Largest, fastest direct controlled auto gyro (early helicopter) being demonstrated at Bolling Field in Washington D.C.,United States. Pilot Jim Ray takes off in the auto gyro to regulate its speed before handing it over to United States Army. Auto gyro lands back onto the field.
A preacher Elder Michaux leads his people in song they sing. People clap and sing. Elder Michaux describes his view of paradise.
Senator Homer Truett Bone gives speech and warns United States against war entanglements. He says that Benito Mussolini would again push his country into war and United States must stay safely away from it on the other side of Atlantic Ocean.
View of the Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. Still image of Supreme Court Justices in session during case of Schecter Poultry Corporation versus the United States. Poultry workers outside a closed, locked building of Schecter Poultry. Man and woman and small crowd smiling, gathered in front front of a "Poultry Market" store sign. Schecter won its case overturning certain regulations on the poultry industry that were part of Congress' power under the commerce clause. The Supreme Court decision declared unconstitutional the National Industrial Recovery Act which was part of President Roosevelt's New Deal plan.
After Social security act is signed by both houses of Congress in Washington DC. Senator Robert Wagner of New York leads a victorious fight for the enactment of social insurance. Senator Wagner stands in front of the U.S. Capitol and announces to the camera that the Social Security Act has been signed by congress and will soon be signed into law by the President.
Jack Houdini performs underwater stunt in Washington DC. Jack Houdini, cousin of the great magician Harry Houdini, frees himself in 58 seconds from forty feet of chain and twenty five padlocks while standing at the bottom of a swimming-pool.