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President Franklin D Roosevelt addressing the nation about the Selective Service Act of 1940.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt explains the Peacetime Selective Service Lottery to the nation from a microphone in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC, where members of the government gather to witness the first drawing of numbers under the Selective Service Act 1940.
Good wishes and contributions to March of Dimes flood White House for President's Birthday, 1940
U.S. Post Office mail trucks delivering many bags of mail to the White House, Washington, DC, on the occasion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday, January 30, 1940. Inside, stacks of letters are seen and women sort through them and empty coins from many of them. (These are contributions to the March of Dimes Campaign to fight Polio, instituted by President Roosevelt in 1938.) A huge birthday cake is also seen and men shown carrying it into the White House. Camera focuses again on the stacks of postal letters and coins. Several open letters contain dollar bills, as well. Mail carriers continue to bring in and empty mail bags. (World War II period).
Achievements of African Americans in art, literature, music science, and medicine in the United States, in the late 1930s and 1940s.
A film about achievements of various African American men and women citizens in the United States. A statue of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University in Alabama. View of African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in a laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous "Harlem Renaissance" African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. A football game underway in one of the colleges, and view on the field as quarterback throws a pass.
Officials fill glass container with lottery numbers of men registered under the Selective Service Act of 1940
Uniformed guards unload cartons containing lottery numbers of men registered for the draft under the Selective Service Act of 1940. They bring them into the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue in Washington DC. Inside the auditorium, they empty capsules, containing the numbers, into a large glass container, under the supervision of U.S. Government civilian officials. Numerous American Legion members in uniform also assist.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt speaking at the first draft event under the 1940 Selective Service Act
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt speaking in The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC on the occasion of the first draft lottery under the Selective Service Act of 1940.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the first few serial numbers as they are drawn in the 1940 draft lottery
The first draft lottery conducted under the 1940 Selective Service Act. . U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt standing at a podium in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, in Washington DC. Members of his cabinet standing nearby. People seated on chairs. A glass container filled with encapsulated draft numbers sits on a table. An official blindfolds Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, who then draws the first draft number from the glass container. Secretary of Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. draws the second number, which the President reads aloud, as number 192. Blindfolded next is Attorney General, Robert H. Jackson, who picks the number 8,239, which is read aloud by President Roosevelt. Finally, Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, picks the third number (6,620) which the President also reads aloud. A large blackboard displays the first 25 numbers as they are drawn, beginning with the first (158) and ending with the 25th (4,861). Members of the audience applaud.
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