YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - F.D.R. JOKES, CHICAGO POLICE UNIFORM, 1932 FASHION EPISODE #95

[Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear it's September 11 1937 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in first year of his second term as president visits Hudson River State Hospital on nurses graduation day and tells this story remember way of the st. Lawrence near Ogdensburg I was driving through the grounds with the superintendent in an open car just this one and as we drove through the grounds there was a very nice-looking old gentleman who was mowing the grass and as we approached the governor of the state from the superintendent he put down his mind machine and stood at the edge of the road and as we went by took off his cap most politely and put it back on his head my family were in the car behind and after we thought about 50 feet past it I heard the family roaring with laughter I couldn't do anything about it so when we got back to the superintendent's house I asked them what the joke was and they told me that the old gentleman as soon as I got safely past that put his cap back on his head and put his thumb to his nose [Applause] so I told the superintendent I didn't think there was anything the matter with him in the autumn be sent home thankful bathers from rocks of bathing suits this is early in the 1920s and near Wilson Avenue beach Chicago here's a bank which provides safety deposit bolts for bathers no it's not windy city heat forcing these people to walk around and Beach attire they're going swimming and since bathing suits didn't have pockets even in the early twenties bathers Bank their valuables and who knows maybe some of these aquatic customers even float along [Music] war called on account of peace it's 21st of July 1922 and in Washington DC delegates from both Peru and Chile listened intently and hopefully as America's Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes announces that agreement has been reached to negotiate boundary dispute which has meant war between those two South American Nations says Hughes it's big step toward lasting peace in South America and good example for disputing nations around the world many years later Peru and Chile were still at peace while history wrote world war chapter 2 [Music] New Jersey's new jurors it's 1920 and in Orange New Jersey here are first women to serve on jury to try a court case first chosen is mrs. Everett Colby recently granted voting rights women will see that trial is no error [Music] here's famed pianist Joseph Hoffman with his wife and family back in 1922 Hoffman first came to America in 1887 when he was just 11 years old after a few years in retirement he returned to concert stage in 1926 became director of Curtis Institute in Philadelphia here on visit to America in 1941 is the fabulous princess Fatima with her three sons crossing the premier of Afghanistan the princess wears family diamond worth $125,000 and called light of the sea princess Fatima on board ship in 1926 here are none other than mr. and mrs. Paul Whiteman Whiteman better known as pops and still better known as the king of jazz has just become the author of jazz as well year after these films were made Whiteman made musical history playing George Gershwin's experiment in modern music entitled Rhapsody in Blue [Music] tanker takes the count its 30th of December 1932 and in wind lashed rockbound waters off coast of Carolinas tanker Doris Keller is a flame enroute from Texas oil port to Philadelphia tanker and her precious cargo our total loss and in graveyard of Atlantic the ships are moving over to make room for one more but captain and crew of 33 are safe and soon sailing once again arms of the law its 1922 and in Chicago Illinois Wendy City patrolman get a change appear with ranking officer inspecting members of his precinct absolute arrival of regalia that will not only make them look better but will give them a better chance to preserve law and order with all uniform pistols were under coats now persuader is on outside where it'll do more good and do it quicker paratroopers trial sergeant Erwin Nichols gets his way at last it's 1932 and US Army and Air Force have agreed to let Nichols demonstrate his plan to drop men and fighting equipment behind enemy lines after carrying them to battle areas by air it's something brand new in science of war and test as being keenly watched by observers there's one tragic death in midst of manoeuvres one soldier succumbs to sudden heart attack his name sergeant Kerwin Nichols but even without creator of experiment the plan is carried out 10 11 and 12 years later fighting men of every nation filled the air as they sank to battle stations but this is history's first appearance of the Silk inning soldier who became the high at knife wielding paratrooper of World War two and one smash victories in Italy France and Germany and the jungles of Pacific Islanders everywhere they dropped and dug in to undo the enemy down came the gun test this big success though sergeant Nichols did not live to see his idea help win a war [Music] doings of hairdos in 1932 this is hair styling that softens facial contours for the woman with small features here's what they recommended and wore in those glorious days young matrons wore their hair like this and recommended for the mother who wishes to regain her youthful look hair experts of the early 30s insisted on preserving the natural hair line it accentuated that girlish look they claimed well maybe it did is that so far there's been no Veronica Lake to come along and blind All American women in one eye for evening wear in the speakeasy days it was hair that was soft and wavy at the sides but tied securely in the back there was a definite Spanish influence in some hair stylings - and here's the photographic evidence in case you don't remember overall the trend in the early 30s was - naturalness in the doing parody [Music] pride of polo here's the immortal Tommy Hitchcock and here's American teammate Devereaux Milburn Plus hard-riding number one man J Watson Webb and this is Malcolm Stevenson for fame po lowest sin white shirts ride hard and play harder because it's 1927 and Americans are battling British in international polo match at West very Long Island [Music] it's fast action from start to finish with a the world's greatest polo players riding best polo ponies money can buy getting off to three goal lead in first chukker then adding another in second frame Americans get a tough afternoon of polo as the Britons come back with a rush of too fast goals in chucker number four but our side wins [Music] and here's cup Hitchcock and Company one and brought back to America with stunning eight-to-five victory over the stick swingers from England it was that fast start that gave the Americans victory at the finish [Music] Donald budge and brother here in 1937 our Loyd bunch who taught this brother dawn to play pretty good tennis well Don it's good to see you down here again you've come a long way since I started you out in this game thank you very much well it's nice to see you and although I've won the French English American and Wimbledon Championships I don't think my list of titles are complete until I take the family Tami's tip away from you today all right how about a little game right right so the Battle of the brothers is off with both Lloyd and Don but definitely on their game and here's Lloyd returning one of those point winning drives of brother Don and here's a spectator is going to have a stiff neck tomorrow Jon's powerful back stroke returns the drive by Lloyd and looks from here as if Lloyd wishes he'd been not quite so good a teacher because pupil dawn wins point game set and match the match darn it family champion well or I was lucky and I must say it's the biggest thrill I've had in tennis up today the hardest opponent I've ever played against thank you