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Radio press gallery given official send-off by speaker of House. Washington, D.C., July 22. Although the radio press galleries have been functioning as a news-gathering agency at Capitol Hill for several weeks, formal dedication was withheld until tonight when the Speaker of the House turned over the keys to Fulton Lewis, President of the Gallery while Congressmen who sponsered the bills which created the section for radio men looked on. Left to right: Fulton Lewis, Speaker William Bankhead, Sen. W.Warren Barbour, N.J., who sponsored the Senate bill, and Rep. John J. Dempsey, N.M., who took up the cause of the radio press in the house, 7/24/39

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Radio press gallery given official send-off by speaker of House. Washington, D.C., July 22. Although the radio press galleries have been functioning as a news-gathering agency at Capitol Hill for several weeks, formal dedication was withheld until tonight when the Speaker of the House turned over the keys to Fulton Lewis, President of the Gallery while Congressmen who sponsered the bills which created the section for radio men looked on. Left to right: Fulton Lewis, Speaker William Bankhead, Sen. W.Warren Barbour, N.J., who sponsored the Senate bill, and Rep. John J. Dempsey, N.M., who took up the cause of the radio press in the house, 7/24/39

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A group of men standing next to each other.

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01/01/1939
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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