Leading automobile company executives leave the White House after conferring with the President in efforts to restrict "time" sales of automobiles (down payment and then financing, with repercussions for consumer debt, potential over-production, and labor instability) and to seek stabilization of labor relations. Executives pose for photographers. In the front row are: K.T. Keller of Chrysler; Edsel Ford of Ford Motor; Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan; William S. Knudsen of General Motors; and A.E. Duncan, President of Commercial Credit Company. Photographers and journalists follow the auto company executives, including K.T. Keller and William Knudsen seen again near end of clip.
Automobile magnate Henry Ford accompanied by his son Edsel Ford arrives at the White House for a luncheon meeting with President Roosevelt. Several photographers and reporters present at the event. Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and publicists exit out of car and enter the White House. An outside view of the White House crowded with journalist and press officials. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford come out of White house and head towards their cars. Press and media cover the entire event.
Representatives of the House Military Affairs Committee inspect the auto-gyro YG-1B (early helicopter like aircraft) in Washington DC, United States. YG-1B takes off, views of YG-1B in flight. Auto-gyro lands, head of the House Military Affairs Committee seated in the rear cockpit in the auto-gyro.
Views of a crashed and burned aircraft resembling a BT-9 aircraft on a street in Washington DC. Crowd gathered around the wreckage, firemen inspecting burned and damaged automobiles that were hit by the crashed aircraft. Wreckage on the road.
Sultan Said bin Taimur of Muscat and Oman and French Ambassador, Rene Saint-Quentin, in Washington DC. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stands with the dignitaries and attends a special service at St. John's Church Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, near the White House. The Sultan in a car. Military greetings are given to them. A close up of the Sultan arriving at an event beside U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The United States Capitol building in the background. The military soldiers march. Cars parked at the side of a road. The new French Ambassador, René Doynel de Saint-Quentin, at the White House. Press personnel take pictures.
United States Coast Guard Lieutenant C. B. Olsen is awarded with the Flying Cross Medal in Washington DC. A close up of Lt. C. B. Olsen . U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Mogenthau pins up the medal on the uniform of the Lt. and shakes hand with him.