Views of the crowning ceremony at the Miss America beauty pageant in 1945, and winner Bess Meyerson on stage. Next scene shows Bess Myerson years later as Commissioner of Consumer Affairs for New York City enters a car, car on road on streets of Manhattan, New York City. View of New York City buildings from a moving car. Views of various consumer goods, with price tags on them, people buying. Views of manual cash registers ringing up totals. Views of consumers in markets, stores, and supermarkets. Views of Consumer rights protection office, men and women at work. Women and men on phone. Consumer protection officer at a store, checking different food items. Views of items in butcher or meat department. Interior of a laboratory, food items are tested. Officials working in an office. Commissioner of Consumer Affairs in her office, various items on her desk. View of many different grocery items moving on a checkout belt toward a store cash register. Store worker lifts paper grocery bag and hands it to shopper. Consumer Affairs Commissioner walking on streets of New York City and greeting a woman passing by.
World War 2 era newsreel clip notes that each of the two major leagues in baseball have more than 260 men in the armed forces serving in the war. View of NY Giants pitcher Bill Voiselle (#17), Boston Braves pitcher Al Javery (#18) and others who continued playing during the war. Announcer poses trivia question -- who is the all-time National League leader in home runs, walks, runs, and three other categories? Viewers given five choices to consider while clock ticks. The answer? Not Ty Cobb -- it's the New York Giants' player-manager Mel Ott, seen hitting with his distinctive kick swing and running to first base.
The Al Smith Memorial hospital wing opens at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan in New York, United States. New York Cardinal Francis Spellman speaks about the inauguration of the drive to build the Al Smith Memorial wing at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan (203 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011, United States). He says that the hospital would aim at serving the needy irrespective of caste, color, and creed. The Al Smith Society meets to lend support for the construction of the Al Smith Hospital. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York cuts a cake which is in the shape of a hat. Men and women sing a song.
United States troops ship USAT Thomas H. Barry (formerly the SS Oriente) carrying American soldiers as they arrive back home in New York, United States following the end of World War 2 in Europe. Men and women on the dock welcome the troops and wave in the foreground with United States troopship Thomas Barry underway as it approaches pier 16 at Staten Island in New York City, United States. American troops aboard the USAT Thomas Barry as they return from Europe after World War II. People on the pier wave to the soldiers. Troops on board the ship shout and whistle. War brides and babies on board the ship along with the troops. United States ship SS Santa Rosa waiting to dock.
From a film about U.S. troops including African American soldiers who battled courageously during World War II. U.S. troops and WACs (Women's Army Corps) including African American soldiers parade along a street. An African American pilot. U.S. Army Major-General Clarence H Kells decorates Sergeant Joe Louis (famous boxer) with the Legion of Merit medal at Fort Hamilton, New York, in 1945. U.S. soldiers perform different tasks. Closing slates include a slate saying the film is not to be shown to the general public, and a second slate stating "Seized Enemy Material...under License Number LM-185"
The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York, United States. The United States ships Macon (CA-132), Helena(CA-75), Enterprise(CVS-6), and Midway(CVA-41) and other Navy vessels in Fleet Revies on Hudson River, New York. Planes in formation flight overhead as officers salute. A dirigible flies overhead and a sailor salutes. A ship with name 'Porter' painted on its side.. Guns firing salute from the USS Midway (CVA-41) as smoke rises. Ships underway in Hudson River with New York Skyscrapers in the background. (World War II period).
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