War veterans swamp the Bureau for loans on new bonus plan in Washington DC. The war veterans of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) stand in a queue for loans. J. M. Betz, Deputy Disbursing Officer operates an automatic signature device which certifies 15 vouchers at a clip and 20000 in a day. A crowd of beneficiaries line up outside Uncle Sam's pay window in New York.
A young boy named Ronnie Graham and his pony demonstrate the stunt repertoire in California. Ronnie and his pony on the ground. The pony sits down. Ronnie gives instructions to the pony to lie down and eat food from a table. He climbs on it and shows stunts. At the age of 8 Ronnie tops as a trainer.
First tests of Navy's experimental "pogo stick" designed to take off and land vertically in California. The radical plane is test flown in a huge dirigible hangar. First vertical take off is attempted. It is lifted off the ground while in the grip of a system of tether cables. It lands vertically.
Retired U.S. Army Major General Walter Campbell Short testifies before a Joint Congressional Committee investigating the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He talks about attack and defends himself. He says that he did not receive any information of the attack from the war department untill December 6, 1941 and all emphasis was on defending against sabotage. He makes a statement that he does not believe that he has made any mistake regarding this attack. Other officials seated around him listen to him.
U.S. President Herbert Hoover and the First Lady Louise Henry Hoover arrive to meet disabled war veterans on the South lawn of the White House. They circulate among and speak to disabled war veterans seated in wheel chairs.The President and Mrs. Hoover speak with disabled veterans, many of whom had lost limbs, as nurses bring them forward in wheel chairs, to meet the President and First Lady. They meet a war veteran lying on a stretcher. A man with crutches meets the President and the First Lady.
U.S. President Herbert Hoover and his wife Louise Henry Hoover at the Presidential retreat, Camp Rapidan, located on Doubletop Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Madison County, Virginia. The camp is at the headwaters of the Rapidan River in the Shenandoah forest. The President does some fly casting in a stream. President and Mrs. Hoover seated in wicker chairs. The president pets his dog. The President reads a book and his wife knits. A waterfall in the background.
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