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Employer and employee well represented as committee meets to consider minimum wage for textile workers. Washington, D.C., Oct. 11. Employer and employee members of the First Industry Committee under the new Wage-Hour Law met with Chairman Donald Nelson and Wage-hour Administrator Elmer Andrews today to consider a minimum wage for more than 1,300,000 workers in the textile industry. Pictured, left to right, are: Donald Nelson, Administrator Andrews, and Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing workers, standing are R.R. West, (left) Danville, Virginia, and John R. Cheatham, Griffin, GA., both employers, 10/11/38

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WPA Administrator indicates time left to decide on entering Chicago Mayoralty race. Washington, D.C., Dec. 9. Leaving the White House today after a conference with President Roosevelt, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes indicates with his fingers that he has two days left in which to decide whether he will run for Mayor of Chicago on the Liberal Coalition ticket, 12/9/38

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FIRST LADY CONGRATULATES NEW APPOINTEE TO SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD. WASHINGTON, D.C. DECEMBER 30. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CONGRATULATING MRS. ELLEN S. WOODWARD, WHO WAS TODAY SWORN IN AS A MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD TO SUCCEED MISS MARY DEWSON. THE FIRST LADY WISHED MRS. WOODWARD 'THE UTMOST OF SUCCESS.' MRS. WOODWARD WAS FORMERLY AN ASSISTANT PWA ADMINISTRATOR

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Wage-Hour Administrator reports to President. Washington, D.C., Oct. 25. Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews leaving the White House today after making a report to President Roosevelt. At a press conference today, Andrews expressed belief that employees thrown out of work by closing of low wage industries would be re-employed by 'decent' employers when the chiselling minority quits the business, 10/25/38

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Nation's busiest secretary. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Probably the busiest Secretary in the Capitol these days is Eugenia Pope, Secretary and only employee of Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews. The Bureau will employ 1,000 persons in two months, but in the meantime Miss Pope must keep track of 50,000 applications for jobs, 8/25/38

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Washington, D.C., Oct. 5. Raymond T. Cahill, of New York City, has just been appointed Deputy Administrator in charge of mutual mortgage insurance for the Federal Housing Administration. Mr. Cahill fills the vacancy left by William D. Flanders, also of New York, who recently resigned to return to private business, 10/5/38

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Queen quenches thirst. Washington, D.C., April 21. Miss Adelaide Moffett Brooks, who is to be crowned Queen Shenandoah at the Winchester, Virginia, Apple Blossom Festival later this month, quenches her thirst with a bottle of pop as she arrives at Washington Airport today. She is the daughter of the former Federal Housing Administrator, 4/21/38

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New Assistant WPA Administrator. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Maj. B.M. Harlee, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, has been named Assistant WPA Administrator and Chief of WPA Engineers by Col. F.C. Harrington, new Administrator. This post was formerly held by Col. Harrington, 12/29/38

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Protest WPA relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec .15. David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, and Mary Gorman, research worker for the same organization, led WPA workers from 28 states in protesting to Asst. WPA Administrator Aubry Williams the recent relief cuts, 12/15/38

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W.P.A. Administrator appears before Senate Appropriations Committee. Washington, D.C., May 17. Harry Hopkins, Chief of W.P.A. testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee today that approximately 2,800,000 persons are on relief. Shown with members of the committee, hopkins, left; seated Sen. Carl Hayden, D. of Ariz. right; seated, and in the rear; Aubrey Williams, Asst. W.P.A. Administrator, and Sen. Alva Adams, D. of Colo. Chairman of the committee, 51738

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PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secretary Ickes today told the House Appropriations Sub-Committee in hearing on President Roosevelt's recovery program that the PWA has 2,714 approved public works projects which could be started within "60 to 90" days. Ickes statement was disclosed to newsmen by Rep. Clifton Woodrum, Chairman of the Sub-Committee. While he refused to make a statement, Ickes did say he had no objections to making PWA permanent as proposed in a bill by Rep. Alfred Beiter. In the group, left to right: (seated) Rep. J. Buell Snyder, Penna., Secretary Ickes, and Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, Chairman. Standing, left to right, are: Howard A. Gray, Asst. WPA Administrator; and Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Secretary of Interior, 4/26/38

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Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds of letters asking for jobs

