Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 17]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 17]

1941-1957

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Part 1 shows locust damage to grasslands and to crops. Part 2, Amer. Legion youths visit Pres. Truman and Sec. of Defense Johnson. Part 3, Greek refugees are returned to their mountain homes as Communist guerilla fighting ends. Part 4 shows Pres. Hoover at work on the Hoover Report on Economy and Efficiency in Government (1948) and the Belgian relief program (1915-19); as Sec. of Commerce with Pres. Coolidge; at the GOP convention of 1928; visiting his West Branch, Iowa, birthplace; at the 1929 and 1933 inaugural parades; with his cabinet; on 1938 and 1946 visits to Warsaw; with Gen. Marshall and Chiang Kaishek in China; with Pres. Truman; and posing on his 75th birthday

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