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Connery, Jackson, and Black Discuss Wage and Labor Bill, Washington D.C., 1937

Photograph From Wide World Photos, Washington Bureau: Joint Committee Opens Hearings on Wage-Hour Bill. Washington, D.C. -- The Senate and House Labor Committees today opened a joint hearing on the administration's new wage and hour bill. Photo shows the first witness, Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, discussion the bill with two chairmen. Left to right: Representative William P

Robert H. Jackson, Robert L. Doughton, Pat Harrison, Washington D.C. 1937

Tax advice to Mrs. Roosevelt routine Treasury precedent, Congressional Committee told, Washington D.C., July 28, 1937

Assistant Attorney General Jackson Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee, 1937

Assistant Attorney General Jackson Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee, 1937

Jackson Nominated Solicitor General, 1938

Robert H. Jackson nominated to position of Solicitor General, January 27, 1938.

Jackson Speaking at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia 1937

Robert H. Jackson speaks at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, PA, December 1937.

Robert H. Jackson and Benjamin V. Cohen leave the White House, 1938

Robert H. Jackson and Ben Cohen leave the White House, January 1938.

Robert H. Jackson and Wendell L. Willkie, New York, 1938

Robert H. Jackson and Wendell L. Willkie before their Town Hall Debate in New York, January 6, 1938.

Jackson Speaks at New York Press Association Dinner, 1938

Robert H. Jackson delivers an address at the New York Press Association dinner in Syracuse, NY, January 1938.

Jackson Speaks to Sara Delano Roosevelt at Jackson Day Dinner, 1938

Robert H. Jackson speaks to Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt and Major Henry Hooker at the Jackson Day dinner in New York City, January 1938.

Robert H. Jackson and Wendell L. Willkie before the America’s Town Meeting of the Air Debate, January 1938

Broadcast weekly from 1935 to 1956, America's Town Meeting of the Air was one of the most important public service projects of NBC. It attracted up to 3,000,000 listeners weekly, more than 1,000 discussion clubs were formed to listen to the broadcasts and to debate the issues raised, and transcripts of each program were widely distributed at modest cost to the radio audience, teachers and schools. Robert H. Jackson and Wendell L. Willkie appeared on America's Town Meeting of the Air on January 6, 1938.