The Video History of Our Times (newsreel footage) - 1934
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[0:32] the terrible grip of the depression on
[0:34] the American people seems to be easing
[0:36] up now in 1934 the extensive program of
[0:40] social and economic reforms begun by
[0:42] President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933
[0:45] continues he has become the nation's
[0:47] head cheerleader and morale booster
[0:50] stirring America's hopes for National
[0:52] Recovery but America's Western
[0:54] midsection is struck with another
[0:56] Calamity a record drought and high
[0:58] temperatures have dried out out the land
[1:01] crops are dead cattle dying farmers in
[1:03] despair but America's natural calamities
[1:06] will one day pale beside the man-made
[1:09] events occurring in Europe Hitler and
[1:12] the Nazis are terrorizing Austria and
[1:14] Germany murdering leaders who oppose
[1:16] them Hitler the chancellor of Germany is
[1:19] now voted F by the German people he has
[1:22] dictatorial powers in Italy musolini
[1:25] continues the buildup of military power
[1:28] and he and Hitler meet in Venice Japan
[1:31] renounces a naval treaty that limited
[1:33] Japanese sea power this and much more is
[1:37] the year
[1:38] 1934 let's watch
[1:42] [Music]
[2:00] a
[2:26] [Music]
[2:37] we have made I think great stries
[2:40] towards the objectives of the national
[2:42] industrial Recovery Act for not only
[2:46] have we not only have several millions
[2:48] of our unemployed been restored to work
[2:52] but industry is organizing itself with a
[2:55] greater understanding that reasonable
[2:58] profits can be earned
[3:00] while at the same time protection can be
[3:03] assured to guarantee to labor adequate
[3:07] pay and proper conditions of work child
[3:11] labor is
[3:18] abolic uniform standards of hours and
[3:21] wages apply today to
[3:24] 95% of industrial employmen