PGA (Professional Golfers Association) contest in Buffalo, New York. Players on the golf course. Spectators watch the match. Paul Runyan of White Plains, New York wins the PGA title afterdefeating Craig Wood. Paul Runyan receives the winning trophy.
United States Fire fighters host Junior firemen in an outing at the amusement park area of Harry Altman's Glen Park Casino and Amusement Park, in Williamsville, New York, 12 miles Northeast of Buffalo, New York. Men, women and children walking in Glen Park. A man climbs a ladder and performs an acrobatic stunts where he leaps from a great height onto a trampoline catch below. People gathered to watch the stunt. A boy waves from behind the wheel of a miniature car ride. Children eat cotton candy (or candy floss) and young children ride on a merry go round-like car carousel, among various attractions of the park.
A. V. Yanelli, Italian consul general at Johnstown, Pennsylvania is being deported from the United States. A number of people surround Yanelli on the sidewalk, as he takes his leave. He puts his arm around a young boy and girl. His taxi and another carrying steamer trunks, arrive at the entrance to Pier 61 in New York City. Policemen, including one on horseback, and jounalists are present. Other taxi passengers entering the Pier include Dr. Manfred Zapp and Guenther Tonn of the Transocean News Service, a German propaganda organization. (The Department of Justice had prosecuted Zapp and Tonn for failing to register as foreign agents.) Reporters examine tags on the steamer trunks as one taxi enters the driveway to Pier 61.
American Musical Comedy Star Harry Richman and aviation pioneer Henry Tyndall Dick Merrill (Chief Pilot of Eastern Airlines) on a projected two day round trip fight to London from Floyd Bennett Field in New York. The pair prepare for a flight to dine in London and return to New York for Breakfast. Their Vultee V1-A aircraft [NC16099] being parked outside hangar at Floyd Bennett Field. People gather around the aircraft. Eastern Airlines President, Captain Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker (U.S.World War One, Ace of Aces) shakes hands and gives best wishes to Richman and Merrill for the flight. The two men get into the monoplane named 'Lady Peace.' The aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway.
Doctor James Smith, President of Louisiana State University arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Doctor James Smith brought from Canada to New Orleans where he is to serve jail time for embezzlement charges. Aircraft lands on the runway and Doctor James Smith and other people come out of it. Crowd gather around the airplane. View of various LSU buildings, a tower and scenes from the college campus of Louisiana State University in 1939.
The WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in New York, United States. Children present a marionette show in Buffalo, New York during the Great Depression. Children lying in a bed watch the show. One of the boys in a bed holds a doll in hand.
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