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Schwellenbach, Lewis B. (Lewis Baxter), 1894-1948

Truman speaking before awarding a medal to Marshall

President Harry S. Truman (behind podium) speaking in the Pentagon Court during a ceremony at which he awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal of the retiring Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall (far right). Standing along the left are, from left to right: unidentified, Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson, Secretary of State James Byrnes, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal (second row), unidentified woman, and Katherine (Mrs.

Cabinet meeting

Cabinet members and other government officials at a meeting with President Harry S. Truman (not pictured). From left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach; John Blandford, Jr. of the National Housing Agency; Julius Krug of the War Production Board; John Snyder of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion; William H. Davis, Office of Economic Stabilization; Leo T. Crowley, Foreign Economic Administration; Secretary of Commerce Henry A.

Truman Cabinet meeting at the White House

President Harry S. Truman meets with the Cabinet and other members of the administration at the White House. From left to right around the table: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson; Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach; National Housing Agency Chairman John B. Blandford, Jr.; War Production Board Chairman Julius Krug; War Mobilization Director John W. Snyder; Office of Economic Stabilization Director William H.

Truman with Cabinet members and others

Cabinet meeting at the White House. From left to right, around the table: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach; John Blandford, Jr. of the National Housing Agency; Julius Krug of the War Production Board; John Snyder of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion; William H. Davis of the Office of Economic Stabilization; Leo T. Crowley of the Foreign Economic Administration; Secretary of Commerce Henry A.

George C. Marshall being sworn in as Secretary of State

George Marshall taking the oath of office with, pictured from left, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Admiral William D. Leahy, Rear Admiral James H. Foskett (partly obscured by Leahy), General Harry H. Vaughan, John W. Snyder, Tom C. Clark, George C. Marshall (foreground), President Harry S. Truman (standing behind desk), General Walter Bedell Smith (background, next to Clark), Clinton P. Anderson, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, Julius A. Krug (next to Anderson), unidentified photographer, James F. Byrnes, and Lewis B. Schwellenbach. Autographed by all present. Photographers are not identified.

President Truman and his Cabinet

Portrait of President Truman and his Cabinet seated around a table. Left to right around table: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach, Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman, Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of Treasury John Snyder, Attorney General Tom Clark, and Secretary of Navy James Forrestal.

President Truman and his Cabinet

Studio portrait of President Harry S. Truman and his Cabinet seated around a table. Left to right around table: Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug, Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman, Federal Works Administrator Philip Fleming, Assistant to the President John Steelman, Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, President Truman, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder and Attorney General Tom Clark.

Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach Speaks at a Labor Convention in San Francisco, California

High profits cause high prices, says Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. Speaking before the Federation of Labor convention at San Francisco, California, Schwellenbach sounds his "A" in the nationwide argument over the cause of inflation; his charge is that industry's large profits, and not workers' wage increases, are causing high prices. From: John E. Boos.