A hearing in front of the United States Senate's Kefauver Committee investigating crime and interstate commerce. Panel including Chairman Kefauver (Tennessee) in the hearing along with other committee members Herbert R. O'Conor (Maryland); Lester Hunt (Wyoming); Charles Tobey (New Hampshire); Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin). Scenes of former prosecutor and former New York City Mayor, William O'Dwyer, being interviewed about Kid Twist Reles and Albert Anastasia. Then O'Dwyer questioning the campaign fundraising ethics of the committee member Charles Tobey and the committee member angrily defending himself. Then views of Frank Costello on the stand. He is asked about what he has done for his country and replies with the famous "Paid my tax" response. Laughter breaks out among those in attendance.
U.S. troops entrain at the New York port of embarkation, United States for transportation to the European Theater during World War II. View of cars, a factory, buildings, a river and waving people as seen from a train window, including some in a building with signs, "Electro Dynamic Works Electric Motors, Elco Works Cruisers, Electric Boat Company.:" The citizens and war production workers are waving to the troops on board the railroad train, who are bound for service in World War 2. Factory workers wave from windows to wish the troops well. A suburban rail road station platform. Children near tracks wave to the passing train of troops, including children on steps of East 33rd Street rail station in Bayonne, New Jersey.
U.S. Army Air Corps B-6A bombers and O-1D observation planes in formations over Hudson river in New York. View of the Bear Mountain Bridge over Hudson River. Rear view of massed formations as they approach, and fly over the United States Military Academy, at West Point, New York. Groups of cadets, on the ground at the West Point Academy, watch the formations fly overhead.
Services and employment for African American citizens provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York City, United States during Great Depression. African American children swim and sit beside pool. Child dives in pool. Nurse put bandage on a child's foot. Children play at a play ground in Colonial Park area. Children on swings. Children play on see-saw. Children in a nursery school for African American children. They eat a meal, nurse gives them medicine. Children nap or sleep in beds.
Film titled 'Social Class in America' about factors influencing vertical social mobility in United States. Newborn babies in nursery at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Three babies are introduced named Guilford Ames, Theodore Eastwood and David Benton from different classes (upper, middle and lower). Different roles are shown for the husband and father in each family. Father of the upper class boy is a business man wearing a suit, shown working at his executive desk with a woman secretary seated nearby taking notes. Father of the middle class boy shown doing book keeping at his office. Father of the lower class boy is shown working as an unskilled worker, pours liquid from a bucket at a factory. Exterior views of the houses for the different family types is shown, including an estate, a single family home, and a row house.
Streets of 'Little Italy' in the lower east side area of New York City. Buildings along a side of the street. A sign board reads: 'Marconi Pastry'. People walk. A man sells small articles on the street. Other men buy things from the man. Italian store and stands. Products and Italian food. Street level view of newspaper building for Il Progresso - Italo Americano newspaper with slogan, "The first and greatest Italian daily newspaper in the United States. Established in 1880."
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