The scene is on a hill top overlooking the plateau along the Marne River where the Battle of the Marne took place 18 years earlier. The occasion is the presentation, from the people of the United States, of a 130 foot high granite monument, commemorating the heroic defense by French troops in the Battle of the Marne. The monument, designed by Frederick MacMonnies, depicts La Belle France, supporting a wounded French infantryman, and was reportedly underwritten in part, by the contributions of pennies, nickles, and dimes from four million school children in the United States. French and American officials unveil the monument. Numerous spectators stand by to cheer and applaud. Armed soldiers hold national flags and salute in honor. U.S. Ambassador to France, Walter Evans Edge, gives presentation speech, as other dignitaries and people listen. (Note: At the time of this event, this was the largest carved granite monolith monument in the world, and viewed, by many Americans, as a gift of thanks to France for the statue of Liberty.)
Business developments in various parts of United States. The rate of employment increases as developments occur. Increasing number of workers with jobs shown working during the Great Depression. Connersville, Indiana: Men working in an automobile industry. Workers with heavy machines work on various parts of automobile. Men loading lumber planks onto belts for processing through saws that cut wooden parts for use in automobiles. Cincinnati, Ohio: Men and women working in an Ivory Soap manufacturing company. Workers pack Ivor Soap bars in boxes. Worcester, Massachusetts: Women workers busy stitching corsets in a leading corset manufacturing company. Detroit, Michigan: Men work in Burroughs typewriter manufacturing company. Men check typewriters.
In Ohio,US farmer William Kendall make sculptures and funny faces from pumpkins. He works on the pumpkin and carves facial parts by knife. Sculptures placed on the table and on the fence. Kendall paints the sculptures with a drawing brush. A small girl sits near him as he works on pumpkin sculptures. These sculptures pay him more instead of farming.
A walrus caught from the coasts of Alaska weighing 400 pounds in San Diego United States. Man with milk bottle milking walrus. Walrus crawls towards the shower to cool down its body temperature. Man showers water over walrus body with the help of a water shower.
Mrs Irene Warren decorates her 'Spite' house with garish colors,weird and colorful garments,cartoons,insults,crude signs, and slogans to protest against the Zone Law in Glen Ridge New Jersey. City fathers passed this law to restrict establishment of business centers in home restricted areas. Mrs Irene Warren standing in her house.
American Civil War veterans pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln in Springfield Illinois in United States. View of decorated tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Thousands of aged veterans in their Civil War Union Army uniforms gather in Oak Ridge Cemetery near the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Governor Louis L Emmerson and other dignitaries attend the event. Governor Emmerson is seen in conversation with one of the aged veterans. Most of the veterans wear hats with the "G.A.R." symbol (Grand Army of the Republic, a Union military veterans and fraternal organization). One of the Union Civil War veterans shown is an African American soldier.