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Pres. Herbert Hoover receiving birthday gifts from Boy Scouts in Washington, DC in 1932
Title card: "Hoover pleased by novel gifts from Boy Scouts - Chief Executive receives presents informally on the White House lawn" / Pres. Herbert Hoover standing with Boy Scouts in front of microphones on lawn, one Scout holds up a fish...
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Politician speaks in Washington, DC in the early 1930s
MS politician in dark suit stands in front of black curtain, speaks to camera (possibly about Pres. Herbert Hoover's plan to fight deflation) / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete; film has nitrate deterioratino
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Ogden L. Mills reads statement
[NO AUDIO - FOR AUDIO OF THIS STATEMENT, SEE SR003979_01_03] MS US Treasury official Ogden L. Mills, standing outdoors, reads from a document; he wears a black armband / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Audio statement by US Treasury official Ogden L. Mills re Hoover administration's plans to alleviate the Depression
[AUDIO ONLY/VIDEO AVAILABLE ON SR003979_01_01 AND/OR SR003979_01_02] VO US Treasury official Ogden Mills reads statement concerning Pres. Herbert Hoover's recommendations; mentions consumer purchasing power, bank receivership,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Herbert Hoover poses for photos with taken with Florida boys' drum and bugle corps
Title card: "MIAMI'S OWN PLAY FOR PRESIDENT AT WHITE HOUSE - Florida Boys' Drum and Bugle Corps serenade Chief Executive at Washington" / WS elevated view of members of the Fife and Drum Corps of Miami, FL, playing as US President...
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President Herbert Hoover with his cabinet on the White House South Lawn
MWS US President Herbert Hoover sits with members of his cabinet on south lawn of White House; Left to right (seated): Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, Vice President Charles Curtis, Hoover, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson,...
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Big parade celebration for battle anniversary in New Jersey, 1932
Title card: "Elizabeth Celebrates Historic Fight in Bicentennial Parade - Mayor John Kenah and Colonel Dudley review marchers on 152nd anniversary of the Battle of Elizabethtown" / band and soldiers marching down broad street, crowds...
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Little girl plays piano in DC
Title card: "Dog days are here again for 3-year-old pianist - Hit-and-Miss Gertrude Troutman of Washington staggers 'Through the Rye'" / VS Gertrude, wearing sausage curls, laboriously picks out notes on a piano as her disinterested...
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Pres. Dwight Eisenhower awards 1954 Harmon International Trophy to pilots Chuck Yeager and Jacqueline Cochran
President Dwight D. Eisenhower walks with Jacqueline Cochran on White House portico and down garden steps followed by four men including Major Chuck Yeager; they look at trophies on table / Close up cameramen film event / Medium shot...
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Howard Hughes testifies before Truman Committee on defense spending
CU defense contractor Howard Hughes testifies before the US Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, a/k/a the "Truman Committee" / Note: exact day not known
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US recognizes the Soviet Union for the first time since 1917
MS Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov and others board train / low angle MS Litvinov tips his hat / CU head shot William C. Bullitt, Jr., new US Ambassador to the Soviet Union / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt gives Democratic position on Prohibition in NJ campaign speech
Title shot: "ROOSEVELT OR HOOVER? Democratic nominee clears up party stand on Prohibition at rally in Sea Girt, NJ" / MS Democratic presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt stands behind podium on platform, facing camera; SOT Roosevelt...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1932 presidential candidates Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Title card: "Candidates Key Up the Public for Big Election Campaign - President and Mrs. Hoover receive Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt and committee at White House garden party" / WS group photo of President Herbert Hoover and First Lady...
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Paul McNutt takes oath as Philippines High Commissioner; Harry Woodring hands him commission
Official giving oath of office to Paul McNutt whose right hand is raised, others present in government office, silhouette of photographer in fg / MS US War Secretary Harry Woodring congratulating McNutt and presenting him with commission...
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Bonus Army men on Capitol grounds, sleeping on steps, in Hooverville
VS Bonus Army men walking across Capitol grounds toward camera; they stop and sit down on grass; they wave hats, US Capitol building in bg / men gathered on lawn in front of Capitol / men standing and sitting in front of building / pan...
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Lightfoot Solomon Michaux preaches in Washington, DC
Title card: "Dusky preacher makes things look black for devil - Elder Michaux, colored evangelist of Washington DC, conducts service to save bothers and sisters from Satan" / A group of African Americans with a stage decorated with a...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Archbishop Athanasius Yeshua Samuel displays part of Dead Sea Scrolls at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC
Syriac Orthodox Church Archbishop Athanasius Yeshua Samuel (a/k/a Mar Samuel) walking up steps to Library of Congress with officials / Samuel, standing between Library official and clergyman, opens box sitting on table containing scroll...
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People viewing Dead Sea Scrolls in Library of Congress in Washington, DC
Archbishop Athanasius Yeshua Samuel (more commonly known as "Mar Samuel") of Syriac Orthodox Church standing with man in front of display case containing scrolls explaining them to him / two clergymen looking into case containing scrolls...
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Rep. Britten drinks beer during Prohibition
Title card: "Britten Predicts Beer for Holidays - Representative from Illinois sure brew will be back by January 1st" / Rep. Frederick Albert Britten (R-IL) cheerfully speaks as he stands next to a barrel with a beer stein on top; he...
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US Navy Commander William Martin testifies before the House Armed Services Committee
MS Commander William Martin, seated at table before the House Armed Services Committee, SOT testifies about the need for precision in dropping atom bombs, despite popular opinion that accuracy is not necessary due to the bomb's...
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US Navy Commander Eugene Tatom testifies before House Armed Services Committee
MS Commander Eugene Tatom, US Navy, seated at table before the House Armed Services Committee, SOT testifying re US Navy and Air Force dispute regarding the obsolescence of the Convair B-36 bomber / Note: exact day not known
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Senators Pittman and Dill on Silver and World Trade
[Shaky video throughout] Title card: "Will Silver Solve America's Money Problem? Senator Key Pittman of Nevada thinks it will by making dollar cheaper" / WS Pittman (D-NV) speaking / title clip: "Senator Dill of Washington sees advantage...
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US Representative Henry Thomas Rainey and his wife Ella make New Years' resolutions for 1933 in Washington, DC
Title card: "Raineys tell their 1933 resolutions - Candidate for Speaker of House and his wife exchange pledges" / Henry Thomas Rainey and wife Ella standing next to one another in front of building for photo opportunity talking to one...
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President Herbert Hoover and members of Freemasons at laying of cornerstone for new Department of Labor Building in Washington, DC
Title card: "New Labor building - President and First Lady attend Masonic ceremony in Washington" / crowd in front of building that is under construction / Pres. Herbert Hoover standing next to official in front of microphones speaking,...