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Responding to the Great Depression

Representative Wright Patman (TX) and John Rankin (MS) receiving petitions from World War I veterans on January 21, 1931.

Representative Wright Patman (TX) and John Rankin (MS) receiving petitions from World War I veterans on January 21, 1931.

 

Representative Wright Patman (TX) and John Rankin (MS) receiving petitions from World War I veterans on January 21, 1931.

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