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Caption on back of photograph reads: "The Republican platform committee is winding up its hearings in San Francisco today. The permanent chairman of the committee and subcommittee chairmen include (from left in photo, seated) Sen. Irving M. Ives (N.Y.), labor and welfare subcommittee; Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton (Ohio), government affairs, and Mrs. Eva Bowring (Neb.), secretary of the group. Congratulating Mrs. Bowring is Sen. Prescott Bush (Conn.), permanent chairman. The others standing are (from left) George Kinnear (Wash.), veterans subcommittee; Robert P. Burroughs (N.H.), taxation and fiscal policy; Thurston B. Morton, (Ky.), foreign policy; Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (Utah), natural resources and public works; Sen. Leverett Saltonstoll (Mass.), who was sitting in for Pennsylvania Sen. James Duff, chairman of the national defense group; Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (Ill.), civil rights and immigration; Harry Carbaugh (Tenn.), business and economic policy, and Congressman Melvin R. Laird (Wis.), agriculture.