The Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) marches in Washington DC, United States. The Bonus Army marches. Two of the men holding U.S. flags. The U.S. Capitol in the background.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrives at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, United States. He inspects the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps. He shake hands with the young men there. The President seated at a table with some of the men.. They eat food. Tents in the background. The President talking to the CCC boys during the Great Depression.
People exchange products in the United States during the Great Depression, trading without money. A man takes out a crate from a car and gives it to another man. Buildings in the background. People buying vegetables from a market. A board reads: 'Never Mind the Holiday We will trust you'. Other board reads: 'You don't need money. What you have got? We will take anything'. A man arrives in the market holding a guitar. He gives the guitar to another man and receives a thing. A vehicle passing on a street. People gather in a large number on the street. Some of the people gather inside a building.
New land and sea speed records are set in the United States. People gather in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sir Malcolm Campbell seated in his race car 'Blue Bird'. He drives the car on Daytona beach and sets a new record driving at the speed of 272 miles per hour. People cheer. Close view of him smoking a cigarette in the car after his speed run. Speedboat racer Garfield Arthur Wood seated aboard his speedboat 'Miss America' on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. He races the 5000 horsepower mahogany speedboat and wins the Harmsworth Trophy. Close up view of Gar Wood smiling after his race. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Aviator Jimmie Mattern in Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Jimmie Mattern boards the aircraft and takes off for his trip across the Atlantic. Crowd watches as the young Texas pilot takes off.
Pope Pius XI performs the Orbis et Urbis Service in Rome, Italy. A crowd of 150,000 pilgrims kneel and pray in front of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Pope Pius XI, wearing the Papal Tiara, conducts the religious ceremony. The pope blesses the crowd from the balcony of the Papal Archbasilica.