Senator John H. Overton

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription (recto, top right, handwritten in red ink): [illeg.] SW / SS
Sticker (verso, top right, in black ink): historicimages.com / [barcode] / nef38160
Stamp (verso, top right, in purple ink): CENTRAL PRESS / ASSOCIATION / May [illeg.] 1948 / [illeg.] DEPT.
Stamp (verso, center, in red ink): [illeg., covered by label]
Label (verso, center, in black ink): WA - 22 - 5/3/48 - CREDIT - INP SOUNDPHOTO - WASHINGTON, D.C. . . SENATOR / JOHN H. OVERTON, (D) of LA., BITTER FOE OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, TOLD / THE SENATE AS IT CONVENED TODAY THAT IT WAS NOT LEGALLY IN SESSION. SEN. / OVERTON, SHOWN MOVING A SENATE CLOCK BACK AN HOUR, BASED HIS POINT OF / ORDER ON AN ACT OF MARCH 19, 1918, WHICH STATES "THE TIME OF PERFORMANCE / OF ANY ACT BY ANY OFFICER OF THE U.S. . . . . . THE TIME SHALL BE THE U.S. STAN- / DARD TIME OF THE ZONE WITHIN WHICH THE ACT IS TO BE PERFORMED." FURTHER- / MORE, SAID MR. OVERTON, ON FRIDAY APRIL 30TH, THE SENATE TOOK A RECESS UN- / TIL 12 O'CLOCK MERIDIAN, AND NOT EASTERN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, TODAY. / -EXCLUSIVE INP PHOTO BY MARION CARPENTER- -SENN: EDT-
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