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Poster for President Roosevelt's Emergency Bank Bill Passed By Congress (1933)

President Roosevelt's Emergency Bank Bill Passed By Congress (1933)

1933 · Newsreel · 1 min

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Washington, DC: First sound pictures of the epochal opening of the special session of the Seventy-third Congress, the elevation of Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois to the Speaker's Chair, the reading of President Roosevelt's dramatic message calling for immediate banking legislation, and striking scenes of the president as he signs the resulting banking bill less than eight hours after his call for action to relieve the financial crisis. Meanwhile, in all parts of the country,…

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