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ICC Commissioner optimistic on rail outlook. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. First witness before the House Interstate Commerce Committee as it began hearings today on proposed legislation to aid the ailing railroad industry, Walter M.W. Splawn, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, expressed the belief that business recovery since last may 'offers hope' for considerable lightening of rail difficulties, 12439

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ICC Commissioner optimistic on rail outlook. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. First witness before the House Interstate Commerce Committee as it began hearings today on proposed legislation to aid the ailing railroad industry, Walter M.W. Splawn, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, expressed the belief that business recovery since last may 'offers hope' for considerable lightening of rail difficulties, 12439

ICC Commissioner opposes repeal of long and short haul rail freight rates. Washington D.C. Appearing before the House Interstate Committee today, Joseph B. Eastman, Railroad Coordinator and Member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, testified that the ICC opposed repeal of long and short haul rail freight rates, as proposed in a bill under consideration. Commissioner Eastman is shown with Rep. Clarence F. Lea, (right) Chairman of the Committee

Extension of ICC power is urged by rail labor. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12. Railroad labor recommended today that regulatory power of the Interstate Commerce Commission be extended to domestic water and air transportation and that railroad freight and passenger rates be increased, contingent on earmarking of added revenue for equipment and labor expenditures. The recommendations were part of a five point program submitted to the unemployment committee of the Senate by A.F. Whitney, President of Railroad Trainmen, right, and ...J. Pelley, President of the American Association of Railroads, left. In the center is Senator James F. Byrnes, Chairman of the Committee, 11238

Extension of ICC power is urged by rail labor. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12. Railroad labor recommended today that regulatory power of the Interstate Commerce Commission be extended to domestic water and air transportation and that railroad freight and passenger rates be increased, contingent on earmarking of added revenue for equipment and labor expenditures. The recommendations were part of a five point program submitted to the unemployment committee of the Senate by A.F. Whitney, President of Railroad Trainmen, right, and [...]J. Pelley, President of the American Association of Railroads, left. In the center is Senator James F. Byrnes, Chairman of the Committee, 1/12/38

10 per cent railroad rate increase benefits motor carriers--ICC Commissioner Eastman. Washington, D.C., April 13. ICC Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman today told a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee that he believed the 10 per cent rate increase granted the railroads last summer has been "Of more benefit to the motor carriers than to the railroads." Advocating a balanced system of transportation charges between rail, motor and water carriers, Eastman said that contrary to popular belief, rate wars between the three do not benefit the public, 4-13-39

Railway heads. Washington, D.C., March 11. M.W. Clement, (left) President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Daniel Willard, Prexy of the B&O, pictured at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Railroads here today. The Executives were called into special session to seek a relief for the "critical financial condition" of the Nation's largest industry, 31138

Pictured at Rail Labor-Management Meeting. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. E.E. Norris, President of the Southern Railway, and Carl Gray, right, Chairman of the Board, Union Pacific, chat as the wait for the President's Special Railroad Committee to meet at the Southern Railway Office here today. The Committee discussed proposed recommendations for legislative aid to the rail industry, 11738

Pictured at Rail Labor-Management Meeting. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. E.E. Norris, President of the Southern Railway, and Carl Gray, right, Chairman of the Board, Union Pacific, chat as the wait for the President's Special Railroad Committee to meet at the Southern Railway Office here today. The Committee discussed proposed recommendations for legislative aid to the rail industry, 11/7/38

Senate Committee told railroads should spend 3 billion in the next five years for habilitation. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. Appearing before the Senate Finance Subcommittee today, R.V. Fletcher, General Counsel for the Association of American Railroads, asserted that railroads should spend approximately $3,000,000,000 during the next five or six years for plant and equipment rehabilitation. He urged that business and industry be given the benefit of incentive taxation in a drive to meet obsolescence, 12/12/38

ICC Commissioner optimistic on rail outlook. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. First witness before the House Interstate Commerce Committee as it began hearings today on proposed legislation to aid the ailing railroad industry, Walter M.W. Splawn, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, expressed the belief that business recovery since last may 'offers hope' for considerable lightening of rail difficulties, 1/24/39

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Autogino hearings at Capitol. Prof. Alexander Klemin Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, Autogino hearings at Capitol, 4/30/38

Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention - Stephen Owens and Peter Silva Confirmation Hearings [412-APD-738-JPEG-2009_105_112_1OwensSilvaConfirmation_1033.jpg]

Star witness before Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., May 22. Dudley P. Gilbert, New York socialite, who has been financial angel for an undercover nationwide anti-Semitic and anti-communist movement, today told the Dies Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that the American people will 'have to rise under some American officer of the Franco type' if a 'red revolution' is to be averted

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-31543-06] Commemoration, in Loy Henderson Auditorium, of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, [featuring appearances by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford III, and United Nations Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir, among others] [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State] [59-CF-DS-31543-06_LX-2008-01-09-000-0017.JPG]

Robert E. Wilson was witness before the Monopoly Investigating Committee, Oct. 1939

Radio conference, Washington, D.C. Oct. 5. The Federal Communications Commission inaugurated a series of hearings today for the benefit of the broadcasting industry who will meet with federal government officials to consider rearranging the commercial broadcasting band. Here we see Anning S. Prall, chairman of the FCC., and Judge Eugene S. Sykes, member of the commission, as they opened the hearing today

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Senate Committee questions Pennsy head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Martin W. Clement, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, today told the Senate Rail Inquiry that there had never been any objection from the Interstate Commerce Commission to salaries paid Directors of the road. At the same time, Clement admitted that his own salary had been increased from $60,000 to $100,000 on January 1, 1937. After hearing+F14 Clement, Chairman Wheeler criticized the ICC for their lack of supervision of the railroads and placed the blame for the current rail troubles at their door, 12/15/37

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Lend-lease hearings. The House Foreign Affairs Committee considers phases of the lend-lease act before an interested audience. The committee later recommended to the House that the act be continued in force as a valuable factor in the fighting of the war

$119,000,000,000 lost to American wage earners during nine years of unemployment. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Questioned by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, right, Co-chairman of the Joint Monopoly Committee, Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Depart. Of Labor, explains with a special chart how American wage and salary earners have lost $119,000,000,000 during nine years of unemployment. Lubin was the first witness before the Committee, Joint Legislative-Executive Body Created to Study Economic Ills and Recommend Remedial Legislation

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