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Wage-Hour Administrator and assistants. Washington, D.C., Sept. 14. Probably the busiest government agency in the Capitol these days is The Wage-Hour Administration. The Wage-Hour Administrator, Elmer F. Andrews, is pictured for the first time with the newly appointed assistant administrators, Col. Arthur L. Fletcher (left) Paul Sifton. Fletcher was formerly Administrator of Labor for North Carolina while Sifton served with Administrator Andrews when he administrated New York's Labor laws, 9/14/38

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Last minute huddle. Washington, D.C., April 20. Loaded down with facts and figures on President Roosevelt's $4,512,000,000 Recovery Drive, WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins (left) and his First Assistant Chief Aubrey Williams, await the opening of The House Appropriations Committee Hearing today where they made public plans for the Administration's new drive against The Depression, 4/20/38

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Federal Housing Administrator. Washington, D.C., March 9. The Federal Housing Administrator Stewart MacDonald, photographed at his desk today, 3938

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PAYS HOMAGE TO LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 12. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY PAID HOMAGE TO THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, ON THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR. IN THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY, L TO R: DIANE HOPKINS, DAUGHTER OF HARRY HOPKINS, WPA ADMINISTRATOR; MRS. ROOSEVELT; CHANDLER ROOSEVELT, DAUGHTER OF ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT; THE PRESIDENT; THE PRESIDENT'S NAVAL AIDE, CAPTAIN W. B. WOODSON; AND THE MILITARY AIDE, COL. EDWIN WATSON

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Washington, D.C. C.B. Baldwin, assistant administrator, FSA (Farm Security Administration)

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Direct nation's farm policies. Washington, D.C., Sept. 22. The farmers of the Nation look to these men to solve their many problems. Pictured, left to right, are: M.L. Wilson, Undersecretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, and H.R. Tolley, A.A.A. Administrator, 9/22/38

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PRESIDENT THROWS OUT FIRST BALL. THE LID OF THE 1938 BASEBALL SEASON IN THE CAPITAL WAS PRIED OFF TODAY BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AS HE TOSSED OUT THE FIRST BALL TO START THE GAME BETWEEN THE WASHINGTON SENATORS AND THE PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: AL KRESS OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., A ROOSEVELT FAMILY FRIEND; WPA ADMINISTRATOR HARRY HOPKINS; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; CONNIE MACK; AND BUCKY HARRIS

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W.P.A. Administrator appears before Senate Appropriations Committee. Washington, D.C., May 17. Harry Hopkins, Chief of W.P.A. testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee today that approximately 2,800,000 persons are on relief. Shown with members of the committee, hopkins, left; seated Sen. Carl Hayden, D. of Ariz. right; seated, and in the rear; Aubrey Williams, Asst. W.P.A. Administrator, and Sen. Alva Adams, D. of Colo. Chairman of the committee, 5/17/38

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WPA workers protest relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. WPA workers from 26 states, head by David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, today protested to Assistant Administrator Aubrey Williams the recent cuts in relief. Their kicks were against the current wage scales, geographical wage differentials, inadequate number of WPA enrollees and the 'unjust and unfair' labor relations setup. Lasser is on the right and Aubrey Williams in center seated, 12/15/38

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ATTEND SERVICES AT LINCOLN MEMORIAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 12. MRS. ROOSEVELT, WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT EXPLAINS THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL TO LITTLE DIANE HOPKINS, LEFT, DAUGHTER OF THE WPA ADMINISTRATOR, AND CHANDLER ROOSEVELT, DAUGHTER OF ELLIIOTT ROOSEVELT, WHILE ATTENDING THE CEREMONIES TODAY ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY

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Ickes asks for full control of Bonneville Dan project. Washington, D.C., July 18. In an appearance before the House Rivers and Harbors Committee today, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes asked congress to give him full control over the Bonneville Dam project in Oregon. He said he favored a bill introduced by Rep. Walter Pierce because the Secretary of Interior was "charged with the responsibility of the Bonneville project but was without authority to appoint authorities at the project, excepting only the Administrator." Ickes added he felt he should also be permitted to appoint the subordinates as well as the administrator, 7/18/39

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Administration agrees to allow RFC to guarantee loans to small business. Washington, D.C., July 19. Following a conference at the White House today with the above, left to right: Senator James M. Mead, New York; Senator Robert F. Wagner, New York; Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator; Emil Schram, RFC Chairman. President Roosevelt announced a revised measure was agreed upon to utilize resources of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to gaurantee loans to small business. Senator Mead, sponser of a pending Senate bill to provide direct insurance for private loans to business, said the new plan would be attached to President Roosevelt's $3,460,000,000 lending, 7/19/39

