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Republican women leaders discuss 1938 election plans with G.O.P. Chairman. Washington, D.C., Aug. 11. Women members of the Republican National Committee from all parts of the country converged on Washington today for a conference with National Chairman John Hamilton. Plans for the party's 1938 election campaign were discussed. In the photograph, left to right: (seated) Mrs. Robert L. Hoyal, Ariz.; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, PA; Chairman Hamilton; Mrs. John E. Hillman, Colo.; and Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Dist. of Col. Standing left to right: Mrs. Grace B. Reynolds, Ind.; Mrs. Cara L. Ebert, W.Va.; Ms. Chris Carlson, Minn.; Mrs. Edna B. Conklin, N.J.; Mrs. Pearl Wates, Ala.; Mrs. Katherine Kennedy Brown, Ohio; Mrs. margaret A. Green, Mass.; Mrs. Doris K. Reynolds, Wyo.; Miss Katheryn Byrne, Conn; and Miss Consuelo Northrop, VT, 8/11/37

Miss Margaret O. Flint & T.E. Proctor, Ind,. 3/29/26

Oil Association spokesman at House hearing. Washington, D.C., June 22. Eric Weber, President of the Ohio Petroleum Marketers' Association, who appeared as a witness at a House Judiciary Subcommittee yesterday. The committee is holding hearings upon the Harrington Bill which affects the oil producing and distributing industry

Official greeters. Washington, D.C., May 8. The official receiving line at the first official reception of the 10th International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy was snapped tonight just before festivities started. Left to right: Mrs. Reynolds, Major General Charles R. Reynolds, Mrs. Harry Woodring, and Secretary of War Harry Woodring

Lasker & Walter B. Teagle, 5/8/23

Soldiers guard Dupont home. Wilmington, Del. July 1. A cordon of soldiers aided state troopers in guarding the entrance to Owl's Nest, Dupont estate, as guest arrived for the Roosevelt-Dupont wedding yesterday, 7/1/37

Pres. Coolidge at Patterson house, 3/15/27

Jacob Gould Schurman, Amb. to Germany, 5/13/25

Mrs. Medill McCormick & children, 1/27/23

Finns look in on annual meeting of U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Washington, D.C., May 2. Members of the Finnish Trade Delegation to the United States, headed by Finland Minister Hjalmar J. Procope, were welcomed at today's session of the 27th annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Here we see, left to right: S. Clay Williams, Chairman of the Board, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Finnish Minister Procope, George W. Davis, President of the Chamber, and R.V. Fiendt, a leading Finnish banker and Chairman of the Trade Delegation to the U.S.

Mrs. Medill McCormick, 1/27/23

Wm. Butterworth, 11/19/29

Vance McCormick, 2/1/24

Mrs. Green, Henry Lodge, Wm. B. Hershey, 4/17/29

Calvin Coolidge, 5/9/24

Jeff. standard. Mr. & Mrs. P.A. Proctor; Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. American Security Bld., 4/25/38

Harriman, Ripley, & Co. owner holds firm never violated banking laws. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. Testifying before the Monopoly Committee this morning, W. Averill Harriman, Wall Street Financier, asserted and was corroborated by his partner, J.P. Ripley, that the firm of Harriman, Ripley, & Co. set up in 1934, was not established to side-step the Banking Act of 1933. The act divorced securities business from commerical banking in banking houses. He asserts that the firm was set up to provide for the future of those employees of the National City Co. whose investment and underwriting activities were ended by the Act of 1933. Photo shows Harriman as he was testifying this morning

Medill McCormick & daughter, 2/26/23

Whispers Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Senator James J. Davis (left), Republican of Pennsylvania, gets another earful from Bernard Baruch following the noted Financier's blaming of the new deal policies for present unemployment before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today. Baruch particularly criticized the present undistributed profits and capital gains taxes, 2/28/38

Mrs. Wm. Howard Taft, 5/13/22

Senator T. Colman Dupont, 7/28/21

Andrew W. Mellon, 9/17/26

Mrs. Taft, Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs. Wilson, 12/9/26

Jno. McCormick, 1/27/23

Governor of Rhode Island. Washington, D.C., March 8. A new informal photograph of William H. Vanderbilt, Republican Governor of Rhode Island. The governor is in Washington for a weekend visit, 3-8-40

