Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler and Douglas Fairbanks during Third Liberty Loan Drive in Washington DC. Chaplin and Dressler perform a comic tango, as an Army band plays music. Fairbanks harangues the crowd, good-naturedly, to to buy bonds. sells some bonds to several pleased-looking women. Pickford, a bunch of orchids pinned to her waist, sells bonds to the crowd. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Launch of the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive in Washington, DC. U.S. Navy Brass band entertains crowd of thousands gathered around the William Tecumseh Sherman Monument and equestrian statue in Sherman Square near the Treasury Department at E and 15th Streets. The Washington Monument can be seen in the distance. John Phillip Sousa, in uniform of Navy Lieutenant Commander, conducts the band in front of the Treasury Building. Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo and his wife, Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo, stand with John Poole, Treasurer of the Washington District Council of Defense, at a bunting-covered step at the front of the Treasury building. McAdoo gestures with his hat as he speaks, encouraging the crowd to buy Liberty Bonds. He is joined by Sousa, who points a few times at elements of the band (unseen) below. The camera pans across the crowd. Sousa is seen below the steps, again, conducting the band. Scene shifts to McAdoo on the Treasury Building steps. He pulls his hat down on his head. Sousa, again, stands beside him. They shake hands. Scene shifts to side view of the Treasury Building steps, where Vice Admiral William Sowden Sims, Commander of U.S. naval forces in Europe, is seen speaking to the assemblage, which includes a number of U.S. Army soldiers in uniform. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Governor Thomas Dewey, GOP Presidential nominee, meets a Native American Indian chief in Valentine, Nebraska. Cars moving in line. Indians on horses holding U.S. flag as his guard of honor. Dewey at huge barbecue held in his honor. Voters walk with Dewey at Sheridan, Wyoming. Dewey meets people with his wife.
The decorated Liberty ship SS John P. Harris (2877) at Savannah, Georgia. Mrs Eleanor Harris christens the Liberty ship in honor of her deceased husband, John P. Harris, who had been Senator from Pennsylvania and a pioneer movie exhibitor. The ship served the U.S. Army Transportation Service (USAT). It was built by Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation of Savannah Georgia.
Western Army troops boarding biggest motor bus in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Troops boarding biggest motor bus. Soldiers see from windows of the bus. Bus goes away. (World War II period).
U.S. flag is raised in Newark, Delaware. M-48 Patton tank climbs an embankment and a three foot concrete wall. M-48 maneuvers through a set of staggered pylons. M-48 drives through a water hazard. M-48 negotiates slope of a ditch. M-48 bowls over a row of four telephone poles.
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