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREETS McNUTT. WASHINGTON, D.C. AUGUST 1. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREETS PAUL V. McNUTT, FORMER GOVERNOR GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES AND NEW FEDERAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR, UPON HIS ARRIVAL AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY TO PRESENT A SET OF FLAGS MADE BY PHILIPPINE RESIDENTS. THE FLAGS, ALL MADE BY HAND, WERE GIVEN AS A TOKEN OF GOODWILL FROM THE PHILIPPINES TO THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT INDICATED THE FLAGS WOULD BE PLACED IN THE NEW LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES BUILDING NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT HIS HOME IN HYDE PARK

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New WPA Administrator appears before House Appropriations Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. Col. F.C. Harrington, new WPA Administrator, was the first witness today as the House appropriations Committee opened hearings on President Roosevelt's request for $875,000,000 to keep about 3,000,000 unemployed at work until June 30. Harrington, right, shown with Rep. Edward T. Taylor of Colorado, Chairman, said after testifying that a cut in the deficiency relief appropriation to $5000,000,000 would mean 'very drastic' reduction' in relief employment, 1/6/39

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Jones asks for $500,000,000 to lend to railroads and lease rail equipment. Washington, D.C., July 21. Jessie Jones, newly made Federal Lending Administrator suggested today the House Banking and Currency Committee that the RFC be given authority to lent the $500,000,000 for railroads in the new lending program and to use it to purchase and lease equipment to them asked by Rep. Clyde Williams about certain loans made to railroads which are in default, 'What do you do about it?' Jones answered, 'Well, we pray,' 7/21/39

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Housing Administrator asks for funds to continue building low-rent homes. Washington, D.C., April 7. U.S.H.A. Administrator Nathan Straus appeared before a Senate Education and Labor Sub-committee today to urge and additional authorization of $845,000,000 to continue his agency's program of low-rent dwellings. He said that, in addition to providing homes of good quality, work would be provided, directly and [indirectly](?), for 355,000 persons. 4-7-39 Sen. Allen Ellender, La., Nathan Straus, Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio.

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Principals in wage-hour amendments controversy. Washington, D.C., July 25. Seeking speedy action at this session of Congress, the House Rules Committee at a special session today agreed to further attempt to compromise proposals of opposing faction in the proposed amendments to the wage-hour law. Left to right: wage-hour administrator Elmer Andrews; Rep. Graham A. Barden, Democrat of North Carolina; Rep. Mary T. Norton, Democrat of New Jersey and Rep. Adolph Sabath of Illinois, Acting Chairman of the Rules Committee. Andrews, Rep. Norton and Rep. Barden appeared before the Committee in Executive region, 7/26/39

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WPA Administrator asks Senate Committee to restore $150,000,000 cut in Deficiency Relief Bill. Washington, D.C., Jan. 16. WPA Administrator F.C. Harrington, right, who today asked a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to restore the $150,000,000 cut from the Deficiency Relief Bill by the House, is pictured with Assistant Administrator Corrington Gill as they arrived at the Capitol, 1/16/39

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Wage-Hour Administrator and family. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Wage-Hour Administrator and Mrs. Elmer Andrews dining at a local hotel with their youngsters on New Year's night. Left to right: William Andrews, a son, Administrator Andrews, Mrs. Andrews, and Jean Andrews, a daughter, 1-3-39

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Administration leaders explain works financing bill in radio round table. Washington, D.C., July 24. Leaders of the administration fight to pass intact the so-called 'spend-lend' bill under the Federal Works Agency, tonight went on the air to explain the bill. The round table on the 'Works Financing Act', was participated in by, left to right - Emil Schram, Chairman of the RFC, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee through which the bill must be reported to the Senate Sen. Robert Wagner, Sponser of the Bill and Majority Leader Sen. Alben Barkley, and John Carmody, Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, 7/24/39

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Transamerican Counsel institute court action in effort to restrict S.E.C. inquiry. Washington, D.C., Jan. 16. Just before appearing at a Securities and Exchange Commission hearing today, counsel for the Transamerican Corporation, headed by former NRA Administrator Donald Richberg and William Stanley, former Assistant Attorney General, announced they had instituted Federal court action in an effort to restrict an SEC inquiry into the affairs of the corporation. Left to right: Donald Richberg; A.P. Giannini, chairman of the board, Transamerican Corp.; L.M Giannini, president of the Transamerican Corp.; and William Stanley, 1/16/39

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Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing Administrator, 3-6-39

