hundred today assembled in Washington for a two-day discussion of American Foreign Policy. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the American Union for Concerted Pace Efforts. In the picture, left to right. James T. Shotwell, President, League of Nations Association - Reverend Roy M. Houghton, Congregational Church of New Haven, Conn., and Ernest Wilkins, President of Oberlin College, 4-15-39

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 neutrality legislation to lie dormant until next session, thus, apparently ending a flare-up between congress and the president on the neutrality issue which began when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused to take up the question this session. Left to right: Senator Charles L. McNary, Minority leader; Sen. Warren Austin of Vermont; Sen. Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foregin Relations Committee; Sen. William E. Borah of Idaho, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Senator Alben Barkley, Majority Leader and Vice President Garner remained inside to talk further with the president

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 neutrality legislation to lie dormant until next session, thus, apparently ending a flare-up between congress and the president on the neutrality issue which began when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused to take up the question this session. Left to right: Senator Charles L. McNary, Minority leader; Sen. Warren Austin of Vermont; Sen. Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foregin Relations Committee; Sen. William E. Borah of Idaho, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Senator Alben Barkley, Majority Leader and Vice President Garner remained inside to talk further with the president

Georgetown U. prexy asserts neutrality laws impractical. Urges Pan-American front. Washington, D.C., May 3. Dr. Edmund A Walsh, Vice President of the Georgetown University here and head of the Foreign Service School, told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations today that no satisfactory neutrality law is possible and suggested a bloc of 21 American republics as a front against foreign aggression in this hemisphere. He said that neutrality today exists 'possibly in a few rare and detached souls'

Late Speaker's wife sees son take oath as member of Congress. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Mrs.. Joseph W. Byrns, right, widow of late Speaker of the House, was at the Capitol bright and early today to see her son Joseph W. Byrnes, Jr., take the oath as representative from Tennessee. She was accompanied by Mrs. William B. Bankhead, center, wife of the present Speaker, and Mrs. Joseph W. Byrnes, Jr., 1339

Discuss America's foreign policy. Washington, D.C., April 15. In an effort to give impetus to the movement for revision of the Neutrality Act, an emergency conference of one hundred today assembled in Washington for a two-day discussion of American Foreign Policy. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the American Union for Concerted Pace Efforts. In the picture, left to right. James T. Shotwell, President, League of Nations Association - Reverend Roy M. Houghton, Congregational Church of New Haven, Conn., and Ernest Wilkins, President of Oberlin College, 4-15-39

Daughter of late Chief Justice urges isolation of U.S. from foreign conflicts. Washington, D.C., April 21. Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, daughter of the late Chief Justice Taft, today urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to isolate the United States from foreign conflicts. She said she felt that provisions of the present Neutrality Act should be made mandatory, and that Congress should share with the president the responsibility of deciding whether there is or is not a state of war in any part of the world

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Chief Justice. Washington, D.C., April 29. A new informal snapshot of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Charles Evans Hughes, 4/29/38

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The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld (left), U.S. Secretary of Defense, President George W. Bush (center) and U.S. Marine Corps GEN. Peter Pace (right), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of STAFF, share a lighter moment during the Farewell Ceremony for Secretary Rumsfeld at the Pentagon Parade Field, Washington D.C. on Dec. 15, 2006. (DoD photo by STAFF SGT. D. Myles Cullen) (Released)

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Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D.C., April 13. Mrs. Louise Leonard Wright, representing six women's organizations, today asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for flexible neutrality policy and said she supported the measure of Senator Elbert D. Thomas which would allow the President to discriminate in applying neutrality provisions in favor of victims of aggression, 4-13-39

Sage advice. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Key Pittman, Veteran from Nevada and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, discusses with the youthful Republican Senator Henry Cabor Lodge, of Massachusetts, the amendment he (lodge) has proposed to the Neutrality Act which would make the U.S. Neutral in fact as well in theory. Senator Lodge is also a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2/2/38

Pearl Harbor survivors take a boat tour of Pearl Harbor at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

HUGHES, CHARLES EVANS, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, 1907-1910; ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT, 1910-1916; CHIEF JUSTICE, 1930-

Pres. Harding, General Pershing, and Chief Justice Taft in funeral parade of America's Unknown Soldier, Armistice Day, 1921, Washington, D.C

Nevada Senator pinch hits for V.P. Garner in signing last minute bills. Washington, D.C., June 20. When Vice President Garner made his hasty departure from the Capitol shortly before Congress adjourned last week, he delegated Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and President Pro Tem, to sign the last minute bills. The Nevada legislator is pictured at his desk today, 62038

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