Jacob Gould Schurman, 7/1/21

Wm. Howard Taft & Justice Holmes at funeral of Mrs. Jos. McKenna, 10/13/24

Chairman of War Industries at White House. Washington, D.C., Oct. 13. Barnard Baruch, international banker and Chairman of the War Industries Board, said today that America is in the same tragic position that forced Britain and France to agree to the peace of Munich. Baruch, reviewed the European situation at the White House where he spent last night as a guest of the President, Baruch is shown leaving the White House after the interview, 10/13/38

Henry Ford, 9/6/23

Peggy Kahn presents Mrs. Coolidge with cake, 5/1/25

[Soldiers guard Dupont home. Wilmington, Del. July 1. A cordon of soldiers aided state troopers in guarding the entrance to Owl's Nest, Dupont estate, as guest arrived for the Roosevelt-Dupont wedding yesterday, 7/1/37]

Barney Baruch, 12/11/20

Ruth Bryan Owen, Ruth Hannah McCormick, 6/4/29

"Whew" thatÆs that. Washington, D.C. Jan. 15. Richard Whitney is moping the brow after the heated tussel with Sen. Wheeler today when the Senator implied that Whitney as an Officer of the Stock Exchange bought 1,000 shares of Alleghany at $20 when the market price was $33. Photo shows left to right: William C. Potter and Richard Whitney

Rockefeller's son-in-law before Sec. Inquiry. Washington, D.C., Dec. 17. David Milton, John D. Rockefeller's son-in-law, appeared before the Securities and Exchange Commission Investment Trust Inquiry. By putting up $13,000 in cash and 6500 shares of inactive insurance, Milton told the Sec. he eventually won control of $218,000,000 investment concern. Milton is President of the Equity Corporation

P.M. Gen. New and Peggy Kahn, 12/3/25

Eye to eye. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18. George Whitney, a partner in the J.P. Morgan Co., being questioned by Chairman Burton K. Wheeler at the Senate Railroad Financing Inquiry today

Baseballs autographed by six Presidents. 'Big Train's' gift to Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, D.C., April 29. Walter Johnson's contribution to the National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, New York, will be these six baseballs autographed by six presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. With the exception of the ones autographed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, the balls are those which were thrown out at opening games pitched by Johnson during his regime as star pitcher for the Washington Senators. The ball autographed by President Hoover was presented to Johnson while he was manager of the Washington team while the one with the signature of Theodore Roosevelt was a special gift to the Big Train

National Parole Conference brings law and penal experts to Capital. Washington, D.C., April 17. The first general session of the National Parole Conference, called by the President for the purpose of trying to coordinate federal, state, and local agencies with all phases of law enforcement. Left to right. Sam Lewisohn, member of the N.Y. State Commission of Correction and temporary chairman of the conference, Gov. Herbert Lehman of New York, Attorney General Frank Murphy, and James B. Bennet, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

9 Rep. Women of Coolidge, Du Pont, Robinson League at W.H., 12/10/24

Baruch quizzed by Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Senator James F. Byrnes, (left) Chairman of the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee, questioning Bernard Baruch, voted Financier today. Baruch declared America must make a choice between the "proof of its system and the hope of gain" and the "the new European ideas of state regulation and fear of punishment"

Senator Phipps, 6/27/22

George Tyson Harding, 5/21/23

Wm. Randolph Hearst, 12/1/23

Mrs. M.K. Metcalf, Cat Show, 2/1/27

Miss Margaret O. Flint & T.E. Proctor, Ind., 3/29/26

Mrs. Cooldge & Peggy Kahn, 11/27/26

President confers with advisory business council. Washington D.C. Members of the Advisory Business Council operating in cooperation with Secretary of Commerce Roper met with President Roosevelt at the White House today. Matters discussed at the meeting were not made public but It is believed that pending Congressional legislation was one of the topics. In the photograph, left to right: Laverill Harriman, Clay Williams, Gen. R.E. Wood, George Meade, Chairman of the Council; and Delancey Kounyze

Discusses Wall Street reforms with Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Oct. 29. Paul Shields, New York Utilities expert, shown leaving the White House after conferring with President Roosevelt in relation to Wall Street reforms growing out of the Richard Whitney case. Shields, recommends greater safeguards for brokerage customer funds, 10/29/38

Senators Rice W. Means, Wm. M. Butler, Jesse H. Metcalf, & Chas. Curtis, 12/1/24

Theodore and Lewis Abbanate with bust of Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 12/19/24

