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President Franklin D Roosevelt at his desk in the White House.
Daytime exterior views of the U.S. Capitol building and exterior of the White House in Washington DC. President Franklin D Roosevelt at his desk in the White House. He appears to be writing correspondence and affixing a seal to written documents.
Governor W I Meyers, administrator of the FCA, poses in front of the FCA Building
Exterior of Supreme Court building in Washington DC. View of another building at a busy street intersection. Governor W I Meyers, administrator of the Farm Credit Administration (FCA), poses in front of the FCA Building, formerly known as the Southern Railway Building.
Demonstration of Campbell Model F flivver airplane at Bolling Field, Washington DC
View of a Campbell Model F airplane from rear, at Bolling Field in Washington DC. It is a pusher propeller "flivver" airplane, costing $1500, with tricycle landing gear and twin tail design, powered by a stock Ford V8 engine, with single ignition. View of engine running and long transverse central elevator, as well as side being moved. View of steerable nose gear. Pilot and inventor Hayden Campbell in the cockpit. Aircraft taxis out and takes off (view of Capitol dome in distance). Views of the airplane's Ford V8 engine, with one spark plug for each cylinder. Removing and replacing the engine cowling. Interior of cockpit, with ignition key, conventional yoke flight controls, basic instruments in panel and long push-pull throttle control.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt addresses farmers at the White House in Washington DC.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt speaks to farmers in Washington DC. A large number of farmers in the lawn of the White House. President Roosevelt stands in the balcony of the White House and addresses the audience. A group of dignitaries behind the President. A number of microphones fixed on a railing. President Roosevelt addresses the farmers. He calls the audience pretty good looking. He says he has a few members of the Congress in captivity with him referring to the members of the House Agriculture Committee behind him. He informs the farmers that those who are non-supporters of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) have been trying to mislead the people by lying about the farm program under which the U.S. was operating. The President says that each one of them should spread the fact that not a single program of the AAA plans the destruction of food crops in the United States in spite of what the people may read or hear.
Works Progress Administration jobs at Bolling Field and in New York building give men construction jobs during great depression
Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).
Thirty thousand American Boy Scouts demonstrate activities in a jamboree in Washington DC.
United States Boy Scouts participate in drills and activities at a big Jamboree in Washington DC. Thirty thousand boy scouts assemble on an open ground for a monster jamboree. They take part in mass drills. Boy Scouts in boxing matches .