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President Harry S. Truman (center) with Charles E. Wilson (left), formerly President of the General Electric Company, preparing to take the oath of office as Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, as Chief Justice Fred Vinson (right) prepares to administer the oath in the Oval Office.

Scene in the stands during the annual Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Seated behind the Presidential flag on the brick wall are, from left to right: Averell Harriman, two unidentified women, President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, and unidentified woman. All others are unidentified.

Scene in the stands during the annual Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Seated behind the Presidential flag on the brick wall are, from left to right: General Wallace Graham, unidentified woman, Averell Harriman, two unidentified women, President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, unidentified woman, and Press Secretary Charles Ross. Standing directly behind President Truman is General Harry Vaughan. Seated in the second row, visible between President and Mrs.

Scene in the stands during the annual Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Seated behind the Presidential flag on the brick wall are, from left to right: Averell Harriman (partly obscured), two unidentified women, President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, unidentified woman, and Press Secretary Charles Ross. Seated behind President Truman is General Harry Vaughan. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (far left) uses a trowel to help place the cornerstone at the new United States Court Building in Washington, D.C. From left to right are: President Truman; unidentified man; Justice Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; Judge Bolitha Laws, Chief Justice of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; and Judge Harold M. Stephens, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia. Others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman speaks at the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new United States Court Building in Washington, D.C. Seated in the first row behind Truman are, from left to right: unidentified man (partly obscured); Judge Bolitha Laws, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Judge Harold M. Stephens, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia; Justice Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; three unidentified men; and Justice Tom Clark, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

President Harry S. Truman (center) helping to guide the laying of the cornerstone for the new United States Courthouse for the District of Columbia. On the left is Justice Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. On the right is Judge Bolitha Laws, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) using a trowel to help lay the cornerstone of the new United States Courthouse for the District of Columbia. At the extreme right are Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Fred M. Vinson and Judge Bolitha Laws, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman attends a cornerstone laying ceremony for the new United States Court Building in Washington, D.C. Speaking at the podium is Judge Bolitha Laws, Chief Justice of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Seated behind Judge Laws on the right are, from left to right: Judge Harold M. Stephens, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia; President Truman; Justice Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; three unidentified men; and Justice Tom Clark, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

President Harry S. Truman (second from left) with trowel in hand, participating in the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone for the new United States Courthouse for the District of Columbia. From left to right are: Justice Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; President Truman; Judge Bolitha Laws, Chief Justice of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; and Judge Harold M. Stephens, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.