Mrs. Everett Gann & Curtis, 10/29/29

Smithsonian receives portrait of famed suffrage leader. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Miss Marguerite H. Welles, President of the National League of Women Voters, presenting to Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, an oil painting of 80 year old Carrie Chapman Catt. The portrait will be hung in the Smithsonian Institution with the ones of three other famed suffrage leaders: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. A gift of Mrs. Stanley McCormick of Chicago, the portrait was painted by Mary Foote in 1927

Preparedness is best to keep out of war. Washington D.C. Representative Lister Hill (left), Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the House is shown talking to Bernard M. Baruch a New York financier who testified before the Committee today. He stated that the cash on the line was one of the best methods to take the profits out of war and to widen the scope of the 95% taxation on incomes during the war period

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Connelly, Mr. & Mrs. John McCormick, 11/23

Rabbi W.S. Friedman of Denm[?] L.C. Phipps, 12/28/23

Henry Ford, 2/9/27

Mrs. J.D. Rockefeller Jr. #1 on left front row, 3/1/22

Railway Labor and Capital meet. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. In compliance with a suggestion made by President Roosevelt in December, a joint conference between committees representing railway labor and railway managements was held here today. The most important matter considered was the Railroad Retirement Act situation, but no conclusion was reached. In the photograph, left to right: (seated) J.A. Phillips, Order of Railways Conductors; M.W. Clement, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad; and George B. Elliot, President of the Atlantic Coast Line; standing, left to right: E.J. Manion, Order of Railway Telegraphers: James J. Delaney, President, Masters, Mates, Pilots of America; George M. Harrison, Chairman of The Railway Executives Association of Railroads; J.B. Hill, President, Nashville, and Executive Officer, Missouri Lines; H.A. Scandrettm Trustee of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific

Ruth B. Pratt, 10/16/29

Cong. Burdick, Gen. Gerry, Sen. Metcalf, 12/20/26

Cornelius Vanderbilt at W.H., [i.e., White House, Washington, D.C.], 6/20/25

Former First Lady. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. Seldom photographed, [Mrs.] William Howard Taft, widow of the late President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was snapped as she left the White House today after a call on President Roosevelt

Rockefeller's son-in-law runs $13,000 into $218,000,000, Sec. inquiry told. Washington, D.C., Dec. 17. How he won control of a $218,000,000 investment concern by putting up $13,000 in cash and 6,500 shares of stock in an inactive insurance was told the Securities and Exchange Commision today by David Miltion, son-in- law of John D. Rockefeller. Milton is shown with David Schenker, left, Counsel for the Sec. who is conducting the investment trust inquiry

Calvin Coolidge & Dr. Boone, 12/24/23

W.E. Harkness & Atwater Kent, 11/9/25

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

Discuss business conditions. Washington, D.C., May 13. Averill Harriman (left), chairman of the President's Business Advisory Council, and Secretary of Commerce Daniel A. Roper snapped just before they went into the metting of the Business Advisory Council today at the Department of Commerce

Wall Streeter and occassional Administration Advisor opens new monopoly phase. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. W. Averill Harriman, Wall Street Financier and often an advisor to the Administration, together with his partner, J.P. Ripley, spent the morning before the TNEC's newest investigation into banking practices. They are shown here with the Chairman of the Monopoly Committee, Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney. Left to right: Sen. O'Mahoney, Ripley, and Harriman

Cornelius Vanderbilt, who recently returned from Europe, visiting at White House, Sept. 1939

House Committee hears of read activities. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21. Edwin Hughes, a police captain at Flint, Mich. Told house investigators today that a man he knows as a Communist used a sound truck to incite rioting at Flint's Fisher Body Planet in 1937. He is shown as he appeared on the stand, 10/21/38

Rep. Florence P. Kahn at Dem. - Rep. game, 5/1/26

Auto magnate leaves White House after conference with President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., April 27. Forced to run a gantlet of newspaper reporters, Henry Ford is pictured leaving the White House today with Maj. Henry M. Cunningham, Manager of the Alexandria, VA.O branch of the Ford Motor Co., after a luncheon and conference with Presdient Roosevelt. Both the White House and Ford refused to make a statement following the discussion which lasted a couple of hours, 4/27/38

Senator Phipps, Means and Harreld, 2/4/25

Gerald & Allen Phipps, 1/8/24

Coolidge & Cyrus H.K. Curtis yacht, 4/19/27

Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, Bernard Baruch, noted Financier, declared that the nation must choose between the "profits system and the hope of gain" and "the new European ideas of state regulation and fear of punishment". He added "that if it became clear tomorrow that Americans definitely chosen her traditional profits system, forces would be released that would rapidly hasten recovery and reemployment," 2/28/38

