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And subsequent financial reforms. Im donald ritchie, the senate historian, and we are in the Senate Caucus room in the Russell Senate Office Building. Before cspan started covering the senate, this was the most famous room in the capitol complex th, becausee this is where major hearings had been televised coming back newsreels covered it in the 1920s and 1930s, but television came along in 1940. This is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, the kefauver crime investigation, the mccarthy hearings and the watergate hearings. So this was the most televised room until the Senate C...

Representatives came. In the 1850s, they had to put on the wings. By the 1870s, they were crowded. They couldnt find space for the sn senators to work. Offices were their discs in the chamber. Of course, they were constantly besieged there. So eventually they kept adding space to the capital. They built terraces in the 1870s and added extra rooms and that p wasnt enough. In the 1890s, they bought an old apartment house, which is down constitution avenue about where the taft stands today. For a while, senators moved in there, to the envy of many house members, because that gave senators private...

The U. S. Senate, through a subcommittee of its Banking & Currency Committee, last week got around to investigating the Insull crash, as part of…

Black Thursday, Thursday, October 24, 1929, the first day of the stock market crash of 1929, a catastrophic decline in the stock market of the United States that immediately preceded the worldwide Great Depression. That stock market crash (also called the Great Crash) is still considered the worst

Black Thursday, Thursday, October 24, 1929, the first day of the stock market crash of 1929, a catastrophic decline in the stock market of the United States that immediately preceded the worldwide Great Depression. That stock market crash (also called the Great Crash) is still considered the worst