25 Year Ago Events Of 1933

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keywords: depression era, world disarmament conference, union strikes and riots, vibration test device, bouncing exercise bicycle

Synopsis: World Disarmament Conference In Geneva, Bitter Labor Relations And Union Riots During The Depression Era, Two Female Purdue Students Hop On Vibration Test Device For Fun, The Bouncing Bicycle Makes It Debut For Fun And Exercise...(read more)

Date: 1958
Duration: 00:02:15
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: United States

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25 Year Ago Events Of 1933

25 Year Ago Events Of 1933

1933 Geneva Disarmament Conference or World Disarmament Conference. The Great Powers met at Geneva to discuss disarmament only to deadlock on the issue of aerial bombardment.

U.S. Marines Return From Nicaragua in 1933. The formal occupation of Nicaragua by the United States began in 1912 and ended in 1933. Shows the last detachment of Marines returning from the occupation of Nicaragua disembarking from a ship and being greeted at Quantico thus ending 19 years of keeping order in that country.

Bitter labor relations in the depression era of 1933 lead to strikes and labor riots in America and played an important role in shaping "New Deal" politics. New Mexico called out the National Guard to protect non-striking workers from the angry pickets of the National Miner's Union. Scenes of the "milk war" in Northern Illinois. Dairy farmers dumping milk. In Pennsylvania police used tear gas and fired into the ranks of strikers to break-up labor riots.

On the lighter side shows two Purdue girl students on a new vibration test device used by Industrial Engineers to test automobile, streetcar, and railroad equipment. These two Purdue co-eds were all "shook up" by the vibration test platform.

1933 had its own ancestor of the hula-hoop, the "bouncing bike", that girls rode for fun and figure beautification all at once. Shows girls riding "bouncing bicycles" also called "rhythm bicycles" developed by Joseph D. Bell.