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New Assistant WPA Administrator. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. Mrs. Florence S. Kerr, recently appointed Assistant Administrator of the Works Progress Administration, assumed her duties today at WPA headquarters. She succeeds Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward who resigned to become a member of the Social Security Board. Mrs. Kerr is a native of Harriman, Tenn., and a graduate of Grinnell College, Iowa, 1/6/39

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Veterans Administration appears before house veterans committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. U.S. Veterans Administrator Frank T. Hines today urged the House World War Veterans Committee to refer all bills for veterans hospitals to the Federal Board of Hospitalization so that a scientific plan can be adopted for providing care. He said that board is now studying the entire country in an attempt to equalize veterans hospital facilities and provide the correct proportion of beds for veterans in each area. Hines said present plans call for 82,026 beds by the end of June, 1940.

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Hunter succeeds Aubrey Williams in WPA. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. Howard O. Hunter, appointed Deputy Administrator of WPA by Col. F.C. Harrington today, succeeding Aubrey Williams. He will take up his new duties Feb. 1. He has been serving as a field representative in the middle west, and is here surveying with satisfaction the prospect of 'staying put' in his desk job, 1/18/39

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McNutt registers for draft. Paul V. McNutt, (FSA) Federal Security Administrator and recently-appointed chairman of the Manpower Commission, registers under the Selective Service Act at the Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, D.C., April 25. Assisting him is Dr. William A. Killgore, draft registrar

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McNutt registers for draft. Paul V. McNutt, (FSA) Federal Security Administrator and recently-appointed chairman of the Manpower Commission, registers under the Selective Service Act at the Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, D.C., April 25. Assisting him is Dr. William A. Killgore, draft registrar

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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McNutt registers for draft. Paul V. McNutt, (FSA) Federal Security Administrator and recently-appointed chairman of the Manpower Commission, registers under the Selective Service Act at the Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, D.C., April 25. Assisting him is Dr. William A. Killgore, draft registrar

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Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board

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The C.C.C. swears in new director. Washington, D.C., March 7. While William Green, president of the AF of L, and Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, look on, James J. McEntee today toook the oath of office, as administrator of the Civillian Conservation Corps. Left to right: Green, McNutt and McEntee, 3-7-40

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Miss Harriet Elliot, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

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Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator

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Joseph L. Weiner. Assistant Administrator in Charge of Civilian Allocation of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply

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Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

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Dr. John Kenneth Gailbraith, assistant administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply, Office of Emergency Management. Dr. Galbraith is an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University

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John E. Hamm. Deputy Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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Administering oath. Herbert Emmerich, former Secretary of War Production Board, now Administrator of Defense housing Authority and J.C. Hale, of Bureau of Budget, Assistant Administrator Officer, administering the oath

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administrationn (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Administering oath. Herbert Emmerich, former Secretary of War Production Board, now Administrator of Defense housing Authority and J.C. Hale, of Bureau of Budget, Assistant Administrator Officer, administering the oath

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Milton H. Luce. Administrator, Health Supplies Section, Office of Production Management (OPM)

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Wage and Hour Administrator takes oath. Washington, D.C., March 4. Col. Philip Flemming, here-to-fore loaned out by the army by executive order to administer the Wage & Hour law, today was sworn in as administrator. The ceremony took place in the presence of the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, while Chief Clerk Samuel Gompers administered the oath. Left to right: Col. Flemming, Miss Perkins, Mr. Gompers, 3-4-40

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, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Miss Harriet Elliot, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

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Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

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Joseph L. Weiner. Assistant Administrator in Charge of Civilian Supply

Administering oath. Left to right: John B. Blandford, Administrator of National Housing Agency; Herbert Emmerich, former Secretary of War Production Board, now Administrator of Defense Housing Authority; Donald M. Nelson, Chief, War Production Board and J.C. Hale, of Bureau of Budget, Assistant Administrator Officer, administering the oath

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Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administrationn (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPM), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administrationn (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPM), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

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Administering oath. Left to right: John B. Blandford, Administrator of National Housing Agency; Herbert Emmerich, former Secretary of War Production Board, now Administrator of Defense Housing Authority; Donald M. Nelson, Chief, War Production Board and J.C. Hale, of Bureau of Budget, Assistant Administrator Officer, administering the oath

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

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Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense: Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Nesbitt, took the "Consumer Pledge for Total Defense" drafted by Miss Harriet Elliott. The pledge reads: "As a consumer, in the total defense of democracy, my country ready, efficient, and strong; I will buy carefully. I will take good care of the things I have. I will waste nothing"

