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Modern History: Glimpses of the Roosevelt Administration 1935-1942
About this film
Some people may have searched the Internet Archive for moving images of people in the Roosevelt staff and found Henry Morgenthau talking about bonds, an impressive speech by Henry Wallace and Harry Hopkins inspecting the work of WPA. You can catch a glimpse of other people as well. This is a collection of such glimpses. Henry A. Wallace and James Farley appear in this movie from 1963: http://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep1152 A webside dedicated to Frances Perkins: http://www.ssa.gov/history/fperkins.html - 1935 Postmaster General James Farley "sells" the first baby bonds to FDR, while Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, is watching. Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1935-03-04_FDR_Buys_First_Baby_Bond - 1935 Social Security Act is announced. Behind FDR is seen Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor and the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States. Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, is standing to the left. Source: http://www.archive.org/details/fdrbig - 1937? Harry Hopkins, director of the Works Progress Administration, inspects a flood devastated area where WPA workers build levees and rescue people. Source: http://www.archive.org/details/…
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Subjects
Franklin D. Roosevelt;Eleanor Roosevelt;Harry L. Hopkins;Harold L. Ickes;Frances Perkins;Henry A. Wallace