U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce European trip of communications inspection by Subcommittee on International Communications scrapbook, May-June 1945.

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U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce European trip of communications inspection by Subcommittee on International Communications scrapbook, May-June 1945.

In 1945 Craney accompanied Senator Burton K. Wheeler with the U.S. Senate Interstate Commerce Committee on a 32 day European communications inspection tour and kept a two volume diary/scrapbook of his experience. Included are photographs, memorabilia, and souvenirs along with detailed notes on activities and sites visited. Laid-in material has been removed to numbered folders for separate housing.

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Craney, Edmund B., 1905-1991

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"Early in May, 1945, members of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce who were studying international communications were urged by the War and Navy Depts. to make a trip to Europe to see some of the communications that had been built by American Armed Forces and inspect any other communication installations that might be possible to inspect in foreign countries." From the description of U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce European trip of communications inspection by S...

Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975

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Burton Kendall Wheeler was born in Hudson, Mass., on 27 Feb. 1882 and moved to Montana shortly after his graduation from law school in 1905. He began his law career in Butte, serving as U.S. Attorney for Montana from 1913 to 1918 prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for vice-president on the Progressive Party presidential ticket. Wheeler is remembered as one of the most powerful senators in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s. Chairman of the Interstate Comm...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce

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