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Kidnapped child of aviator Charles Lindbergh missing even after paying ransom of $ 50,000.
Kidnapping of twenty month child of aviator Charles Lindbergh, Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts. Negotiator for Lindberg, Dr. John F. Condon in St. Thomas Cemetery, in the Bronx, New York, with a ransom of $50,000 demanded by kidnapper. Lindberg flies in sky above the area for a clue of his kidnapped child. A kidnapper scales a ladder, tries to reach a baby on first floor but a alarm sounds and he runs back. The mother arrives and picks up her child.
Former U.S. President Truman, 4 Presidential hopefuls, and Democratic leaders at a dinner of Democratic Party in Washington DC.
Top Democratic luminaries at a $100-a-plate fundraising dinner of the Democratic Party in Washington DC. Democratic politicians at dinner tables with their wives at the venue. View of former United States President Harry S. Truman. The dinner is also attended by four front running Presidential hopefuls. View of Senator John F. Kennedy. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn; Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey; Democratic party Chairman Paul Butler talking to Senator Hubert Humphrey; Senator Lyndon Johnson with Jacqueline Kennedy seen on his right at a table; Senator Stuart Symington seen at a dais.
Planetarium and other educational sites, children observe a poultry model, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Planetarium and other educational sites in Chicago, Illinois United States. Mother and her child enter the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum (1300 S DuSable Lk Shr Dr, Chicago, IL 60605, United States) in Chicago. A couple also enters. Exhibitions inside the planetarium include displays about various planets and the solar system. Scene changes to a new location in an educational center or museum. Children look inside a model to learn hatching of eggs. A working model of railway station and model trains operating.
Campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) in Chicago, Illinois.
The modern campus of the University of Illinois, in Chicago. Film opens showing architectural model of the proposed new campus designed by Architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). Camera pans over the campus features, zooming in on the Circle Forum, a Greek-styled amphitheater built for plays, assemblies and concerts. Film shifts to students, and others, walking on a circular pavement. The University Hall is seen in background, flanked by two construction derricks. Views of various features of the spread out campus areas and buildings showing the concrete roofs forming the so-called "Great Court." Closeup vertical view of University Hall. More views of the extant campus. (construction is still underway.) Students walking along the Great Court with the multilevel construction visible. Closeups of students and others riding an escalator and conversing. Students in large classroom lecture hall where the Professor has written notes in chalk on a blackboard for the class, referring to revenue bills originating in the U.S. House of Representatives. Closeups of the Professor and students. Candid shots of a student's resting and relaxing in various places on the campus.
Immigrants to America working in various hard labor jobs and factories early in the 20th century.
Point of view shot out the front of a steam locomotive railroad train as it speeds along a track in western United States. Men stacking wood lumber for boat shipment beside a canal in the early 1900s. The mill and stacks of lumber seen across the canal. Miners at a coal mine ride an open car full of coal as it emerges from a mine in West Virginia, as seen from camera riding on same coal car. Glimpse, from a passing train, of a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Immigrants to the United States, from various European countries, at work in industrial production jobs. Men in factories; working at a power forge in a steel mill; Lumber operations: Men cutting down large trees with hand axes and sawing logs for timber in a forest, using large 2-man saws; Butchers moving sides of beef in a meat packing company. Women working in a metal parts factory (appears to be a sink faucet manufacturing company); women working in a textile spinning mill operation and stacking moving machine shelves with spools. A hose set up from a fire hydrant spraying water in a city street and children in bathing suits running underneath to play and cool off in hot summer weather. Montage of various still and moving images: Immigrant children in classrooms and in school yards. A woman instructing new adult immigrants in an English language instruction class. Immigrant workers engaged in skyscraper construction, high in the air without safety equipment. An iron worker perched atop a vertical steel beam with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. A woman posing on a horizontal bar. Men and women posing in the surf at a beach. People at beach watching as a group of men create a human pyramid on the sand. A little girl with her feet in the surf. Boys in a classroom, with two of them dirty from work and another boy sleeping with his head on his desk. Mothers and fathers at home asking about what the children learned in school. A young girl leading a group of school children in reciting the pledge of allegiance (pre-1950s version of the Pledge of Allegiance is heard recited by a group of children, without the "Under God" wording that was added in 1954). Still image of a young girl employed in a fabric mill (child labor).
Scenes contrasting the frivolous with more ordinary aspects of the "roaring 20's" in America just before depression
Good times depicted in America during the so-called "Roaring Twenties." Automobile workers on a production line or assembly line. Double-decker buses and taxi cabs fill street in New York City. President Calvin Coolidge, accompanied by his dog, quietly fishing from a canoe. Girls in swim suits dancing around a Tuba player at a beach. Young women dancing happily at a cabaret, nightclub, or club. Behind them on stage is Texas Guinan (actress and speakeasy club manager). President Coolidge casting his fishing line, with another person seen in the rear of the canoe. View of couple's feet as they dance the Charleston in a cabaret. Girls,in bathing suits at a beach, run, like a chorus line, at the camera. Next are shown more mundane aspects of the period and some scenes of poor life, poverty, and unemployment shortly before the onset of the Great Depression. A city back street early in the morning. A man washes his face with water from a horse trough. A Milkman steps from his horse-drawn wagon or carriage to deliver two bottles of milk. People buying slabs of ice from an ice house (for their ice boxes at home). Boy and girl stand on slum or tenement fire escape. Laundry drying on clothes lines stretched across tenement alley. Two children in a family lying in a single bed. Other beds in the same crowded tenement apartment. Union-sponsored housing (founded in 1927) in the lower east side of Manhattan with sign affixed reading: "Amalgamated Cooperative Dwellings, 504-520 Grand Street. 83-91 Broome Street." Views of the Cooperative low rent apartment buildings.
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