Portrait of the Honorable Monnett Davis, Consul General to Shanghai with the rank of Minister. From: Beth Gore.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson, as he disclosed that the Government is considering operating the Big and Little Inch petroleum pipelines to transmit gas to coal-shortage areas. Davidson informed the House Surplus Property Committee, however, that Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug has reached no decision as yet. From: Beth Gore.
Lauchlin Currie, former aide to late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, denounced as lies the charges that he fed U. S. secrets to a wartime Soviet espionage network. He said the charges of his accuser, Miss Elizabeth Bentley, were based upon "hearsay three times removed." From: Beth Gore.
The staff when President Harry S. Truman was Vice-President. Left to right: S. Leonard Reinsch, Personal Radio Adviser; Matthew J. Connelly, Executive Secretary; Edward D. McKim, a friend of Mr. Truman's since World War I days, and George C. Drescher, Secret Service Agent. From: Beth Gore