+"Nashville Tennessee USA" +1939 stock footage and images

President of Southern States Industrial Council, Fitzgerald Hall, speaks about the NEC report on the economy of the south

Fitzgerald Hall, President of Southern States Industrial Council at his office at Nashville, Tennessee. He speaks to reporters as they take down notes. He speaks out against a report that he says is inadequate, exaggerated and misleading. He says that the south is not Nation's number one economic problem, but rather it is the Nation's economic hope. He is reacting to a 1938 "Report on the Economic Conditions of the South" by the National Economic Council (NEC), that had been echoed in statements by President Roosevelt.