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Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), and currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease Administrator. Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Minerals and Metals Executive of the Priorities Division. President of Dartmouth College

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Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense: Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Nesbitt, took the "Consumer Pledge for Total Defense" drafted by Miss Harriet Elliott. The pledge reads: "As a consumer, in the total defense of democracy, my country ready, efficient, and strong; I will buy carefully. I will take good care of the things I have. I will waste nothing"

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Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease administrator

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

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Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, OPM (Office of Production Management), and currently (Sept. 2, 1941) lend-lease administrator

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Modern kitchen in a Tennessee Valley Authority house. Kitchen equipment for one of the new demountable houses, which the TVA is building for defense workers in the Muscle Shoals area in northern Alabama, includes electric range, water heater, and refrigerator. The TVA, acting as an agent of the Federal Works Administrator, is building

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Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), and currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease Administrator. Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Minerals and Metals Executive of the Priorities Division. President of Dartmouth College

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

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Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), and currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease Administrator. Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Minerals and Metals Executive of the Priorities Division. President of Dartmouth College

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Left to right: Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator; Miss Elise Davison, Assistant Director in Charge of Volunteer Activities, Women's Division, Office of Civilian Defense; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director, Office of Civilian Defense; Mayor F.H. LaGuardia, Director of Office of Civilian Defense, conferring at a conference on "Women's Activities in Civilian Defense," on November 8, 1941

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Executives who helped to conceive the trailer idea for relieving overcrowded housing conditions in certain defense areas sit in the dining alcove of a trailer on its way to be put into use in Wilmington, North Carolina. The men are, left to right: Charles F. Palmer, cooridnator of Defense Housing, OEM, Major John Walker, Assistant Administrator, Farm Security Administration; James Cramer, Acting Regional Coordinator for Region 1, Division of Defense Housing Coordination; Carl Bradt, Special Assistant to the Coordinator in Charge of Temporary Shelters, Division of Defense Housing Coordination, Office of Emergency Management

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Hays Brooks, Assistant Administrator, Farm Security Administration

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Conference held in the office of the Office of Production Management in Washington, D.C. August 19, 1941. Left to right: John Lord O'Brian, General Counsel, Office of Production Management; Edward R. Stettinius, Director of Priorities, OPM; Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply; William S. Knudsen, Director-General, OPM; W. Averill Harriman, Lend-Lease administrator in London

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Home for defense worker. One of the homes for defense workers which the Tennessee Valley Authority is building in the Muscle Shoals area in northern Alabama. In this project, the TVA is acting as agent of the Federal Works Administrator

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Interior of one of the defense homes. Interior of one of the homes for defense workers which the Tennessee Valley Authority is building in the Muscle Shoals area in northern Alabama. In this project, the TVA is acting as agent for the Federal Works Administrator

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Mr. Lloyd Steer, and Mr. Paul Appleby, U.S. Undersecretary of Agriculture, and Mr. Rudolph Evans, U.S. Administrator of Agricultural Adjustment Administration, examining boxes of dried apricots on the quayside at a British port

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Mr. Lloyd Steer, and Mr. Paul Appleby, U.S. Undersecretary of Agriculture, and Mr. Rudolph Evans, U.S. Administrator of Agricultural Adjustment Administration, examining boxes of dried apricots on the quayside at a British port

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

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Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and President Roosevelt. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., lend-lease Administrator, discusses the Seventh lend-lease Report which he has just handed to the President for transmittal to congress. The report showed that lend-lease aid had increased more than a third in the last three months and was now being provided at the rate of $10,000,000,000 a year

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Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--the kind of food that is being sent overseas to save shipping space. From left to right: Leon Henderson, Price Administrator; Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB); Brigadier General Carl Hardigg, Office of the Quartermaster General; and William Batt, WPB Vice Chairman. The luncheon was arranged on November 6, 1942 in the Social Security Building by Lee Marshall, Food Consultant to Mr. Nelson, to acquaint war agency officials with the progress that has been made in this country in the field of dehydrated foods. Such dried foods result in savings of up to eighty percent in volume and up to ninety percent in weight

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A black and white photo of a man giving a speech. Office of War Information Photograph

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Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--the kind of food that is being sent overseas to save shipping space. From left to right: Leon Henderson, Price Administrator; Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB).

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Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (standing) first meeting of OPA training program for price control, December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

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Left to right: Dr. John S. Sly, Regional Price Administrator, Office of Price Administration; A. Antolini, Associate Regional Price Administrator; Sylvan Joseph, Regional Price Director OPA

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