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1. Harris & Ewing MARINES AVIATION AWARD GIVEN. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTS FIRST LIEUTENANT DAVID LORD, COMMANDING OBSERVATION SQUADRON SEVEN OF THE MARINE CORPS, WITH THE HERBERT SCHIFF TROPHY, GIVEN ANNUALLY TO THE SQUADRON OR UNIT WHICH LOGS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF FLIGHT HOURS WITH THE MINIMUM OF ACCIDENTS. STANDING ON THE RIGHT IS COL. H.L. ROOSEVELT, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY [1933 or 1934]

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2. Harris & Ewing PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AWARDS THE SCHIFF TROPHY. WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER 14. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTED THE SCHIFF TROPHY FOR MAXIMUM SAFETY IN NAVAL AVIATION OPERATIONS TO THE SEVENTH PATROL SQUADRON WHICH OPERATED 4,903 HOURS IN THE AIR FROM ITS SAN DIEGO BASE LAST YEAR WITHOUT AN ACCIDENT. DURING THE PERIOD OF COMPETITION, THE UNIT WAS KNOWN AS SQUADRON SEVEN, COMMANDED BY LT. COMMANDER SILAS B. MOORE WHO IS NOW STATIONED IN HONOLULU. BUT SINCE HAS BEEN REDESIGNATED AS SQUADRON ELEVEN, NOW COMMANDED BY LT. COMMANDER FRANK T. WARD, JR., WHO ACCEPTED THE TROPHY FROM THE PRESIDENT. L TO R: LT. COMMANDER FRANK T. WARD; WILLIAM SCHIFF, DONOR OF THE TROPHY; ACTING SECRETARY OF THE NAVY CHARLES EDISON; ADMIRAL WILLIAM R. STARK, CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS; ADMIRAL J.H. TOWERS, CHIEF OF NAVAL AIR CORPS; AND WALTER C. BRYAN OF THE TROPHY COMMITTEE. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS SEATED [1939] November 14

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3. Harris & Ewing FIRST LADY CHRISTENS PLANE. WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 17. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND CAPT. EDDIE RICHENBACKER HOLDING THE BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE WHICH THE FIRST LADY USED TODAY IN CHRISTENING THE FLAGSHIP OF THE EASTERN AIR LINES WASHINGTON-NEW YORK RUN. UNDER THE NEW SCHEDULE WHICH STARTED TODAY, IT WILL BE A PLANE 'EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR' FROM 8 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT FROM WASHINGTON TO NEW YORK. THIS WILL MAKE THE RUN THE MOST FEQUENT AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE IN THE WORLD [1937] May 17

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4. Harris & Ewing MARINES AVIATION AWARD GIVEN. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTS FIRST LIEUTENANT DAVID LORD, COMMANDING OBSERVATION SQUADRON SEVEN OF THE MARINE CORPS, WITH THE HERBERT SCHIFF TROPHY, GIVEN ANNUALLY TO THE SQUADRON OR UNIT WHICH LOGS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF FLIGHT HOURS WITH THE MINIMUM OF ACCIDENTS. STANDING ON THE RIGHT IS COL. H.L. ROOSEVELT, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

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5. Harris & Ewing PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AWARDS THE SCHIFF TROPHY. WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER 14. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTED THE SCHIFF TROPHY FOR MAXIMUM SAFETY IN NAVAL AVIATION OPERATIONS TO THE SEVENTH PATROL SQUADRON WHICH OPERATED 4,903 HOURS IN THE AIR FROM ITS SAN DIEGO BASE LAST YEAR WITHOUT AN ACCIDENT. DURING THE PERIOD OF COMPETITION, THE UNIT WAS KNOWN AS SQUADRON SEVEN, COMMANDED BY LT. COMMANDER SILAS B. MOORE WHO IS NOW STATIONED IN HONOLULU. BUT SINCE HAS BEEN REDESIGNATED AS SQUADRON ELEVEN, NOW COMMANDED BY LT. COMMANDER FRANK T. WARD, JR., WHO ACCEPTED THE TROPHY FROM THE PRESIDENT. L TO R: LT. COMMANDER FRANK T. WARD; WILLIAM SCHIFF, DONOR OF THE TROPHY; ACTING SECRETARY OF THE NAVY CHARLES EDISON; ADMIRAL WILLIAM R. STARK, CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS; ADMIRAL J.H. TOWERS, CHIEF OF NAVAL AIR CORPS; AND WALTER C. BRYAN OF THE TROPHY COMMITTEE. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS SEATED

