President Franklin Delano Roosevelt driving his grandchildren in his personal Ford Phaeton automobile. They drive into a cornfield near Warm Springs, Georgia, where they observe farmers loading cornstalks into a horse-drawn wagon. The President watches them from the car, as his grandchildren jump out and join the farmers in throwing the corn stalks into the wagon.
Thoroughbred Jumpers star at Georgia Horse Show. Forty-eight different classes of thoroughbred horses contend for honors in a horse show. The strength of the horses proved in a variety of events as they take jumps or compete in steeplechase. Spectators watch the show.
Georgia Tech wins American football match in Atlanta, Georgia. Teams of Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Miami University play American football game. Spectators watch the match and cheer the players. Georgia Tech wins by 14-6.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Cars parked on the road side. President Roosevelt arrives at the new chapel and drives up footpath to the door. Closeup of license plate on the President's 1938 Ford convertible (with hand controls) reads 'Georgia FDR 1938'. Following the dedication service, the President is seen standing supported by door of his car, as he shakes hands with Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mikell, D.D., Bishop of Atlanta. Standing nearby are Rev. J.D.C. Wilson, Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and FDR's neighbor and friend, and former owner of Warm Springs, Georgia Mustian Wilkins, who donated the funds for the chapel. Scene shifts to large group of polio victims, in wheel chairs. Closeup of President Roosevelt. Group of polio victims , in their wheel chairs, posing outside a Foundation building, with McCarthy Cottage and the E.T. Curtis Cottage in background.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of Techwood Homes (Techwood was a slum clearance project to build twenty-three brick and concrete buildings to house 604 families and 308 Georgia Tech students. It also included forty-two concrete buildings with 677 apartments at Atlanta University) at Georgia Tech University. The President is seen delivering his dedication speech, entitled, “The Meaning of Progress," at Grant Field on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia, before an audience of 50,000 people. He remembers the day, eleven years ago, in 1924, when he first came to Warm Springs, Georgia. He speaks about those days of so-called prosperity in America, when speculators profited and there was a "fool’s paradise” before "the crash", and the citizens were left "holding the bag." He reflects on the disaster and gloom from 1929 to March 3,1933, and reminds the audience of his administration’s subsequent actions to re-open closed banks and establish insurance for bank depositors. He speaks of the efforts of Government to find gainful employment for people out of work.
The governorship rivalry (so called "Three Governors Rivalry") takes a new turn in Atlanta, Georgia. Exterior of Capitol Building (Georgia State Capitol Building, 206 Washington St SW, Atlanta, GA 30334) in Atlanta, Georgia. U.S. State Senator from Georgia, Herman Eugene Talmadge, and Melvin Ernest Thompson (M.E. Thompson), standing together claiming to be the legitimate governor. Mr. Talmadge speaks over a microphone and suggests a 'White Primary' which he said would function "To let the white people of Georgia determine who is their choice for Governor" (to decide between Talmadge and Thompson). Students of university staging protest rally against Gov. Talmadge. University students demonstrate outside the proceedings. The students hang Talmadge in effigy. A Nazi German flag with swastika is flown and a sign reads "It Can't Happen Here" with the word "can't" crossed out and change to "did" so it reads, "It Did Happen here." The students protest the racial segregationist and White Supremacy politics of Talmadge (early in Civil Rights movement). A sign reads "Must Stop" and above it is pictures of a padlock and key, a Nazi Swastika, and a pistol.
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