Refine Your Search

Adak Alaska USA 1943 stock footage and images

- Showing 1039 to 1044 of 27381 results
View of the Union Railway Station in Washington DC, United States.

Exteriors of the Union Railway station in Washington DC, USA. People stand outside the main entrance of the station. The Memorial Fountain to Columbus in front of the station. The American flag on a mast at the memorial. Travelers meet at the entrance.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049990
Proclamation on the Selective Service Registration by U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt.

Proclamation by American President Franklin D Roosevelt on the Selective Service Registration, in the lead up to America's entry in World War 2. President Roosevelt delivers a radio message to American citizens from the White House in Washington DC, USA. He says that "There is both the opportunity and the need for many thousands to assist in listing the names and addresses of the millions who will enroll on registration day at school houses, polling places and town halls. The Congress has enacted a law establishing a selective method of augmenting American Armed Forces. Young men should come from the factories and the fields, the cities and the towns, to enroll their names on the registration day. Everyone should renew within their hearts the conception of liberty. Americans should resolve to hold high the torch of freedom in this darkening world so that our children and their children may not be robbed of their rightful inheritance."

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050181
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt talks about the adoption of Selective Service during a speech in United States.

Statement on Peace Time Universal Selective Service by American President Franklin D Roosevelt from White House in Washington DC, USA. President states that America has adopted Selective Service in times of peace and has broadened the basic concept of citizenship. America has clear democratic ideals of equal rights, equal privileges and equal opportunities. America has reasserted an old and accepted principle of democratic government. At the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, nine of the thirteen states explicitly provided for universal service in their basic laws. Behind the armed forces America must have a munitions industry as a part of an economic system capable of providing the fighting man with his full requirements of arms and equipment. (World War II period).

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050182
Statement on military service for Americans by U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt from the White House in United States.

Statement on Peace Time Universal Selective Service by American President Franklin D Roosevelt from White House in Washington DC, USA. President states that in the military service, Americans from all walks of life, rich and poor, country-bred and city raised, farmer, student, manual laborer and white collar worker, will learn to live side by side and to appreciate each other's dignity as American citizens. Universal service will provide wider distribution of tolerance and understanding to enjoy the blessings of peace.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050183
President Franklin Roosevelt espresses thanks for the letters and telegrams of congratulations he received upon reelection

President Franklin Roosevelt at desk at his office in White House, Washington DC, USA. President Roosevelt addresses the nation. He expresses his gratitude and thanks towards thousands of American who have telegraphed and written to him since his reelection for a second term. He says that all Americans could march forward together.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1936, November
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050235
President Franklin Roosevelt speaks on problems in the society, during his Annual Message to the Congress in Washington DC.

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt delivers his Annual Message to Congress in Washington DC, USA. In his speech he makes the following remarks, 'American must head in the direction of a greater satisfaction in life for the average man. Democracy must find solutions for far-reaching problems. Millions of Americans in slums and small cities live in habitations which fail to provide benefits of modern civilization breed disease and impair the health of future generations. Tenant farmers could be provided with some financial assistance, advice and training, to make them self-supporting on land which can eventually belong to them. Social security system needs to be developed. Immediate industrial and commercial activity does not justify the unemployment problem'.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1937, January 6
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050242
<< Previous | Page: 1 ... 174 175 176 ... 4564 | Next >>