With World War 2 tensions simmering, German and Italian agents and their families, expelled from the United States, bid farewell to relatives and friends at New York port. Distant view of USS West Point carrying agents and their families back home. Ship underway with New York City skyline in background. Axis country diplomats or agents prepare to board chartered airplane.
Documentary by Harmon Foundation titled "If a boy needs a friend". Shows efforts by a teacher and the Young Men's Christian Association to fight antisemitism and children's hatred and discrimination against Jews. Shows Sixth-grade boys in New Haven, CT refuse to play with a Jewish boy. Group of boys on playground climb hands up a stick to see who picks team members first for a baseball game. Captains of each team choose teams, selecting boys one at a time. One boy, a Jewish boy, is not picked. He asks a captain if he can be on that boy's team. The boy says no because he is Jewish. The boys begin pushing the Jewish boy to chase him away, and he turns and leaves sadly. Scene changes back to school administration office. Teacher provides a list of the offending boys from the Willard School. She asks help from male secretary of the New Haven YMCA. Secretary promises teacher to send a qualified leader from a club.1940. (World War II period).
Journalists, Robert Sherrod , Harold Horan and another staff person look through photographs to accompany a news story, at Time Magazine offices in New York.
Snow covered streets in New York City. People walk past shops on 5th Avenue. People do window shopping. Leather bags , costumes and hats on sale inside the shops. Snow covered on cars parked along the side of a street in New York City. Snow covered areas and leafless trees.
Standing in front of a statue honoring William McKinley at the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio, in 1920, two United States Civil War veterans in uniform read the 'New York Times' dated September 19, 1901. The headline reads 'Mr McKinley's body in his old home'. Cut to footage from shortly after President McKinley's death in 1901, with citizens, police and constabularies on horse back gathered outside the Milburn Residence in Buffalo, New York, where McKinley died. President William Mc Kinley's body is carried out of the house in a coffin. McKinley's funeral procession leaving the Milburn residence. Cut back to 1920 and the men standing beside the statue of President McKinley at the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio.
Busy street scene in downtown Buffalo, New York, with Niagara Square and the McKinley Monument in background. Pedestrians, cars, buses, and police directing traffic. Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists arriving in buses to observe grain flour mills in operation in Buffalo, New York. The buses cross over railroad tracks in an industrial factory area. Scene changes to farmers working in wheat fields, primarily in the American plains and west areas, and using threshing machines in wheat harvesting. Animated map depicts transportation of wheat across the United States for processing, with some being shipped on the Great Lakes to Buffalo for processing. Giant ships and tugboats in harbor area beside wheat processing mills in Buffalo. Views of wheat grain being emptied from ship holds with shovels on ropes being used to push wheat toward exit area. Grain elevator with wheat funneling downward. Slate notes (in Spanish) that the wheat is then converted into flour for the bread of the nation. View inside wheat processing plant in Buffalo as industrial machinery with belt drives converts the wheat to flour.
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