Mrs. Fred'k J. Manning & Taft, 5/26/24

Mrs. Coolidge & Peggy Kahn, 11/27/26

Governor of Rhode Island testifies before Senate Wire Tapping committee. Washington, D.C., May 28. Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, today told the Senate Wire Tapping Committee that he secretly engaged Frank B. Bielaski, New York private detective, to conduct an investigation in his state because of 'dissatisfaction' with prosecution of election fraud cases by his Attorney General. Vanderbilt, left, is shown with his counsel Horace Weller

Mrs. Wm. H. Taft with colonial dames at W.H., 5/13/25

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 5. Delegates to the nominating convention include 679,342. 1-2 honest to God newspaperwomen, not counting socialite chiselers, meeting to nominate the next first lady who may pick out her own president. All possible ladies are considered. They attempt to discover if 'Mrs. Roosevelt will settle down, if Mrs. Taft is on a diet, and who Mrs. Dewey was. Mary Johnson of Time, city room gal-bab Lincoln, Washington Times-Herald, Club Editor, Corrinne Frazier, WPA, Correspondent, Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, Portland, Maine, Press-Herald Chairman, Bess Furman, Furman Features, Political Writer, Malvina Lindsay, Washington Post Woman's Page Editor, Hope Riding Miller, The Washington Post Society editor. Do not release before March 11, 1940

Wm. Kohn, Mrs. Borden Harriman, 2/20/20

Wm. Howard Taft and Mrs. Taft at New Year reception at White House, [Washington, D.C., 1/1/25]

Senators Rice W. Means, Wm. M. Butler, Jesse H. Metcalf, & Sen. Curtis, 12/1/24

Fair sex grace republican national committee meeting. Washington, D.C., Nov. 29. Members of the fair sex were very much in evidence at today's meeting of the Republican National Committee at which the results of the recent election were carefully canvassed and plans outlined for the future. Here we see arriving, left to right - Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of the late Vice President Charles Curtis - Princess Julia Cantacuzene, Washington, D.C., granddaughter of General Ulysses S. Grant - Mrs. Ruth Pratt, former Republican member of Congress from New York - Mrs. Ralph A. Harris, National Committeewoman from Kansas

Financier Washington, D.C., March 1. Bernard Baruch noted New York financier, snapped as he appeared before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, 3/1/38

Labor leaders arrive for unemployment census conference. Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. John L. Lewis, Head of the CIO, and A.F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, arriving at the White House today to attend the Unemployment Census Conference called by John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Administrator. Plans for compiling the census were formulated at the meeting which was attended by leading government, business and labor officials. 9/27/37

Author and sponsor of Wagner Labor Relations congratulate each other on Supreme Court decision. Washington, D.C. April 12. Today was a happy one for Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, and Senator David I. Walsh, (right) of Massachusetts, who sponsored the bill in the United States Senate. They were together as they heard the Supreme Court uphold the validity of the act today--unanimously in the cases of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., and the Washington, Virginia and Maryland Coach Co. The decision was hailed by the government as one of its greatest victories in court.

Capital and Labor leaders at White House. Washington, D.C., Jan. 14. Shown leaving the White House after a conference with President Roosevelt, where they presented some recommendations for pulling the country out of the present business slump, were left to right; A.A. Berle, former Brain truster of the New Deal, Philip Murray, C.I.O. leader, John L. Lewis, C.I.O. chief, Owen D. Young, head of the General Electric Co. and Thomas W. Lamont, partner of J.P. Morgan, 1/14/38

Ruth Bryan Owen, Ruth Hannah McCormick, 6/4/29

Governor of Rhode Island. Washington, D.C., March 8. A new informal picture of William H. Vanderbilt, Republican Governor of Rhode Island. Today Governor Vanderbilt held a conference with Chairman John Hamilton of Republican National Committee

Mrs. Coolidge at Patterson house, 3/1/27

Colleen Moore & husband, John McCormick, 4/29/25

Calvin Coolidge, Pres. U.S., 1872-1933

Full lgth., standing, facing left; holding bucket and stool, and cow he is preparing to milk.

Peggy Kahn delivers tubercular seals to Mrs. Coolidge, 12/3/24

Sen. McCormick, 5/12/22