Academic procession entering the Butler Library during declaration of Dwight D Eisenhower as 13th President of Columbia University in New York. General Alfred E Grunther, General Carl Spatz, Admiral Thomas C Kinkaid, General Hoyt Vandenberg, General James H Doolittle. Admiral William D Leahy, General Omar N Bradley and Secretary William Stuart Symington. Eisenhower's wife with son and daughter-in-law. Eisenhower's wife and son. President Dwight D Eisenhower and unidentified academician on the way to Library after installation.
People during Benediction, as Dwight D Eisenhower becomes the 13th President of Columbia University in New York. Guests seated in front of the memorial library. Spectators singing. Scene of crowd. Scenes of various buildings of the University.
United Nations meeting going for approval of Israel as UN member in New York. Discussions going on between member country representatives. Representatives raise hands to vote.
U.S. Marines during landing maneuvers in New River, North Carolina. Marines charging from landing barge onto beach. Transport at sea. American flag on mast. Convoy of transport sat sea. Naval officer looks at plane flying overhead, speaks to Marine officer, and then looks through binoculars. Marine bugler. Sailor on bridge blows whistle. Landing barges and Higgins boats are lowered from transport. Navy officer on bridge gives orders through megaphone. Sailor holds signal flags beside him. A gun is lowered from transport. Marines climb down cargo net and board landing boat. Landing boat and barges approaching shore line and beaching. Marines dash through surf and charge onto beach. Medium tanks roll off landing barges onto the beach.
Plane beats Parachute jumper in an unusual landing test at Roosevelt Field, New York. Two people including Clarence Chamberlin, go inside a plane. Plane takes off. A parachute trooper jumps. Plane passes falling man and beats him to a landing.
A boat swings as tied with a Norwegian America Line liner SS Stavangerfjord and lowered to sea in New York. Men in boat row. People on a ship in the sea. A boat in the sea. Boat comes near a ship. Fernando Costa Viega, Willy Rody and Christian Johannsen transferred to the Norwegian ocean liner after their rescue off the coast of St. Johns, Newfoundland, in the Atlantic Ocean. Nurse and a man taking Fernando de Costa as he is injured. German aces and their Portuguese companions are welcomed by people.
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