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

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.

President Truman and U. S. District Judge Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington, leaving the Blair House

President Truman (left) and U. S. District Judge Lewis B. Schwellenbach (right) of Washington, leaving the Blair House after they had lunched there. Judge Schwellenbach, an old friend of President Truman's, was said to be in line for a high Government post. They are being followed, left to right, by an unidentified Secret Service agent, agent John Walker, and General Harry Vaughan. From: Beth Gore