INTERNATIONAL NEWS 437

Year Published: 1917

Creator: National Archives and Records Administration

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 88963 / Local Identifier AFI-AFI-437 - INTERNATIONAL NEWS 437 - American Film Institute. NEWSREEL: (1) Man wins typewriting race, typing 136 words a minute. (2) Pres. Harding receives law degree from William and Mary College; he pleads for support of the nation's educational system. President also takes part in the 140th anniversary celebration of Cornwallis' surrender and visits graves of American pioneers at Jamestown, Virginia. (3) Weight loss program in New York: scenes of women running through streets of New York City. (4) 17-year old performs a daredevil act: she-steps off the wing of an airplane on to a rope ladder on another plane. (5) Italy's war commander, Gen. Armando Diaz, arrives in New York aboard the liner Guiseppe Verdi. Mayor Hylan confers the "freedom of the city" on the commander who lays a wreath on Theodore Roosevelt's grave. -


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