Fencing Club practicing on lawn at Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. Foils and sabers clash in demonstration. Match between two girls. Others watch the match. Close view of two girls.
Streamlined train from Burlington called the Zephyr seen at railroad station in Detroit Michigan. People detrain. Men examining the exit doors and wheels of the gasoline powered train. Men sitting in club car at rear of the train. Michigan Central railroad executives pose with and congratulate Burlington company executives.
Hollywood actress Gloria Swanson is greeted by a group of admirers at the Detroit railroad train station (Michigan Central Station or also Michigan Central Depot or MCS). She is interviewed by a woman reporter. Then she poses for the camera and gets into the car. Car is driven away.
Ohio Senator Robert Taft speaks about the Labor-Management Relations Act, also known as the Taft-Hartley Act. He talks about justice and equality in labor management relations. Further he speaks about provisions of the act regarding employer's relation with Labor Union Leaders and protection of workers to take part in strikes.
Labor Leader Walter Reuther, at microphone, denounces the Taft-Harley Act. He speaks about industrial stability in the country and calls Congress to appropriate money to improve economic conditions of people and workers in the country. Further he talks about economic security and social justice for workers and their family and says that government should work to cut down cost of living.
Crowd gathered around 6:00pm on May 14, 1948, outside the Washington DC office of the Jewish Agency, at 2210 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC. View of happy, waving crowd from camera position in an upstairs window. View on building steps of dignitaries including Eliahu Elath (later the first Israeli Ambassador to the United States), Rabbi Novak of the Washington Mizrachi leaders, Sumner Welles, and New York Congressman Sol Bloom. View of a boy (Oren Zinder, son of Zvi and Honda Zinder) standing in the upstairs window, preparing to unfurl the flag of Israel in front of the building. View of the flag in position, and the crowd waving.
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