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Chester Bowles, newly designated head of the Office of Economic Stabilization, speaks before the House Banking Committee today. He warned Congress that the nation's economic system would be smashed "beyond hope of repair unless it extends price controls to keep the lid on the present "inflationary dynamite." This photo is similar to 99-91. From: Beth Gore.

Latest portrait of the new Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Harold Burton, former Senator of Ohio.

Louis F. Budenz, currently an assistant professor of economics at Fordham University in New York City and former editor of the Communist Daily Worker newspaper, testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, DC. He told the committee that the Soviet government is engaged in a "war of nerves" against the U.S. and asserted "it could go to military conflict." From: Beth Gore

Mrs. Esther C. Brunauer of the State Department denying Senator Joseph McCarthy's charges against her as she appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations. From: Beth Gore.

A photograph of Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Melbourne, Australia, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. From: Beth Gore.

David K.E. Bruce, left, is shown being sworn in today as Assistant Secretary of Commerce by Secretary of Commerce W. Averill Harriman. From: Beth Gore

Attorney General James P. McGranery, left, explains the workings of the Justice Department to Herbert Brownell, the newly designated Attorney General in the Eisenhower Cabinet. From: Beth Gore.

Shown are Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air and Mrs. John Nicholas Brown. Brown succeeds John L. Sullivan who has been made Under Secretary of Navy. From: Beth Gore.

Representative Clarence J. Brown, (R. Ohio) is shown appearing before the House Elections Investigating Committee regarding current violations of the present laws limiting campaign expenditures. From: Beth Gore.

Sir Basil Brooke (left), Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, arrives in Washington. Shown in the car with Sir Brooke is Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador, who met the Prime Minister on his arrival. From: Beth Gore.