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6. Harris & Ewing FIRST LADY CHRISTENS PLANE. WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 17. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND CAPT. EDDIE RICHENBACKER HOLDING THE BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE WHICH THE FIRST LADY USED TODAY IN CHRISTENING THE FLAGSHIP OF THE EASTERN AIR LINES WASHINGTON-NEW YORK RUN. UNDER THE NEW SCHEDULE WHICH STARTED TODAY, IT WILL BE A PLANE 'EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR' FROM 8 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT FROM WASHINGTON TO NEW YORK. THIS WILL MAKE THE RUN THE MOST FEQUENT AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE IN THE WORLD

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7. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 2 boys at the filling machine in Cannon's Cannery, Bridgeville, Del. These boys place cans in the grove to be filled with peas. Work 10 hours per day, and when there is a good supply of peas they work 15 hours a day. The small boy is 9 years of age, at work the first season. The larger boy is 12, working his 2nd season

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8. Harris & Ewing Authors of Administration Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours of Work Bill. Washington, D.C. May 24. Senator Hugo L. Black, (left) democratic senator from Alabama and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, and Rep. William P. Connery Jr, of Massachusetts Chairman of the House Labor Committee, study the bills they introduce today in the Senate and [...] for enactment of a standard wage scale and [minim]um hours of work law. The bills were introduced [...] after President Roosevelt's address demanding [...w] was read to both Houses of Congress. [...] call for a minimum of 40 cents an hour [mini]mum hours comprimise a 35 to 40 hour work [week], 5/24/37 [19]37 May 24

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9. Harris & Ewing Tells of 72 hours labor for steel mill says congress shouldn't listen to William Green's 'blatherings.' Washington, D.C., July 21. Bert Hough, Head of the Steel Workers Organization Committee of Midland, PA., today told the House Labor Committee in a rich scotch burr that the Committee should discard the 'Blatherings of William Green and Tom Girdler, because the Wagner act was not passed to protect them. This Congress should need those of us who come from the mills. Before the passage of the Wasner act. He told the Committee which is considering amendments to the act, he had worked as long as 72 consecutive hours, 7/21/39 [19]39 July 21

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10. Harris & Ewing 103 union presidents meet with Green to urge Congress to change WPA wage-hour rates. Washington, D.C., July 12. Leaders of the American Federation of Labor's national and international unions met today to plan methods of persuading Congress to restore old wage and hour rates of pay for WPA workers who now work 130 hours for the same pay they once received for as little as 55 hours a month. Here are Frank Morrison, Secretary-Treasurer of the AF of L, Herbert Rivers, Secretary and Treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Department, and William Green, President of the AF of L photographed at the meeting this morning [19]39 July 12

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11. Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985 Lititz, Pennsylvania. Paul Ritz serving his two hours per week as an airplane spotter in the observation post on a hill near Lititz. There are two people here twenty-four hours a day. Ritz' companion was ill this time. He is a candy coater in the local chocolate factory; has a son in the Navy; was in the last war. The American Legion recruited the spotters 1942 Nov

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12. Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985 Lititz, Pennsylvania. Paul Ritz serving his two hours per week as an airplane spotter in the observation post on a hill near Lititz. There are two people here twenty-four hours a day. Ritz' companion was ill this time. He is a candy coater in the local chocolate factory; has a son in the Navy; was in the last war. The American Legion recruited the spotters 1942 Nov

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13. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Va. Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour

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14. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Va. Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour

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15. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Va. Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour

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16. Harris & Ewing Pill-Box Fort built in four hours. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Something new in speedy-built forts was built on the grounds of the Bureau of Standards today in four hours. Karl P. Billner, Swedish Inventor, supervised the building of the pill box which was done by his new invention as the vacuum concrete invention. Today's demonstration was to show a new and more efficient method of construction for defense purposes under emergencies, 8/25/38 [19]38 August 25

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17. Palmer, Alfred T. Aircraft warning service. Mrs. E.V. Rickenbacker (second from left) watches as a group of volunteer airplane plotters at a filter center push markers into place. Recruited by the Office of Civilian Defense, the volunteers work in shifts of four to five hours, often coming to the center after a day's work at the office. The plotters report every second or third day, contributing many hours to their work than involved in less exacting civilian defense operations 1943 Mar

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18. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 2 boys at the filling machine in Cannon's Cannery, Bridgeville, Del. These boys place cans in the grove to be filled with peas. Work 10 hours per day, and when there is a good supply of peas they work 15 hours a day. The small boy is 9 years of age, at work the first season. The larger boy is 12, working his 2nd season. 1910 June

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19. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the judge think he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton 1913 November

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20. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge think[s] he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre,' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton 1913 November

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