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Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman, of Missouri, today joined Senator Burton K. Wheeler in opposing the proposed rail wage cut as both appeared before the President's fact finding board at the Capitol. He contended the cut will not save the present financial situation of the railroads, 10/14/38

Fact finding board Chairman intent as he hears final argument on wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy; chairman of the president's fact finding board, ponders as he listens to final argument by Charles MacKay, counsel for 18 railroad labor organizations, non labor's opposition to the railroads demand for a 15 percent cut in wages. The boards findings will go to President Roosevelt with recommendations by Oct. 27, 10/17/38

Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman, of Missouri, today joined Senator Burton K. Wheeler in opposing the proposed rail wage cut as both appeared before the President's fact finding board at the Capitol. He contended the cut will not save the present financial situation of the railroads, 10/14/38

Fact finding board Chairman intent as he hears final argument on wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy; chairman of the president's fact finding board, ponders as he listens to final argument by Charles MacKay, counsel for 18 railroad labor organizations, non labor's opposition to the railroads demand for a 15 percent cut in wages. The boards findings will go to President Roosevelt with recommendations by Oct. 27, 101738

Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman, of Missouri, today joined Senator Burton K. Wheeler in opposing the proposed rail wage cut as both appeared before the President's fact finding board at the Capitol. He contended the cut will not save the present financial situation of the railroads, 101438

15 percent wage cut for rail employees necessary, Counsel tells fact finding board. Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. Testifying at the initial hearing of President Roosevelt's fact finding committee today J. Carter Fort, Chief Counsel for the Carriers Joint Conference Committee declared that a 15 percent wage cut for 900,000 railroad employees is necessary to save railroads from disaster. Rail employees have threatened a general walkout if the cut if put into effect. Seated are members of the fact-finding committee pictured left to right: Harry A. Millis, Walter P. Stacy, Chairman and James M. Landis, 9/30/38

Fact finding board vetoes 15 percent rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 29. Reporting to President Roosevelt today, the emergency fact-finding board announced they had rejected the demand of Railway Management for a 15 percent wage cut affecting 960,000 workers. Left to right - Dean James M. Landis, of the Harvard Law School; Chief Justice Walter Stacy, of North Carolina; and Dr. Harry A. Millis of the University of Chicago, 10-29-38

Rail wage cut would be blow to our present recovery. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana and Chairman of the Senate Interstate Committee, today told the President's fact finding board that a wage reduction in the railroad industry "would be a blow to our present recovery." He expressed the opinion that the country as a whole would benefit if there were no cut, 10/14/38

Rail wage cut would be blow to our present recovery. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana and Chairman of the Senate Interstate Committee, today told the President's fact finding board that a wage reduction in the railroad industry "would be a blow to our present recovery". He expressed the opinion that the country as a whole would benefit if there were no cut, 10/14/38

Whispered advice. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman (right) of Missouri, who today opposed the proposed rail wage cut before the President's fact finding board, gets a bit of last minute information from Max Lowenthal, counsel for the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In contending the cut will not save the situation, Truman told the board that railroad labor is the most efficient in the country and expressed the belief that the men are not overpaid, 10/14/38

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53). He served as Vice President before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on his family's 600-acre farm. In the last months of World War I, he served in combat in France as an artillery officer. After the war, he joined the Democratic Party and was elected to public office as a county official in 1922, and as a U.S. Senator in 1934. He became well known as chairman of the Truman Committee, formed in March 1941, which exposed waste, fraud, and corruption in Federal Government wartime contracts. During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry Truman rarely saw President Franklin Roosevelt and received little or no briefing on foreign policy and the development of the atomic bomb. He became a president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected a president on his own in 1948. During Truman's presidency, the United States engaged in an internationalist foreign policy and renounced isolationism. Truman helped found the United Nations in 1945, issued the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to contain Communism, and got the $13 billion Marshall Plan enacted to rebuild Western Europe. The Soviet Union, a wartime ally, became an enemy in the Cold War. Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948, creation of NATO in 1949, a Korean War beginning in 1950. His administration guided the American economy through the post-war economic recession with a success. "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

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Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieutenant of the late Huey Long, is snapped by news cameramen as he rests in his office after leading the victorious fight for the compromise in the wage-hour bill. The compromise is expected to make wage differentials possible for many southern industries. He has threatened a filibuster unless the south got what it wanted in the measure, 6/13/38

Colleges and Universities - Goucher College - Patriotic activities of the girls at Goucher college, Baltimore, Maryland. 1 of the college "four minute men" speeches given in a corner of the dining-room

[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]

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

$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

LANE, FRANKLIN K.. INTERSTATE COM. COMMR., 1905-1913. SEC. OF INTERIOR, 1913- 1920. LEFT

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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

Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman, of Missouri, today joined Senator Burton K. Wheeler in opposing the proposed rail wage cut as both appeared before the President's fact finding board at the Capitol. He contended the cut will not save the present financial situation of the railroads, 10/14/38

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) Events [412-APD-103-03-10-05_CAIR_017.jpg]

Life begins at 70. Washington, D.C., Feb. 3. Retired from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior, after 33 years of service, Mrs. Isabelle Haggett at 75 is now a co-ed at George Washington University, proving the old adage 'one is never to old to learn' still holds good. She retired from the government service in 1933 at the age of 70. Her worried expression in this photograph can be attributed to the fact she is now boning for the mid-year exams in English Romantic Poetry, 2-3-39

[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-2008-01-09-000-0052.JPG]

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