Women Voters' League meeting. Guest speaker from Brazil talks to league meeting attendees. Narrator comments on the work of the women's suffrage movement in the United States that led to this point. Women in classes sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Male instructor at world globe. Female instructor demonstrates how to mark a ballot to vote in election. Woman at store newsstand buys a newspaper. Children play in a street. A group of boys fight and wrestle in the street.. View of a slum area and of abandoned, blighted property. View of old empty derelict home with eroded land in front of it somewhere in America. Union labor picket line demonstration during a strike and men fight and beat another man during a picket line demonstration. Grain truck with sign 'UNRRA' and "Mercy Wheat" sign on it. Mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia with unidentified farmer during the mercy wheat campaign to aid Europe after World War 2. View of United Nations General assembly in meeting. Men and women meet at home in a citizen's living room. They vote by a show of hands. Woman sits at a desk and writes letter to elected representative and so does a man. Woman places letter in mail box. Woman hands letters to a Senator. Senator reads letters.
Views from side and partial rear of a Caprioni heavy bomber, showing its three engines driving two tractor and one pusher propellers. Other features are twin fuselage and triple tail. Number SC 40070 painted on fuselage. Crowd watches as the Caprioni takes off in a cloud of dust. Among the spectators is U.S. Army Air Services Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who mingles with the crowd and poses for pictures with a boy and a U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Rickenbacker shakes hands with the Navy Lieutenant and the boy.
American soldiers returning home after end of World War 1. A railroad passenger train carrying them pulls into a train station. Among those waiting on the station platform are a police officer and a physician, carrying his medical bag. They and others wave to arriving soldiers. A woman in red cross nurses uniform hands out pamphlets to the soldiers as they step from the train. Soldiers form up loosely, holding their mess kit cups. A military band plays in welcome. Soldiers mingle with family and friends who greet them.
Well-dressed men five a demonstration by driving a formation of Fordson tractors to plow a field. The second tractor in the formation is driven by Henry Ford, himself.
A woman office clerk employed in a U.S. Victory Loan Drive during World War 1. She smiles and picks up a Victory loan bond and shows it. She thumbs through a large stack of bonds on her desk. More are on desk behind her. Another clerk works in back ground. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Men outside building. One gentleman is signing up to buy Victory Loan bonds soon after World War I. A boy scout who is working in the Victory Loan drive presents a lapel pin to the man.
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