Frank McLaughlin, director of the State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA), and Roy W. Pilling, Director of the Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA), and other state and county officials in meetings at the Los County Headquarters on Flower Street to discuss the LACRA in Los Angeles, California. Relief workers and citizens during the Great Depression tend a State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) community garden. They till the soil and plant seeds. Workers dig an irrigation ditch and hand weed the garden rows. Two men eat turnips grown in the field. Men load vegetables onto cart to be taken to the food division of the Surplus Commodities Warehouse for free distribution to hungry families.
African American young men and young women learn in various classes of Georgia State College, under the National Youth Administration (NYA) Center in Atlanta. Campus of Georgia State College at Savannah (later Savannah State University, 3219 College St, Savannah, GA 31404, USA). African American boys constructing the building of a Community Center. African American girls outside the Homemaking Center constructed by NYA boys. The girls play with a dog. African American girl learns cooking in kitchen. A girl is cutting cloth and another one is sewing clothes on a sewing machine. College age African American boys working in a shoe repairing workshop. A boy working on radio during a radio training workshop.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA), an Investigating Committee of United States House of Representatives, questions Hollywood figures about communist propaganda. People gather at the hearings. Photographers click pictures as Actor Robert Taylor arrives. He sits at witness table. His lawyer talks to him. Member of committee orders audience not to applaud. Taylor states that he supports outlawing the Communist Party, if it will reduce communist threat to the United States. Member of committee thanks and praises Taylor as he leaves.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA) an Investigating Committee of the United States House of Representatives, questions Hollywood personalities about communist influence. Journalist Howard Rushmore is asked questions. He is asked about Gerhart Eisler and whether he was "Jerome's "boss, and whether Eisler was a Communist. Witness answers that he is one of the major ones and that he is a representative of communist international in the United States. He mentions giving certain communists favorable press. Member of committee calls such communists 'Sacred Cows', witness call them 'Sacred Red Cows'. He takes name of Edward G Robinson and states that Jerome had instructed him to always defend Robinson, even if he gave a poor performance in a bad picture. . He talks to the committee about meeting of American committee, for the protection of foreign born, in Cleveland. Attorney General Biddle labeled it as a communist front in 1943. The committee asks him about League of American Writers and whether it is a Communist organization. Journalist also takes names of Earl Browder and Mike Gold, a writer for the Daily Worker newspaper.
President of Italy Antonio Segni visits United States. Soldiers march on road. Car comes. Building of White House. Italian President meets the United States President Lyndon B Johnson. They with other officials sit and talk. Segni emphasizes in his statement about closer ties between unified Europe, including Great Britain and United States. Snow around President Kennedy's grave. Italian President comes with guards and places a wreath over the grave.
United States President Woodrow Wilson and his wife after returning from the Paris peace Conference. The Welcome Home Procession includes United States soldiers on horses and motor bikes. President Wilson and his wife sitting in the car. Escorted by the United States soldiers they are seen leaving the Commonwealth pier.
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