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71st United States Congress Convenes
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keywords: United States, Washington DC, 71st US Congress, Communist Demonstrators
Synopsis: With Red agitators outside being tear gassed and arrested the 71st United States Congress convenes as the Democrats pledge to help President Herbert Hoover with the major problems of the day - unemployment, farm relief and taxation...(read more)
- Date: 1930
- Duration: 00:00:46
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States






71st United States Congress Convenes
With unemployment, prohibitions, farm relief and tax problems as major problems, short session of the United States seventy-first U.S. Congress is one of most vital in generations. Democrats pledge help to Hoover as malcontents engage police in battle at the Capitol. Police use tear gas to disperse the Red rioters.
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- Newsreels: 1930 - December 1