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.
Front row, from left to right, unidentified man, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Attorney General Francis Biddle, Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace, standing in front of the White House during ceremonies marking the visit to the United States of Prince Abd al-Ilah of Iraq. Others are unidentified.
Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who steps out of office when Vice President Elect Harry S. Truman takes his oath of office on Saturday, shown at his office this morning packing books and important documents into trunks. From: Beth Gore.
Testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Henry A. Wallace denounced the Communist Control Bill as a "declaration of War" on American rights and an action to make "martyrs" out of Communists. From: Beth Gore.