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Attending Congressional Ball Game in Capital

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Date

1932-06-04

Maker

Acme Newspictures, Inc.

Dimensions

6 × 8 in. (15.2 × 20.3 cm)

Accession Number

PA2018.02.0004

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Speaker John Nance Garner, left, shook hands with Vice President Charles Curtis in the stands at Griffith Stadium before the start of the 1932 Congressional Baseball Game. Other guests at the ballpark included President Herbert Hoover, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and bewildered foreign diplomats. The Republicans won the battle, 19 to 5, with a “filibuster of runs,” as the press put it.

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